FILOSOFIA E ARTE NELLA TARDA ANTICHITÀ
International Seminar

Catania, 8-9 November 2012
Department of Humanities
Monastero dei Benedettini
Coro di notte

Thursday November 8th 2012
h. 9:30 – session 1

Introduction

Chairperson: Francesco Romano

Aldo Brancacci (Università di Roma TorVergata), Musica e filosofia nel De musica di Aristide Quintiliano

Tea and coffee

Sebastian F. Moro Tornese (Royal Holloway, University of London), Musical aesthetics and the transformation of the soul in Neoplatonism

h. 12:15 Guided tour of the Monastery by Officine Culturali

h. 13:30 Lunch

h. 15:00 – session 2

Chairperson: Aldo Brancacci

Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway, University of London), “To see a world in a grain of sand”: Proclus’ literary theory and aesthetics

Pierre Destrée (Université catholique de Louvain), Philodemus and the late Neoplatonists on Aristotle’s Katharsis

Tea and coffee

Alessandro Stavru (Berlin, Freie Universität), Ekphrasis e verosimiglianza nelle EIKONEΣ di Filostrato il vecchio

h. 18:30 Excursions (via dei Crociferi, Piazza del Duomo)

h. 20:00 Dinner

Friday November 9th 2012
h. 9:15 – session 3

chaiperson: Maria Barbanti

Daniele Iozzia (Università di Catania), «Come mai l’oro è bello?»: Plotino, Enn. I 6 (1) 1, 34 e i Cappadoci

Tea and coffee

Concetto Martello (Università di Catania), “Pulchrum” e “pulchritudo” in Giovanni Eriugena

h. 13:30 Lunch

Participants: R. Loredana Cardullo, Giovanna R. Giardina, Giovanni Lombardo, Chiara Militello, Andrea Vella, Valentina Aruta, Daniele Granata, Gianfranco Iannizzotto, Ivan Licciardi, Giuseppe Muscolino.

For enquiries or further information please contact Dr Daniele Iozzia: iozziad AT unict.it

Seen on the Classicists list:

Second Call for Papers: LUCAS Graduate Conference Death, the Cultural
Meaning of the End of Life

Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society – 24–25 January, 2013

The theme of the second international Graduate Conference is Death, the
Cultural meaning of the End of Life, and aims to explore how death has been
represented and conceptualized, from classical antiquity to the modern age,
and the extent to which our perceptions and understandings of death have
changed (or remained the same) over time. The wide scope of this theme
reflects the historical range of LUCAS’s (previously called LUICD) three
research programs (Classics and Classical Civilization, Medieval and Early
Modern Studies and Modern and Contemporary Studies), as well as the
intercontinental and interdisciplinary focus of many of the institute’s
research projects.

Proposals:
The LUCAS Graduate Conference welcomes papers from graduate students from
all disciplines within the humanities. The topic of your proposal may
address the concept of death from a cultural, historical, classical,
artistic, literary, cinematic, political, economic, or social viewpoint.

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Joanna Woodall, Courtauld Institute of Art, United Kingdom
Professor Rosi Braidotti, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 November 2012.

Papers can be submitted to the general theme or you can (co-)organize your
own panel. Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) to present a 20-
minute paper to lucasconference2013 AT gmail.com.
You will be notified whether or not your paper has been selected by 1
December, 2012.

Registration fee: €45

Organization: Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS),
Leiden University.

For more information:
http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucas/news-events/luicd-graduate-conference-
2013.html

Seen on the Classicists list:

University of Wales, Trinity Saint David (Lampeter)

School of Classics

Research Seminars, 2012-13

Please find below the details of our research seminars for the coming year. Seminars begin at 6 pm, and take place in the Founders’ Library. They’re usually followed with drinks and a trip to a local restaurant.

18/10/12

Dr Kyle Erickson (TSD), Playing with the Gods: Antiochus IV and the Seleucid Pantheon

22/11/12

Dr Simon Mahony (UCL), Digitising Scholarly Resources for Classics

29/11/12

Professor Richard Seaford (Exeter), TBA

13/12/12

Dr Matthew Cobb (TSD), The Wild, Wild, East: Romans on the Frontier of Egypt

7/2/13

Professor Catherine Steel (Glasgow), The Roman Senate

14/3/13

Dr Guy Bradley (Cardiff), Questions in the Demography and Economy of Early Rome

21 or 28/3/13 (date to be confirmed)

Professor Andrew Lintott (Oxford), The Forum and Comitium as Legal Spaces

Please note that Professor Lintott’s paper is the second City of Rome Project Annual Lecture. For more information about the project, please visit www.city-of-rome.org

If you’d like to come, and need accommodation, please do get in touch (j.richardson AT tsd.ac.uk)