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Lucretius in the European Enlightenment
A Conference hosted by the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology
The University of Edinburgh

3 – 4 September 2009
For more information, see
http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/conferences/lucretius09/index.html

Programme:

Thursday 3 September

Venue: Old High School, Infirmary Street

9:00 Registration

9:20 Opening: Thomas Ahnert, Hannah Dawson, Michael Lurie

Chair: Dr Michael Lurie

9:40 Mr. David Butterfield (Cambridge):

‘Lucretius’ De rerum natura and classical scholarship in the eighteenth century’

10:40 Tea and Coffee

Chair: Dr Thomas Ahnert

11:10 Prof. Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte Orientale):

‘Pierre Bayle’s Lucretius’

Chair: Dr Hannah Dawson

12:10 Dr James Harris (St. Andrews):

‘Of shipwrecks and sympathy: Lucretius, Hume, and the pleasures of tragedy’

1:10 Lunch

Chair: Dr Tim Hochstrasser

2:30 Prof. Ann Thomson (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-St. Denis):

‘Lucretius and la Mettrie’

Chair: Dr Thomas Ahnert

3:30 Dr Tim Hochstrasser (London School of Economics and Political Science):

‘The role of Lucretius in Diderot’s later political thought’


4:30 Tea and Coffee

Chair: Prof. Ernst A. Schmidt

5:00 Prof. Alan Charles Kors (University of Pennsylvania):

‘Lucretius and d’Holbach’

6:00 Reception

8:00 Dinner at La Garrigue, 31 Jeffrey Street

Friday 4 September

Venue: Old High School, Infirmary Street

Chair: Prof. Gianni Paganini

9:30 Prof. Piet H. Schrijvers (Leiden):

‘Lucretius in the Dutch Enlightenment’


10:30 Tea and Coffee

Chair: Dr John Robertson

11:00 Prof. Andrew Laird (Warwick):

‘Lucretius and Spanish Jesuit culture after the Bourbon Reforms: Diego José Abad and Rafael Landívar in Italy’

Chair: Prof. Alan Charles Kors

12:00 Prof. Wolfgang Pross (Berne):

‘»Atheorum antistes et oraculum«: Enemies of Lucretius in the European Enlightenment’

1:00 Lunch

Chair: Dr Hannah Dawson

2:30 Dr Avi Lifshitz (University College London):

‘Lucretius and German debates over the origins of language, c. 1750’

Chair: Dr Avi Lifshitz

3:30 Dr Mario Marino (Jena):


‘Herder and Lucretius’

4:30 Tea and Coffee

Chair: Dr Michael Lurie

5:00 Prof. Ernst A. Schmidt (Tübingen):

‘Wieland and Lucretius’

Chairs: Thomas Ahnert, Hannah Dawson, Michael Lurie

6:00 Final Discussion

8:00 Dinner at The Home Bistro, 41 West Nicolson Street

Dr Michael Lurie
Classics
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JX
Scotland
Office: +44 (0)131 650 35 88
Fax: +44 (0)131 651 17 83
Email: michael.lurie AT ed.ac.uk

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Call For Papers on behalf of Robert Montgomerie, Managing Editor of Sparta:

Journal of Ancient and Greek History, (ISSN 1751-0007) Nottingham, UK.

For the next issue of Σparta we would like to call for papers directed at
ideas around the archaeology of Spartan religiosity and Spartan Law. Papers
on architecture, temples, artefacts, ritual, divine justice etc. will be
welcome.

Deadline: November 11th, 2009
Forthcoming Issue: Volume 5 no. 2 (January, 2010)
Max. number of words: 3,000 – bibliography is required

Please send your article with an email covering note to:
sparta AT markoulakispublications.org.uk

The articles will be peer-reviewed and the editorial may ask for further
editions.

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PENN-LEIDEN COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT VALUES (VI)

We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the sixth Penn-Leiden Colloquium:

AESTHETIC VALUE IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

June 25-27, 2010

Greek and Roman cultures were alive with the arts and deeply interested in questions of aesthetic  value. Whether it was poetry, music, the plastic arts or architecture, functional or ornamental  craftsmanship, public drama or private recitation, the arts were continually discussed and  contested by people of all social classes and backgrounds. Our sources suggest that there were in  fact many kinds of responses to the arts in classical antiquity, not all of them positive or  consonant with one another. This colloquium concerns how Greeks and Romans ascribed or  denied value to the arts, what criteria they invoked in distinguishing between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ art,  whether we can accurately speak of an ancient concept of the ‘fine arts’, and how aesthetic value  varied as a function of social class or political ideology. We will consider the complex and  fluctuating interaction between conceptions of beauty, pleasure and utility, especially from the  perspective of general audiences and fans or devotees, not just theorists or philosophers. In  particular, we will attempt to access the aesthetic discourse of non-specialists as they responded  emotionally and intellectually to the arts.

For this sixth colloquium we invite abstracts for papers (30 minutes) on all aspects of our
proposed topic, from the earliest periods of Greece through Imperial Rome. We welcome
contributions from all research areas, including literary studies, philology, art history and
archaeology, history, and philosophy.

Selected papers will be considered for publication by Brill Publishers. Those interested in
presenting a paper are requested to submit an abstract of no more than 1 page, by email, before
October 1st, 2009.

Contact (please copy both with email correspondence):

Professor Ralph M. Rosen
Department of Classical Studies
University of Pennsylvania
rrosen AT sas.upenn.edu

Professor Ineke Sluiter
Classics Department
University of Leiden
i.sluiter AT let.leidenuniv.nl

The Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values were established in 2000 as a biennial scholarly inquiry into Greek and Roman values. Each colloquium focuses on a single theme, explored from diverse perspectives and sub-disciplines. Four essay collections drawn from these colloquia have been published so far by Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden): Andreia. Studies in Manliness and Courage in Classical Antiquity, 2003; Free Speech in Classical, 2004; City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity; 2006, and Kakos: Badness and Anti-Value in Classical Antiquity, 2008. A fifth volume, Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity is in preparation.

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Text/Performance: Provisional Programme

A workshop organised by the editors of Don Fowler’s unpublished Unrolling the Text to assess the place of this work in the field of Classics ten years since the author’s death. The workshop will be held on 22nd and 23rd September 2009 in the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies at Oxford University.

Tuesday 22nd September

Welcome, introduction and first morning session: 9.30-11.15

Brian Breed: ‘Text, Performance and Literary History’

Emily Pillinger: ‘Sibylline bookishness’

Coffee: 11.15-11-45

Second morning session: 11.45-13.15

Rebecca Langlands: ‘Roman Exempla: Unwritten Stories and
Unreadable Texts’

Francesca Martelli: ‘Allegorising the ancient economy: the De Beneficiis between
text and performance’

Lunch: 13.00-14.30

First afternoon session: 14.30-16.00

Tom Phillips: ‘Textual Materiality and Pindar’s Second Dithyramb’

Armand d’Angour: ‘Text and Texture’

Coffee: 16.00-16.30

Second afternoon session: 16.30-17.30

Tom Habinek: ‘Presence and Meaning Reconsidered’

Discussion

Workshop dinner in Jesus College: 7 pm

Wednesday 23rd September

First morning session: 9.45-11.15

Peter Wiseman: ‘The straw man speaks: evidence and assumptions’

John Henderson: ‘the fiftieth ode: like it or not’

Coffee: 11.15-11.45

Second morning session: 11.30-13.15

Felix Budelmann: TBC

Edith Hall: ‘The performance-text dialectic and the problem of Latin
pantomime libretti’

Lunch: 13.00-14.30

First afternoon session: 14.30-16.00

Enrica Sciarrino: ‘Navigating between "Text" and "Performance": the case of early Latin prose’

Ika Willis: ‘Vergil on the Telephone’

Discussion

Registration for this event is £10 (includes sandwich lunch on both days). To confirm your place, please send an email by 27th August 2009 to francesca.martelli AT classics.ox.ac.uk; and a cheque made out to the University of Oxford to Dr Francesca Martelli, Jesus College, Turl Street, Oxford OX1 3DW.

There will also be a workshop dinner held on 22nd September in Jesus College at a further cost of £30 per person. If you would like to come to this, please add the extra amount to your cheque and send it to the same address.

All enquiries to: francesca.martelli AT classics.ox.ac.uk

2010 Classical Association Annual Conference

Cardiff University, Wednesday 7th April – Saturday 10th April 2010.

We welcome proposals for papers (20 minutes long followed by discussion) and coordinated panels (comprising either 3 or 4 papers) from academic staff, graduate students, and school teachers on the topics suggested below, or on any aspect of the classical world. We are keen to encourage papers from a broad range of classical, historical, and archaeological perspectives.

Suggested topics: ancient warfare; family life and the built environment; western Greek historians; early Rome; ancient and modern contexts of Greek and Roman drama; currency; time and calendars; ancient skies; nostalgia and ancient attitudes towards the past; electronic publishing; epigraphy, literacy and society; mobility and connectivity in the Mediterranean; frontiers and boundaries; mosaics and visual culture; art and imperialism; religion and society in late antiquity; classical heritage in Wales; literary and cinematic historical fiction.

Title and an abstract (no more than 300 words), and any enquiries should be sent to the address below (preferably by email) not later than 31 August 2009:

Dr Guy Bradley, CA 2010,

School of History and Archaeology, Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3EU, Wales, UK
Email: ca2010 AT cf.ac.uk
Tel. +44 (0)29 2087 4821