AMPRAW 2017 – PROGRAMME
Day 1: Thursday 23 November
08:30-09:00 Registration and Coffee
09:00-10:00 Panel 1: Philosophical Approaches
· African Communitarianism and the Greek Polis, Michael Kwadwo Okyere Asante, University of Ghana
· Take a Look at Yourselves: Plato’s Socrates and Seneca on the Interrelation Between Man’s State of Mind and Common Welfare, Dr. Antje Junghanß and Bernhard Kaiser, Dresden University of Technology
10:00-11:30 Panel 2: Early Modern Receptions
· King Christian IV of Denmark: the Classics, and Communication as the Road to Success, Dr. Christian Djurslev, University of Edinburgh
· Community and Anti-Community in the Didactic Works of George Buchanan (1506-1582): The World Is Not Enough?, Gary Vos, University of Edinburgh
· Being a Greek Community in the Western Renaissance: Janus Lascaris and the Heritage of The Attic Orators, Antonio Iacoviello, University of Bari
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-13:30 Panel 3: Classics and Nationalism
· Entry of the Greeks into Valhalla: Building German Communal Identity on the Shoulders of Greek Epic in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, Elaine Sanderson, University of Liverpool
· Von Gemeinschaft zur Gesellschaft: Receptions of Classical Antiquity in the Creation of the National Socialist Community in Germany, 1933-1945, Kieren Johns
· Classics, Youth and Empire 1919-1939: The Role of Classics in Constructing a Specifically British Imperial Community among Young People, Phyllis Brighouse, University of Liverpool
13:30-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45 Panel 4: Drama
· This Restless House (adaptation of the Oresteia), Professor Zinnie Harris, University of St. Andrews
· Trapped in Between Two Communities: The Reception of Antigone in Northern Ireland, Dimitris Kentrotis-Zinelis, University of Leiden
· The Community of Fear: Seven Against Thebes, Siracusa and Blitz Spirit, Xavier Buxton, University of Oxford
15:45- 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Panel 5: Travelogues
· Classics and Community in Early-Twentieth-Century French Nationalist Travel Writing to Greece, Sarah Budasz, Durham University
· Discovering Ancient Cyprus During the Nineteenth Century: Luigi Palma di Cesnola and the Island’s Different Communities, Beatrice Pestarino, University College London
17:00-17:15 Break
17:15-18:00 Keynote Lecture: Antigone in the Community, Professor Douglas Cairns, University of Edinburgh
19:00 Conference dinner
Day 2: Friday 24 November
09:00-09:45 Keynote Lecture: Antiquity and the Modern Civic Imagination: apologiaorrecusatio? Professor Lorna Hardwick, Open University
09:45-10:45 Panel 1: Christian Receptions
· “She is not Dead, but Sleeping”: Consolation for Romans and Christians in the Fourth Century, Miriam Hay, University of Warwick
· Cultural Community in Late Antiquity: Sozomen’s Monastic Perspective on the Idea of Paideia Between Classical Heritage and Christian Culture, Matteo Antoniazzi, University of Angers/Ghent University
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Panel 2: Roman Receptions
· Friends and Enemies: Associations of Roman Citizens and Strategies of Empire, Professor Sailakshmi Ramgopal, Trinity College, Hartford
· Daughters of Eloquence: The Roman Matrona at the Eighteenth-Century Salon, Seren Nolan, Durham University
12:00-13:00 “What Next? A Careers Discussion and Q&A Session” hosted by the Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN)
13:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Panel 3: Poetics of Community
· William Morris and the Poetry of the People, Dr. Lilah Grace Canevaro, University of Edinburgh
· A Community of Workers in Leonidas of Tarentum, Claire-Emmanuelle Nardone, ENS de Lyon – Università degli Studi Roma Tre
14:30-15:30 Panel 4: Classics in North America
· Making Community Visible: W. E. B. Du Bois Reads the Greek Historians, Dr. Harriet Fertik, University of New Hampshire
· The Classics in the Colonies: Classically-inspired Plays and the Development of a Shared Cultural Experience in Eighteenth-Century America, Gary Fisher, University of Nottingham
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:45 Panel 6: Digital Communities
· Pericles’ Citizenship Law and Digital Communities – the (Online and Offline) Identity Dilemma and Parrhesia Paradox. From a Lovely Utopia to a Scary Dystopia, Joana Bárbara Fonseca, University of Coimbra
· Greek and Roman Communities in Twenty-First-Century Videogames, Ross Clare, University of Liverpool
16:45-17:00 Break
17:00-17:45 Keynote Lecture: Classical Reception and Classical Philology, Professor Patrick Finglass, University of Bristol
17:45-18:00 Thanks/Conclusions