Scientists and Professionals in the Ancient World Conference
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
7-9 September 2009
PROGRAMME
Monday, 7 September
9:30- 10:15 Welcome and registration
The Ancient Scientist’s ‘I’
10:15 – 11:00 Harry Hine (University of St Andrews): ‘I’ or ‘We’? The grammar and tactics of authorial self-presentation in Latin technical and philosophical writers
11:00- 11:30 Coffee break
11:30- 12:15 Georgia Irby-Massie(College of William and Mary):Geographika sine studio aut ira? Authorial voice and self-presentation in Roman Imperial geographical texts
12:15 – 13:00Johanna Akujärvi(LundUniversity): Authorial voice and the addressee in Pausanias’ Periegesis
13:00- 14:30 Lunch break
Transmission of Professional Knowledge
14:30- 15:15 Marco Galli (Universitàdegli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’): tba.
15:15- 16:00 Tracey Rihll (Swansea University): How was technical knowledge transferred in Classical antiquity?
16:00- 16:30Tea break
Expertise and Politics in the Late RomanRepublic
16:30 – 17:15 Serafina Cuomo (BirkbeckCollege, London): All the proconsul's men: Cicero, Verres and account-keeping
17:15 – 18:00 Katharina Volk (ColumbiaUniversity): Nigidius Figulus and the study of nature in late Republican Rome
Dinner
Tuesday, 8 September
Strategies of Self-Presentation I: The Ancient ‘Military Author’
9:30 – 10:15Marco Formisano(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): The author, the soldier, and the scholar: strategies of authorization in the ancient art of war
10:15 – 11:00Alice König (University of St Andrews): Frontinus as hands-on expert and arm-chair historian: a comparison of his self-presentation in the De Aquis and the Strategemata
11:00- 11:30Coffee break
Strategies of Self-Presentation II: Framing Authorityacross Genres
11:30 – 12:15 Daryn Lehoux(Queen’s University, Ontario): Author and authority in Roman science
12:15 – 13:00Thorsten Fögen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): L’architecte engagé: education, morality and politics in Vitruvius’ De architectura
13:00 – 14:30Lunch break
14:30 – 15:15Emily Kneebone(University of Cambridge): The rhetoric of authority in Oppian’s Halieutica
15:15 – 16:00Karin Tybjerg (KroppedalMuseum, Copenhagen): Hero of Alexandria – the mechanics of self-representation
16:00- 16:30 Tea break
Genres and Disciplines
16:30 – 17:15 Lieve Van Hoof(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and University of Oxford):The battle over healthcare: Plutarch and Galen on dietetics
17:15 – 18:00Jacqueline Feke (University of Toronto): Ptolemy: mathematician as philosopher
Conference Dinner
Wednesday, 9 September
Professional Communities
9:00- 9:45 Stephen Flett (University of Liverpool): Hippocratic deontology and professionalism: the professionalization of medicine in Greek Hellenistic antiquity
9:45 – 10:30 Bob Sharples (University College London): The self-presentation of philosophers: some thoughts
10:30- 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 Georgy Kantor(University of Oxford): Legal experts in Roman Asia Minor
Strategies of Self-Presentation III: Shifting Paradigms
11:45 – 12:30Mladen Popović (Qumran Institute, University of Groningen): Jewish scientists in Hellenistic and early Roman Palestine: antediluvian and other transmitters of divine knowledge
12:30- 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:15Todd Curtis(NewcastleUniversity): Creating a scientific identity: egotism, discourse community and the genre rhetoric in the Galenic corpus
14:15 – 15:00Rosalind Maclachlan (University of Birmingham): Oribasius and Eunapius: iatrosphiliatros
15:00 – 15:30 Tea and closure
Conference venue: Swallowgate Room no. 11, School of Classics, Butts Wynd, St Andrews
The event is part of the activities of the Leverhulme ‘Science and Empire in the Roman World’ project:
Conference organisers:
Dr Emma Gee ()
Dr Jason König ()
Dr Katerina Oikonomopoulou ()
Professor Greg Woolf ()