Classics Postgraduate Conference
Saturday 4 June 2011
King's College London
Please note that spaces are limited. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to Hazel Johannessen.
Programme
9:00 - 9:25
Coffee and introductory remarks
9:30 - 11:00
Panel 1: Inscribed representations. Becky Littlechilds, chair
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Katie Walsh (University of Bristol) “Carving Female Identities: the representation of women on Romano-British tombstones”
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Blanka Misic (Royal Holloway) “Oh, What God Art Thou?: Constructing Religious Identities in Southern Pannonia"
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Lindsay Penner (University of Calgary, Canada) “National Identity and the use of natio in epitaphs”
Panel 2 : Literature and narrative. Andrew Roberts, chair.
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Lucy Fletcher (University of Reading) “The narrative representation of identity in Plutarch’s Life of Pelopidas
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Aiste Celkyte (St. Andrews) “What does it mean to be a beautiful individual in Stoicism?”
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Simone Finkmann (Christchurch, Oxford) “The crowd in Roman epic”
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00
Panel 3: Augustus as restorer and preserver of Roman religion. Jane McCarthy, chair
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Papers by Lily Withycombe-Taperell (Royal Holloway), religious topography; Victoria Gyori (Kings College London), numismatics; and Bobby Xinyue (University College London), Horace’s Carmen Saeculare
Panel 4: Collective identities and social constructs. Hazel Johannessen, chair.
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Rachel Romain (King’s College London) “From an ethno-geographic to ethno-religious identity: ritual and race in the book of Ezra”
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Ahamed Osman (King’s College London) “Time and identity in Republican Rome”
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Katherine McDonald (Pembroke College, Cambridge) “Actions speak louder than words? Language and identity in pre-Roman Italy”
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30
Panel 5: Imperial portraitures. Becky Littlechilds, chair.
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Agnieszka Fulinska (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) “The Elusive King: in search of the image of Mithridates VI Eupator”
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Rebecca Usherwood (University of Nottingham) “Sending faces: portraiture and legitimacy in collegiate government”
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Giulia Brunetta (Royal Holloway) “Tyrant or god? Issues of identity and representation in the portrait of the emperor Domitian”
Panel 6: Aspects of Greek civic identity. Chris Farrell, chair.
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Edmund Stewart (University of Nottingham) “Sobriety and Spartan identity: the drinking song of Ion of Chios”
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Matthew Kears (University of Birmingham) “Athenians no more? Emigrants and disfranchised citizens in Athenian forensic oratory”
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Daniel Unruh (King’s College, Cambridge) “Democracy and Despots: Athenian identity and autocratic rulers”
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00
Panel 7: Identity in Greek Religion. Ellie Mackin, chair.
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Anastasia Painesi (Universite Paris Sorbonne) “The iconographical evolution of the Peirithous’ Katabasis theme in the art of Greece, Etruria and South Italy (6-4 centuries BC)
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Louise Gaukroger (University of Kent) “Ancestral voices: manteis and chresmologoi and their families”
Panel 8: Religious identity in Late Antiquity. Hazel Johannessen, chair.
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Gabrielle Villais (University College London) “Representing virginity through marriage: the formation of fourth-century Christian social discourse”
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Viola Gheller (Universita degli Studi di Trento) “Religious identity and marginality: the case of heterodox communities in Late Antique Italy”
17:00
Keynote speaker (TBC)
18:00
Wine and drinks reception