Please note that the Saturday schedule has changed slightly (-Alex, 10/09).
Each paper will consist of a 30-minute presentation, followed by a 5-minute response and a 20-minute question and answer session.
All conference events will take place at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Friday, October 17, 2008
- 5:00–5:15 welcoming remarks by Jonathan Hall and conference overview by Aaron Seider
- 5:15–6:00 overview lecture, followed by questions and discussion
- Christopher Gill, “Contradictory Selves – Character and Personality.”
- 6:00–8:00 reception and discussion
Saturday, October 18, 2008
- 9:30–10:00 coffee
- 10:00–12:00 first session (2 papers) – Cam Hawkins, session chair
- Cynthia Damon, “Dumnorix amens: A self-contradictory character in Caesar’s Gallic War.”
- Lowell Edmunds, “The Contradictoriness of Sallust’s Catiline.”
- 12:00–1:30 break for lunch
- 1:30–2:30 second session (1 paper) – David Wray, session chair
- Joy Connolly, “Irreducible multiplicity: a Ciceronian account of political action.”
- 2:30–3:30 coffee break
- 3:30–5:30 second session, continued (2 papers)
- Michael Putnam, “The Wrath of Aeneas.”
- James O’Hara, “Jupiter in the Aeneid.”
- 5:30–7:00 reception and discussion
Sunday, October 19, 2008
- 9:30–10:00 coffee
- 10:00–12:00 third session (2 papers) – Shadi Bartsch, session chair
- Paul Allen Miller, “Persius, Irony, and Truth.”
- Ralph Rosen, “Juvenal and the Comedy of Self-Contradiction.”
- 12:00–1:00 reception, lunch, and discussion