Schedule

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