A two-day workshop organized by L. Van Hoof (K.U. Leuven) and P. Van Nuffelen (UGent), 23 and 24 September 2010.
For information and registration, please contact peter.vannuffelen@ugent.be
Thursday 23 September 2010 (Faculty of Arts, Ghent)
09.15-09.30 L. Van Hoof, Introduction
09.30-10.15 S. Mratschek, A living relic for the vicar of Rome. Strategies of visualisation in a civil case
10.15-11.00 B. Lançon, Réflexions sur le rôle des lettrés dans l'entourage des empereurs romains du IVe s.
Coffee break
11.30-12.15 N. McLynn, Gregory and the Governors: Paideia and Patronage in Cappadocia
12.15-13.00 M. Ludlow, Gregory of Nyssa's educational strategies
Lunch
14.30-15.15 B. Salway, The rhetoric of petition and response: Orcistus, the Umbrians, and Constantine
15.15-16.00 G. Kelly, Dedications to emperors in fourth-century historiography
Coffee break
16.30-17.15 M. Gerth, Macrobius' Saturnalia and Martianus Capella's de nuptiis or, How encyclopedic writing interacts with society
17.15-18.00 A. Söltenfuss, Ausonius and means of self-representation in his opuscula
Friday 24 September 2010 (Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie, Brussels)
10.00-10.45 R. Rees, Pacatus' Panegyric to Theodosius (389CE) and the use of text in the creation of communal memory
10.45-11.30 C. Coombe, A hero in our midst: Stilicho as a literary construct in the poetry of Claudian
Coffee break
12.00-12.45 R. Dijkstra, The apostles as instruments of societal engagement
Lunch
14.00-14.45 P.-L. Malosse, Le pouvoir des logoi dans la cité et l'empire. Remarques sur quelques discours de Libanios
14.45-15.30 P. Heather, Philosophy and social cohesion in late Roman elites
15.30-16.15 J. Weisweiler, Anxieties of Ambition: Symmachus on Aristocratic Competition in Fourth-Century Rome
16.15-16.30 Conclusions
Scientific committee: M. Broze (VUB), B. Coulie (UCL), M. De Groote (Ugent), K. Demoen (UGent), G. Partoens (K.U. Leuven), S. Schorn (K.U. Leuven), P. Van Deun (K.U. Leuven), W. Verbaal (UGent).
With the support of Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen en Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten.
Prof. Dr. Peter Van Nuffelen
Departement of History
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat. 35, Office 120.008
9000 Ghent
Belgium