Programme

Change & Resilience in Antiquity

Seminar Series Programme 2021

 

Paper abstracts can be found here.

Session 1: Friday 16th April, 2.00-3.30 pm (BST)

Transforming & Resilient Heroes & Heroines (Chair: Nicholson)

  1. Andreas Gavrielatos (Reading): “At me tum primum saeuus circumstetit horror (Aen. 2.559): Aeneas’ resilience and transformation in the Aeneid”
  2. Vasiliki Kousoulini (Athens): “Change, Resilience, and Kinetic Choreia: Hecuba in Euripides’ Trojan Women”
  3. Sonia Pertsinidis (Australian National University): “The resilient hero: a new reading of Euripides’ Heracles”

 

Session 2: Friday 14th May, 2.00-3.00 pm (BST)

Change & Resilience in Classical Athens (Chair: Salvo)

  1. Alexandra Bartzoka (Athens): “The Vocabulary of Change: the rise and fall of Athens and Sparta as seen by the historians and orators of the classical period”
  2. Sven-Philipp Brandt (Erfurt): “Aristotle’s concept of αὐτάρκεια. A contribution to a resilient Athens in late classical times?”

 

Session 3: Friday 4th June, 2.00-3.00 pm (BST)

Change & Resilience Through Civil Strife (Chair: Nicholson)

  1. Julius Guthrie (Exeter): “Protecting the Status Quo: Examining Elite Resistance to Popular Reforms in 5th Century Syracuse”
  2. Elaine Sanderson (Liverpool): “From Order to Chaos (and back again): Civil War and Transformation in Lucan’s Bellum Civile”

 

Session 4: Friday 25th June, 2.00-3.30 pm (BST)

Culture & Identity Through Change (Chair: Salvo)

  1. Eleni Bozia (Florida): “Exile or Cosmopolitanism: The Janus-faced cultural migrations of the Imperial Roman world”
  2. Irene Selsvold (Gothenburg): “Death in transition in Late Antiquity: An assemblage-approach to changing burial practices in a transition period”
  3. Luise Frenkel (São Paulo): “The Cult of Saints in Late Antique Carthago”

 

Session 5 & Roundtable: Friday 16th July, 1.00-3.00 pm (BST)

Resilient Environments & Roundtable (Chairs: Nicholson & Salvo)

  1. Erica Angliker (London): “Resilience, Memory and the Worshipping of Divinities at Abandoned Settlements on the Cyclades”
  2. Luise Erfurth (Frankfurt): “If worse comes to worst, my neighbors come first”: Social identity as a resilience factor in areas threatened by sea flood”
  3. Roundtable with Gil Gambash (Haifa), Rebecca Sweetman (St Andrews) and Kostas Vlassopoulos (Crete).

 

To attend this session, please register in advance by following this link:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdumorT8qGtb90oWwTE7o98MUxGzQbN1d