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‘A magic stronger than the governors' power'.

Literature and Society in the Fourth Century A.D.

Thursday 23 September 2010
Jan Dhondtzaal, Dpt of History, Faculty of Arts, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 33-35, Ghent
09.15-09.30 L. Van Hoof: ‘introduction'
Chair: K. Demoen
09.30-10.15: N. McLynn: ‘Gregory and the Governors: Paideia and Patronage in Cappadocia'
10.15-11.00 M. Ludlow: ‘Gregory of Nyssa's educational strategies'
Coffee break
Chair: C. Miller
11.30-12.15 S. Mratschek, ‘A living relic for the vicar of Rome. Strategies of visualisation in a civil case'
12.15-13.00 B. Lançon: ‘Réflexions sur le rôle des lettrés dans l'entourage des empereurs romains du IVè siècle'
Lunch
Chair: P. Van Deun
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
Chair: tbc
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'

19.30 conference dinner


Friday 24 September 2010
Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie, Paleis der Academiën, Hertogsstraat 1, 1000 Brussels
Chair: J. Schamp
10.00-10.45 M. Vessey, ‘The Notes of Amphion: Literature, Empire, and Memory in the Speech of Eumenius pro instaurandis scholis Maenianis (298)'
10.45-11.30 R. Rees: ‘Pacatus' Panegyric to Theodosius (389CE) and the use of text in the creation of communal memory'
coffee break
12.00-12.45 R. Dijkstra: ‘The apostles as instruments of societal engagement'
lunch
Chair: tbc
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 C. Coombe: ‘A hero in our midst: Stilicho as a literary construct in the poetry of Claudian'
15.30-16.15 J. Weisweiler: ‘Anxieties of Ambition: Symmachus on Aristocratic Competition in Fourth-Century Rome'
16.15-16.30 Conclusions

Lieu de la manifestation : Gand et Bruxelles
Organisation : Lieve Van Hoof et Peter Van Nuffelen
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