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symposia
The Department of Classics has a strong history of organizing symposia that allow scholars to present their latest research and propose new directions for scholarship. Many of these proceedings have been published in our own publication series. Below is a list of the most recent conferences and symposia held at UC.
Constructing 'Literacy' Among the Greeks and Romans
April 28-29, 2006
Organized by William Johnson
Proceedings in press
The goal of this two-day symposium is to try to formulate new, interesting, productive ways of talking about 'literacy' in the ancient world—'literacy' not in the sense of whether 10% or 30% of people in the ancient world could read or write, but in the sense of a text-oriented event embedded in a particular socio-cultural context. Interest in constructivist modes of attack is revealed in the formulation of the title, but there is no insistence on that or any other viewpoint. Rather, the symposium is intended as a forum in which selected leading scholars try to rethink from the ground up how students of classical antiquity might best approach the question of 'literacy' in classical antiquity, and how that investigation might materially intersect with changes in the way that 'literacy' is now viewed in other disciplines. The result is intentionally pluralistic: theoretical reflections, practical demonstrations, and combinations of the two share equal space in the effort to chart a new course.
The New Posidippus
November 7-9, 2002
Organized by Kathryn Gutzwiller
Proceedings available
The Milan Papyrus offers the most significant discovery of new Greek literature in several decades. It consists of 606 verses distributed among about 112 epigrams, apparently all composed by Posidippus of Pella, an epigrammatist of the third century B.C. It constitutes our earliest surviving example of a poetry book and illustrates how Greek epigrams were transmitted in literary contexts. The Cincinnati conference brought together leading experts in the fields of papyrology, Hellenistic and Roman literature, art and image studies, and Ptolemaic history to analyze and discuss this important artifact. The conference, open to the entire scholarly community, was designed to combine the presentations of individual scholars with ample discussion and learning.
Plato as Author: the rhetoric of philosophy
Nov 11-14, 1999
Organized by Ann Michelini
Proceedings available
A symposium on Literary Approaches to Platonic Texts
The Symposium brought together scholars from the US, Canada, and
Europe, working from different viewpoints and different disciplines on
literary
aspects of the Platonic texts.
The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium
April 18-20 1997
Organized by Eric Cline and Diane Harris-Cline
Proceedings published in 1998 by Liège Press (Aegaeum 18).
This conference, supported by the Semple Fund
of the Classics Department of the University of Cincinnati, the Institute
for Aegean Prehistory, and the Cincinnati Chapter of the Archaeological
Institute of America, honored the 70th anniversary of Carl Blegen
and Marion Rawson's arrival at the University of Cincinnati in 1927
and the
50th anniversary of the publication of Kantor's influential AIA Monograph
in 1947.
Topics covered the interactions of the Aegean with Egypt and the Near
East, including discussions of commerce, art, and technology. The first
day of
papers were devoted to exploring and updating topics addressed by Kantor
in her monograph. The second day of papers were devoted to topics of
interest to Blegen and Rawson, including overviews of the relations between
the Aegean and other areas of the Eastern Mediterranean. The third day
focused on presentations by scholars investigating the future directions
for the field.
Other symposia organized (since 1975)
1992-93 K. Gutzwiller/ Ann Michelini Symposium on “Feminism
and the Classics”
1986-87 C. Habicht Cicero the Politician
1984-85 E. Gruen Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy
1982-83 A. Mopurgo Davies Linear B and Linguistics
1981-82 C. Boulter Greek art : Archaic into Classical
1979-80 J. Ward-Perkins New Directions in the Study of Roman Architecture
1978-79 G. Cadogan The End of the early Bronze Age in the Aegean, Symposium honoring
J. Caskey
1976-77 D. Lewis Sparta and Persia
(Honoring Donald Bradeen)
1975-76 B. Fenik Homer: Tradition and Innovation
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