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an interdisciplinary conference exploring the culture of antiquity
the department of classics university of toronto

o c t o b e r 1 5 - 1 7 1 9 9 9

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F r i d a y, O c t o b e r 1 5

12:00-1:00 welcome and registration at the Department of Classics (97 St. George St.)

1:00-1:45 Jeffery Carnes (Syracuse University)
Pindar, Historicism and the Aiginetan Imaginary
response by R. Drew Griffith

1:45-2:30 David Larmour (Texas Tech University) and Jason Banta (SUNY Buffalo)
Complex Contestations: Ideology and Greek Athletics
response by Eric Csapo

2:30-2:45 b r e a k

2:45-3:30 Andrew Riggsby (University of Texas, Austin)
Building a (Better?) Roman: de bello gallico as Ideological Instrument
response by Michael Dewar

3:30-4:15 Eric Orlin (Bard College)
Foreign Cults and Roman National Identity
response by James Rives

4:15-4:30 b r e a k

4:30-5:30 Keynote Address: Matthew Roller (Johns Hopkins)
Is the Emperor a 'Father' or a 'Master'? Aristocratic Ideology and Imperial Authority in the Early Roman Empire

5:30 r e c e p t i o n (in the Department of Classics, 97 St. George St.)

S a t u r d a y, O c t o b e r 16

8:30-9:00 c o f f e e

9:00-9:45 Richard King (Purdue University)
Mounting Ambition: Dissimulating Political Desire in Fasti 2
response by Rebecca Nagel

9:45-10:30 Josiah Osgood (Yale University)
Playing with Ideology: Roman Dolls and Their (Wo)men
response by Allison Glazebrook

10:30-10:45 b r e a k

10:45-11:30 Suzanne Saïd (Columbia University)
Alexander's Costumes
response by Margaret Miller

11:30-12:15 Michael Koortbojian (University of Toronto)
Divus Iulius in 36 B.C.
response by Jonathan Edmondson

12:15-1:30 b r e a k f o r l u n c h

1:30-2:15 Josephine Crawley (University of California, Berkeley)
Forging Community Through Universal History
response by Guy Métraux

2:15-3:00 Michael Peachin (New York University)
How to Run an Empire -- the Roman Way
response by David Meban

3:00-3:15 b r e a k

3:15-4:00 Emily Mackil (Princeton University)
Toward an Analysis of Aristotle's Ideological Thinking
response by Brad Inwood

4:00-4:45 Peter Rose (Miami University of Ohio)
Divorcing Ideology from Marxism and Marxism from Ideology: Some Problems
response by Patricia Fagan

4:45-5:30 Vincent Farenga (University of Southern California)
Negotiating Democratic Citizenship in Athens: Ideology and Ontology
response by Sean Gurd

5:30-6:00 b r e a k

6:00-7:00 Keynote Address: Josiah Ober (Princeton University)
Taking Positions and Making Points: Tyrant-killing and Stasis in Athenian Political Discourse and Iconography

7:30 d i n n e r (for presenters and respondents, location TBA)

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8:30-9:00 c o f f e e

9:00-9:45 Alexander Thein (University of Pennsylvania)
The Urbanism of Athens and the Piraeus: Sea or Land?
response by Jonathan Burgess

9:45-10:30 Karen Bassi (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Architecture and Ideology
response by David Roselli

10:30-11:00 b r e a k

11:00-11:45 Vincent Rosivach (Fairfield University)
The Ideological Discourse of New Comedy
response by Gottskalk Jensson

11:45-12:30 Mahalia Way (Northwestern University)
Violence as Exchange on the Comic Stage
response by Kevin Wallace

12:30 c o n f e r e n c e w r a p - u p