Functions of Roman Memory: Conference Program

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Friday, April 16, 4 PM

Introduction: Karl Galinsky
Welcome: Dean Randy Diehl, College of Liberal Arts

Keynote lecture by T. P. Wiseman (MEZ 1.306): “Roman Memory: Theory and Practice”

Public Reception to Follow

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Saturday, April 17, 9 AM
Invited speakers (MEZ 0.306)
Welcome: Prof. Stephen A. White, Chair, Dept of Classics

• Session 1  9-10:30: Memory in the Social and Political Landscape of the Republic
Rabun Taylor (UT Austin), Presiding

History as Memory: Remembering the Past in Republican Times
Ana Rodríguez Mayorgas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Forgetting the Dead: Cato and the Boundaries of Remembrance
Edmund Richardson, Princeton University

Remember the Aventine: Memoria Renovata, Fama Nova, and the Creation of Cultural Geography
Lisa Mignone, Brown University

10:30 -11 Break

• Session 2  11-12:30: Poetry, Myths, and Memory in the Age of Augustus
Wolfgang Polleichtner (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Presiding

Forgetful Theseus and Mindful Aeneas in Catullus 64 and Aeneid 4
Brigitte Libby, Princeton University

Ovid Interrupted: Collective Memory and Aphasia in the Ovidian Corpus
Bart Natoli, University of Texas at Austin

Augustan Reconstruction and Roman Memory
Eric Orlin, University of Puget Sound

12:30-2 Lunch break
BBQ lunch for invited guests in WAG 116.

• Session 3  2-3:30:Late Roman Memories of the Imperial Past: Rulers and Cities
Jennifer Gates-Foster (UT Austin), Presiding

Monuments, Memory, and Social Recognition in Roman Asia Minor
Diana Ng, Northwestern University

Ars Oblivionis: Ammianus Marcellinus’ Empresses and the Exercise of Forgetting
J.R. Son, Cornell University

Altered Memories in the Statues of the Theodosian Dynasty in Rome
Gregor Kalas, University of Tennessee

3:30 – 4 Break

• Session 4    4 – 5:00: Memory in the Late Antique Religious Landscape
Douglas Boin (UT Austin), Presiding

Evagrius of Pontus on Monks and Memory
Kathleen Gibbons, University of Toronto

The Crafting of Memory in Late Roman Mortuary Spaces
Nicola Denzey Lewis, Brown University

Concluding discussion  5-5:30
Karl Galinsky, Presiding

Note on the program: Presentations will last 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period.