CULTURAL POETICS IN ANCIENT GREECE: NEW APPROACHES Schedule
THURSDAY 05 SEPTEMBER • ISHI COURT, DWINELLE HALL
4:00–6:00 PM WELCOME RECEPTION
FRIDAY 06 SEPTEMBER • GEBALLE ROOM, TOWNSEND CENTER
SESSION 1 9:30-10:30 AM: TEXTUAL INTERACTIONS
Chair: Mark Griffith, University of California at Berkeley
Boris Maslov, “Toying with Texts in Archaic Greece”
Tamara Chin, “The Stark Impossibility of Greece-China Contact”
COFFEE BREAK 10:30-11:00 AM
SESSION II 11:00 AM -12:30 PM: ETHICS AND VALUE, HOMER AND AESOP
Chair: James Ker, University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Wein, “Aesop and the Vice of Confusion”
Deborah Kamen, “Status and the Evolution of Aesop’s Voice” Victoria Wohl, “Of Pigs and the Proper”
LUNCH BREAK 12:30-2:30 PM
SESSION III 2:30-3:30 PM: POETIC DIALOGUES
Chair: Nigel Nicholson, Reed College
Chris Waldo, “Partners in Praise: Re-Reading the Relationship between Pindar and
Bacchylides”
Dylan Kenny, “Choral Poetry without the Poet: Simonides’s Teaching in Xenophon’s
Hieron”
COFFEE BREAK 3:30-4:00 PM
SESSION IV 4:00-5:00 PM: POEMS, COMPOSITES AND MONSTERS
Chair: Mario Telò, University of California at Berkeley
Margaret Foster, “‘To the West, Stone and the Song of Silence’: Sphinxes and Riddles in
Pindar’s Nemean 3”
Richard Neer, “Sphinxes and the Taming of Attraction”
SATURDAY 07 SEPTEMBER • DWINELLE 370
SESSION V 9:30-10:30 AM: LINGUISTIC AND SENSORY APPROACHES
Chair: Sarah Culpepper Stroup, University of Washington
Marissa Henry, “Goblin Market: Nectar, Ambrosia and the Real Cost of Fruit” Virginia Lewis, “Gendered Differences in the Speech of Brothers and Sisters in
Sophocles”
COFFEE BREAK 10:30-11:00 AM
SESSION VI 11:00 AM -12:30 PM: TRAGEDY, POLITICS AND MATERIALS
Chair: Donald Mastronarde, University of California at Berkeley
Melissa Mueller, “Democracy and Autochthony in Aeschylus’s Suppliants” Laurialan Reitzammer, “Dionysus, Ivy and the Rhizomatic in Euripides’s Bacchae” Seth Estrin, “Reading Between a Line: Toward a Poetics of the Greek Trophy”
LUNCH BREAK 12:30-2:30 PM
SESSION VII 2:30-3:30 PM: MARRIAGE, REPRODUCTION AND DECEIT
Chair: Ellen Oliensis, University of California at Berkeley
Sarah Olsen, “Wrestling with Thetis: Desire, Form and Precarious Victory in Pindar,
Nemean 4”
Kate Gilhuly, “Cassandra’s Deceit: Prophecy and Reproduction in Aeschylus’s
Agamemnon” COFFEE BREAK 3:30-4:00 PM
SESSION VIII 4:00-5:00 PM: GENDERS AND GENRES
Chair: Kathleen McCarthy, University of California at Berkeley
Athena Kirk, “Herodotus in Plutarch: The Case of Polycrite”
Naomi Weiss, “Space, Gender, and Genre in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans 10”
A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF LESLIE KURKE, SUPPORTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN STUDIES, THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND THE TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES.
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