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|Uses and Abuses of Caesar:
| from Antiquity to the 21st Century
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| International Conference to be held on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 March
| 2003 at the British School at Rome, Italy.
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| Provisional Programme
|
| Friday 28 March
|
| 9.30 Welcome and opening plenary: Chris Pelling (University of
| Oxford)
| Characterization:
| (1) Mark Toher (Union College, New York), ‘The earliest depiction of
| Caesar: Greek and weak’
|
| 11.10 Coffee break
|
| 11.30 Characterization:
| (2) Christine Walde (University of Basel), ‘Caesar and the reception
| of Lucan’s Bellum Civile’
| (3) Jacqueline Long (Loyola University Chicago), ‘Julian Augustus’
| Julius Caesar’
|
| 1pm Lunch break
|
| 2.30 City of Rome and papal authority:
| (1) John Osborne (Queen’s University, Kingston), ‘St Peter’s
| "needle" and the ashes of Julius Caesar: Invoking Rome’s imperial
| history at the papal court ca. 1100-1300’
| (2) Nicholas Temple (Nottingham University), ‘Julius II as perpetual
| triumphator’
|
| 4.00 Tea break
|
| 4.30 Revolution and warfare:
| (1) Oliver Hemmerle (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem), ‘Crossing the Rubicon
| into Paris: Caesarean comparisons from Napoleon to de Gaulle’
| (2) Jorit Wintjes (Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg),
| ‘Caesar and Auftragstaktik - The reemergence of Caesar at German war
| academies in the 19th century’
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|
| Saturday 29 March
|
| 10.15 Nationalism and statescraft:
| (1) Louisa Mackenzie (University of Washington, Seattle), ‘Imitation
| gone wrong: The "pestilentially ambitious" figure of Julius Caesar in
| Montaigne’s Essais’
|
| 11.00 Coffee break
|
| 11.30 Nationalism and statescraft:
| (2) Margaret Malamud (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces),
| ‘Julius Caesar in Jacksonian America’
| (3) Marla Stone (Occidental College, Santa Monica), ‘The first of
| the Caesars and the Duce: Images of Julius Caesar in Italian fascist
| popular culture’
|
| 1pm Lunch break
|
| 2.30 Modern performance:
| (1) Jane Dunnett (British School at Rome), ‘The rhetoric of
| Romanitas: Representations of Caesar in fascist theatre’
| (2) Niall Slater (Emory University, Atlanta), ‘Shaw’s Caesars’
|
| 4.00 Tea break
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| 4.30 Provisional slot for further plenary speaker(s)
|
|
| From the labelling of Giulio Andreotti as ‘il divo Giulio’, to
| Berlusconi’s appeal to Caesar, and the annual rites of commemoration
| whereby spring flowers are placed at the feet of Caesar’s statue and
| in his forum, the dictator is still central to the conduct of Italian
| politics. Such usage demonstrates the enduring presence of Caesar in
| post-classical cultures. Associated with a sharp turning point in the
| history of western civilisation, Caesar quickly took on monumental,
| quasi-mythic proportions, but made to play either founder or
| destroyer, his image was not fixed. Over the centuries, the image of
| Caesar has become a site for the exploration of concerns about warfare
| and politics (conquest and imperialism, revolution, dictatorship,
| monarchy, demagoguery, and assassination) and been utilised in the
| formation of national identities (most notably, from the 18th century,
| in the United States, France, Germany, Britain and, of course, Italy).
|
| This conference seeks to examine Caesar as a significant term in the
| formation of western self-definitions. It sets out to explore the
| dictator’s reception across a wide chronological range and diverse
| media. While retaining a strong focus on Julius Caesar, the conference
| will be both interdisciplinary and cross-cultural.
|
| Abstracts of the conference papers and any updates on the programme
| can be accessed on the BSR website
| (www.bsr.ac.uk/Events/Conferences). The conference is open to all
| those interested, and there will be plenty of opportunity to
| participate in discussion of the papers. Registration is not required,
| as entry to the conference is free of charge. If you have any further
| inquiries, please contact the conference organiser Dr. Maria Wyke,
| University of Reading ([log in to unmask]).
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