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I am delighted to announce that registration is now open for the following conference:
COMMEMORATING AUGUSTUS: A BIMILLENNIAL RE-EVALUATION
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, 18TH-20TH AUGUST 2014
The bimillennium of Augustus’ death on 19th August 2014 commemorates the end of his life and the beginning of a rich posthumous reception history. Running over the date of the bimillennium itself, the Commemorating Augustus conference will undertake a focused, comparative exploration of this history of responses, from AD 14 to 2014.
Already in his lifetime, Augustus was a man of many images. Since his death, he has served in one context as a model of ideal rule and another as a tyrant, while playing a key role in narratives about the emergence of Christianity, the foundation of Europe and the relationship between politics and the arts. His reception history is a vivid exemplum of historical relativism in action, demonstrating the scope of the source material to support utterly conflicting interpretations. Yet to date it has been studied only sporadically. The Commemorating Augustus conference aims to address the full range of Augustus’ reception history, to trace its evolution, to explore its connections and disjunctions, to understand its impact on contemporary perspectives, and to put us in a better position to articulate what Augustus means to us in the 21st century.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Karl Galinsky (Austin, Texas).
OTHER INVITED SPEAKERS: Mary Harlow (Leicester), Ray Laurence (Kent), Valerie Hope (Open University), Alison Cooley (Warwick), Steven Green (UCL), Shaun Tougher (Cardiff), Martin Lindner (Göttingen).
TOPICS COVERED: Augustus’ old age and death; worship and deification; Tiberius, Nero and the Flavians; Seneca, Tacitus and Suetonius; posthumous provincial responses; coinage and the visual arts; late antique responses; Byzantine politics and literature; early Christianity; medieval history and literature; European literature; European politics and power; Augustus in novels and on screen; Augustus between the wars; Historiography and scholarship; monuments and architecture.
PAPERS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO ITALIANISTS INCLUDE:
Marco Romani Mistretta (Harvard) – National Marxism: Gramsci’s Augustan Rome and its Legacy in Italian Historiography
Nandini Pandey (Loyola, Baltimore) – Augustus and the Ara Coeli Legend in Northern Renaissance Art
Nicole Berlin (Johns Hopkins) – Augustus as Propaganda: The Case of the Vatican Gallery of Maps
Giampiero Scafoglio (Naples) – Augustus in Dante’s Thought and Works
Fabio Cavallero (Rome ‘La Sapienza’) – Augustus and Mussolini: city planning and architecture. An effective use of power for the creation of a new cultural and communicative memory.
Anna Clareborn (Swedish Institute, Rome) – Augusto Reframed: Exhibiting Augustus in Bimillennial Rome
Chloe Bent (UCL) – Engaging with Augustus in the 21st Century: A biographical analysis of Rome’s northern Campus Martius
FURTHER DETAILS: A full programme, abstracts and details of how to register are available at: http://augustus2014.com/conference/. Registration closes on 1st August 2014, and a late fee will apply to bookings made after 17th July 2014.
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The conference venue is Devonshire Hall, a self-contained University of Leeds residence in the style of an Oxbridge college.
The conference is generously supported by the Classical Association, the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies and the Augustus Collection.
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Dr. Penelope J. Goodman,
Department of Classics,
University of Leeds,
Leeds, LS2 9JT.
0113 343 3536
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http://augustus2014.com
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