Program

Friday 13.12.2024 (Arrival and Check-In at Hotel Hammer)

13:30h Registration and Welcome at The Pier

14:00h Christopher Krebs and Christine Walde: Introduction

14:45h Edward Watts (University of California, San Diego):

How Trumpism Forced Americans to Stop Imagining Themselves as a Declining Roman Empire and Start Seeing a Failing Roman Republic

15:45h Coffee Break

16:00h Alexander Pruß (JGU Mainz):

The Political Use and Misuse of Archaeology in Modern Near Eastern States

17:00h Keynote

Vered Lev Kenaan (University of Haifa):

Hospitality in Times of War

19:00h Dinner – Kulinarische Weihnacht at Dhom (Wineyard in Mainz-Hechtsheim)

Saturday, 14.12.2024

9:00h Christoph Riedweg (Universität Zürich):

On Plato’s Psychogram of the Tyrant

10:00h Coffee Break

10:15 Luca Grillo (University of Notre Dame):

The Reception of Caesar in Gadda

11:15h Jackie Murray (SUNY at Buffalo):

The Race of Heroes in Contemporary Political Discourse

12:15h Lunch

13:30h Sergio Casali (Università di Tor Vergata, Roma):

The Lesson of Aeneas: Political Uses of Virgil and the Origins of Rome in Recent Popularizations

14:30h Marco Formisano (Ghent University):

"A classical return: The discourse of exile in Three Rings of Daniel Mendelsohn"

15:30h Coffee Break

16:00h Markus Hafner (Universität Graz):

“Classics is not an Island unto Itself” – Political (Dis-)continuities in GNOMON between 1925 and 1949 under Review

19:00h Dinner at the Grüne Kakadu near the Dome

8:45h Constanze Güthenke (Oxford University):

On Accident: the Careers of Louise Matthaei Howard

9:40h Markus Kersten (JGU Mainz):

The Politics of Choice – Apologetics and the Prevention of Literature in Latin Teaching

10:40h Christopher Krebs (Stanford University):

Sallust and Adorno. A Conversation

11:40h Concluding discussion

12:00h Light Lunch and End of Conference