Colloque international  »
(26-28 mai 2025, Strasbourg)

Le colloque est organisé par Sandra Boehringer
(Université de Strasbourg) et Kirk Ormand (Oberlin
College, Ohio), à l'Université de Strasbourg.

Ce colloque, qui s’inscrit dans le projet « Foucault,
l’Antiquité et la sexualité » (Université de
Strasbourg/Idex/UMR7044) et le projet « Invective poetry,
social class, and gender in archaic Greece »
(Usias/Oberlin College), porte sur les discours d’invective
envers les femmes dans le monde antique, de Sémonide
à Juvénal, d’Archiloque à Augustin.

En tenant compte des contextes de performance variés
(rituels, politiques, musicaux, et/ou les trois à la fois) de
ces invectives, et en établissant des parallèles raisonnés
avec des problématiques contemporaines (comme la
réappropriation de l’insulte), les participantes et
participants de ce colloque se proposent d’explorer la
manière dont la pratique discursive de l’invective reflète,
produit ou, au contraire, transforme les normes de genre
dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine.
Le colloque est précédé d’une masterclass (sur
inscription avant le 9 mai) destinée aux étudiantes,
étudiants et jeunes collègues en master, thèse ou
postdoctorat.
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https://archimede.unistra.fr/agenda/colloque-international/

Programme: https://archimede.unistra.fr/websites/misha/archimede/Agenda/2025/Programme_FR_Women_in_and_4pagesA4_page_a_page.pdf

19t^h Trends in Classics

May 22-24, 2025

The Department of Classical Studies at Duke University, the Classics Department at Oberlin College & Conservatory and the Department of Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki are organizing the 19^th Trends in Classics International Conference (an in-person event) to be held in Thessaloniki from May 22 to 24, 2025 at KEDEA, Aristotle University Campus (http://kedea.rc.auth.gr). The topic of the conference is:

“The Ages of Nero: Reality and Reception”

 https://lit.auth.gr/research/conferences/trends-in-classics/19th_trends

(Nero and his age continue to fascinate us. The past decade alone has seen two Companions, three major museum exhibitions, new excavations of the Domus Aurea, and several biographies that aim to shed new light on Rome’s notorious fifth emperor and the years 54-68 CE. It is also clear that the Age of Nero lived on well after the death of the man himself. In the centuries since his suicide in 68 CE, different groups of people have refashioned their own ideas of Nero or their own idea of the Age of Nero, from the Flavian reshaping of his memory and the Christian creation of the Nero Antichrist legend to the influence of Neronian authors on early modern poetics, the reclaiming of Nero in the late 19th century as a symbol of decadent masculinity, and Hollywood’s use of Nero as symbol of its own spectacular power.  

Perhaps it is time that we speak of Ages of Nero in the plural. This international conference brings together scholars from different academic disciplines to explore such Ages of Nero including the literature, philosophy, art and architecture of Nero’s principate as well as the reception of Nero and Neronian culture from antiquity to today.)

Program

Thursday, May 22, 2025

13.00 – 15.00

Walking tour of Thessaloniki

16.00 – 16.30

Registration and Greetings

Ioanna Karamanou (Aristotle University) & Antonios Rengakos (Aristotle

University & Academy of Athens)

Lauren Ginsberg (Duke University) & Christopher Trinacty (Oberlin)

16.30 – 18.30

Panel 1: Neronian Artistry, Neronian Aesthetics

Presider: Lauren Ginsberg

Eric Varner (Emory University): Going Beyond Greece: Nero’s Globalizing Artistic

Agenda

Rebecca Moorman (University of Boston): Petronian Gimmicks in the Age of Nero

Kate Meng Brassel (University of Pennsylvania): Persius as anti-Nero

Stefano Rebeggiani (USC): Horror ac divina voluptas: Statius Reading Nero and his

Contemporaries

18.30 - 20:00 Wine Reception

Friday, May 23, 2025

10.00 – 11.30

Panel 2: Seneca Across the Ages of Nero

Presider: Timothy Joseph

Christopher Star (Middlebury College): Fate and Free Will: Seneca the Prophet

George Pilotis (Cambridge University): Reflections of Seneca: Intertext and Politics

in Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria

Christopher Trinacty (Oberlin College): Seneca’s Epistulae ad Lucanum: John

Hersey’s The Conspiracy

11.30 - 12.00 Coffee Break

12.00 – 13.30

Panel 3: Neronian Dramas

Presider: Christopher Trinacty

George W. M. Harrison (Carleton University): Hercules on the Roman Stage:

Seneca’s Hercules furens and the Anonymous Hercules on Oeta

Robert Cowan (University of Sydney): Did the Earth Move? Incest, Matricide, and

Ecofeminism in the Ages of Nero

Stavros Frangoulidis (Aristotle University): Pseudo-Seneca, Octavia: Narratives of

Nero

13.30-14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.30

Panel 4: Revisiting Neronian Encomia and Responses

Presider: Robert Cowan

Timothy Joseph (College of the Holy Cross): Lucan’s Muse: The Consistency of the

Addresses to Nero / Caesar in the Pharsalia

Evangelos Karakasis (Aristotle University): The Second Einsiedeln Eclogue

Revisited: A Case of Neronian Propaganda

Evan Jewell (Rutgers University): Not that “Chill and Mature Terrorist”: Nero

iuvenis and Augustus puer

Lisa Cordes (Humboldt University) in collaboration with Elisabetta M. Gamba

(Humboldt University): Poppaea’s Apotheosis (P. Oxy. LXXVII. 5105) and the

Neronian Imperial Discourse

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 18.00

Panel 5: Reflections of the Late Antique Nero

Presider: Shushma Malik

Julia Nations-Quiroz (Yale University): Narrative of Oppression: Nero’s

Representation on a Late Antique Sarcophagus

Eleni Manolaraki (University of South Florida): Nero in the Suda

Trip to Museum of Byzantine Culture

Saturday May 24, 2025

10.00 – 11.30

Panel 6: Nero on the Early Modern Stage

Presider: Ginna Closs

Emma Buckley (St. Andrews University): Re-inventing the Tyrant: Nero in Early

Modern England

Caroline Engelmeyer (Harvard University): “As at Atreus’ Feast”: Thyestean

Eclipses and Senecan Anachronism in Jonson’s Catiline

Curtis Perry (University of Illinois): The “Soul of Nero” and the Womb of

Agrippina in English Renaissance Drama

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break

12.00 – 13.30

Panel 7: Nero on the Modern (Operatic) Stage and Screen

Presider: Christopher Star

Wendy Heller (Princeton University): “Otton, torna in te stesso”: Otho, Nero, and

Masculinity on the Venetian Stage

Maria Wyke (University College London): Nero in the Early Years of Cinema

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.00

Panel 8: Nero in Modern Popular Print Media

Presider: Emma Buckley

Shushma Malik (Cambridge University): Nero in an Age of Caricature, or Caricature

in an Age of Nero

Ginna Closs (University of Massachusetts): True Comics, Fake News, and Nero’s

Urban Renewal Agenda

Lauren Ginsberg (Duke University): Mad Man: Nero in 20th- Century Print

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16.00 - 16.30

Closing Remarks

20.00 Conference Dinner

Organizing Committee:

Lauren Donovan Ginsberg (Duke University)
Christopher Trinacty (Oberlin College & Conservatory)
Antonios Rengakos (Aristotle University & Academy of Athens)
Stavros Frangoulidis (Aristotle University)

The organizers gratefully acknowledge the kind support of Duke University-Department of Classics, Oberlin College and Conservatory-Classics Department, Aristotle University Research Committee, Kostas & Eleni Ounari Foundation-Academy of Athens and the University Studio Press.

The Department of Classical Studies (Duke University), the Department of Classics (Oberlin College & Conservatory) and the Department of Classics (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) announce the 19^th Trends in Classics (an in-person event) to be held in Thessaloniki from May 22 to 24, 2025. The conference topic is:

“The Ages of Nero: Reality and Reception”

https://lit.auth.gr/research/conferences/trends-in-classics/19th_trends

(Nero and his age continue to fascinate us. The past decade alone has seen two Companions, three major museum exhibitions, new excavations of the Domus Aurea, and several biographies that aim to shed new light on Rome’s notorious fifth emperor and the years 54-68 CE. It is also clear that the Age of Nero lived on well after the death of the man himself. In the centuries since his suicide in 68 CE, different groups of people have refashioned their own ideas of Nero or their own idea of the Age of Nero, from the Flavian reshaping of his memory and the Christian creation of the Nero Antichrist legend to the influence of Neronian authors on early modern poetics, the reclaiming of Nero in the late 19th century as a symbol of decadent masculinity, and Hollywood’s use of Nero as symbol of its own spectacular power. Perhaps it is time that we speak of Ages of Nero in the plural. This international conference brings together scholars from different academic disciplines to explore such Ages of Nero including the literature, philosophy, art and architecture of Nero’s principate as well as the reception of Nero and Neronian culture from antiquity to today.)

The list of speakers is available online on the Department of Classics (AuTh) website via the link below:

https://lit.auth.gr/research/conferences/trends-in-classics/19th_trends_speakers

The conference is to be held in Auditorium 1 at KEDEA, September 3^rd Avenue, University Campus, Thessaloniki:

https://kedea.rc.auth.gr/info.html

 For further information or queries, please contact:

Stavros Frangoulidis (Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein.)

Looking forward to seeing you in Thessaloniki!

The Organizing Committee

Lauren Donovan Ginsberg (Duke University)
Christopher Trinacty (Oberlin College & Conservatory)
Antonios Rengakos (Aristotle University & Academy of Athens)
Stavros Frangoulidis (Aristotle University)