Encyclopedic Knowledge in and of Antiquity
Workshop (Unter den Linden 6, Room 2249a, ‘Zwischengeschoss’)
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Tue 27 |
Wed 28 |
Thu 29 |
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10–12 Constanze Güthenke (Oxford) Boeckh Seminar
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Aristotle 9–10 Gyburg Uhlmann (FU Berlin) ‘School Examples and Curricular Entanglements in Aristotle’s Metaphysics and other Pragmateiai’
10–10.30 Coffee
10.30–11.15 Thomas Davies (PU) ‘Arist. Phys. 2.1 and its Neoplatonic Reception’ (Resp.: Antonio Vargas, HU)
11.15–12 Moritz Hinsch (HU) ‘The Books that no one Read: The Fate of Greek Agronomists from Aristotle to Pliny’ (Resp.: Marco Blumhofer, HU) |
Drama 9–9.45 Ella Haselswerdt (PU) ‘Tragic Knowledge and the Choral Subject in Aeschylus' Agamemnon’ (Response: Giulia Maria Chesi, HU) 9.45–10.30 Paul Touyz (PU) ‘Putting the Goat into Goat-Song: ancient conceptions of satyrs and theories of dramatic origins’ (Resp.: Bernd Seidensticker, FU Berlin)
10.30–11 Coffee
Doxography 11–11.45 Marco Blumhofer (HU) ‘Too much to know. Imperial doxographical texts between encyclopaedia and anti-encyclopaedia’ (Resp.: Markus Asper, HU) Knowledge in Rome 11.45–12.30 Friderike Senkbeil (HU) ‘praecipuum munus annalium – or What is worth knowing about the past? Programmatic elements in the historiographical works of Tacitus’ (Resp.: Philip Aubreville, HU) |
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12–13 lunch |
12–13 lunch
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12.30–13.30 lunch |
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Welcome/Introduction 13–14 Markus Asper (HU) / Joshua Billings (PU) / Martin Stöckinger (HU)
Reception 14–14.45 Mathura Umachandran (PU) ‘Auerbach's Homer, or Re-reading the Sublime’ (Response: Nina Ogrowsky, HU)
14.45–15.15 Coffee
15.15–16.15 Anna Echterhölter (HU) ‘The Political Economy of Units: August Boeckh, Historical Metrology, and Households’
Medicine 16.15–17.15 Philip van der Eijk / Ricarda Gäbel (HU) ‘Ancient Medical "Encyclopaedias" – The Case of Aetius of Amida’
Dinner |
Knowledge and Language 13–14 Thorsten Fögen (Durham / Cologne / HU) ‘Die Etymologiae des Isidor von Sevilla als Fachtext’
14–14.45 Hanna Gołąb (PU) ‘Performing Acrostics: Ritual Knowledge in Late Hellenistic Susa’ (Resp.: Joshua Katz, PU)
14.45–15.15 Coffee
15.15–16.45 Joshua Billings and Joshua Katz (PU) Workshop on Etymologies
16.45–19 break
19–21 lecture by Kai Brodersen (Erfurt) ‘Vom Bosporos über Ochsenfurth nach Oxford: Etymologien und Eigennamen im Griechisch-Lexikon’ (sponsored by the Department of Ancient History) Friedrichstraße 191–193, room 4026 |
13.30–15 Katharina Volk / Jim Zetzel (Columbia) Workshop ‘Roman Wissenschaft of the Late Republic between ratio and consuetudo’
15–15.30 Coffee
15.30–16.15 Christian Badura (FU Berlin) ‘Encyclopedic and 'cyclopedic' knowledge in Varro and Ovid's Fasti’ (Resp.: Martin Stöckinger, HU)
16.15–17 Concluding Discussion
Dinner |