Mirrors for Princes in Antiquity and Their Reception - 02-03-04/12/2015, Leuven (Belgium)
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 02-03-04/12/2015
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe (Leuven, Belgium)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Erik De Bom; Geert Roskam; Stefan Schorn; Peter Van Deun; Gerd Van Riel; Marleen Reynders
INFO: Web - erik.debom@hiw.kuleuven.be; geert.roskam@arts.kuleuven.be
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis /free / gratuito
Participation is free, but please register online before 27 November 2015.
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Wednesday 2 December 2015
16.00 - 17.00 Registration & Welcome coffee | Irish College | Janseniusstraat 1 Leuven
17.30 - 18.30 Academic Session | Promotiezaal University Hall 01.46 | Naamsestraat 22 Leuven
Opening of the Conference by Gerd Van Riel | Director of Lectio Keynote Lecture by Oswyn MURRAY (Oxford), The Classical Traditions of Panegyric and Advice to Princes.
18.30 - 20.00 Reception | Rectorale Salons University Hall | Naamsestraat 22 Leuven
Thursday 3 December 2015
Session 1 | Chair Gerd Van Riel
09.30 - 10.00 Albert JOOSSE (Utrecht), Mirrors for a would-be-prince in the Platonic ‘First Alcibiades’.
10.00 - 10.30 Panos CHRISTODOULOU (Nicosia), Le ‘Politique’ de Platon. Un miroir au prince oublié ?
10.30 - 10.45 Discussions
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee
Session 2 | Chair Stefan Schorn
11.15 - 11.45 Davide AMENDOLA (Pisa), A Hellenistic speculum principis in P.Berol.inv. 13045, A I-III?
11.45 - 12.15 Brecht BUEKENHOUT (Leuven), Aristotle’s ‘On Kingship’ and euergetism.
12.15 - 12.30 Discussions
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
Session 3 | Chair Geert Roskam
13.30 - 14.00 Anne GANGLOFF (Rennes), La tradition du miroir au prince et la figure du bon roi chez Dion Cassius.
14.00 - 14.30 Susan JACOBS (Columbia), Plutarch’s Statesmen: Mirrors of Political Effectiveness.
14.30 - 14.45 Discussions
14.45 - 15.15 Coffee
Session 4 | Chair Marco Formisano
15.15 - 15.45 Roger REES (St. Andrews), A two way mirror. The Panegyricus and the Panegyrici.
15.45 - 16.15 Marius GERHARDT (Berlin), Historiography as Mirrors for Princes? The Case of Velleius Paterculus.
16.15 - 16.30 Discussions
18.00 – 19.30 Academic Session | Auditorium Irish College | Janseniusstraat 1 Leuven
Keynote Lecture Aysha POLLNITZ (Grinnell), Were the Mirrors really for Princes? The Use and Abuse of specula in Royal Education, 1500-1649.
20.00 – 22.30 Conference Dinner | Faculty Club | Grand Beguinage Leuven
Friday 4 December 2015
Session 5 | Chair Peter Van Deun
09.00 - 09.30 Francis THOMSON (Antwerpen), Mirrors-for-Princes in the Slavonic Tradition.
09.30 - 10.00 Maria Consiglia ALVINO (Naples-Strasbourg), Classical reminiscences in Agapetus Diaconus’ Scheda Regia. Towards the Definition of the Byzantine Mirror of Prince.
10.00 - 10.30 Shaun TOUGHER (Cardiff), Macedonian Mirrors : The Advice of Basil I for his son Leo VI.
10.30 - 10.50 Discussions
10.50 – 11.15 Coffee
Session 6 | Chair Oswyn Murray
11.15 - 11.45 Karen PIEPENBRINK (Giessen), Zum Problem der ‘Christianisierung’ der Gattung in der Spätantike.
11.45 - 12.15 Matthias HAAKE (Münster), Across all Boundaries of Genre? On the Use and Abuse of the Concept ‘mirrors for princes’ in Graeco-Roman Antiquity.
12.15 - 12.30 Discussions
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
Session 7 | Chair Erik De Bom
13.30 - 14.00 David NAPOLITANO (Cambridge), From Royal Court to City Hall. The Podesta Literature a Republican Variant on the ‘Mirrors for Princes’ Genre?
14.00 - 14.30 Richard STONEMAN (Exeter), Plato’s Advice to Alexander.
14.30 - 14.45 Discussions
14.45 - 15.15 Coffee
Session 4 | Chair Aysha Pollnitz
15.15 - 15.45 Elisa TINELLI (Bari), Erasmus’ panegyricus ad Philippum Austriae Ducem.
15.45 - 16.15 Erik DE BOM (Leuven), The Late Scholastics as Political Advisors. Domingo de Soto’s De iustitia et iure as a Mirror-for-Princes.
16.15 - 16.30 Discussions
16.30 - 17.00 Concluding remarks