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Mirrors for Princes in Antiquity and Their Reception - 02-03-04/12/2015, Leuven (Belgium)


FECHA/DATE/DATA: 02-03-04/12/2015

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

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