Lucan in His Contemporary Contexts - Provo - 13-14-15/04/2017, Provo (UT, USA)
Keynote speaker: Paul Roche (University of Sydney)
Interest in the poet Lucan and his epic on Roman civil war has grown steadily over the past several decades, leading to a better understanding of the Bellum Civile and the variety of political and poetic themes at work (or even ‘at war’) within. Lucan’s own time period, however, is less commonly a central focus of research. The Bellum Civile has long been studied as exemplary of post-Vergilian imperial epic and as an essential creative conduit that invigorated subsequent Flavian epic. Yet it is also true that Lucan’s epic stands as a gateway to the world of Neronian Rome, the intellectual and geographical post-Augustan Roman space that Lucan inhabited and which in turn shaped his worldview. Accordingly, we seek to bring together scholars for a conference on the Neronian age with Lucan as a common connecting point for the papers and ideas presented. All artists are in constant conversation with their own cultural environment, and we envision a conference where that wider cultural environment of Neronian (and Claudian) Rome is placed in clear conversation with Lucan and his epic poem.
FECHA /DATE/DATA: 13-14-15/04/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Brigham Young University, Provo (Utah, USA)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Mark Thorne ; Laura Zientek
INFO: web - Mark_Thorne@byu.edu ; Laura_Zientek@byu.edu
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THURSDAY April 13th
7:00 pm – Paul Roche (University of Sydney), Public Campus Lecture: “Neronian Rome in Ten Texts and Images” (Main Library auditorium, 1st level)
FRIDAY April 14th 8:00 am – Shuttle transportation from Provo to Aspen Grove Conference Center (all sessions in Timpanagos A on the upper floor of Aspen Lodge) 8:40 – check-in and light breakfast 9:15 – Welcome & Introduction (Mark Thorne and Laura Zientek, BYU)
Session 1a: 9:30-10:30am 9:30 – Florian Barriere (Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3) : “Lucan’s Repititions: ‘Blemishes’ of a Young poet or Neronian Features? ” 10:00 – Francesca Behr (University of Houston), “The Aesthetics of Apostrophe in Lucan’s Bellum Civile” [10:30 – 15-min break]
Session 1b: 10:45-11:45 10:45 – Giuilio Celotto (Florida State University), “Lucan, the Principate, and Nero: The Paradigmatic Figure of Alexander the Great” 11:15 – Julia Mebane (University of Chicago), “The Ghost of Sulla in Neronian Rome”
11:45-12:30 Lunch Break
Session 2a: 12:30-1:30 12:30 – James Taylor (Harvard University), “Even Natura Nods: Lucan’s Alternative Explanatios of the Syrtes” 1:00 – Laura Zientek (Brigham Young University), “Mining, Morality, and Civil War in Neronian Literature” [1:30 – 10-min break]
Session 2b: 1:40-2:40 1:40 – Alex Forte (Harvard University), “Neronian Inheritance: Lucan’s Massilia and Seneca’s Thyestes” 2:10 – Allison Ditmore (Washington University-St. Louis), “What an Artist Dies in Me: The Delphic Episode and Censorship in Lucan’s Bellum Civile” [2:40 – 20 min break]
3:00 – Shuttle Transportation back to BYU campus (with the potential of sight-seeing along the way, weather permitting)
Session 3: 4:15-5:15 [Education in Zion Theater, JFSB B198] 4:15 – Jake Nabel (Cornell University), “Lucan’s Parthians in Nero’s Rome” 4:45 – Mauro Serena (University of Reading), “Measuring the Disorder of a System: Lucan, Seneca, and Rome’s Attempt to Incorporate Parthia”
Keynote Lecture [Education in Zion Theater, JFSB B198] 5:30 – Paul Roche (University of Sydney), “Imperial Ethics, The Individual and Autonomy in Lucan and Seneca’s Letters”
7:00 – Conference Dinner
SATURDAY April 15th (All Saturday sessions are in the Foreign Language Activity Commons, JFSB B003) 8:30 – Shuttle transportation to BYU campus (breakfast snacks provided)
Session 4a: 9:00-10:30 9:00 – Tom Biggs (University of Georgia), “Lucanus mirabatur adeo scripta Flacci: Lucan and Persius” 9:30 – Patrick Kappacher (Humboldt University of Berlin), “Outside/In: Pompey outside of Lucan’s Bellum Civile and Trimalchio in the Satyricon” 10:00 – Annette M. Baertschi (Bryn Mawr College), “Impersonation and Role-Play in Lucan: Cicero’s Speech in Bellum Civile 7.62ff” [10:30 – 15-min break]
Session 4b: 10:45-11:45 10:45 – David Kaufman (Transylvania University), “Lucan’s Cato and Popular (Mis)conceptions of Stoicism” 11:15 – Mark Thorne (Brigham Young University) – “Rome's Civil War Participation Award: Cato Uticensis in Lucan and Seneca’s Letters”
11:45-1:00 – Lunch Break (on your own on campus or nearby)
Session 5a: 1:00-2:00 1:00 – Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College), “Re-Membering the Palatine in Lucan’s Civil War” 1:30 – Nell Mulhern (Temple University), “The Paradox of Lucan’s Nostalgia” [2:00 – 15-min break]
Session 5b: 2:15-3:15 2:15 – Lee Fratantuono (Ohio Wesleyan University), “Troy in the Neronian Imagination” 2:45 – Andrew McClellan (Florida State University), “Lucan’s Neronian Res Publica Restituta” [3:15 – 15-min break]
3:30-4:30 – Closing Roundtable Recap and Discussion
5:00 – Optional Hiking Excursion
7:00 – Optional Dinner (for those sticking around until Sunday; not paid for in conference fees)