Religion and the State in Classical Greece and Rome - 22-23/09/2017, Princeton, NJ (USA)
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 22-23/09/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, USA)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGA(IZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Amit Shilo (University of California, Santa Barbara) ; Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)
INFO: religionandthestate@gmail.com
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Se ruega enviar un email a /please send an email to / sono pregati di inviare una e-mail a eileenrobinson@princeton.edu
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Friday, September 22
Location: Chancellor Green 105
9:00-9:30 Breakfast and coffee
9:30 Welcome: Amit Shilo and Dan-el Padilla Peralta
9:45-10:30 Evan Jewell (Columbia), “Growing the state: the cult of Iuventas
in the Middle Republic and Augustan Rome”
Respondent: Anne Truetzel (Princeton)
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:30 Paul McMullen (Cambridge), “The ritual poetics of punitive
politics: replacing the citizen in Plato’s Laws”
Respondent: Marcus Folch (Columbia)
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-12:30 Isabel Köster (Colorado–Boulder), “The state vs. religion: three
case studies in Roman temple robbery”
Respondent: Caroline Mann (Princeton)
12:30-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:30 Sienna Kang (Stanford), “Rethinking divine authority: a new model for the study of divine kingship”
Respondent: Michael Flower (Princeton)
2:30-2:45 Coffee break
2:45-3:30 Ashley Flavell (Auckland), “Divine politics: temple construction in
archaic Rome”
Respondent: Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton)
3:30-3:45 Coffee break
3:45-4:45 Keynote 1
Hannah Wiley (Cambridge), “The gods and the construction of authority in inscribed Greek law”
Saturday, September 23
9:15-9:45 Breakfast and coffee
9:45-10:30 Calloway Scott (NYU), “Healing the body politic: territory, civic
identity, and healing cult in classical Athens”
Respondent: Jessica Lamont (Yale)
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:30 Lindsay Driediger-Murphy (Calgary), “The ira deum in a two-
headed state”
Respondent: Harriet Flower (Princeton)
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-12:30 Amit Shilo (UCSB), “Divine stasis vs. democratic unanimity: polytheistic divisions as political-theological checks in the Oresteia and beyond”
Respondent: Ian Walling (Princeton)
12:30-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:30 Amanda Herring (Loyola Marymount), “Hekate of Lagina: a
chthonic goddess doing her civic duty”
Respondent: Marco Santini (Princeton)
2:30-2:45 Coffee break
2:45-3:30 Tom Martin (Holy Cross), “Who deified Demetrius and why?
Religion and state in early Hellenistic Athens”
Respondent: Nino Luraghi (Princeton)
3:30-3:45 Coffee break
3:45-4:45 Keynote 2
Matthew Loar, “A contest of augur(ie)s: Hercules and Cacus from
Vergil’s Aeneid to Ovid’s Fasti”
4:45-5:00 Coffee break
5:00-5:30 Concluding remarks