Frames and Framing in Antiquity - 16-17-18/10/2020 (Online)
Frames and framing have entered the public discourse already before covid-19 but have recently become a hotly debated issue due to the styling of news, for instance in social media, that partly replace other possibilities of social communication at the moment. Frames and framing have entered the public discourse already before covid-19 but have recently become a hotly debated issue due to the styling of news, for instance in social media, that partly replace other possibilities of social communication at the moment
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 16-17-18/10/2020
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Online
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Sven Günther (Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China); Elisabeth Günther (Institute for Digital Humanities, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
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Program (all times are Central European Time, i.e. UTC+2)
Friday, 16 October 2020
14.00-14.20: Opening and greeting words
14.20-14.45
Opening Remarks
Elisabeth Günther (Institute for Digital Humanities, University of Göttingen)
How to understand an owl in armor: frames and framings in ancient studies
14.45-16.00
Key-note Lecture
Hartmut Leppin (University of Frankfurt)
Parrhesía and the framing of expectations in the social worlds of antiquity
Saturday, 17 October 2020
Panel I: From Theory to Practice
8.30-9.00
Sven Günther (IHAC, NENU, Changchun)
Frames and framing theory avant la lettre? Johann Gustav Droysen’s Historik and the future of ancient studies
9.00-9.30
Martina Sauer (Institute of Image and Cultural Philosophy, Bühl)
Promise of happiness, security and community − frames and framing in a new light
Respondents: Ben White (Günther), Elisabeth Günther (Sauer)
Panel II: Greek Frames and Modern Perception
9.45-10.15
Riccarda Schmid (University of Zurich)
Frames and framing in Attic rhetoric
10.15-10.45
Sven-Philipp Brandt (Special Collection “Amploniana”, University of Erfurt)
Sustainability as a framework? The concept of αὐτάρκεια in late classical Athens
10.45-11.15
Jelle Stoop (Brussels / University of Sydney)
Taste in early Greek poetry: production versus consumption
11.15-11.45
Guendalina Taietti (University of Liverpool)
Framing the Macedonians, becoming Greek: on the importance of Ancient Macedon in the nation-making of the Hellenic state
Respondents: Guo Zilong (Schmid & Stoop), Sven Günther (Brandt & Taietti)
Panel III: Greek and Roman Frames
13.30-14.00
Hendrikus A.M. van Wijlick (Peking University)
Re-framing friendship in the late Republic and early Principate: the personification of φίλος-epithets
14.00-14.30
Guo Zilong (IHAC, NENU, Changchun)
Framing the Delphic oracle, institutionalizing the Olympian Games: a case study on Phlegon of Tralles’s Olympiads (FGrH 257 F 1)
14.30-15.00
Xu Zhenhuang (IHAC, NENU, Changchun)
Framing accusations against prosecutors: multi-level images of delatores in the 1st and 2nd century AD
Respondents: Sven Günther (van Wijlick & Guo Zilong), Francesco Ginelli (Xu Zhenhuang)
Sunday, 18 October 2020
Panel IV: Framing Strategies in the Late Roman Republic and Early Empire
9.00-9.30
Jan Lukas Horneff (TU Dresden)
How to treat cunnilingus – Framing in Apuleius’ Apologia
9.30-10.00
Zhang Hongxia (IHAC, NENU, Changchun)
From Chinese perspective: frame and framing theory, Cicero’s Pro Cluentio, and Chinese modes of perception
10.00-10.30
Francesco Ginelli (Università degli Studi di Verona)
«...rem publicam a domination factionis oppressam in libertatem vindicavi». Frame analysis, ancient life writing, and political propaganda
Respondents: Hendrikus van Wijlick (Horneff & Zhang Hongxia), Elisabeth Günther (Ginelli)
Panel V: Framing Narratives in Archaeology
13.30-14.00
Amy Smith (Curator, Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology / Department of Classics, Reading)
Unpeeling the Pan Painter’s pictures
14.00-14.30
Ben White (University of Nottingham)
Porticus, keys, and brackets: towards a Goffmanian framework for exploring the colonnades of ancient Rome
Respondents: Martina Sauer (Smith), Amy Smith (White)
14.30-15.00
Final Discussion