There is no registration fee for this conference, and all are welcome. However, if you are planning to attend, please notify Professor Maria Wyke (m.wyke AT ucl.ac.uk in advance, as space may be limited. A few bursaries are still available to support the costs of attendance by postgraduate students.
*CLASSICAL EMPIRES IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE *
*ONE-DAY CONFERENCE*
Friday 23 May 2008
Rm 106, Gordon House, University College London
/Sponsored by the Classical Reception Studies Network, the Institute of Classical Studies, and the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London./
Programme
10.15-10.45 Coffee
10.45-11.00 Welcome & Introduction
Maria Wyke & Chiara Thumiger (University College London)
Lorna Hardwick (Open University & CRSN)
11.00-12.30 Panel 1- Chair David Hudson (Political Science, UCL)
- ‘Reviving classical knowledge while writing about globalization’,
Richard Hingley, (University of Durham)
- ‘Writing empires: neo-liberalism and the ends of civilization’
Richard Alston (Royal Holloway, University of London)
-’Empire, States of Exception, and Iustitium. Augustus and Agamben'
Ahuvia Kahane (Royal Holloway, University of London)
12.30-2.00 Lunch Break
2.00-3.30 Panel 2 – Chair Lindsay Allen (Classics, Kings)
- ‘The last Shah at Persepolis: The Iranian use of the Persian past 1960-2007’,
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (University of Edinburgh)
- ‘Hollywood versus Ahmadinejad: conquering the east in the third-millennial western cinema’,
Edith Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- ‘Xena versus the Romans: Anti-imperialism in /Xena Warrior Princess/’,
Amanda Potter (Open University)
3.30-4.00 Tea and Coffee
4.00-5.30 Panel 3 – Chair Adam I.P. Smith (American History, UCL)
- ‘Athens and America: Comparing Empires in /The New York Times/’,
Adam Goldwyn (City University of New York)
- ‘The decline and fall of the Roman empire and its place in American political discourse’
Leslie Dodd (University of Glasgow)
- ‘Greeks and Persians all over again? The intellectualisation of imperial metaphors in contemporary politics’
Naoise Mac Sweeney (University of Cambridge)
5.30-6.00 Round Table Discussion
*CLASSICAL EMPIRES IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE *
*ONE-DAY CONFERENCE*
Friday 23 May 2008
Rm 106, Gordon House, University College London
/Sponsored by the Classical Reception Studies Network, the Institute of Classical Studies, and the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London./
Programme
10.15-10.45 Coffee
10.45-11.00 Welcome & Introduction
Maria Wyke & Chiara Thumiger (University College London)
Lorna Hardwick (Open University & CRSN)
11.00-12.30 Panel 1- Chair David Hudson (Political Science, UCL)
- ‘Reviving classical knowledge while writing about globalization’,
Richard Hingley, (University of Durham)
- ‘Writing empires: neo-liberalism and the ends of civilization’
Richard Alston (Royal Holloway, University of London)
-’Empire, States of Exception, and Iustitium. Augustus and Agamben'
Ahuvia Kahane (Royal Holloway, University of London)
12.30-2.00 Lunch Break
2.00-3.30 Panel 2 – Chair Lindsay Allen (Classics, Kings)
- ‘The last Shah at Persepolis: The Iranian use of the Persian past 1960-2007’,
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (University of Edinburgh)
- ‘Hollywood versus Ahmadinejad: conquering the east in the third-millennial western cinema’,
Edith Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- ‘Xena versus the Romans: Anti-imperialism in /Xena Warrior Princess/’,
Amanda Potter (Open University)
3.30-4.00 Tea and Coffee
4.00-5.30 Panel 3 – Chair Adam I.P. Smith (American History, UCL)
- ‘Athens and America: Comparing Empires in /The New York Times/’,
Adam Goldwyn (City University of New York)
- ‘The decline and fall of the Roman empire and its place in American political discourse’
Leslie Dodd (University of Glasgow)
- ‘Greeks and Persians all over again? The intellectualisation of imperial metaphors in contemporary politics’
Naoise Mac Sweeney (University of Cambridge)
5.30-6.00 Round Table Discussion