Events

Past Event

Center for the Ancient Mediterranean: Conference in Memory of Alan Cameron

October 26, 2018 - October 27, 2018
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Italian Academy

Registration is recommended, but all are welcome to attend. Please RSVP for the conference through the our website: http://www.centancmed.org/upcoming-events-1/2018/10/26/conference-in-memory-of-alan-cameron. For more information, visit the event page, or contact us directly with further questions.

Friday, October 26

10:00-10:30: Introduction, Marc Van De Mieroop and John Ma

10:30-11:15: Arianna Gullo, “Late antique Homeric Exegesis in the Greek Anthology”

11:15-12:00: Jean-Luc Fournet, "Returning to the Wandering Poets: a New Poem by Dioscorus of Aphrodite"

12:00-12:45: Gavin Kelly, “The Fragments of Rutilius Namatianus”

lunch

13:45-14:30: Michele Salzman, “Why Gibbon Was Wrong; The Case for A.D. 472 and the Fall of Rome”

14:30-15:15: Anthony Cutler, "Alan's 'Bare Basilius': when the historian and the art historian coalesce"

15:15-16:00: Anne Chen, “Late Antiquity Between East and West”

break

16:15-17:00: Averil Cameron, “Alan Cameron and Byzantium”

 

Saturday Oct 27

9:45-10:30: Rita Lizzi, “Alan Cameron and the Symmachi”

10:30-11:15: Raffaella Cribiore, “Stenographers in Late Antiquity: Villains or Victims?”

break

11:30-12:15: Charlotte Roueche, “Celebrity and Power: Circus Factions 40 years on”

12:15-13:00: Michael Kulikowski, “The Value of Minimalist Interpretation: The Historia Augusta”

lunch

14:00-14:45: Carmela Vircillo Franklin, “The Lost Farnesianus Manuscript: Uncial Capitals for the Bishops of Rome”

14:45-15:30: Noel Lenski, “Ambrose thinks with slavery”

15:30-16:00: Final words

 

A light lunch and refreshments during the breaks will be served.