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OXFORD-PRINCETON EXCHANGE 2017/18 Transformations of Culture in Antiquity January 10-12, 2018
Venue 209 Scheide Caldwell House, Princeton University Thursday
10:00-11:00 – Session 1, Chair: William Austin Theodore Hill, “Changing Conceptualisations of Power in Aeschylus and Euripides: Evidence for a Fifth-Century Intellectual Transformation?” Leah Lazar, “The Transformation of the Fifth-Century BC Athenian Phoros System” 11:00-11:15 – Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 – Session 2, Chair: Ian Silva Olivia Thompson, “Property Ownership and Intellectual Community During the Roman Civil Wars: From Res Publica to Republic?” Ursula Westwood, “The Lawgiver's Task: Plutarch and Josephus on the Place of Cognitive Change in the Creation of Customs” Bryson Sewel, “Phrynichus' Editorial Voice” 2:00-3:30 – Session 3, Chair: Sarah Johnson Estella Kessler, “Tracing Change in the Perception of Gemstones: From Science to Magic?” Rachel Gerber, “Peutinger Revisited: Antique Legacies and Geographical Scholarship in the Medieval Latin west” Tuuli Ahlholm, “Safety In Numbers: The Appearance of Arithmetics in Roman Era Mathematical Writing” 3:30-3:45 – Coffee Break
3:45-4:45 – Session 4, Chair: Leah Lazar Yitz Landes, “From Legal Codex to Holy Text: The Reception of the Mishnah in Late Antiquity” Alyssa Cady, “Not with Deeds, but Words: Speech and Immortality in the work of Prudentius Friday
10:00-11:00 – Session 5, Chair: Bradley Jordan James Haynes, “Perpetua’s Passion and the Transformation of the Roman Family” Sarah Johnson, “The Erotic Agony of Women in Ovid and Female Christian Martyrs” 11:00-11:15 – Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 – Session 6, Chair: Alice Poletto Ian Silva, “Sidonius Apollinaris, Horace, and the Poetic Self-Representation” Dan Kosasa, “The Subversion of Orosius' Babylon in the Historia of Gregory of Tours” Valerie Piro, “Paschasius Radbertus and κυλλός in Jerome's Commentary on Matthew” 2:00-3:30 – Session 7, Chair: Rachel Gerber Alice Correia Morton, “Slippery Statuses: Neocoric Instability at Ephesus” William Austin, “Architectural Syncretism, Religious Awe, and the Mausoleum of Theodoric” Marcus Chin, “Cognitive Shifts in Honour: From Generalised to Personalised Benefactors in the Honorific Decrees of Priene” 3:30-3:45 – Coffee Break
3:45-4:45 – Session 8, Chair: Dan Kosasa Alice Poletto, “The Augustan Transition: New Insights on Villa-Behaviour before and after the Establishment of the Imperial Property” Bradley Jordan, “Cognitive Transformation in Roman ‘Provincial Government’: The Case of Asia”