ISPCS Conference 2018
Wednesday, 6th and Thursday 7th of June
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Campus, Beit Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405
Day One: Wednesday, 6 June 2018
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:30 Greetings
9:30-11:00 Session One: Epic
Chair: Ariadne Konstantinou, Bar-Ilan University
1. Karen Bassi (University of California at Santa Cruz), The Color of Death in Greek Epic
2. Barbara Castiglioni (University of Torino), Menelaos in the Iliad and in the Odyssey: The Anti-Hero of πένθος
3. Dalida Agri (Manchester University), Fear, Power and Agency: The Figure of the Tyrant in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica and Statius’ Thebaid
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-13:15 Session Two: The Eastern Mediterranean
Chair: Emmanuel Nantet, University of Haifa
1. Beatrice Pestarino (University College London), Officials in Ancient Cyprus: Rebuilding the Cypriot Political-Administrative Structure During the Classical Period
2. Piotr Głogowski (University of Wrocław), The Classical Notion of Phoenicia
3. Agnieszka Wojciechowska (University of Wrocław), Metropolis in Egypt before Septimius Severus: The Evidence of Papyri and Ostraca
4. Ory Amitay (University of Haifa), From Cabbages to Kingship: The Traveling Myth of Abdalonymus
13:15-14:15 Lunch break
14:15-15:15 Keynote Speech: Professor Edith Hall, Why are the Erinyes Female? A Brief History of Gender and Revenge.
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Session Three: Post-Classical Greek Literature
Chair: Nurit Shuval-Dudai, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
1. Olivier Munnich (Sorbonne University), Flavius Josephus as a Connoisseur of Greek Literature
2. Salvatore Tufano (Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” di Roma), Local Traditions under the Empire. Literature and Histories in Plutarch’s Amatoriae Narrationes
3. Menahem Luz (University of Haifa), Porphyry’s Philosophy of Art and Religious Imagery
17:00- 17:15 Coffee Break
17:15-18:15 Special Panel dedicated to Theodor Mommsen
Chair: Ranon Katzoff, Bar-Ilan University
1. Hannah Cotton, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2. Sharon Gordon, Tel Aviv University
19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner
Day Two: Thursday, 7 June, 2018
09:00-10:30 מושב רביעי: שימוש במקורות חומריים
יושב ראש: יקיר פז, האוניברסיטה העברית
אייל מאיר (האוניברסיטה העברית), תיאור הפרסים בכדים של אטיקה במאה החמישית
ענבל כהן (הטכניון) ,החיבור של דיוגנס איש אוינואנדה
חגי אולשניצקי (אוניברסיטת בר-אילן), החיילים היהודים של רומא
9:00-10:30 Session Four: Working with Material Sources (Hebrew)
Chair: Yakir Paz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Eyal Meyer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The Portrayal of Persians on Fifth Century BC Attic Vase-Paintings
Inbal Cohen (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology), Diogenes of Oinoanda’s Composition
Haggai Olshanetsky (Bar-Ilan University), Rome’s Jewish Soldiers
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:15
Annual General Meeting of the ISPCS
אסיפה כללית של האגודה לקידום הלימודים הקלאסיים בישראל
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Session Five: Greek History and Historiography
Chair: Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Tel Aviv University
1. Lara Laviola (Freie Universität Berlin), How to Convict a General: εἰσαγγελἰα against στρατηγοί
2. Joseph Roisman (Colby College), The Orator Lycurgus, Common Knowledge, and Nationalism in Athenian Democracy
3. Aaron Turner (Royal Holloway, University of London), Polybius and the Critique of Historical Reason
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-16:15 Session Six: Classical Reception
Chair: Ayelet Peer, Bar-Ilan University
1. Margaret Malamud (New Mexico State University), Classics and African American Arguments for Emancipation, Equality and Social Justice
2. Guendalina D.M. Taietti (University of Liverpool), Alexander III Wearing τσαρούχια: the Reception of the Great Conqueror in Modern Greek Art
16:15-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-15:30 Session Seven: Greek Tragedy
Chair: Faya Hausker, Tel Aviv University/Open University
1. Efi Papadodima (Academy of Athens), Faces of Silence in Sophocles’ Ajax
2. Hanna Roisman (Colby College), The Faithful Wife Clytemnestra
http://www.israel-classics.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9F-ISPCS.pdf