The 50th Annual Conference of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
הכנס ה-50 של האגודה לקידום הלימודים הקלאסיים בישראל
16-15 ביוני 2022, טז’-יז’ בסיון תשפ”ב | אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב | בניין 51, אודיטוריום 015
June 15th–16th, 2022 | The Marcus Family campus of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Building no. 51, auditorium 015
DAY 1: WEDNESDAY JUNE 15 2022
9:15-9:45: REGISTRATION
9:45-10:00: GREETINGS
Prof. Chaim Hames, Rector, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Prof. David Wettstein, Dean of Humanities, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Prof. Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University, President, ISPCS
11:00-10:00: מושב 1: עתיד הלימודים הקלאסיים בישראל
יו”ר: מרב חקלאי, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב
אורי אמיתי, אוניברסיטת חיפה
לימודים קלאסיים בישׂראל – מכאן לאן
עמית ברץ, מכללת אורנים
לימודים קלאסיים בבתי הספר בישראל
10:00-11:00: SESSION 1 (HEBREW): The Future of Classics in Israel
Chair: Merav Haklai, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ory Amitay, Haifa University
Classics in Israel Today and Tomorrow
Amit Baratz, Oranim College
Teaching Latin in Israeli high schools
11:00-11:15: COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:15: SESSION 2: The Future of Classics: Cognitive Studies
Chair: Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Tel Aviv University
Yulia Ustinova, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Embodied Cognition and the Study of Ancient Behaviour
Andrea Rotstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Cognitive Classics: A Personal Journey
12:15-13:30: LUNCH BREAK
13:30-14:30: SESSION 3: The Future of Classics: Classics and Exact Sciences (Part I)
Chair: Ory Amitay, Haifa University
Orly Lewis, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Anatomy in Ancient Greece and Rome: An Interactive Visual and Textual Atlas
Gil Gambash, Haifa University
Classical Climate and Environment
14:30-14:45: COFFEE BREAK
14:45-15:45: SESSION 4: The Future of Classics: Classics and Exact Sciences (Part II)
Chair: Orly Lewis, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dimitar Iliev, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
Social Intersections and Diversity in the Roman East as Seen in the Telamon Collection of the Greek Inscriptions from Bulgaria
Michal Bar Asher Siegal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Interdisciplinary Research in Israel: New Avenues in Jewish Studies in Late Antiquity
15:45-16:00: COFFEE BREAK
16:00-16:45: SESSION 5: Fifty Years of Classics in Israel
Chair: Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University, President, ISPCS
Deborah Gera, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
16:45-18:15: SESSION 6: The Future of Classics: Confucianism and Romanness – Pietas, Iustitia, Prudentia, Fidelitas, Civilitas. Universal Virtues between Confucianism and Romanness in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)
Chair: Yuval Givon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Andrea Balbo, University of Turin
The Classics and their Rhetorical Influence within the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus
Elisa Della Calce, University of Turin
Pietas and Iustitia in the Proemialis Declaratio
Simone Mollea, University of Turin
Prudentia, Fidelitas and Civilitas in the Proemialis Declaratio
18:15-18:30: COFFEE BREAK
18:30-19:30: Evening Performance
Yelena Iaffe, Introduction to Greek music
Declamation of Greek and Latin poetry by students, Organized by Yelena Iaffe
19:30: CONFERENCE DINNER
DAY 2: THURSDAY JUNE 16 2022
9:30-11:30: SESSION 7: Greek History and Literature
Chair: Ariadne Konstantinou, Bar-Ilan University
Dylan James, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History (zoom-talk)
Local Guides in the Classical Greek Historians
Keren Freidenreich, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Alcibiades in Thucydides: On Democratic Tolerance toward the Homeric Hero
Henry L. Spelman, Merton College, Oxford
Schools, Reading, and Poetry in the Early Greek World
Alexandros Kampakoglou, Trinity College, Oxford (zoom-talk)
Daphnis in the Middle: Theocritus’ Inter-generic Poetics and the Origins of the Bucolic Genre
11:30-11:45: COFFEE BREAK
11:45-13:00: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
13:00-14:15: LUNCH BREAK
14:15-15:15: KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Chair: Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University, President, ISPCS
Emily J. Gowers, Cambridge University (zoom-talk)
Sallust’s Salient Snails
15:15-15:30: COFFEE BREAK
15:30-17:00: SESSION 8: The Future of Classics: The New Frontier
Chair: Karolina Sekita, Tel Aviv University
Michael Paschalis, University of Crete (zoom-talk)
The Past and Present of Latin in Greece
Teddy Fassberg, Tel Aviv University
New Frontiers in Greco-Arabic Studies: Belles Lettres
Giacomo Loi, Johns Hopkins University – Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris
Beyond the Limits of Analogy: Classical Myth and Hebrew Holocaust Literature
17:00-17:15: CLOSING REMARKS
Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University, President, ISPCS