School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, 4-6 July 2012
WEDNESDAY 4th JULY
13.30-14.30 Registration (tea and coffee) (McMillan Room)
Introduction (14.30-15.40)
Chair: Lucy Grig (Edinburgh)
14.30- 15.40 Jerry Toner (Cambridge) ‘Critical issues in the study of ancient popular culture’
Holt Parker (Cincinnati) Response
Discussion
Popular Knowledge and Popular Religion (15.40-16.20)
Chair: Simon Trépanier (Edinburgh)
15.40-16.10 Serafina Cuomo (Birkbeck) ‘Locating popular knowledge in the ancient world: the case of numeracy’
16.10-16.20 Discussion
16.20-1700 Coffee
Popular Knowledge and Popular Religion (continued) (17.00-18.20)
17.00-17.30 Bob Taylor (Birkbeck) ‘Epistemologies at War: Popular knowledge, elite power and the struggle for control at Pydna’
17.30 -18.00 J. Bert Lott (Vassar) ‘Popular religion and a prophet of the Dea Syria’
18.00-18.20 Discussion
18.30 Drinks reception
THURSDAY 5th JULY
Popular Performance (9.30-10.50)
Chair: Lloyd Llewellyn Jones (Edinburgh)
9.30-10.00 Edmund Stewart (Nottingham) ‘A Boeotian Phlyax Vase? Representations of popular performance on the Boeotian Kabeiric Vases’
10.00-10.30 Agnieszka Kotlinska-Toma (Wroclaw) ‘‘I do not know if I love you or hate you’ –Ancient Greek “vaudeville” songs’
10.30-10.50 Discussion
10.50-11.30 Coffee
Popular Performance (continued) (11.30-12.50)
11.30-12.00 Maya Muratov (Adelphi) ‘With Strings Attached: Puppet Theatre as Popular Entertainment in Antiquity’
12.00-12.30 Ruth Webb (Lille 3) ‘The mime as social critique: Fiction and norms’
12.30-12.50 Discussion
12.50-14.00 Lunch
Popular Literature and its Boundaries (14.00-16.00)
Chair: Calum Maciver (Edinburgh)
14.00-14.30 Lucia Floridi (Università degli Studi di Milano) ‘Greek skoptic Epigram and Popular Literature. Some observations on Book XI of the Greek Anthology and the Philogelos’
14.30-15.00 Pavlos Avlamis (Oxford) ‘Elite and popular voices in Imperial Greek literature’
15.00-15.30 Victoria Jennings (Adelaide) ‘A troublesome bird: divination in popular literary texts’
15.30-16.00 Discussion
16.00-16.40 Coffee
Popular Culture and Material Culture (16.40-18.00)
Chair: Glenys Davies (Edinburgh)
16.40-17.10 Emanuel Mayer (Chicago) ‘Popular or Elite Art? Re-evaluating the Roman Art Industry’
17.10-17.40 Max Nelson (Windsor) ‘Board Games in Ancient Greek and Roman Popular Culture’
17.40-18.00 Discussion
FRIDAY 6th JULY
Popular Politics and Communication (9.10-10.30)
Chair: Andrew Erskine (Edinburgh)
9.10-9.40 Cyril Courrier (École Française de Rome) ‘L. Munatius Plancus and the gallnut (Macrobius, Sat., II, 2, 6): Plebeian humour and professional pride serving political action’
9.40-10.10 Cristina Rosillo Lopez (Universade Pablo de Olavide) ‘Popular culture and public opinion in Roman politics’
10.10-10.30 Discussion
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Popular Politics and Communication (continued) (11-12.20)
11.00-11.30 Alexandre Vincent (École Française de Rome) ‘The sounds of power: part of the popular culture?’
11.30-12.00 Julio-Cesar Magalhaes de Oliveira (Universidade Estadual de Londrina) ‘Communication and plebeian sociability in Late Antiquity’
12.00-12.20 Discussion
12.20-13.30 Lunch
Popular Knowledge and Popular Religion in Late Antiquity (13.30-15.00)
Chair: Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh)
13.30-14.00 Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown) ‘Popular Christianity and Lived Religion in Late Antique Rome’
14.00-14.30 Jaclyn Maxwell (Ohio) ‘Popular Theology and its Limits in Late Antiquity’
14.30-15.00 Discussion and closing remarks
1500 End of Conference
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