Les 23 et 24 septembre 2010, un colloque aura lieu à Gand et à Bruxelles sur le thème "Littérature et société au IVe s. ap. J.-C."

Programme :

Thursday 23 September 2010
Jan Dhondtzaal, Dpt of History, Faculty of Arts, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 33-35, Ghent
 

09.15-09.30    L. Van Hoof: introduction
Chair: K. Demoen
09.30-10.15:     N. McLynn: Gregory and the Governors: Paideia and Patronage in Cappadocia
10.15-11.00    M. Ludlow: Gregory of Nyssa's educational strategies

Coffee break
Chair: C. Miller
11.30-12.15    S. Mratschek, A living relic for the vicar of Rome. Strategies of visualisation in a civil case
12.15-13.00    B. Lançon: Réflexions sur le rôle des lettrés dans l'entourage des empereurs romains du IVè siècle
Lunch
Chair: P. Van Deun
14.30-15.15    B. Salway: The rhetoric of petition and response: Orcistus, the Umbrians, and Constantine

15.15-16.00    G. Kelly: Dedications to emperors in fourth-century historiography
Coffee break
Chair: tbc
16.30-17.15    M. Gerth: Macrobius' Saturnalia and Martianus Capella's de nuptiis
or, How encyclopedic writing interacts with society
17.15-18.00    A. Söltenfuss: Ausonius and means of self-representation in his opuscula

19.30     conference dinner


Friday 24 September 2010
Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie, Paleis der Academiën, Hertogsstraat 1, 1000 Brussels
 

Chair: J. Schamp
10.00-10.45    M. Vessey, The Notes of Amphion: Literature, Empire, and Memory in the Speech of Eumenius pro instaurandis scholis Maenianis (298)
10.45-11.30    R. Rees: Pacatus' Panegyric to Theodosius (389CE) and the use of text in the creation of communal memory
coffee break
12.00-12.45    R. Dijkstra: The apostles as instruments of societal engagement
lunch
Chair: tbc
14.00-14.45    P.-L. Malosse: Le pouvoir des logoi dans la cité et l'empire. Remarques sur quelques discours de Libanios
14.45-15.30     C. Coombe: A hero in our midst:  Stilicho as a literary construct in the poetry of Claudian
15.30-16.15    J. Weisweiler: Anxieties of Ambition: Symmachus on Aristocratic Competition in Fourth-Century Rome
16.15-16.30    Conclusions

Scientific committee: M. Broze (VUB), B. Coulie (UCL), M. De Groote (UGent), K. Demoen (UGent), G. Partoens (K.U.Leuven), J. Schamp (Université de Fribourg), S. Schorn (K.U.Leuven), P. Van Deun (K.U.Leuven), W. Verbaal (UGent).

Informations et inscription (25 euro): peter.vannuffelen@ugent.be