Identity, Representation
And The Principate AD14-68Conference
Identity, Representation And The Principate AD14-68
18th - 20th June 2008
A three day conference hosted by the School of Classics, University of St
Andrews
Organised by Dr Alisdair Gibson
Email: aggg@st-andrews.ac.uk
There have been important developments in research on individual emperors and the historiography of the first century offering different approaches to examination of the individual principates. However, there have been relatively few attempts to draw out the continuities and disjunctions between different members of the imperial family, both in their political practice and (more importantly for this project) their representation. There have of course been studies of individuals over the past century – from biographies containing intimate portraits to more wide-ranging political examinations, and detailed literary studies. Nevertheless, there have been few opportunities to debate the range of issues found in a post-Augustan world.
This conference is an opportunity to explore the links between different patterns of representation of the emperors in the sources across a wide variety of different contexts - ranging from textual and visual images sponsored by the emperors themselves through to the equally subjective rendering left to us in literature. The conference will allow key researchers in the field to promote new approaches to the study of the Julio-Claudian emperors and to come together to present papers on a range of issues around the representation or self-representation of individual emperors from the accession of Tiberius to the fall of Nero. While the conference is based around Julio-Claudian representations in order to maintain focus, it is not committed to seeing that category as a self-evident one.
There are a number of themes that will be examined by historiographers, art historians, archaeologists, prosopographers and numismatists. While these are not necessarily all new questions, the speakers will bring fresh ideas and new interpretations of the evidence. Scholars will deliver papers which either take an overarching view of individual emperors within the context of the Julio-Claudian imperial family or will focus on particular elements of a specific principate using literary or material evidence.
Speakers
- Ted Champlin, Princeton University
- Robin Seager, University of Liverpool
- Matthew Roller, John Hopkins University
- Rolf Schneider, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
- Roger Rees, University of St Andrews
- Andrew Burnett, British Museum
- Jeremy Paterson, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Emma Buckley, University of St Andrews
- John Drinkwater, University of Nottingham
- Steven L. Tuck, Miami University
- Timothy A. Joseph, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
- Sarah T. Cohen, Dalhousie University
- Eleanor Cowan. University of Leicester
- Richard Grossmann, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Alisdair Gibson, University of St Andrews
- Jula Wildberger, The American University of Paris
- Benjamin W. Hicks, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Registration
The deadline for registration is 31st May 2008
- The conference fee covers conference documents, daytime coffee, tea and lunches and the wine reception on the Wednesday evening.
- Dinner on Wednesday will be at Zizzi’s Restaurant.
- The Conference dinner will be held at the Byre Theatre on Thursday 19th June.
- Bed and Breakfast accommodation at New Hall costs £40 per night.
To register for the conference, please complete the booking form (doc) and return it with payment to:
Mrs Margaret Goudie
School of Classics
University of St Andrews
Swallowgate
Butts Wynd
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 9AL
UK
Tel.: 01334 462608
Email: classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk
All cheques should be made payable to 'University of St Andrews'. Please contact classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk if you wish to discuss other methods of payment.
Bursaries for Graduate Students
The Classical Association is very generously providing two bursaries of £182 for postgraduate attendance and one bursary for a postgraduate speaker. The bursaries will contribute towards or cover the costs of accommodation (3 nights), conference meals and the fee at St Andrews. This award is not to cover travel to and from St Andrews.
Applications for these bursaries should be sent to Dr Alisdair Gibson, either electronically to aggg@st-andrews.ac.uk or in writing to the School of Classics, Swallowgate, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL.
Applications should include
The deadline for applications is Friday 30th May 2008.