Hellenistic Workshop 2021
| From: | Th 16-09-2021 |
| Until: | Fr 17-09-2021 |
| Where: | Online |
15th Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry "Crisis and resilience in Hellenistic Poetry"
The Department of Greek and Latin at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) hereby announces the 15th workshop in the series "Workshops on Hellenistic Poetry" to be held in Groningen on 16-17 September 2021 (Thursday–Friday). Due to Covid-19 and possible travel restrictions, this conference will be held online.
Theme
The theme of this workshop will be Crisis and Resilience in Hellenistic Poetry.
Crises come in many forms. War, famine and illness plague humanity, and severe personal crises (conflict, rejection, loss) are also an integral part of human condition. The challenge for individuals has always been to overcome crisis, both on a global and on a personal level. In different ages, such resilience has looked different. It can take the form of increased religiosity, superstition, or attempts at magic; it may express itself in increased violence and revenge, or reconciliation. And of course a turn to different forms of philosophy: the Hellenistic age is especially famous for Epicureanism and Stoicism, propagating peace of mind through ataraxia and apatheia. These philosophies affected the literature of the age: it has been suggested that Epicureanism influenced Theocritean poetry; Stoic backgrounds colour Aratus’ Phaenomena and Cleanthes’ Hymn to Zeus. But beyond philosophy, individual emotional coping mechanisms may be imagined: practical solutions to global crises (migration, rebuilding of cities, peace treaties) or emotional responses to personal crises (e.g., denial, aggression, apology, appeasement, forgiveness and mourning rituals).
Contact the organizers
Those who have any questions regarding the conference are requested to send an e-mail to Hellenisticworkshop gmail.com.
Attend the Workshop
The workshop will be held online. For more information, please contact Hellenisticworkshop gmail.com.
Programme
Thursday 16 September
| Time | Speaker | Title | Respondent |
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| 09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and Registration | |||
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Panel 1: Hellenistic Crises and Modes of Resilience Chair: Jacqueline Klooster |
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| 09:15 - 09:55 | Evina Sistakou | The Crisis of the Hellenistic Self | Matthew Chaldekas |
| 09:55 - 10:35 | Maria Noussia | Hellenistic Crises and Cynic 'modus vivendi' | Michele Solitario |
| 10:35 - 10:45 Coffee break | |||
| 10:45 - 11:25 | Maria Giuseppetti | The fight for the Past: Rethinking the Antiquarian Dimension of Alexandrian Poetry | Brett Evans |
| 11:25 - 12:05 | Daniel Anderson | Personal Crises in Callimachus' Epigrams | To be announced |
| 12:05 - 13:00 Lunch Break | |||
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Panel 2: Resilience through poetry (1): Sickness and healing, life and death Chair: Floris Overduin |
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| 13:00 - 13:40 | Regina Höschele |
Poetry as ‘all-healing pharmakon for everything’ (Call. AP 12.150.4): variations on a theme in Hellenistic verse |
Davide Massimo |
| 13:40 - 14:20 | Sherry Lee |
Sumpathes algos: Longevity and consolation in the epitymbia of the New Posidippus |
Chiara Pesaresi |
| 14:20 - 15:00 | Figen Geerts |
Escaping Prolonged Suffering: Conceptions of Health and Healing in Hellenistic Poetry |
Alberto Mantovani |
| 15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break | |||
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Panel 3: Resilience through poetry (2): Politics and Poetics Chair: to be announced |
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| 15:15 - 15:55 | Viola Pamieri | A Greek Survivor: Alcaeus of Messene's 'Demosthenic' Voice | Jacqueline Klooster |
| 15:55 - 16:35 | Myrtille Remond |
Crises, Résilience et poésie dans les Syracusaines de Théocrite |
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes |
Friday 17 September
| Time | Speaker | Title | Respondent |
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Panel 4: Crisis, Resilience, and the divine Chair: Jackie Murray |
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10:00 – 10:40 |
Ivana Petrovic |
Crisis, pollution, and purification |
Saskia Peels |
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10:40 – 11:20 |
Alexandros Kampakoglou |
Crisis Resolution in Callimachus’ Hymn 6: Ideological and Poetical Implications of the Myth of Erysichthon |
Annemarie Ambühl |
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11:20 – 12:00 |
Thomas Nelson |
Epiphany and Salvation in Inscribed Hellenistic Poetry |
Simone Oppen |
| 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break | |||
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Panel 5: Crisis and Resilience in the Argonautica Chair: Annette Harder |
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| 13:00 - 13:40 | Martine Cuypers | Jason and Resilience | Yuhján Claros |
| 13:40 - 14:20 | Brian McPhee | Uncool in a Crisis: Apollonius' Tragic Telamon (Arg. 1.1280-1344) | Kathleen Kidder |
| 14:20 - 14:40 Coffee Break | |||
| 14:40 - 15:20 | Timothy Kenny | The Resilient Reader on Lemnos | Vasia Kousoulini |
| 15:20 - 16:00 | Noah Mason-Davies | Silence at Moments of Crisis in Apollonius' Argonautica | Thomas Nelson |
| 16:00 - 16:30 Conclusion | |||