International Conference “Memory and Emotions in Antiquity”
University Of Crete, Department Of Philology, Rethymno, Greece
December 6-8, 2019
Friday, December 6
Introduction
15:10-16:00
Dimos Spatharas (U. of Crete) and G. Kazantzidis (U. of Patras) ‘Look both ways: ancient and modern modes of understanding memory and emotions’
Elias Economou (U. of Crete) ‘The Relationship Between Emotions and Memory: A Short Review of the Effects of Emotion on Memory’
Session I
16:00-17:00 Chair: Lucia Athanassaki
Jonathan L. Ready (Indiana University) ‘The Tension between Memory and Emotion in Homer’s Audience’
Elizabeth Minchin (The Australian National University) ‘Emotions, Memory, and the Wrath of Achilles: Observations from Social Psychology’
Keynote paper
17:30-18:30 Chair: George Kazantzidis
Angelos Chaniotis (IAS, Princeton) ‘Remembering Emotions’
Saturday, December 7
Session II
10:00-11:00 Chair: Melina Tamiolaki
Anne-Sophie Noel (ENS de Lyon) ‘Memory Palace: Materiality, Memory, and Emotions in Greek and Roman Tragedy’
Nick Fischer (U. of Cardiff) ‘Exploitation of (Alleged) Memories in Demosthenes and Aeschines’
Session III
11:30-12:30 Chair: Costas Apostolakis
Aaron Seider (College of the Holy Cross) ‘A Space for Grief and Fame: Commemorating Trauma in Ovid’s Tristia’
Damien Nelis (U. of Geneva) ‘Emotion, History, and Politics in Vergil’s Georgics’
Session IV
14:30-15:30 Chair: Eva Astyrakaki
Sophia Connell (Birkbeck, U. of London) ‘Aristotle on Memory and Emotion in Humans and Other Animals’
Francesca Martelli (UCLA) ‘Remembering familiaritas: Structures of Feeling in Cicero’s Epistulae ad Familiares’
Session V
16:00-17:00 Chair: Stelios Panayotakis
Philip Hardie (U. of Cambridge) ‘The Emotional Memories of Internal Narrators’
Jennifer Devreaux (U. of South California/U. of Exeter) ‘Metahistoricity and the Embodiment of Emotion in Ancient Literature’
Sunday, December 8
Session VI
10:00-11:30 Chair: Zacharoula Petraki
Mark McClay (University of Miami) ‘Who is Mnêmosynê in the Orphic Lamellae?’
Christopher Simon (University of California, Riverside) ‘Nihil tale metuentem … undique invadunt: Fear, Trauma, and the Landscape of Germania in the Collective Memory of Rome’
Estelle Stazdins (U. of Cambridge) ‘Herodes Atticus, Material Memories, and the Expression and Reception of Grief’
Session VII
12:00-13:00 Chair: Eleni Papadogiannaki
Janet Downie (UNC-Chapel Hill) ‘Memory and Emotion in Philostratus’ Heroicus’
Marc Mastrangelo (Dickinson College) ‘Nostalgia, Memory, and Salvation in Augustine, Boethius, and Prudentius’
Session VIII
14:30-15:30 Chair: Ewen Bowie
A. Novokhatko (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) ‘Memoria and imago in Quintilian’
J. Grimwade (U. of Cambridge) ‘How to Remember a Poem: Method versus Emotion’
Conclusions
15:30-15:45