Sunoikisis Latin 294/394: Literature of the Roman Empire, 70-180 CE
Seminar Agenda, June 7-9, 2001
Faculty Consultants: Kirk Freudenburg (Ohio State) and Tom McGinn (Vanderbilt)
Course Director:
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Seminar Participants:
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Prof. Kirk Freudenburg (Ohio State University)
Prof. Hal Haskell (Southwestern University)
Prof. Thomas Kohn (?)
Prof. Anne Leen (Furman University)
Prof. Kenny Morrell (Rhodes College)
Prof. David Sick (Rhodes College)
Prof. Margaret Woodhull (University of Colorado - Denver).
Introduction
This is a preliminary agenda. Please forward comments and suggestions to
morrell@rhodes.edu. The workshop will take place in the ACS Technology Center on
the campus of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Information about
the rooms for the sessions and locations for meals (including a trip to see the
Walburg Boys) will appear in a subsequent edition.
Index
Thursday, June 7
Friday, June 8
Saturday, June 9
Thursday, June 7
Time
Event
Location
7:30Breakfast
TBA
8:15 a.m.
8:30Introduction
Technology Center
9:00 a.m.
Overview of the Project: We will take a half hour to review our preparations
for the course and discuss modifications, if any, in the agenda.
9:0010:00
First Session
Technology Center
a.m.
Immigration and Ethnicity
1. David Noy, Foreigners at Rome: Citizens and Strangers (London:
Duckworth, 2000), secction I: "Evidence and Attitudes," pp. 1-47.
2. David Noy, Foreigners at Rome: Citizens and Strangers (London:
Duckworth, 2000), chapter 7: "Aspects of foreigners' lives at Rome," pp.
10:0010:30
a.m.
10:3012:00
noon
12:00
noon1:30 p.m.
1:303:00 p.m.
3:003:30 p.m.
3:305:30 p.m.
5:307:30 p.m.
7:309:00 p.m.
157-204.
Coffee Break
Second Session
Technology Center
Immigration and Ethnicity
1. Ellen O'Gorman, "No Place like Rome: Identity and Difference in the
Germania of Tacitus," Ramus 22(1993): 135-54.
2. A. J. Woodman, "Nero's Alien Capital: Tacitus as Paradoxographer
(Annals 15.36-7)" in Author and Audience in Latin Literature, edited by
A.J. Woodman and J. Powell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1992), pp. 173-88.
Lunch
TBA
Third Session
Technology Center
Gender
1. Sandra R. Joshel, "Female Desire and the Discourse of Empire: Tacitus's
Messalina," in Roman Sexualities, edited by Judith Hallett and Marilyn
Skinner (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. 221-54.
2. Amy Richlin, "Pliny's Brassiere,"in Roman Sexualities, edited by Judith
Hallett and Marilyn Skinner (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1997), pp. 197-220.
Coffee Break
Fourth Session
Technology Center
Gender
1. Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: a Politics of the Performative (New York:
Routledge, 1997), "Sovereign Performances."
2. Erik Gunderson, "Catullus, Pliny, and Love-Letters," TAPA 127(1997):
201-31.
Dinner
TBA
Fifth Session
Technology Center
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Gender
• Group study and discussion of readings for weeks 1-4; begin work on
the course materials
Friday, June 8
7:30Breakfast
TBA
8:15 a.m.
8:30First Session
Technology Center
10:00
a.m.
10:0010:30
a.m.
10:3012:00
noon
12:00
noon1:30 p.m.
1:303:00 p.m.
3:003:30 p.m.
3:305:30 p.m.
5:307:30 p.m.
Slavery
1. Keith Bradley, Slavery and Society at Rome (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1994), chapters 1-2, "Confronting Slavery at Rome"
and "The Slave Society of Rome," pp. 1-30.
2. Keith Bradley, Slavery and Society at Rome (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1994), chapter 5, "Quality of Life," pp. 81-106.
Coffee Break
Second Session
Technology Center
Slavery
1. J.P. Sullivan, Martial, The Unexpected Classic (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1991), chapter 4, "The Coherence of Martial's
Themes," pp. 115-84.
2. Kirk Freudenburg, Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to
Juvenal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), chapter 3,
"Juvenal," pp. 209-77.
Lunch
TBA
Third Session
Technology Center
Religion
1. Mary Beard, John North, and Simon Price, Religions of Rome, Volume I. A
History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), chapter 5, "The
Boundaries of Roman Religion," pp. 211-44.
2. Mary Beard, John North, and Simon Price, Religions of Rome, Volume I. A
History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), chapter 6, "The
Religions of Imperial Rome," pp. 245-312.
Coffee Break
Fourth Session
Technology Center
Religion
1. Roger Beck, "Mystery Religions, Aretalogy, and the Ancient Novel," in
The Novel in the Ancient World, edited by Gareth Schmeling (Leiden: E.J.
Brill, 1996), pp. 131-50.
2. Richard Pervo, "The Ancient Novel Becomes Christian," in The Novel in
the Ancient World, edited by Gareth Schmeling (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996),
pp. 685-712.
Dinner
TBA
7:309:00 p.m.
Fifth Session
Technology Center
Slavery and Religion
• Group study and discussion of the readings for weeks 5-8; work on the
course materials
Saturday, June 9
7:30Breakfast
TBA
8:15 a.m.
8:3010:00
First Session
Technology Center
a.m.
Entertainment
1. John D'Arms, "Control, Companionship, and Clientela: Some Social
Functions of the Roman Communal Meal," Echos du Monde Classique
3(1984): 427-48.
2. Lisa Bek, "Quaestiones Conviviales: the Idea of the Triclinium and the
Staging of Convivial Ceremony from Rome to Byzantium," Analecta
Romana 12(1983): 81-107.
10:0010:30
Coffee Break
a.m.
10:3012:00
Second Session
Technology Center
noon
Entertainment
1. Paul Veyne, "Pleasures and Excesses," in A History of Private Live: From
Pagan Rome to Byzantium, edited by Philippe Ariès and George Duby
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987), pp. 183-206.
2. Kirk Freudenburg, "Reading the Self in Roman Mime," in Performing the
Politics of European Comic Drama, edited by S. Carlson and J. McGlew,
European Studies Journal 17.2 (2000): 63-80.
3. David H. Sick, "Ummidia Quadratilla: Cagey Businesswoman or Lazy
Pantomime Watcher?" Classical Antiquity 18 (1999): pp. 330-348.
12:00
a.m.-1:30 Lunch
TBA
p.m.
1:00Third Session
Technology Center
2:30 p.m.
Entertainment
• Group study and discussion of the readings for weeks 9-11; work on
course materials
3:00Coffee Break
3:30 p.m.
3:30Fourth Session
Technology Center
5:30 p.m.
Overview and Final Preparations
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6:00 p.m.
Summary of the work during the workshop; final preparations and
discussions; overview of assignments and schedule for the fall
Dinner
Walburg Mercantile
Sunoikisis–Preliminary Agenda for Advanced Latin Workshop, June 7-9, 2001