"Being Human – Classical Perspectives": Craven Seminar 2014
On 22-23 May 2014, Helen Roche and Ingo Gildenhard hosted the Cambridge Craven Seminar, a two-day symposium which took place at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
This year the Craven Seminar was held under the aegis of the Faculty’s X-Caucus, which focuses on interdisciplinary aspects of the Classics.
The timetable of the symposium can be found below:
Being Human – Classical Perspectives
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Classics, Room G.21
Thursday, 22 May:
11.00-11.15: Welcome and Introduction (the organisers)
Session 1:
11.15-12.00:
‘The Choric Con-sociality of Nonhuman Life’ – Mark Payne (Chicago)
12.00-12.45:
‘Babylonian Perspectives on the Certainty of Death’ – Christopher Metcalf (Oxford)
12.45-14.00: Buffet Lunch
Session 2:
14.00-14.45:
‘Arendt on Plato: Philosophy, Politics, and Being Human’ – Frisbee Sheffield (Cambridge)
14.45-15.30:
‘Affinity or Asymmetry: Self, Other, and Truth in Plato’ – Catherine Pickstock (Cambridge)
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break
16.00-16.45:
‘Visualizing Humanity in Archaic Greece: From the Symposium to the Grave, and Beyond’ – Robin Osborne (Cambridge)
Friday, 23 May
9.30: Coffee
Session 3:
10.00-10.45:
‘Etruscans, Romans, and the Origins of Personality’ – Nigel Spivey (Cambridge)
10.45-11.30:
‘Ovidian Humanism’ – Ingo Gildenhard (Cambridge)
11.30-12.00: Coffee Break
12.00-12.45:
‘The Ideal of Bodily Integrity: From Seneca to Human Rights Theory (and Back)’ – Victoria Rimell (Rome)
12.45-14.00: Buffet Lunch
Session 4:
14.00-14.45:
‘(Homo-)Philhellenic Anthropologies: Some Peculiarities of a Particular Universalism’ – Sebastian Matzner (Oxford)
14.45-15.30:
‘Hairlessness, Humanity, and its Concomitant Erotics’ – Alastair Blanshard (Queensland)
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break
16.00-16.45:
‘Aristocratic Humanities: Pindar, Castiglione, and Yeats’ – Michael Silk (London)
16.45-17.00: Epilogue (the organisers)