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Authority in creating contemporary narratives about the Classics
February 21, 2019 - February 22, 2019
FEBRUARY 21
10:00-11:00 – Sarah Bond (University of Iowa, USA)
The Judgement of Paris: Statues, “the West”, and Ideals of Beauty
11:20-12:00 – Vanda Zajko (University of Bristoll UK)
Participatory Cultures and Contemporary Mythopoiesis
12:00-13:00 – lunch
13:00-14:00 – Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University, USA)
West is Best? “Western Civilization”, White Supremacism, and Classics in Popular Media
14:00-14:40 – Catalina Popescu (Holland Hall, USA)
The New Agora? Online Communities and a New Rhetoric
14:40-15:20 – Cora Beth Knowles (Open University, UK)
The authority of sharing: postgraduate blogging in Classics
15:20-15:40 – coffee break
15:40-16:20 – Ayelet Lushkov (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Classical Literature and Contemporary Classics
16:20-17:00 – Juan Garcia Gonzalez (Newcastle University, UK)
The Syme–Yourcenar controversy about “Memoirs of Hadrian”
FEBRUARY 22
10:00-11:00 – Neville Morley (University of Exeter, UK)
‘The society that separates its scholars from its keyboard warriors…’: tracking Thucydides on Twitter
11:20-12:00 – David García Dominguez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
The ruthless law of the jungle? Ideology, discourse, and the dangerous success of Realist views on Roman history
12:00-13:00 – lunch
13:00-14:00 – Juliana Bastos Marques (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil)
Is Livy a good Wikipedian? Authority and authorship in ancient historiography through the lens of contemporary anonymous writing
14:00-14:40 – Joanna Kenty (Radboud University, Netherlands)
Philology and Outreach
14:40-15:20 – Ivan Matijašić (Newcastle University, UK)
Artemidorus on Trial: A Papyrus between Philology, a Court of Justice and the Media
15:20-16:00 – closing remarks
Conference organisers: Juliana Bastos Marques (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) and Federico Santangelo (Newcastle University). This conference is supported by a Newton Advanced Fellowship funded by the British Academy.