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Greek Matters
July 19, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm UTC+0
Expanding upon recent interest in the influence of Greek antiquity on early modernity, this workshop sets out to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue that explores the reception of texts alongside other encounters with the past: the circulation of images, the collecting of antiquities, archaeology, architecture, epigraphy, etc. From difficulties in printing the Greek alphabet to developments in Neoplatonism, is there a special dialogue between Hellenism and the engagement with matter and material form that emerges for the early modern period? How is ‘Greekness’ imagined and reconstructed across media? We are interested in materiality understood in its broadest sense and welcome proposals on anything from book historical approaches to those considering Hellenism in dialogue with art, architecture, the material world or the philosophy of matter.
Refreshments (9.30 – 10.00)
Panel 1 – East and West (10.00 – 11.30) Chair: Kevin Killeen (York)
Micha Lazarus (Oxford) – Rhetores graeci: The Tree of the Book Sam Kennerley (Cambridge) – The ‘latinisation’ of the Greek patristicpast in Counter-Reformation Rome: Evidence from the letters of Guglielmo Sirleto
Camilla Temple (York) – Alphabets from on high
Break (11.30-11.45)
Panel 2 – Metal and stone (11.45 -1.15) Chair: Charles Martindale (York)
Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Southampton) – French Numismatists Peter Liddel (Manchester) – Hellenism and epigraphy in the eighteenth century
William Stenhouse (Yeshiva) – Hellenism and epigraphy
Lunch (1.15 – 2.15)
Panel 3 – Book and pen (2.15 -3.45) Chair: Richard Rowland (York)
Tania Demetriou (Cambridge) – GabrielHarvey’s composite collection ofancient drama
Edwina Christie (Oxford) – Xenophon in the margins
Carla Suthern (York) – Reading
Euripides with Erasmus and Gabriel Harvey
Break (3.45 – 4.00)
Panel 4 – Matter and cosmos (4.00 – 5.00) Chair: Simon Ditchfield (York)
Helen Smith (York) – Ancient matter in early modern England Masuda Qureshi (Birkbeck) – Celestial Revolutions: Hester Pulter and the circular skies
Location: The Tree House, Berrick Saul Building
Admission: Ticketed event.