The Department of Classics & Ancient History and the Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University, will be holding an international conference on "Configuring Communities: The Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography" (full description of the project at http://www.dur.ac.uk/mediterranean.centre/letters/ )
BURSARIES:
Thanks to the generous support of the Classical Association, six bursaries of up to £250 each are available for PhD students wishing to attend the conference; please apply informally via email to paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk by 27 May, indicating Name; Institution; Name of Supervisor; Programme and Year of Study; and Brief Statement of Interest.
REGISTRATION:
Details as to registration and conference fees are available at http://www.dur.ac.uk/mediterranean.centre/letters/conference/ Please send the form (on paper or electronically) to v.m.arbia@durham.ac.uk
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday 14 July 2011
14.00 - 14.15: Registration
Introduction: Theoretical Approaches
14.15 15.00: Thorsten Fögen (Durham University)
"Ancient epistolary theory and the configuration of communities through letters"
15.00 - 15.30: Tea / coffee break
Letters and Literary Communities
15.30 16.15:Roy Gibson (University of Manchester): "Ancient letter collections as constituted communities"
16.15 - 17.00: Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck, University of London): "Present absence in Seneca's Letters"
Friday 15 July 2011
Configurations of Power and Epistolary Communication (1): Persia and Greece
9.30 10.15: Sebastian Grätz (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): "The literary and ideological character of the letters in Ezra 4-7"
10.15 - 10.45: Tea / coffee break
10.45 11.30: Manuela Mari (Università di Cassino): "Power in dialogue. The letters and diagrammata of Macedonian authorities to local communities"
11.30 12.15: Paola Ceccarelli (Durham University): "Letters and decrees. Diplomatic protocols in the Hellenistic period"
12.15 - 14.30: Lunch buffet
Configurations of Power and Epistolary Communication (2): Rome and Judaea
14.30 15.15: Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge): "Letters, diplomacy, and the Roman conquest of Greece"
15.15 16.00: Ingo Gildenhard (Durham University): "A Republic in Letters: Cicero's correspondence with exiled familiares"
16.00 16.30: Tea / coffee break
16.30 17.15: Philip Alexander (University of Manchester): "'From me, Jerusalem, the Holy City, to you Alexandria in Egypt, my Sister ....' (b.Sanh. 107b): The Role of Letters in Power Relations between 'Centre' and 'Periphery' in Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods"
17.15 18.00: Lutz Doering (Durham University): "Configuring addressee communities in ancient Jewish letters"
19.00 h: Conference Dinner
Saturday 16 July 2011
Letters and Communities in Early Christianity
9:00 - 9:45: Peter Head (University of Cambridge): "Letter carriers and epistolary communication in early Christianity"
9:45 - 10:30: John Barclay (Durham University): "The letters of Paul and the construction of early Christian networks"
10:30 11:00: Tea / coffee break
11.00 - 11.45: Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): "The configuration of the addressee community in the Letter of James"
11.45 - 12.30: Judith Lieu (University of Cambridge): "Letters and the construction of a Christian narrative"
12.30 - 13.00: Concluding discussion
13.00: Lunch buffet
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