“Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity” /
“Les genres en transition dans l’antiquité tardive”
21-24 MARCH 2013
University of Ottawa/ Université d’Ottawa (Ottawa, CANADA)
Organizer: Geoffrey Greatrex
Conference volume:
Geoffrey Greatrex, ed., Shifting
Genres in Late Antiquity (Ashgate, 2014)
http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9781472443502&lang=cy-GB
https://www.routledge.com/Shifting-Genres-in-Late-Antiquity/Greatrex-Elton-McMahon/p/book/9781472443489
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Université
d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa,
21-24 mars/March 2013
Thursday March 21/jeudi 21 mars
12h00-18h00Registration/Inscription
All the lectures will take place in the Desmarais Building, 12th floor, save
that of Wendy Mayer on the Friday evening, which will be at Carleton
University.
Toutes les conférences auront lieu au pavillon Desmarais, 12e étage,
sauf celle de Wendy Mayer, le vendredi soir, qui se tiendra à l’université
Carleton.
13h30-14h00Welcome speeches/Discours d’introduction
Hugh Elton (Professor of Ancient History & Classics, Trent
University)
Antoni Lewkowicz (Dean, Faculty of Arts,
University of Ottawa/Doyen, Faculté des Arts, Université d’Ottawa)
14h00-15h30 Sessions/Séances Ia, Ib
The Age of Constantine/l’ère de Constantin (DMS 12102)
Chair/Présidente: Wendy Mayer (Australian Catholic University)
Mariana Bodnaruk (Central European University), ‘Producing Distinction: Aristocratic
and Imperial Representation in the Constantinian Age’
Kristina A. Meinking (Elon University), ‘Cicero Christianus: Rome and Rhetoric in Lactantius’ De ira Dei’
David DeVore (University of California, Berkeley), ‘“A Promise Greater than Our
Power to Transact” (HE 1.1.3): Genre Cues in the Preface of Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical
History’
Sixth-century Italy/l’Italie au VIe s. (DMS 12110)
Chair/Président: Ralph Mathisen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Christine Radtki (University of Cologne), ‘Cassiodorus Variae – panegyric in letter form’
Julia Warnes (National University of Ireland, Galway), ‘Questions of Orality in Epistolography: the Letters of Ennodius’
Shane Bjornlie (Claremont McKenna College), ‘The Rhetoric of Varietas and Epistolary Encyclopedism in the Variae of Cassiodorus’
15h30-16h00 Break/Pause-café
16h00-17h30 Session/Séance II (DMS 12102)
Martyrs and martyr acts/Martyrs et martyres
Chair/Président: Eric Rebillard (Cornell University)
Eric Fournier (West Chester University of Pennsylvania), ‘L’Historia Persecutionis Africanae Prouinciae de Victor de Vita : un genre littéraire hybride’
Hartmut G. Ziche (University of
Johannesburg), ‘Inventing vandalism, Victor of Vita and the construction of a
Vandal narrative’
Thomas Tsartsidis (University of Edinburgh), ‘Romanus or Romulus? A Christianized
‘Aeneas’ in Prudentius’ Peristephanon 10’
17h45-18h45 Eric Rebillard (Cornell University), ‘Res gestae martyrum digerere : l’hagiographie africaine jusqu’à l’époque d’Augustin’
19h00 Réception (DMS 12102)
The department’s museum of classical antiquities, to be found on the
third floor of the building, will be open to participants from 6.45 to 8.30
p.m. We are grateful to its curator, Dr Antonia Holden, and to her student
volunteers, in making this possible.
Le musée d’antiquités gréco-romaines, à trouver au troisième étage du
bâtiment, sera ouvert aux participants de 18h45 à 20h30. Nous tenons à
remercier Mme Antonia Holden, la conservatrice du musée, ainsi que ses
étudiant(e)s bénévoles, d’avoir organisé l’ouverture du musée à ce moment.
Friday March 22/vendredi 22 mars
09h00-11h00 Registration/Inscription
09h00-10h30 Session/Séance III (DMS 12102)
Epigraphy & monuments/Épigraphie
et monuments
Chair/Président: Hugh Elton (Trent University)
Ralph Mathisen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), ‘Transformations in the Epigraphic
Representation of Personal Identity in Late Antiquity’
Lea Stirling (University of Manitoba), ‘Shifting Use of a Genre: A
Comparison of Statuary Décor in Homes and Baths of Late Antiquity’
Ralph J. Patrello (University of Florida), ‘Villa churches and the idioms of legitimate
authority in southern Gaul’
10h30-11h00 Break/Pause-café
11h00-12h30 Session/Séance IV (DMS 12102)
Procopius/Procope
Chair/Président: Geoffrey Greatrex (Université d’Ottawa)
Frederico Montinaro, ‘Procopius’Buildings revisited’
Charles F. Pazdernik (Grand Valley State University), ‘Belisarius’ second occupation of
Rome and Pericles’ last speech’
Elodie Turquois (Oxford
University), ‘Generic flexibility in the works of Procopius of Caesarea: the
case for technical excurses as literary tropes’
12h30-14h00 : lunch/déjeuner
14h00-15h30 Sessions/Séances Va and Vb
The Theodosians/les Théodosiens (DMS 12102)
Chair/Président: John Matthews (Yale University)
Christopher Doyle (National University of Ireland, Galway), ‘Declaring
Victory, Concealing Defeat? Continuity and change in Late Roman imperial
coinage, ca. AD 378-425’
Alice T. Christ (University of Kentucky), ‘The Importance of Being
Stilicho’
Lukas Lemcke (University of Waterloo), ‘The cursus publicus in the 4th century through the lens of the Codex Theodosianus’
Sixth-century church history/ L’histoire ecclésiastique
du VIe s. (DMS 12110)
Chair/Président: George Bevan (Queen’s University)
Philippe Blaudeau (Université d’Angers), ‘Adapter le genre du bréviaire plutôt qu’écrire
une histoire ecclésiastique? Autour du choix retenu par Liberatus de Carthage pour rapporter
le déroulement des controverses christologiques des Ve-VIe s.’
Geoffrey D. Dunn (Australian Catholic University), ‘The Emergence of
Papal Decretals: The Evidence of Zosimus of Rome’
Dana Iuliana Viezure (Seton Hall University), ‘Image Construction in The Sixth-Century Collectio Avellana’
15h30-16h00 Break/Pause-café
16h00-17h30 Session/Séance VI (DMS 12102)
Gold & the Roman economy; panegyric / L’or et l’économie
romaine; le panégyrique
Chair/Présidente: Lea Stirling (University of Manitoba)
Richard W. Burgess (University of Ottawa) & George Bevan (Queen’s
University), ‘The Changing Role of Gold in Late Antiquity: Quantitative and
Economic Considerations’
Nicholas Borek (Queen’s University), ‘The Golden Gifts of Saint Cyril: The Church and
the Circulation of Gold in Byzantine Egypt’
Alan Ross (University of KwaZulu Natal), ‘Panegyric into
History: Ammianus, Amida and Nisibis’
19h00-21h00
Carleton University/Université Carleton, Tory Building
room/salle 360
Wendy Mayer (Australian Catholic University), ‘Medicine in transition:
Greek paideia, asceticism, and doctoring the soul’, followed by a reception/suivi d’une réception.
Saturday March 23/samedi 23 mars
09h00-10h30 Session/Séance VII (DMS 12102)
Chronicles/Les chroniques
Chair/Président: Hugh Elton (Trent)
Sergei Mariev (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich), ‘Difficulties of Defining the
Genre ''chronicle'' in Byzantium’
Richard W. Burgess (University of Ottawa), ‘When is a Chronicle not a
Chronicle? When it’s a Chronicle’
Jared Secord (University of Chicago), ‘Julius Africanus and the Beginnings of Late
Antiquity’
10h30-11h00 Break/Pause-café
11h00-12h30 Session/Séance VIII (DMS 12102)
Heresies/Hérésies
Chair/Président: Theodore De Bruyn (University of Ottawa)
Young Richard Kim (Calvin College), ‘The Transformation of Heresiology in the Panarion of Epiphanius of Cyprus’
Matthew Lootens (Fordham University), ‘Between Refutation and Commentary: The
Development and Function of Fourth-Century Adversus-Literature’
Sophie Lunn Rockliffe (King’s College London), ‘Diabolical motivations:
the devil in ecclesiastical histories from Eusebius to Evagrius’
12h30-14h00 : lunch/déjeuner
14h00-15h30 Sessions/Séances IXa and IXb
Technical genres/les genres techniques (DMS 12110)
Chair/Président: Michael Kulikowski (Pennsylvania State University)
Christian R. Raschle (Université de Montréal), ‘Slogans politiques et
chansons populaires - l’évolution d’un genre d’expression de l’opinion politique
dans l’Antiquité tardive’
Richard Miles (University of Sydney), ‘Stenography and the Creation and
Destruction of Textual Communities during the Donatist Controversy’
Conor Whately (University of Winnipeg), ‘The Transformation of the
Military Treatise in Late Antiquity’
Jerome and issues of genre/Jérôme et des questions de genre (DMS 12102)
Chair/Présidente: Karin Schlapbach (Université d’Ottawa)
Colin Whiting (University of California at Riverside), ‘Jerome’s De
viris illustribus and the New Genres of Christian Disputation’
Danuta Shanzer (University of Vienna), ‘Jerome and the Particular
Judgment of Souls in the Afterlife’
Cristiana Sogno (Fordham University), ‘The (Re)Invention of
Epistolography in Late Antiquity’
15h30-16h00 Break/Pause-café
16h00-17h30 Session/Séance X (DMS 12102)
Christian literature (Latin) / La littérature chrétienne (latine)
Chair/Président: Danuta Shanzer (University of Vienna)
Marlena Whiting (Lincoln College, Oxford University), ‘Travels in the
Holy Land: A New Genre for Late Antiquity?’
Tiphaine Moreau, ‘Le De obitu Theodosii d’Ambroise de
Milan : Refonte des genres littéraires dans le creuset du sermon
politique’
Zach Yuzwa (Cornell University), ‘Sulpicius’ Gallus and the dialogue
form’
17h45-19h00 John Matthews (Yale University), ‘Autobiography and
Self-Awareness in Late Antiquity’
19h30- 22h00Banquet (Capital Hill Suites, 88 rue Albert st.)
Sunday March 24/dimanche 24 mars
09h00-10h30 Session/Séance XI (DMS 12102)
Legal aspects/Aspects juridiques
Chair/Président: Richard Burgess (University of Ottawa)
Christel Freu (Université Laval), ‘Les contrats de travail dans
l’Antiquité tardive : évolution du droit, évolution d’un genre ?’
Marion Kruse (Ohio State University), ‘Roman History and Republican
Offices in Justinianic Constantinople’
Sean Lafferty (Yale University), ‘Ad Sanctitatem Mortuorum:
Tomb Raiders, Body Snatchers and Relic Hunters in Late Antiquity’
10h30-11h00 Break/Pause-café
11h00-12h30 Session/Séance XII (DMS 12102)
Christian literature (Greek) / La littérature chrétienne (grecque)
Chair/Présidente: Wendy Mayer (Australian Catholic University)
Andrew Faulkner (University of Waterloo), ‘The Rise of Christian
Paraphrastic Poetry’
Edward Watts (University of California at San Diego), ‘Himerius and the
Personalization of the Monody’
Dominique Côté (Université d’Ottawa), ‘La fonction de la rhétorique
selon l’empereur Julien’
12h30End of the conference/Fin du colloque
14h30-16h00Committee meeting, Society for Late Antiquity (DMS 10126,
10th floor) / Réunion du comité, Society for Late Antiquity (DMS 10126, 10e
étage)