Filosoofiateaduskond

Programme

Note that all papers are 30 minutes, with additional 5 minutes for questions.

Friday, 3 December 2010 (Dorpat Conference Centre)
9.00-9.15	Registration
9.15-9.45	Greetings and introduction Prof. Anne Lill (Tartu): Welcome speech
9.45-10.20	Prof. William W. Fortenbaugh (New Brunswick): Parainesis: Isocrates and Theophrastus
10.20-10.55	Prof. Leonid Zhmud (Saint Petersburg): Pythagorean number doctrine in the Academy
10.55-11.15	Pause
11.15-11.50	Prof. Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (Göttingen): Did it burn or not? Julius Caesar and the Great Library of Alexandria
11.50-12.25	Prof. Otto Kaiser (Marburg): Aretē und Pathos bei Philo von Alexandrien
12.25-13.00	Dr. Koen De Temmerman (Gent): The Big Five: not-so-ideal ancient Greek novels?
13.00-14.30	Lunch (for speakers and invited guests)
14.30-15.05	Prof. Heinz Hofmann (Tübingen): 'Andachtsbilder' bei Claudian?
15.05-15.40	Prof. Gregor Vogt-Spira (Marburg / Villa Vigoni): Die Saturnalien des Macrobius als implizite Poetik der Spätantike
15.40-16.00	Pause
16.00-16.35	Dr. Paavo Roos (Lund): Philostratos and his trainer instruction
16.35-17.10	Prof. Danny Praet (Gent): In praise of long hair. The use of Homer, Euripides and second sophistic rhetoric in the Life of Apollonius of Tyana by Flavius Philostratus
17.10-17.45	Prof. Mika Kajava (Helsinki): Observationes quaedam de imperatorum Romanorum cum deis Graecis aequatione et comparatione
19.00	Dinner (for speakers and invited guests)

Saturday, 4 December 2010 (Dorpat Conference Centre)
9.10-9.45	Dr. Martin Steinrück (Fribourg): Eros und Anteros in Eunap
9.45-10.20	Prof. Maarit Kaimio (Helsinki): The Petra papyri: New light on the early Byzantine Near East
10.20-10.55	Prof. Michail Bibikov (Moscow): ΑΙΩΝΙΟΝ
10.55-11.15	Pause
11.15-11.50	Prof. Outi Merisalo (Jyväskylä): Currunt manus, psallunt homoeoteleuta: Transmitting medical texts in the Middle Ages
11.50-12.25	Prof. Peter Kuhlmann (Göttingen): Übersetzungstheorie und latinitas in der Renaissance am Beispiel des Leonardo Bruni
12.25-13.00	Dr. Ruth Monreal (Hamburg): Meermädchen und mehr Mädchen: Theokrit in der lateinischen Dichtung von Baldassar Castiglione
13.00-14.30	Lunch (for speakers and invited guests)
14.30-15.05	Prof. Walther Ludwig (Hamburg): Die Monodia des Marcus Antonius Muretus zum Tod des Pariser Parlamentspräsidenten Christophe de Thou (1583) - Idealbilder von Humanismus und Gerechtigkeit
15.05-15.40	Prof. Hans Helander (Uppsala): Scholarly and scientific Neo-Latin: Some typical features
15.40-16.00	Pause
16.00-16.35	Dr. Kristi Viiding (Tartu): Der Anfang der gelehrten Frauendichtung in Livland im 17. Jahrhundert: Gertrud Paffrath
16.35-17.10	Prof. Heikki Solin (Helsinki): De inter linguas Graecam et Latinam in Latio et Campania commercio
17.10-17.30	Conclusion

There is no fee for attendance, but those interested in attending should notify Dr Ivo Volt (Ivo.Volt@ut.ee) before 30 November 2010 so that adequate seating and refreshments provision can be ensured. The same address should be used for information on travel and accommodation options. Please note that the list of speakers is now closed.

We are grateful to our supporters: University of Tartu, Estonian Science Foundation, Estonian Cultural Endowment, Tartu City Government, Cultural Endowment of Tartu, and national research and development programme "Estonian Language and Cultural Memory".

BACKGROUND

The University of Tartu, founded in 1632, is one of the oldest universities in Eastern and Northern Europe. It was originally called Academia Gustaviana after Swedish King Gustav II Adolf, who signed the University's charter. After being forced to suspend teaching during the Great Northern War in 1710, the University was re-opened in 1802 during the reign of Russian Emperor Alexander I. It was the only German-language university in the Russian Empire until the Russification at the end of the 19th century. In 1919, the University of Tartu resumed its activities as the world's first Estonian-language university.

Classical philology as an academical discipline was introduced to the university already in 1802 by Professor Karl Morgenstern, who was a student of Friedrich August Wolf in Halle, Germany. It survived about 150 years, only to be closed by the Soviet authorities in 1954. In 1990, a year before Estonia regained independence, classical studies at the University of Tartu were re-established by Professor Anne Lill, with first students admitted in 1991.