May 10, 2022
International Conference: Herodian // Historiography and Literature at the End of the High Empire
As part of the DFG-funded project "A Commentary on Herodian's 'History of Emperorship after Marcus Aurelius'", Mario Baumann and Maria-Eirini Zacharioudaki, and in cooperation with Adam Kemezis (University of Alberta), are organising a conference with an international line-up at the TU Dresden.
The conference aims to highlight the place of Herodian's work within the ancient historiographical genre and in relation to other literary forms, and to explore his value for our understanding of literary-cultural developments in the third century CE.
Venue: Fakultät SLK, Wiener Straße 48, Raum 0.16
Date: 14–15 July 2022
Programme
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Thursday, 14 July
| Session 1 – Herodian’s Narrative: Sources, Genre & Readers | |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Introduction/welcome |
| 09:15 – 10:00 | Tra storia e propaganda: Erodiano, Pertinace e Settimio Severo — Alessandro Galimberti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Hérodien et le mélange des genres — Karine Laporte (Universiteit Leiden) |
| 10:45 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | The Historia Augusta as Reader of Herodian — Adam Kemezis (University of Alberta, Canada) |
| 12:15 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| Session 2 – Social and Cultural Communities in Herodian | |
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Vain Ambition, Futile Imitation: The Pattern of Failing “Philosophers” in Herodian's Narrative — Mario Baumann / Maria-Eirini Zacharioudaki (TU Dresden) |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 15:45 | Collective Memory and its Limits in Herodian’s Roman History — Andrew G. Scott (Villanova University, USA) |
| 15:45 – 16:30 |
Group Minds in Herodian’s History and Chariton’s Callirhoe |
| 17:30 | Walk through historic Dresden |
| 19:00 | Dinner (Restaurant “Raskolnikoff”, Böhmische Straße 34) |
Friday, 15 July
| Session 3 – Time and Space in Herodian's Text | |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Zwischen pragmatischer Geschichtsschreibung und Biographie: Herodian und ein neues Zeitmaß — Laura Mecella (Università degli Studi di Milano) |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Týchē and kairós in Herodian’s Ab excessu divi Marci — Panagiotis Androulakis (University of Crete) |
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10:30 – 11:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | The Spatial Dimension of Politics in Herodian’s Roman History — Konstantin V. Markov (Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia) |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| Session 4 – Greek Tradition in Herodian | |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Herodian's History and the Distant Past — Sulochana R. Asirvatham (Montclair State University, USA) |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Herodian’s Roman Empire: “An Alien Monarchy”? — Alexander V. Makhlaiuk (Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Longing for a Good Ruler: Echoes of Alexander the Great in Herodian — Christopher Baron (University of Notre Dame, USA) |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Herodian and Stasis — Luke Pitcher (Somerville College, Oxford) |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Closing Remarks |