Event

THURSDAY 12 JUNE

Telders Auditorium, Academy Building (Rapenburg 73, Leiden)

09.30-10.00     Coffee and registration

10.00-10.15     Welcome and introduction     

Panel 1: Languages of Animals, Greeks and Non-Greeks

10.15-10.45     Jeremy McInernery (Penn):

                        ‘… They were turned to pigs…; their minds remained the same…’

Speech, nonsense and the human animal

10.45-11.15     Irene de Jong (Amsterdam): 

Breaching the convention of shared language in Greek narrative

11.15-11.45     Coffee and tea

Panel 2: Languages of Non-Greeks in Greek Drama

11.45-12.15     Evert van Emde Boas (Aarhus):

                        The use of Greek/Attic by ‘atypical populations’ in Greek drama

12.15-12.45     Amelia Bensch-Schaus (Penn):

                        The voices of the enslaved in Euripides‘ Medea

12.45-14.30     Lunch

Panel 3: Etymology in Literature, Greek and Latin

14.30-15.00     Sheila Murnaghan (Penn):

                        Tragic knowledge and the truth value of names

15.00-15.30     Johanna Kaiser (Penn):

                        Etymology and the values of language in Martial’s Xenia and Apophoreta

15.30-16.00     Coffee

Panel 4: Ancient Scholars on the Values of Greek and Latin

16.00-16.30     Caroline Petit  (Warwick):      

Galen, language, and Hellenocentric rhetoric: 

Uncovering the hybridity of medicine

16.30-17.00     Stephanos Matthaios (Athens):

Disqualifying grammar, qualifying language. Sextus Empiricus on what grammar fails to recognize about the nature and value of language

17.00-17.30     Christoph Pieper (Leiden):                  

The Scholia Gronoviana on Cicero’s speeches:

Valuing Latin at the end of antiquity

FRIDAY 13 JUNE

Telders Auditorium, Academy Building (Rapenburg 73, Leiden)

Panel 5: Graeco-Roman Views on Minority Languages

09.00-09.30    Marta Capano (Siena Stranieri, Groningen) and Viviane Léger Pirus (Paris, Bruxelles): Lost languages: status, prestige and perception of Messapic in the ancient world

09.30-10.00     Harriet Fertik (Ohio State University):                        

A matre doctus… rogare Iudaeus: Martial and Juvenal on the language of Jews in Rome 

10.00-10.30     Adam Gitner (TLL, München):

                        The Roman revaluation of Hebrew

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Panel 6: Roman Views on Bilingualism

11.00-11.30     Hugo Simons (Liège):

Litteras Graecas Athenis, non Lilybaei, Latinas Romae, non in Sicilia (Cic., div. in Caec. 39): The attitude of Latin-speaking authors towards Sicilian Greek-Latin bilingualism

11.30-12.00     Katherine MacDonald (Durham):

Spies, treachery and deceit: 

attitudes to bilingualism in Livy’s Samnite Wars and Punic Wars

12.00-14.00     Lunch

Panel 7: Homer and / as Language

14.00-14.30     Lucien van Beek (Leiden):

                        Feathered words, or: How to say things with arrows 

14.30-15.00     Egbert Bakker (Yale):

                        Homer the language

15.00-15.30     Coffee and tea

Keynote and Celebration

15.30-16.30     Ralph Rosen (Penn):

                        Galen on the Anatomy and Teleology of Language

16.30-17.15     Celebration in honour of Ineke Sluiter and 25 years Penn Leiden

17.15-19.00     Reception

SATURDAY 14 JUNE

Lorentzzaal (KOG A1.44), Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw (Steenschuur 25, Leiden)

Panel 8: Languages in the Second Sophistic

10.15-10.45     Bé Breij (Nijmegen):

Rerum tumor, sententiarum vanissimus strepitus: 

the language of Sophistopolis

10.45-11.15     Teddy Fassberg (Tel Aviv):

                        The value of Latin in the Greek Second Sophistic

11.15-11.45     Coffee and tea

Panel 9: Greek versus Latin

11.45-12.15     Susan Bilynskyj Dunning (Oxford):

The significance of Greek and Latin funerary divine associations

12.15-12.45     Paul Johnston (Stanford):

Devaluing Greek: the correspondence of Paul and Seneca and the monolingualisation of Latin literature

12.45-14.15     Lunch

Panel 10: Valuing Varieties of Greek

14.15-14.45     Joanne Stolk (Leiden):

                        The need for revision. 

Scribal awareness of language variation in Greek papyri from Egypt

14.45-15.15     Niels Schoubben (Leiden):

                        John Philoponus on dialects in his treatise on accents

15.15-15.45     Coffee and tea

Panel 11: Valuing Ancient Languages in and after Antiquity

15.45-16.15     Mariia Timoshchuk and Raf Van Rooy (Leuven):

Graece aliquid addere litteris suave est:

Latin-Greek code-switching through Roman and Renaissance eyes

16.15-16.45     Han Lamers (Oslo) and Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Groningen): 

Language myths:

the politicization of ancient languages in comparative perspective

16.45-17.00     Closing remarks