The Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values, IV
University of Pennsylvania
Terrace Room, Logan Hall
Thursday, June 1, 2006
12:30-1:00: Coffee
1:00-1:30: Welcome and Introduction: Ineke Sluiter (Leiden University)
Paper Session 1
(Chair: Jeremy McInerney)
1:30-2:10: Nick Fisher (Cardiff University) The boyfriend, the flatterer and the sycophant: related forms of kakos in democratic Athens
2:10-2:50: Matthew Christ (Indiana University) Imagining bad citizenship in classical Athens: Aristophanes’ Eccl. 730-876
2:50-3:10: Coffee break
Paper Session 2
(Chair: Kathryn Morgan)
3:10-3:40: Susannah Herman (Leiden University) Who’s bad? Calling other people kakos in Sophocles’ Ajax
3:40-4:10: Jeremy Leftt (University of Pennsylvania) Ugliness and value in the "Life of Aesop"
4:10-4:30: Coffee break
Paper Session 3
(Chair: Sheila Murnaghan)
4:30-5:10: Kristina Chew (Saint Peter’s College) The bad and the ugly: kakos and disability in Sophocles’ Philoctetes
5:10-5:50: Ian Storey (Trent University) ‘Bad’ language in Old Comedy
5:50-6:45: Reception
Friday, June 2, 2006
8:00-8:30: Coffee
Paper Session 4
(Chair: Peter Struck)
8:30-9:10: Kathryn Morgan (UCLA) Base speech acts and the problem of badness in Pindar
9:10-9:50: Deborah Steiner (Columbia University) Beetle tracks: entomology, scatology and the discourse of abuse
9:50-10:10: Coffee break
Paper Session 5
(Chair: Robert Kaster)
10:10-10:50: Christian Wildberg (Princeton University) Less in good is more in the bad: Plotinus on Evil
10:50-11:30: John Mulhern (University of Pennsylvania) Kakia in Aristotle
11:30-11:50: Coffee break
Paper Session 6
(Chair: Ineke Sluiter)
11:50-12:30: James Porter (University of Michigan) The disgrace of matter in ancient aesthetics
12:30-1:10: Andromache Karanika (Temple University) Fortune verses: constructions of evil in magical papyri
1:10-2:30: Lunch
Paper Session 7
(Chair: Elaine Fantham)
2:30-3:00: Ed Sanders (University College London) Pathos kakon: Aristotle and the rhetoric of phthonos
3:00-3:30: Todd Krulak (University of Pennsylvania) Philosophical antecedents to Iamblichean theodicy
3:30-3:50: Coffee break
Paper Session 8
(Chair: Joseph Farrell)
3:50-4:25: Florence Limburg (Leiden University) The representation and role of badness in Seneca’s moral teaching: a case from the Naturales Quaestiones
4:25-5:00: Anna Zawadzka (University of Warsaw) White skin is bad: stereotyping of the Celts
5:00-6:15: Reception
Saturday, June 3, 2006
8:00-8:30: Coffee
Paper Session 9
(Chair: James Ker)
8:30-9:00: Martijn Icks (Radboud University, Nijmegen) Heliogabalus, a monster on the Roman throne – the literary construction of a ‘bad’ emperor
9:00-9:30: Christopher van den Berg (Yale University) Malignitas in its social and aesthetic contexts
9:30-10:10: Yelena Baraz (Trinity College) From vice to virtue: the denigration and rehabilitation of superbia in ancient Rome
10:10-10:20: Coffee break
Paper Session 10
(Chair: Brent Shaw)
10:20-11:00: Elaine Fantham (Princeton University) With malice aforethought: genre, ethics and forensics of malitia
11:00-11:40: Amanda Wilcox (Williams College) Nature’s monster: Caligula as exemplar in Seneca’s dialogues
11:40-12:00: Coffee break
12:00-12:30: General Discussion, Summation and Conclusion of Colloquium: Ralph Rosen (University of Pennsylvania)