The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean (CAM) at Columbia invites you to join us for "A Conference in Memory of Alan Cameron (1938-2017)" a two-day conference on Friday, October 26 and Saturday, October 27, 2018.
Registration is recommended, but all are welcome to attend. Please RSVP for the conference through the our website: http://www.centancmed.org/upcoming-events-1/2018/10/26/conference-in-memory-of-alan-cameron. For more information, visit the event page, or contact us directly with further questions.
Participants will include: Averil Cameron, Anne Chen, Raffaella Cribiore, Anthony Cutler, Jean-Luc Fournet, Carmela Franklin, Arianna Gullo, Gavin Kelly, Michael Kulikowski, Noel Lenski, Rita Lizzi Testa, Charlotte Roueché, and Michele Salzman.
The conference will take place on the 3rd floor of the Italian Academy, Columbia University. Please find the schedule below:
Friday, October 26
10:00-10:30: Introduction, Marc Van De Mieroop and John Ma
10:30-11:15: Arianna Gullo, “Late antique Homeric Exegesis in the Greek Anthology”
11:15-12:00: Jean-Luc Fournet, "Returning to the Wandering Poets: a New Poem by Dioscorus of Aphrodite"
12:00-12:45: Gavin Kelly, “The Fragments of Rutilius Namatianus”
lunch
13:45-14:30: Michele Salzman, “Why Gibbon Was Wrong; The Case for A.D. 472 and the Fall of Rome”
14:30-15:15: Anthony Cutler, "Alan's 'Bare Basilius': when the historian and the art historian coalesce"
15:15-16:00: Anne Chen, “Late Antiquity Between East and West”
break
16:15-17:00: Averil Cameron, “Alan Cameron and Byzantium”
Saturday Oct 27
9:45-10:30: Rita Lizzi, “Alan Cameron and the Symmachi”
10:30-11:15: Raffaella Cribiore, “Stenographers in Late Antiquity: Villains or Victims?”
break
11:30-12:15: Charlotte Roueche, “Celebrity and Power: Circus Factions 40 years on”
12:15-13:00: Michael Kulikowski, “The Value of Minimalist Interpretation: The Historia Augusta”
lunch
14:00-14:45: Carmela Vircillo Franklin, “The Lost Farnesianus Manuscript: Uncial Capitals for the Bishops of Rome”
14:45-15:30: Noel Lenski, “Ambrose thinks with slavery”
15:30-16:00: Final words
We hope to see you there!