The University of St Andrews & the Sapienza Università di Roma have organized the international workshop entitled
“Epigraphy and Literature in the Imperial Age, Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages”.
Funded by the British Academy.
Organisers:
Gianfranco Agosti (La Sapienza), Carlos Machado (St Andrews), Giuseppe Pezzini (St Andrews)
For info and registration: [email protected]
09.00 Welcome coffee
09.10 Introduction
09.20 Peter Krutschwitz (Reading), Decolonialising Roman Poetry: the example of Roman Germany
09.50 Giuseppe Pezzini (St Andrews), Literature and literacy in inscriptions from Roman Britain
10.10 Carlos Machado (St Andrews), Inscriptions and antiquarianism in late antique Rome
10.30 Discussion
10.50 Coffee break
11.15 Jason Moralee (Amherst, Mass.), Writing fiction from inscriptions: the legends of the Roman Martyrs
11.45 Jason König (St Andrews), Festival and spectacle inscriptions in imperial and late antique culture
12.05 Elisa Merisio (Sapienza), Local poets and literary models in metrical inscriptions from the Phrygian Highlands: two case studies
12.25 Discussion
12.50 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 Ida Toth (Oxford), Inscriptions in Byzantine Patriographic Literature
15.00 Francesco Stella (Siena), Verse inscriptions in Carolingian Monasteries
15.30 Andreas Rhoby (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), Inscriptions in Byzantine Historiography
16.00 Discussion
16.25 Coffee Break
16.45 Gianfranco Agosti (Sapienza), Paideia and Identity in Late Antique Verse Inscriptions
17.00-18.00 Round table (restricted to speakers for discussion on the structure of the resulting book)
Gianfranco Agosti and Silvia Orlandi (Sapienza), Chair
19.30 Conference Dinner