Department of Classics, NYU
100 Washington Square East Room 503
FRIDAY, April 27th
9:00 Welcome
9:15-10:15 Bryant Kirkland (UCLA) ‘Hair and the City: Self and Landscape in Late Dio’
10:15-11:15 Cynthia Damon (UPenn) ‘To beard or not to beard: Expressing (dis)engagement in the age of Dio’
11:15-11:45 Coffee
11:45-12:45 Johanna Hanink (Brown) ‘Dio on the nature of the demos (Oration 32, To the Alexandrians)’
12:45-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Casper de Jonge (Leiden) ‘On beauty: Past, Present, and Politics in Dio of Prusa, Oration 21’
3:00-4:00 Tim Whitmarsh (Cambridge) ‘The Hair of the Dog: Rereading Dio’s Diogenes Orations’
4:00-4:30 Coffee
4:30-5:30 David Levene (NYU) ‘The historiography of Dio Chrysostom’
5:30-6:30 Katarzyna Jazdzewska (Warsaw) ‘Beyond the Centre: Exploration of Dio’s Short Dialogues’
6:30-7:30 Conference reception
SATURDAY, April 28th
10:00-11:00 Lawrence Kim (Trinity) ‘Traces of the ‘Archaic’: Politics, the Body, and Hellenism in Dio’s On Beauty (Or. 21) and Rhodian (Or. 31)’
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:30 Joy Connolly (CUNY) ‘The meanings of migrancy in Dio, then and now’
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 James Uden (Boston) ‘Dio Chrysostom and the Politics of Distrust’
3:00-4:00 Christopher van den Berg (Amherst) ‘No sense of an ending? Abrupt conclusions as philosophical and political strategies in Dio’
4:00-4:30 Coffee
4:30-5:30 Alexander Petkas (UC, San Diego) ‘Synesius’ Dio and the Limits of the Philosophical Essay’
5:30-6:30 Richard Hunter (Cambridge) ‘Dio and the poets’