Conference Programme
Thursday 18 September 2008
1100 Registration, coffee,
1115 Opening remarks by
Professor Barbara Goff, Department of Classics, University of Reading
1130-1230 Keynote
Professor David Gilman Romano, Senior Research Scientist, Mediterranean
Section, The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology
‘True Heroes and Dishonorable Victors at Olympia’
1230 -1330 Lunch
1330-1500 ‘The Athlete’s Body and the Classical Ideal’;
Professor Stephen Brunet, Department of Classics, University of New
Hampshire: ‘Living in the Shadow of the Past: Greek athletes during the
Roman empire’
Dr Debbie Challis, Petrie Museum, University College London: ‘The Race
for a Healthy Body: the ancient Greek physical ideal in Victorian
London’
Dr Michael Simpson, Department of English and Comparative Literature,
Goldsmiths, University of London: ‘Playing by/with the Rules: black
modernity in the Athenian arena’
1500 Tea
1530 Presentation on London 2012
Charlotte Foster - PODIUM
The Further and Higher Education Unit for the 2012 Games
1600-1700 ‘Rekindling the Torch: Olympics in eighteenth -century poetry and painting’;
Professor Hugh Lee, Department of Classics, University of Maryland: ‘Gilbert West and the Revival of the Olympic Games’
Professor William Pressly, Department of Art History and Archaeology,
University of Maryland: ‘James Barry’s Mural “Crowning the Victors at
Olympia”’
1700 Wine reception
Friday 19 September 2008
0900 Viewing of James Barry’s Mural “Crowning the Victors at Olympia” , the Great Room, Royal Society of Arts, Strand (to be confirmed)
1000 Coffee and Registration
1030 -1130 Keynote
Dr Armand D’Angour, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Jesus College,
Oxford University : ‘The Athens Olympics 2004: Pindaric contestations’
1130-1230 ‘Global Games, Classical Places’;
Ann Keen, Department of Art History, Rutgers University: ‘Nervi’s
Palazzo and Palazzetto dello Sport: Striking a Delicate Balance between
Past and Present in 1960 Rome’
Professor Daniel De La Cueva, Instituto Superior de Educación Física,
Academia Olímpica Argentina: ‘Sport in Argentina: the Influences of
Democratic and Non-Democratic Governments’
1230-1330 Lunch
1330-1500 ‘Virtue and Rhetoric in ancient
Greece
and
China
1’
.
Damian Stocking, Department of English and Comparative Literary
Studies, Occidental College LA : ‘Excess in Praise: Toward a General
Economy of the Pindaric Victory Ode’
Dr Eleni Volonaki, Department of History and Archaeology, University of
Peloponnese: ‘Performance of Epideictic Oratory at the Olympic Games’
Yi Na, School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China (visiting
scholar at Institute for Asian and Oriental Studies, Bonn University):
‘Beijing Olympic Seal and Chinese Aesthetics’
1500-1530 Tea
1530-1630 ‘Virtue and Rhetoric in ancient
Greece
and
China
2’
Antiopi Argyriou-Casmeridis, Athens ‘Values of the ancient Olympic Games’
Dr Ian Jenkins, Senior Curator, British Museum: ‘Nixoff in China’
1630 Closing remarks
Professor Lorna Hardwick, Classical Studies, Open University
This programme is subject to change