Revising Antiquity:

Re-Imagining the Ancient World in 19th-Century Britain

Tentative Conference Program

Friday, 30 January 2004

All Friday events will take place in Angell Hall 3222:

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.: Registration and Breakfast (Provided)

8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.: Welcome

8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.: Panel 1: Re-Writing the Ancients

Ann Heilmann, English, University of Wales Swansea, "Medea at the Fin-de- Siecle: The Re-vision of Myth in Feminist Writings by Mona Caird, Amy Levy, and Vernon Lee"

Stefano Evangelista, Institute of Hellenic and Roman Studies, University of Bristol, "Narcissism and Romantic Reflections in Walter Pater's Plato and Platonism"

Meilee D. Bridges, English, University of Michigan, "Browning's 'Development' as a Homeric Scholar"

Moderator: Niko Endres, English, Western Kentucky University

10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Break

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Panel 2: Painting Classical Mythology

Elizabeth Prettejohn, Modern Art, University of Plymouth, "Homer and Beauty in Victorian Art"

Caroline Arscott, Courtauld Institute of Art, "Time Grenades: Mythology, History, and the Pomegranate Motif in Victorian Art"

Moderator: Alex Potts, History of Art, University of Michigan

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch (On Your Own)

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Panel 3: Romanisms

Phiroze Vasunia, Classics, University of North Carolina, "Greater Rome and Greater Britain"

Jonathan Sachs, Humanities, University of Chicago, "Shelley's Rome: Rethinking Hellenism and the Classical Tradition in Romantic Britain"

Moderator: Isobel Hurst, Classics & Ancient History, University of Bristol

3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.: Break

3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.: Panel 4: Hellenisms

Oswyn Murray, Ancient History and Classics, University of Oxford, "Greece, Radical and Romantic: Bulwer-Lytton's Athens: Its Rise and Fall"

Karen Whedbee, Communication, Northern Illinois University, "Authority and Critical Reason: George Grote's Defense of the Athenian Popular Juries"

Constanze Güthenke, Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, "Beyond the Islands of the Blest: Byron as a Figure of European Hellenism"

Moderator: Vassilis Lambropoulos, Classics and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan

4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Break

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.: Panel 5: Ancient Objects: Lost, Found, Made

Shawn Malley, English, Bishop's University, "Theatre/Archaeology: Producing Material History in Charles Kean's Sardanapalus, 1853"

Robert Aguirre, English, Wayne State University, "The Victorians and the Ruins of Central America"

Andrew Stauffer, English, Boston University, "Dickens, Egypt, and the Curse of Paper"

Moderator: Lee Behlman, English, Kansas State University

7:00 p.m.: Reception and Dinner, Zanzibar Restaurant, 216 S. State St., 48104 (Ticketed Participants Only)

Saturday, 31 January 2004

Michigan Room, Michigan League

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m: Brunch and Informal Roundtable Discussion (Ticketed Participants Only)

Moderators: James I. Porter, Comparative Literature and Classics, University of Michigan
Yopie Prins, English, Comparative Literature, and Classics, University of Michigan

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