Cambridge Craven Seminar

Being Human - Classical Perspectives

Cambridge, Faculty of Classics, G.21

Thursday, 22 May:
11.00 ­ 11.15: Welcome and Introduction (the organizers)

Session 1:
11.15 ­ 12.00:
'The Choric Con-sociality of Nonhuman Life'
Mark Payne (Chicago)

12.00 ­ 12.45:
'Babylonian Perspectives on the Certainty of Death'
Christopher Metcalf (Oxford)

12.45 ­ 14.00: Buffet Lunch

Session 2:
14.00 ­ 14.45:
'Arendt on Plato: Philosophy, Politics, and Being Human'
Frisbee Sheffield (Cambridge)

14.45 ­ 15.30:
'Affinity or Asymmetry: Self, Other, and Truth in Plato'
Catherine Pickstock (Cambridge)

15.30 ­ 16.00: Coffee Break

16.00 ­ 16.45:
'Visualizing Humanity in Archaic Greece: From the Symposium to the Grave,
and Beyond'
Robin Osborne (Cambridge)


Friday, 23 May
9.30: Coffee

Session 3:
10.00 ­ 10.45:
'Etruscans, Romans, and the Origins of Personality'
Nigel Spivey (Cambridge)

10.45 ­ 11.30:
'Ovidian Humanism'
Ingo Gildenhard (Cambridge)

11.30 ­ 12.00: Coffee Break

12.00 ­ 12.45:
'The Ideal of Bodily Integrity: From Seneca to Human Rights Theory (and
Back)'
Victoria Rimell (Rome)

12.45 ­ 14.00: Buffet Lunch

Session 4:
14.00 ­ 14.45:
'(Homo-)Philhellenic Anthropologies: Some Peculiarities of a Particular
Universalism'
Sebastian Matzner (Oxford)

14.45 ­ 15.30:
'Hairlessness, Humanity, and its Concomitant Erotics'
Alastair Blanshard (Queensland)

15.30 ­ 16.00: Coffee Break

16.00 ­ 16.45:
'Aristocratic Humanities: Pindar, Castiglione, and Yeats'
Michael Silk (London)

16.45 ­ 17.00: Epilogue (the organizers)

Attendance is free (including lunches), but for catering purposes those
intending to come are asked to register by writing to Ingo Gildenhard at
[email protected] by 15 May.