#  Classics and Ancient History Workshop: a comparison of methodologies 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 28, 2018** 

 10:30AM - 04:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **RCC Seminar Room (Lower Level), 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA.**  



 

 



 

 After a longstanding positivist approach, the study of the Classical world has experienced significant development in terms of methods of studying, Nowadays, it involves a diverse set of theoretical and methodological approaches.

 The purpose of this workshop is to foster conversation among different disciplines of Classics, in order to facilitate an interdisciplinary dialogue. After a reflection on the themes and their specific research interests, participants will lay the ground for a discussion about the methodology and the research skills which they consider necessary for carrying out reserach in their topics. More specifically, this workshop aims to shed new light on how original and innovative approaches drawn from modern theories led to cutting edge interpretations instead of merely accepting previous assumptions. We hope that this workshop will offer postgraduates in Classics and Ancient History an opportunity to meet and present their ideas in a cooperative environment, in order to promote future collaboration among scholars.

 **Program:**

 10:30 Introductory remarks: Lara Laviola

 10:45 Stephen Hughes (Harvard University): “Spatial metaphors of senatorial subjection in Tacitus”

 11:00 Emily Mitchell (Harvard University): “A historicizing approach to ancient literature”

 11:15 Lara Laviola (Freie Universität Berlin): “On the use of modern terminology: an evidence from Greek Law”

 12:00 Discussion

 13:30 Flora Iff-Noël (Sorbonne Université): “Perspectives from Narratology, Intertextuality, History and Art: metalepsis in representations of Ariadne”

 13:45 Charles Bartlett (Duke University): “Ancient Models, Live Issues: Legal Debates in 16th-century Venice”

 14:00 Justin Miller (Harvard University): “Hellenistic Crossroads: Interdisciplinary Approaches amid the Chaos”

 14:15 Discussion

 14:30 Coffee break

 14:45 Davide Napoli (Harvard University): “Where is the meaning? a brief history of the reader"

 15:00 Blatz Zabel (Durham University): “Dynamic peripheries and literary comparisons in Classics”

 15:15 Diego Chapinal-Heras (RCC Harvard): “From Dodona to Dion: Politics in sanctuaries”

 15:30 Discussion

 15:45 Final discussion and conclusion

 ![classicsgrad](/sites/g/files/omnuum986/files/rcc/files/screen_shot_2018-11-21_at_7.06.22_pm.png)

 

 **Coordinator:** Lara Laviola, Classics (Graduate Student at Freie Universität Berlin and Visitor of the Department of the Classics, Harvard University; [laviola@g.harvard.edu](mailto:///laviola@g.harvard.edu))

 **Speakers:** Diego Chapinal-Heras, RCC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of the Classics, Harvard University; Charles Bartlett, Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University; Lara Laviola, Graduate Student, Freie Universität Berlin and Visiting Fellow, Department of the Classics, Harvard University; Stephen Hughes, Graduate Student, Department of the Classics, Harvard University; Justin Miller, Graduate Student, Department of the Classics, Harvard University; Emily Mitchell, Graduate Student, Department of the Classics, Harvard University; Davide Napoli, Graduate Student, Department of the Classics, Harvard University; Flora Iff-Noël, Graduate Student, Sorbonne Université and Visiting Fellow, Department of the Classics, Harvard University; Blaz Zabel, Graduate Student, Durhman University and Visiting Fellow, Department of the Classics, Harvard University.

 **Sponsors:** RCC; Department of the Classics, Harvard University.



 

 



 

 

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