Why should you believe me?
Relations between authorship and
authority in ancient historiography
and in the post-modern world
Newton International Fellowship
2018-2020
Funded by
Authority and Contemporary Narratives about the Classics
School of History, Classics and Archaeology - Newcastle University
February 21-22, 2019
PROGRAMME
FEBRUARY 21
10:15-11:15 - Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University, USA)
West is Best? “Western Civilization”, White Supremacism, and Classics in Popular Media
11:20-12:00 - Vanda Zajko (University of Bristol, UK)
Participatory Cultures and Contemporary Mythopoiesis
12:00-13:00 – lunch
13:00-13:40 - Juan Garcia Gonzalez (Newcastle University, UK)
The Syme–Yourcenar controversy about "Memoirs of Hadrian"
13:40-14:20 - Cora Beth Knowles (Open University, UK)
The authority of sharing: postgraduate blogging in Classics
14:20-15:00 - Catalina Popescu (Holland Hall, USA)
The New Agora? Online Communities and a New Rhetoric
15:00-15:30 - coffee break
15:30-16:10 - Ayelet Lushkov (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Classical Literature and Contemporary Classics
16:10-16:30 - open debate
FEBRUARY 22
10:00-11:00 - Neville Morley (University of Exeter, UK)
'The society that separates its scholars from its keyboard warriors…’: tracking Thucydides on Twitter
11:20-12:00 - David García Dominguez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
The ruthless law of the jungle? Ideology, discourse, and the dangerous success of Realist views on Roman history
12:00-13:00 – lunch
13:00-14:00 - Juliana Bastos Marques (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil)
Is Livy a good Wikipedian? Authority and authorship in ancient historiography through the lens of contemporary anonymous writing
14:00-14:40 - Joanna Kenty (Radboud University, Netherlands)
Philology and Outreach
14:40-15:20 - Ivan Matijašić (Newcastle University, UK)
Artemidorus on Trial: A Papyrus between Philology, a Court of Justice and the Media
15:20-16:00 - closing remarks