The NYU Classics Department and the Center for Ancient Studies present
The Politics of Writing: Literary Form and Political Engagement in Dio of Chrysostom and Early Empire
Friday and Saturday, April 26-27, 2018
NYU Classics Department
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place, or 31 Washington Place (for wheelchair access)
FRIDAY, April 27, 2018
9:00am Welcome
9:15am Hair and the City: Self and Landscape in Late Dio
Bryant Kirkland (UCLA)
10:15am To Beard or Not to Beard: Expressing (dis)engagement in the Age of Dio
Cynthia Damon (University of Pennsylvania)
11:45am The Meanings of Migrancy in Dio, Then and Now
Joy Connolly (CUNY)
12:45pm Lunch
2:00pm On Beauty: Past, Present, and Politics in Dio of Prusa, Oration 21
Casper de Jonge (University of Leiden)
3:00pm The Hair of the Dog: Rereading Dio’s Diogenes Orations
Tim Whitmarsh (Cambridge University)
4:30pm The Historiography of Dio Chrysostom
David Levene (NYU)
5:30pm Beyond the Centre: Exploration of Dio’s Short Dialogues
Katarzyna Jazdzewska (University of Warsaw)
6:30pm Reception
SATURDAY, April 28, 2018
9:00am Philosophical Arguments for Euergetism
John Ma (Columbia University)
10:00am Traces of the Archaic: Politics, the Body, and Hellenism in Dio’s On Beauty (Or. 21) and Rhodian (Or. 31)
Lawrence Kim (Trinity College)
11:30am Dio on the Nature of the Demos (Oration 32, To the Alexandrians)
Johanna Hanink (Brown)
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Dio Chrysostom and the Politics of Distrust
James Uden (Boston University)
3:00pm No Sense of an Ending? Abrupt Conclusions as Philosophical and Political Strategies in Dio
Christopher van den Berg (Amherst College)
4:30pm Synesius’ Dio and The Limits of The Philosophical Essay
Alexander Petkas (UC, San Diego)
5:30pm Dio and The Poets
Richard Hunter (Cambridge University)
This conference is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP, please email Laura Viidebaum at lv40@nyu.edu For more information, visit the conference website: https://wp.nyu.edu/politicsofwriting/
The Politics of Writing: Literary Form and Political Engagement in Dio of Chrysostom & Early Empire
