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The Boston University Classical Studies Department will be holding a conference entitled "Experiencing Insecurity: Pain, Trauma and Suffering in the Roman Empire" on March 16th
and 17th.
Thursday, March 16 (2:00 to 5:30 p.m., BU Law School, Barrister’s Hall)
Alain M. Gowing, “‘Tangled, chaotic and hideous’: the triumviral proscriptions in Roman memory”
Michèle Lowrie, “The caring leader perverted, Lucan’s De bello civili”
Gareth Williams, “The Insecurities of Therapeutic Philosophy in Roman Discourse: Some Symptoms, Effects, Consequences, and Implications”
Maia Kotrosits, “Late Ancient Hagiography as Literature of Grief”
Reception to follow
Friday, March 17 (9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., BU School of Theology, Room B24)
Speakers:
Erica James, Keynote
James Uden, “Embodying the Wounded Veteran in the Roman Empire”
Luis Menéndez-Antuña, “Analgesic literary strategies: how do the canonic gospels blunt the crucifixion pain?”
Tori Lee, “Hic crine, hic veste: Violence and Bodily Violability in Imperial Pastoral Literature”
Virginia Closs, “Solitudo as State and Space in Early Imperial Literature”
Christopher A. Frilingos, “The Suffering and the Glory: Problems in the Therapeutic Criticism of the Book of Revelation”
Zsuzsa Várhelyi, “The ghosts of Neronian Rome: narrative and affective strategies of coping with recent traumatic experiences in the pseudo-Senecan
Octavia”
Inger Kuin, “Coping Without the Gods? Religious Disbelief and Insecurity in the Roman Empire”
Basil Dufallo, “Optimism Beyond Political Trauma in Tacitus and Pliny”
For a full schedule and updates on registration, check the departmental website: www.bu.edu…
Sponsored by Boston University Center for the Humanities, Department of Classical Studies, Department of Religion, the Health Humanities Program, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies Program.
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