SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM > Invited speakersThe Organization Committee has established a list of 17 panels and has invited the 34 guest speakers (two for each panel) who will deliver the opening and closing speeches of each panel. In order to choose those speakers, who are all scholars of high reputation, the Committee has tried to find a proper balance between sub-fields within classical studies, geographical provenance, and gender.
1. Ecdotica : current trends in the edition and criticism of the classics • epistemology of classical scholarship • editing fragmentary texts Nigel Wilson (Oxford,UK) Brigitte Mondrain (Paris, France) see also Panel 6Danuta Shanzer (Vienna, Austria) 2. New prospects and research tools in the language, grammar and syntax of the classical textsIneke Sluiter (Leiden, The Netherlands) 3. NVMERI INNVMERI « numberless numbers » : music and meter in the classical world Kiichiro Itsumi (Tokyo, Japan) Fabio Vergara (Pelotas, Brazil) 4. Intertextuality—intergenericity—subliterarity Benjamin Acosta Hugues (Ohio State University, USA) Marek Wecowski (Warsaw, Poland) 5. The writing of history : ancient and modern views and practices John Marincola (Florida State University, USA) Andrea Giardina (Firenze, Italy) 6. Technai : Rhetoric, technical languages and sciences in the ancient world Brigitte Mondrain (Paris, France) see also Panel 1 Laurent Pernot (Strasbourg, France) 7. New texts, new readings, new corpora Dirk Obbink (Oxford, UK) Christian Brockmann (Hambourg, Germany) 8. The reception of classical literature from ancient to modern times : • Canonic texts : definitions, history, uses • Modern readings of classical texts Simon Goldhill (Cambridge, UK) Tarsicio Herrera Zapién (University of Mexico, Mexico) 9. The business world Jean-Jacques Aubert (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Lisa Kallet (Oxford, UK) 10. Ancient empires and imperialism Phiroze Vasunia (Reading, UK) Janneke de Jong (Ütrecht, The Netherlands) 11. Creating political opinionFrancisco Pina Polo (Zaragoza, Spain)Victoria Wohl (Toronto, Canada) 12. Leges publicae et sacrae Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge (Liège, Belgium) Dario Mantovani (Pavia, Italy) 13. Approaching and visualizing the Divine Olga Palagia (Athens, Greece) Emilio Suárez de la Torre (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain) 14. The teaching of philosophy in classical Antiquity Thomas Schirren (Salzbourg, Austria) Ricardo Salles (University of Mexico, Mexico) 15. Rejecting or integrating alien wisdoms Maurizio Bettini (Sienna, Italy) Mireille Hadas-Lebel (Paris, France) 16. Gender studies obviously Thomas Späth (Berne, Switzerland) Eva Stehle (University of Maryland, USA) 17. Archeology and texts : idyll or ordeal ? David Petrain (Vanderbilt Univ. Nashville, Tennessee, USA)Pierre Gros (Aix-Marseille, France)Jean-Paul Demoule (Paris, France)
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