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Ancients and Moderns
Anglo-American Conference of Historians
5-6 July 2012, Senate House, London
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Foreword
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Contents
With the Olympics upon us in the UK it seems an appropriate moment to think
more broadly about the ways in which the classical world resonates in our
own times, and how successive epochs of modernity since the Renaissance
have situated themselves in relation to the various ancient civilisations. From
political theory to aesthetics, across the arts of war and of peace, to concepts
of education, family, gender, race and slavery, it is hard to think of a facet of
the last millennium which has not been informed by the ancient past and
through a range of media, including museums, painting, poetry, film and the
built environment.
For our 81st Anglo-American conference we are joining with the Institute of
Classical Studies to showcase the full extent of work on classical receptions,
welcoming not only those scholars who work on Roman, Greek and Judaeo-
Christian legacies and influences, but also historians of the ancient kingdoms
and empires of Asia and pre-Colombian America.
Conference programme 3
Publishers’ fair 12
Film session 12
Policy forum 12
Pimlott lecture 13
Conference information 13
Food: the 2013 Anglo-American conference 13
How to get here 14
Miles Taylor, Director of the IHR
Accessibility and special needs 15
Acknowledgements 15
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Thursday 5th July
9.30am
Registration
10.00am
Welcome
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Welcome from Professor John North (Institute of
Classical Studies)
The use of classics in
the modern military
Bedford room, Senate
House
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Chair: Brian Reid (King’s College London)
Paul Ramsey (Calgary, Canada) A response to Plato’s
Republic: military education and the study of war in
Britain
Eugenia C Kiesling (United States Military Academy)
Seeking a classical legacy: ancient historians and
professional military education in the United States
Beveridge hall
10.15am
Plenary lecture
Beveridge hall
11.30am
Parallel panels
Body, place, planet:
ancient and modern
airs
Gordon room, Senate
House
Chair: Hugh Bowden (King’s College London)
Paul Cartledge (Cambridge) Olympic renascences: how
democratic were the ancient Olympics?
Start of morning panel sessions
Chair: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Imperial College London)
Brenda S Gardenour (Saint Louis College of Pharmacy)
Ensouled flesh, embodied air: the persistence of the
permeable body and the fear of foul air from ancient
medicine to modernity
Vladimir Janković (Manchester) Vitruvius at work:
reflections on the history of wind in urban design
Early modern
humanism and the
Greco-Roman tradition
Torrington room, Senate
House
Andreas Stradis (Bristol) Possessed by our times: the
place of Thucydides in US higher professional military
education from 1972
Chair: Matt Phillpott (Institute of Historical Research)
DeAnn DeLuna (University College London) A classical
world well lost: Fabian Philipps on a modern breed of
landlord in seventeenth-century England
María Gabriela Huidobro (Universidad Andres Bello,
Chile) Classical tradition in the epic poetry on Arauco’s
war
Marco Romani Mistretta (Scuola Normale Superiore,
Pisa) There is a pleasure in the pathless woods:
tradition as challenge in Politian’s Silvae
Evangelos Sakkas (Queen Mary, University of London)
Harrington’s mixed constitution and neo-Roman
populism
Ancient tyranny
and early modern
governance
Bloomsbury room, Senate
House
James R Fleming (Colby College, Maine) Carbon ‘die’
oxide: spiritus lethalis and toxic climate pneuma
Chair: Peter Lake (Vanderbilt)
Darcy Kern (Georgetown) Tyrant or rex inutilis: debating
definitions of kingship in Renaissance England
Rei Kanemura (Cambridge) Debating tyrannicide in
early Jacobean England
Collectors of
antiquities and their
interpretations of the
past
S261, Senate House
Chair: Adriana Turpin (IESA/Warwick)
Leon Lock (Louvain) Sculptors collections in the late
seventeenth century: Flemish sculptors and Rome
Adriano Aymonino (Buckingham) Aristocratic splendour:
Hugh Smithson Percy (1712–1786) and Elizabeth
Seymour Percy (1716–1776), 1st Duke and Duchess of
Northumberland. A case study in patronage, collecting
and society in eighteenth-century Britain
Jamie Gianoutsos (Johns Hopkins) A chaste Virginia:
tyranny and the corruption of law in Jacobean England
Chiara Teolato (Roma Tre) Souvenirs of the antique:
collecting and display the Zoffoli’s small bronzes in
England (1760–1800)
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1.00pm
Lunch
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Beveridge hall
2.00pm
Plenary lecture
Beveridge hall
3.00pm
Parallel panels
Reformation and early
Christianity
Torrington room, Senate
House
Revolution and empire
Silvia Davoli (Wallace Collection) Dr Gottlieb Wilhelm
Leitner (1840-1899) dispersed collection of Gandhara
sculptures: Lahore, London, Florence and Berlin
Lunch will be served in the Macmillan hall
Muscles, marathons and Mario Bava: The Giant of
Marathon (1959)
This session, presented by Dr Kim Shahabudin
(Reading) will begin with an introductory talk on the
film and the contexts of its production, followed by the
screening of an extended clip.
For further details, see page 11.
Chair: Rosemary Sweet (Leicester)
Mark Lewis (Stanford) Nationalising antiquity in China
Start of afternoon panel sessions
Chair: Peter Webster (Institute of Historical Research)
Matt Phillpott (Institute of Historical Research) Ancient
and early modern martyrs: a reformation reappraisal of
Britain’s Roman heritage as told by John Foxe
Celestina Savonius-Wroth (Indiana, University of
Bloomington) Ancients and moderns in the apologetics
of the Church of England, c.1660-c.1725
Károly Goda (Münster) The world never lost: the
antique heritage of urban processions in fourteenth- to
sixteenth-century central Europe
Chair: James Moore (British University in Egypt)
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Empires old and new
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4.30pm
Refreshments
4.45pm
Plenary lecture
Beveridge hall
6.00pm
Pimlott lecture
Beveridge hall
7.00pm
Reception
Sanja Perovic (King’s College London) Ancient, primitive,
revolutionary? The ‘Revolutionary Romanticism’ of Les
barbus
Phiroze Vasunia (Reading) Burke, empire, revolution
Chair: Vivian Bickford-Smith (Institute of Historical
Research)
John Hilton (KwaZulu-Natal) Theodor Mommsen, British
imperialism and the South African war of independence
(1899-1902)
Arthur Weststeijn (Royal Netherlands Institute, Rome)
Late humanism and the ideological origins of Dutch
colonialism
Stephen Hodkinson (Nottingham) The Spartan and
Soviet empires in 1980s U.S. intelligence analysis
Richard Warren (Durham) Tacitean national heroes in
nineteenth-century art
Refreshments will be served in the Macmillan Hall
Chair: Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of
London)
David Womersley (Oxford) Antiquity and modernity:
Gibbon’s changing thoughts
Chair: Claire Langhamer (Sussex)
Jean Seaton (Westminster) The BBC and national life:
the insider or outsider?
For further details, see page 12.
OUP will host a reception
following the Pimlott lecture
Bloomsbury room, Senate
House
Nicholas Cole (Oxford) The utility of classical models for
American revolutionaries
Macmillan and Crush halls
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Friday 6th July
9.30am
Registration
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Plenary lecture
Beveridge hall
11.00am
Refreshments
11.30am
Parallel panels
Homer reborn: epic
ideals and cultural
conflict in the
eighteenth century
Torrington Room, Senate
House
Registration will be taking place in the Crush hall
Chair: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute)
Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA) Ancients, moderns and
muslims: reflections on Europe and India
Refreshments will be served in the Macmillan hall
Start of morning panel sessions
Chair: Catherine Tite (Regina, Canada)
Anastasia Bakogianni (Open University) Penelope on a
pedestal: the epic heroine in eighteenth-century visual
culture
James Moore (British University in
Egypt) Troy under siege, Homer under
siege? Reflections on the search for
Troy and the Homeric controversy in
the late eighteenth century
Classical philosophy
and scholarship in the
age of liberalism
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House
Religion, Sub revolution
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and antiquity
Bloomsbury room, Senate
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Staging the classics
Bedford room, Senate
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Callum Barrell (Queen Mary, University of London) Past
minds, present problems: historicism and Hellenism in
mid-Victorian thought
Antis Loizides (Cyprus) Radicalising Plato: James Mill’s
reading of the Athenian philosopher
Chair: James Lees (Institute of Historical Research)
Justin Biel (Minnesota) Superstition without idolatry:
probable strictures from Richard Johnson on Sir William
Jones’s ‘Gods of Greece, Italy, and India’
Jean-Baptiste Goyard (Université de Versailles Saint
Quentin) ‘Subjects of curiosity, [rather] than of use or
information’? The Greek leagues in the debates on the
US Constitution
Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam) ‘Le véritable berceau des
muses’ : antiquity in French counter-revolutionary
thought (1786-1800)
Chair: Peter Webster (Institute of Historical Research)
Daniel Snowman (Institute of Historical Research)
Re-dressing Salome and Elektra: how Covent Garden
represented the ancient world to twentieth-century
opera audiences
Joseph Walsh (University College Dublin) Yeats, British
censorship and the race to stage Oedipus Tyrannus
Ian Macgregor Morris (Independent
writer, Salzburg) Recreating the
siege: Troy in eighteenth-century
political culture
1.00pm
Lunch
Jonathan Black (Kingston) ‘A Whisper from the
Ancients’: ancient and modern in British inter-war
public memorial sculpture
Helen Roche (Cambridge) Xenophon and the Nazis
Lunch will be served in the Macmillan hall
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Policy forum
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The Classics Now
Compère: Miles Taylor (Institute of Historical Research)
Jeannie Cohen (Classics for all)
Julie Wilkinson (Cambridge School Classics Project)
Tanya Moodie (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
Carol Cragoe (Independent architectural advisor)
This forum is open to all and attendance is free.
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Classical landscapes
and modern identities
Dave Day (Manchester
Metropolitan University)
Romanticising the classical: the
late nineteenth-century amateur
athlete
Mike O’Mahony (Bristol)
Modernising Myron: the reception
and reinvention of the discobolus
in the era of the modern Olympic
games
Chair: Simon Trafford (Institute of
Historical Research)
2.00pm
Parallel panels
Start of afternoon panel sessions
Bedford room, Senate
House
David Marsh (Birkbeck) The last
map of Troy? An exact delineation
of London, 1658
The classical world
and the world of
‘Democraticall
Gentlemen’:
republicanism in
England, 1640–1700
Torrington room, Senate
House
Ancient medicine and
physick
Gordon room, Senate
House
Chair: Katherine Harloe (Reading)
Rachel Foxley (Reading) Harrington on the forms of
popular government
Markku Peltonen (Helsinki) Classics and the coming of
the English Civil War
S-J Savonius-Wroth (Helsinki) The ancient ideal of civic
friendship in seventeenth-century England
Chair: Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck)
Samantha Sandassie (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Water drinking in seventeenth-century England
Lisa Jarman (Exeter) Galen in early modern England:
medicine and the role of ancient authority
3.30pm
Refreshments
4.00pm
Plenary lecture
Beveridge hall
David McOmish (Glasgow) A
classical identity: the unifying
power of the ancient world in a
divided land heritage as told by
John Foxe
Lucy Pollard, Degenerate Greeks?
Attitudes of seventeenth-century
travellers to contemporary Greeks
Refreshments will be served in the
Macmillan Hall
Chair: Catharine Edwards
(Birkbeck)
Constanze Güthenke (Princeton)
Classical scholarship and the
transatlantic
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Modern olympisms and
ideas of antiquity
Bloomsbury room, Senate
House
Chair: Dion Georgiou (Queen Mary, University of
London)
Martin Polley (Southampton) Between Zeus and
Coubertin: Olympia and the British
6.00pm
Conference
reception
Macmillan and Crush halls
To mark the close of the 81st
Anglo-American Conference of
Historians, a wine and canapé
reception will take place in the
Macmillan and Crush halls.
If you would like to attend, please
RSVP to ancientsandmoderns@
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Publishers’ fair
Pimlott lecture
The IHR will host its regular publishers’ fair which
will take place alongside the conference in the Crush
Hall of Senate House. The fair will feature major
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international publishers as well as specialist Classics
publishers. Delegates will have an opportunity to buy
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the various publishers and editors in attendance.
Film session
Thursday 5th July, 1pm, Beveridge hall
Muscles, marathons and Mario Bava: The Giant of
Marathon (1959)
While Roman epics are among the most familiar film
representations of history, ancient Greek history is
less often seen. The Giant of Marathon takes as its
subject the Persian Wars of the 5th century BCE and,
for its inspiration, the legendary messenger Pheidippides
and his feat of athletic endurance. However it
also carries more modern messages for its target Italian
audience.
Thursday 5th July, 6pm, Beveridge hall
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In honour of the late Professor Ben Pimlott, Twentieth Century British History,
the Centre for Contemporary British History and Oxford Journals have
established the annual Pimlott lecture series.
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The 2013 Pimlott lecture will be presented
by Jean Seaton (Westminster) on the
subject of ‘The BBC and national life: the
insider or outsider?’
The lecture will be followed by a wine reception, sponsored by Oxford
University Press. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to
IHR.Events@sas.ac.uk.
Conference information
Further information on registering for the conference can be found on our
website: www.history.ac.uk/aach12. Attendees can collect their delegate
packs and badges from the registration desks at the conference.
If you have any queries, please contact the IHR Events Office at
ancientsandmoderns@lon.ac.uk or on 020 7862 8756.
The session, presented by Dr Kim Shahabudin
(Reading) will begin with an introductory talk on the
film and the contexts of its production, followed by
the screening of an extended clip.
Food in History: The 2013 Anglo-American
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Policy forum
Friday 6th July, 1pm, Beveridge Hall
A policy forum will be held on the subject of The
Classics Now on Friday lunchtime. It will feature
contributions from the Cambridge School Classics
Project, RADA, Classics for all, and from an independent
architectural advisor. The forum is open to all and
attendance is free.
Bloomsbury Publishing
Join us in July 2013 for the 82nd Anglo-American Conference of Historians, as
we serve up a two-day conference devoted to the history of food. We are what
we eat, yet it has only been relatively recently that food has become a major
subject of historical study. From famine to feast, from grain riots to TV cookery
programmes, dieting to domesticity, food features in almost every aspect of
human societies since prehistoric times.
Our conference seeks to catch the finest flavours of recent scholarship for your
delectation. Please look out for the conference call for papers in the autumn. In
the meantime, for any enquiries, please contact the IHR Events office at
IHR.Events@sas.ac.uk.
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