Wednesday 26th February – Friday 28th February
Room 1.04, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
Conference Programme
The conference programme can be found below. If you would like to register for the conference, please click here.
Wednesday 26th February
13:15-13:45 – Welcome/Registration
13:45-14:00 – Introduction: Aaron Turner
14:00-16:15 – Session 1
14:00-14:45 – Blaž Zabel (University of Ljubljana)
The Birth of Historicism Out of the Spirit of Modernity: Johann Gottfried Herder and Friedrich August Wolf on Ancient Literature and Philology
14:45-15:30 – Luise Marion Frenkel (Universidade de São Paulo)
Völkerwanderung at the Margins … of a Manuscript
15:30-16:15 – Friedrich von Petersdorff (Independent Scholar)
Temporal Aspects of Philological and Historical Research
16:15-16:45 – Refreshment break
16:45-17:45 – Keynote Paper 1: Daniel Whistler (RHUL)
The Philology of Philosophy: Cousin, Schlegel, Nietzsche
Thursday 27th February
09:00-11:15 – Session 2
09:00-09:45 – Richard H. Armstrong (University of Houston)
Unbewußtes Verständnis: Freud and Historicism
09:45-10:30 – Thomas Schirren (University of Salzburg)
Philosophie der Philologie
10:30-11:15 – Maciej Junkiert (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań)
Polish Students in Berlin between 1820 and 1840: On the Emergence of Regional Versions of Altertumswissenschaft and their Implications
11:15-11:45 – Refreshment break
11:45-12:45 – Keynote Paper 2: Neville Morley (University of Exeter)
Philology as Cult: G.F. Creuzer's Zur Geschichte der classischen Philologie
12:45-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-16:15 – Session 3
14:00-14:45 – Luke Lea (Columbia University)
Direkte Berührung: Historicism and Antiquity in Nietzsche’s On The Future of Our Educational Institutions
14:45-15:30 – Ahuvia Kahane (Trinity College Dublin)
Altertumswissenschaft, Historicism and the Temporality of Classical Modern Science and the Enlightenment
15:30-16:15 – Aaron Turner (Knapp Foundation / RHUL)
The Historicity of Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hellenism
16:15-17:15 – Refreshment break
17:15-18:15 – Keynote Paper 3: Jonas Grethlein (University of Heidelberg)
History and the Hermeneutic Circle in Wilamowitz
Friday 28th February
08:30-10:45 – Session 4
08:30-09:15 – Zosia Archibald (University of Liverpool)
“Did anyone read Vico? Does anyone do so now?”: Applying Vico’s lens to the study of Classics and of Ancient History and Archaeology in the 21st century
09:15-10:00 – Facundo Bey (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Bridging Centuries: Werner Jaeger’s Early Philology Model as a Response to the Crisis of Historicism
10:00-10:45 – Austin Aozora Hattori (University of Cincinnati)
Ptolemaic Propaganda: A Problem of Historicism’s Cold War Legacy
10:45-11:15 – Refreshment break
11:15-12:15 – Keynote Paper 4: Alexandra Lianeri (University of Thessaloniki)
A Temporality of the Non-Sequitur: Classical Philology’s Chronopolitics beyond Historicism
12:15-13:00 – Roundtable closing discussion led by Glenn Most (retired, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
13:00 – End of conference