Upcoming
HelleNET Scholar TalkS
The HelleNET Scholars Talks features professors, established scholars, and leaders in our respective fields of interests. The following scholars have been cordially invited to give talks as part of our “Scholar Talks” series; this series provides an opportunity for PhDs and ECRs to interact and network with those in our field of interests.
All seminars are held via Zoom and scheduled for Central European Time (CET).
The Zoom link for the reoccurring HelleNET Scholars Talks is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82995467962?pwd=WPXDnJCw9xFntyiHJbR6n3bZIQrboG.1
Alexander III's Necessary Persianization After Gaugamela and His Assumption for the First Time, of the Title of “Basileus”
Professor Emeritus William Greenwalt (Santa Clara University)
Chair: Professor Manolis Pagkalos (Zhejiang A&F University)
Dialectics of Power: Negotiating Political Change in Hellenistic Greece
Associate Professor Manolis Pagkalos (Zhejiang A&F University)
Chair: Dr. Carlo Lualdi
Birds in Hellenistic Life and Literature
Dr. Estella Kessler (Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies)
Chair: Dr. Laura Bottenberg (University of Tübingen)
Discontinuities in Hellenistic Crete: Some Biographical Notes on the Poet and Grammarian Rhianus of Crete
Dr. Manolis Spanakis (Beijing Foreign Studies University)
Chair: Dr. Jeremy Lam (Trinity College Dublin)
The Court Historian in the Hellenistic Age
Professor John Marincola (Florida State University)
Chair: Dr. Samantha Sink
“Between land and sea” - Strabo’s Description of the Great River Delta Regions in His Geographika, with particular reference to the Nile (Geog. Book 17)
apl. Prof. Johannes Engels (University of Cologne)
Chair: Dr. Samantha Sink
Between Saying and Not Saying: The Agent-Principal Problem in Pliny the Younger's Correspondence with Trajan as Governor of Pontus-Bithynia
Professor Jinyu Liu (Emory University)
Chair: Dr. Samantha Sink
TBD
Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Chair: Dr. Davide Massimo (University of Ghent)
On the Edition of the Fragmentary Hellenistic Elegy: Addenda to the Elegíacos Helenísticos
Professor Rafael Gallé Cejudo (University of Cádiz)
Chair: Dr. Davide Massimo (University of Ghent)
The Influence of Indian Epic Poetry on Greco-Roman Descriptions of Elephant Combat
Professor Graham Wrightson (South Dakota State University)
Chair: Dr. Carlo Lualdi
Angelos Chaniotis
Dr. Angelos Chaniotis
Theatricality and Illusion in the Post-Classical World
Chair: Dr. Manolis Pagkalos | Zhejiang A&F University
Jan Kwapisz
Dr. Jan Kwapisz | University of Warsaw
Entering AP 13: Phaedimus’ herm and Theocritus’ epitaph for Hipponax (AP 13.2–3)
Chair: Davide Massimo | Ghent University
Dmitry A. Shcheglov
Dmitry A. Shcheglov
A ‘Canon’ of Hellenistic Geographers?
Chair: Samantha Sink | Trinity College Dublin
John Serrati
Agathokles of Syracuse: A Hellenistic Monarch in the Western Mediterranean?
Chair: Dr. Carlo Lualdi
Julian Degen
Dr. Julian Degen | University of Innsbruck
Contesting the Empire: Alexander the Great and Ancient Near Eastern Traditions
Chair: Samantha Sink | Trinity College Dublin
MARCO PERALE
Dr. Marco Perale | University of Liverpool
Ur-glossography at the Turn of the Fourth Century BC: the rare words of Philitas and Simias
Chair: Dr. Davide Massimo | Ghent University
Viola Palmieri
Merging epic paths. Narrating Heracles’ heroic identity in [Theocritus’] Id. 25
Lara Pagani
Separatist and Unitarian approaches to the Homeric Poems in Hellenistic Scholarship: The Chorizontes and Aristarchus
Luigi Orlandi and Salvatore Pettrone
Reading Theocritus in the XV Century: Manuscripts, Quotations and Translations
Andrea Bornstein and Maria Broggiato
New Approaches to Editing Fragments (www.eratosthenica.it)
Andrea’s archived talk: https://www.eratosthenica.it/mytalk.html
Massimo Giuseppetti
Dr. Massimo Giuseppetti | Callimachus’ Aetia: Reading an Alexandrian Poem between Form and Culture | Università degli studi Roma Tre | 17:00 - 18:30 CET
