Thursday, 17 nov 2016

13:45–14:15
registration & tea/coffee
14:15–14:35
welcome/introduction
14:35–14:40
introduction I
14:40–15:30
Susan Stephens (Stanford, USA): Why ask why? Explaining Callimachus’ Aetia
15:30–16:05
Monica S. Park (Cambridge/Mass., USA): Hellenistic Cultural Methermeneutics: Aetiology and Ethical-political Allegory in Callimachus and Diodorus Siculus
16:05–16:40
Giulia Biffis (Edinburgh/London, GB): Looking at Aetiology to Enlighten Lycophron’s Alexandra, σκοτεινὸν ποίημα
16:40–17:00
koffie/thee
17:00–17:35
Anke Walter (Rostock, D): Aetiology and Historiography in Ephoros and Callimachus
17:35–18:10
Hugo Koning (Leiden, NL): Aetiology and Rationalizing Mythography (on Palaephatus)
18:10–18:55
Irene Polinskaya (London, UK): Non-converging Pasts and Presents: Aetia and Aegina from Pindar to Callimachus
19:00–
drinks
20:00–
dinner

Friday, 18 nov 2016
09:00–09:15
tea/coffee
09:15–09:20
Introduction II
09:20–10:10
Miguel John Versluys (Leiden, NL): Blundering fools and cultural construction. Displaying origins in Hellenistic Eurasia
10:10–10:45
Andrea de March (Leiden, NL): Aetiology in Early Roman Comedy
10:45–11:00
tea/coffee
11:00–11:35
Alexander Kirichenko (Berlin/Trier, D): Aetiology and Empire: From Callimachus’ Alexandria to Augustan Rome
11:35–12:10
Darja Šterbenc Erker: Religious aetiology in Ovid’s Fasti
12:10–12:20
tea/coffee
12:20–12:55
Nicolas Wiater (St. Andrews, UK): Aetiology in the Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassus: Between Cultural Discourse and Hellenistic Aesthetics
13:00-14:30
lunch; tea/coffee
14:30–15:05
Philip Baas (Tübingen, D): Between Aetiology and Mythography – Augustus’ Concept of the Foundation of Rome
15:05–15:40
Raphael Hunsucker (Nijmegen, NL): Aetiology & Archaeology, Memory & Monuments: Inventing Origins in Augustan Rome
15:40–16:00
tea/coffee
16:00–16:35
Marco Formisano (Gent, B): Subversive Origins: The Textuality of the Late Antique Origo gentis Romanae
16:35–17:10
Susanna de Beer (Leiden, NL): The Origins of Rome in the Renaissance: Revival, Rejection, Reinvention
17:10–17:55
Martje de Vries (Nijmegen, NL): A Hidden and a Forbidden History: Athanasius Kircher on the Origins of Latium and Etruria
18:00-
drinks
19:00-
dinner for speakers

Saturday, 19 nov 2016
09:00–09:30
tea/coffee
09:30–09.35
09:30–09.35
09:35–10:25
Susanne Gödde (Berlin, D): Resistance to Origins – Foundation in Greek Myth and Tragedy
10:25–11:00
Jared Hudson (Cambridge, Mass., USA): Where there’s a Well there’s a Way: puteus, Potentiality, and the Place of Etymology in Varro’s De lingua Latina
11:00–11:20
tea/coffee
11:20–11:55
Michiel Meeusen (Leuven, B): Crossing Borders: Aetiologial Overlaps in Plutarch’s Αἰτίαι Φυσικαί
11:55–12:30
Greta Hawes (ANU, AUS): Reasons for Ruins (on Pausanias)
12:30–12:40
contribution lunch
12:40–13:30
Glenn Most (SNS Pisa, I & Chicago, USA): Concluding Discussion and Further Perspectives (& lunch)