June 5
9:15 – 9:30
Introduction by Marco Formisano and Paolo F. Sacchi
9:30 – 10:15
Rosalind MacLachlan (University of Birmingham), Epitome and Enchiridion: Summarising Bodies of Thought
Jesús Hernández Lobato (University of Salamanca), Epitomizing Silence: the Apophthegmata Patrum as an Impossible Encyclopaedia of Unknowing
Respondent: Wim Verbaal
10:15 – 11:00
Victoria Leonard (University of London), Orosius’ Historiae and the Predicament of Genre
Ben Cartlidge (University of Liverpool), Athenaeus, Epitome, Fragment, Edition: the Dialectic of Epitomization
Respondent: Marco Formisano
Coffee
11:15 – 12:00
Tim Noens (Ghent University), Away with Chronology. Re-composition, Time and Memory in Pliny The Younger’s Epistulae and Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak Memory
Florence Kesseler (University of Besançon – Franche Comté), L’Iliade latine: quelle réappropriation d’Homère?
Respondent: Michael Paschalis
Lunch
14:00 – 14:45
Paolo Liverani (University of Florence), Epitome and its Surroundings Between Written and Figural Domain
Lucas Herchenroeder (University of Southern California), Locating Elis: Language and Sense of Place in Pausanias’ Description of Greece
Respondent: Stelios Panayotakis
14:45 – 15:30
Grant Parker (University of Stanford), Solinus and Geographical Epitomization
Brian P. Sowers (City University of New York), Ausonius Epitomist, Encyclopedism and Ordering Knowledge in Late Antique Gaul
Respondent: Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed
Coffee
15:45 – 16:30
Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed (University of Uppsala), Persephone in Pieces
Antoine Paris (University of Paris-Sorbonne/ University of Montréal), Le texte démembré. Le démembrement de Dionysos comme image des Stromates
Respondent: Marco Formisano
16:30 – 17:15
Scott McGill (Rice University), Twelve Little Aeneids: The Argumenta of the So-Called Twelve Wise Men
Mohammad Reza Fallah Nejad (University of Ahvaz), Le rêve de Barthes au Collège de France : des Fragments critiques aux recompositions littéraires
Respondent: Paolo F. Sacchi
Conference dinner
June 6
9:30 – 10:15
Michael Paschalis (University of Crete), From Sallust to Livy to Florus: No Epitomator in Sight
Robert A. Rohland (University of Cambridge), Carpe, carpe! – Cutting carpe diem
Respondent: Cristiana Sogno
10:15 – 11:00
Michael Hanaghan (University of Cork), Textual Unity and the Model Reader of the Epitome de Caesaribus
Virginia Burrus (University of Syracuse), Dionysius’ Imaginary Library
Respondent: Scott McGill
Coffee
11: 20– 12:05
Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge), The Kaleidoscopic World of Symphosius’ Aenigmata
Alice Borgna (University of the Piemonte Orientale), The Epitomizer: No-personality Man or Post-production Editor? The Case of Justin’s Epitoma of Pompeius Trogus
Respondent: Michael Hanaghan
12:05– 12:50
Irena Kristeva (University of Sofia), Les Petits traités de Pascal Quignard: un exemple d’épitomés (anti)modernes
Stelios Panayotakis (University of Crete), The Unanswered Question: Riddles and Epitome in Apollonius of Tyre
Respondent: Paolo F. Sacchi
Lunch
14:20 – 15:05
Jared Hudson (Harvard University), The Empire in the Epitome: Florus and the Conquest of Historiography
Ana Kiffer (University of Rio de Janeiro), Autour des cahiers, l’écriture ‘défigurée’: comment peut-on la reconnaître?
Respondent: Wim Verbaal
15:05 – 16:00
Final response and discussion