The conference at a glance

• Monday 18th August – registration and check-in opens at 12 noon; conference opens at 14:00 and closes at 18:30; sandwich lunch 13:00-14:00; Dinner 19:00
• Tuesday 19th August – conference opens at 09:00 and closes at 18:00; Conference Dinner 19:30
• Wednesday 20th August – conference opens 09:00 and closes 17:30. There will be an opportunity for interested delegates to join an informal post-conference evening meal.
• Programme
• Abstracts

 

Programme

The programme is available in the table below, or as a pdf download. Any updates to the individual sessions within the programme will be published here.

Download the latest programme (Programme 06 August) with rooms and Chairs.

Monday August 18^th

12:00-14:00	Registration; sandwich lunch available from 13:00
14:00-14:30	Conference opening
14:30-16:00	1) End of an era: the final days and death of Augustus
	Mary Harlow (Leicester) and Ray Laurence (University of Kent) – Augustus and Old Age
	Alison Cooley (Warwick) – The last days of Augustus
	Valerie Hope (Open University) – Grieving for Augustus: emotion and control in Roman imperial mourning ritual
16:00-16:30	Refreshment break
16.30-18.30	2a) Becoming a god	2b) Historiography and scholarship
	This panel will start at 17:00 to enable the last speaker to join us for questions by Skype.	Peter Wiseman (University of Exeter) – Missing the essentials: How we get Augustus wrong
	Lya Serignolli (University of São Paulo) – Liber, Augustus, and Tiberius	Maggie L. Popkin (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio) – The Parthian Arch of Augustus and its Legacy: Memory Manipulation in Imperial Rome and Modern Scholarship
	Dario Calomino (British Museum, London) – Emperor or god? The commemoration of Augustus in the coinage of the Provinces	Pawel Madejski (MCSU, Lublin) – Pax in the Augustan policy: between myths of historiography and the evidence
	Kelly Shannon (University of Alabama) – Temples and Memory: Augustus’ Deification and Tiberius’ Reputation in Tacitus’ Annals	Marco Romani Mistretta (Harvard University) – National Marxism: Gramsci’s Augustan Rome and its Legacy in Italian Historiography

Tuesday August 19^th

09:00-10:30	3a) The Tiberian response	3b) Text and persuasion
	Penelope Davies (University of Texas at Austin) – Tiberius, Primus Supra Pares: Augustus Legacy And The Built City	Greg Rowe (University of Victoria, Canada) – From Greece to Rome and Back Again: the Res Gestae in Provincial Context
	Lovisa Brännstedt (Lund) – Femina Princeps? The response to Livia’s adoption into the Julian family	Daniel Sarefield (Fitchburg) – Book Burning After Augustus
	Marius Gerhardt (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) – Augustus in the age of Tiberius: the case of Velleius Paterculus	Kathleen Lamp (Arizona State University) – Augustus in the Rhetorical Tradition
10:30-11:00	Refreshment break
11:00-13:00	4a) Neronians to Flavians	4b) Monuments and architecture
	Steven Green (UCL/Yale NUS College) – Seneca’s Augustus: Fashioning a Protean Model for a Young Prince	Margaret L. Woodhull (Denver, Colorado) – Architecture and Female Agency in Post-Augustan Rome: Agrippina the Younger’s Temple for Deified Claudius and the Demise of Imperial Women Building Rome
	Liz Gloyn (Royal Holloway, University of London) – Fathers, be good to your daughters: Seneca, Augustus and familial ethics	Thea Ravasi (Newcastle University) – Imperial residences from Augustus to Hadrian: architectural planning and sculptural display
	Lauren Ginsberg (Cincinnati) – Remembering Nero’s Augustan model in the Octavia	Susan Sorek (Open University) – He Who the Sun has Chosen: Augustus and the obelisks in Rome
	Victoria Gyori (KCL) – Flavian responses to Octavianic/Augustan coinage	Rubén García Rubio (University of Rome Tre and Valladolid) – The Forum of Augustus vs Yale University Art Gallery of Louis I. Kahn
13:00-14:00	Buffet lunch
14:00-16:00	5a) Late antiquity	5b) Tacitus, Suetonius and Augustus
	Shaun Tougher (Cardiff, UK) – Julian Augustus on Augustus: a view from late antiquity	Alice Hu (University of Pennsylvania) – Tacitus’ Philippics: Tiberius, Augustan precedent, and literary memory
	Jill Mitchell (University of Wales, Trinity Saint David) – Symmachus composes a panegyric for Augustus: an appreciation of Imperial panegyric in the late fourth century and its relationship to the oratory of the Augustan age	Aske Damtoft Poulsen (Lund University, Sweden) – Conflicting reports? Three accounts of Augustus’ involvement in the civil wars
	Frances Foster (Cambridge) – Praising Augustus through his Ancestors: Servius on Representations of Augustus in Virgil	Trevor Luke (Florida State University) – A Gift for the Princeps: Suetonius on Augustus Final Journey
	Michael Sloan (Wake Forest University, North Carolina) – Augustus: The Harbinger of Peace (Orosius’ reception of Augustus in Historiae Adversus Paganos)	Patrick Cook (Cambridge) – Embodying the Legacy of Augustus
16:00-16:30	Refreshment break
16:30-18:00	6a) Byzantine politics and literature	6b) The power of images
	Birgitta Hoffmann (Roman GASK Project) – Belisarius’ triumph and Justinian’s Equestrian statue – Justinian as a new Augustus?	Matteo Cadario (Università degli Studi di Milano) – The image of Nero and Augustan legacy
	Kosta Simic (Brisbane) – The Byzantine Augustus: Examples from Chronicles – Homiletics and Hymnography	Nandini Pandey (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – Augustus and the Ara Coeli Legend in Northern Renaissance Art
	Elizabeth Fisher (George Washington University, Washington DC) – The “Essential” Augustus in the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus	Nicole Berlin (Johns Hopkins University) – Augustus as Propaganda: The Case of the Vatican Gallery of Maps
18:30	Pre-Dinner Drinks reception
19:30	Commemorative dinner

Wednesday August 20^th

09:00-10:30	7a) Augustus in the novel	7b) Bridging the gap: towards the Middle Ages
	Martin Lindner (University of Göttingen, Germany) – In Search of a German Princeps: Günther Birkenfeld and his Augustus novels (1934-1962)	Joseph Geiger (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – The First Emperor
	Ayelet Peer – Letters to Augustus: John Williams’ portrayal of the princeps in his novel Augustus	Carey Fleiner (University of Winchester) – The Augustan shaping of imperial education and its legacy in ancient and medieval historians
	Juliette Harrisson (Newman University) – I, Claudius Augustus in text and on screen	Jürgen Strothmann (Siegen) – Augustus and the new Roman emperor in the West. The case of the Carolingian views on Augustus
10:30-11:00	Refreshment break
11:00-13:00	8a) Augustus between the wars	8b) Virgil, Ovid and their successors
	Penelope Goodman (University of Leeds) – Beyond Italy: the 1938 bimillennium as a global phenomenon	Rachel Thomas (University of Oxford: Merton College) – “He’s not dead yet!”: the Living Memory of Augustus in Virgil and Ovid
	Fabio Cavallero (Rome ‘La Sapienza’) – Augustus and Mussolini: city planning and architecture. An effective use of power for the creation of a new cultural and communicative memory.	Giampiero Scafoglio (Seconda Università di Napoli) – Augustus in Dante’s Thought and Works
	James Chlup (University of Manitoba) – The Proconsul and the Emperor: John Buchan’s Augustus	Bobby Xinyue (UCL) – Augustus in Book 8 of Morisot’s Fasti
	Phyllis Brighouse (University of Liverpool, UK) – The Influence of John Buchan’s Calvinism on his reception of Augustus	Paul Hammond (University of Leeds) – Dryden’s Virgilian Kings
13:00-14:00	Buffet lunch
14:00-16:00	9a) Augustus on screen	9b) The 21st-century Augustus
	Melissa Beattie (TFTS, Aberystwyth University) and Amanda Potter (Open University)– Res Gestae per Televisionem Nuntio Divi Augusti: Octavian and Rome	Anna Clareborn (Swedish Institute in Rome/Uppsala University) – Augusto Reframed: Exhibiting Augustus in Bimillennial Rome
	Jess Anderson (University of Leeds) – Augustus’ adventures beyond history: ahistorical screen treatments	Chloe Bent (UCL) – Engaging with Augustus in the 21st Century: A biographical analysis of Rome’s northern Campus Martius
	Fiona Hobden (University of Liverpool) – Life through a lens: Augustus and the politics of the past in television documentaries today	Eleanor OKell (University of Leeds) – What does it mean to be an Augustus today? A comparative online perspective
15:30-16:15	Refreshment break
16:15-17:15	10) Karl Galinsky (The University of Texas at Austin): Augustus in 2014

 

Abstracts

The abstracts will be included in the conference booklet chronologically by session (in Panel Order) for ease of comparison. Other orders will only be available for download (pdf download) from this site, see below.

Conference Abstracts – Chronologically By Panel (Panel Order) (August pdf download – 490kB)

Conference Abstracts – Alphabetically By Panel Title  (August pdf download – 487kB)

Conference Abstracts – Alphabetically By Speaker Surname (August pdf download – 499kB)