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Seminars

Lisbon Classics Seminar: Francesco Mongelli (Università degli Studi di Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, Itália)

Terá lugar, no dia 12 de Outubro (quinta-feira), mais uma sessão dos Lisbon Classic Seminars.

Receberemos o Professor Francesco Mongelli, que apresentará um trabalho sobre banditismo na Apúlia Romana. Contamos com a vossa presença!

START AND END DATE: 2023-10-12

LOCATION: FLUL - Sala B112.C | 17h30

Lisbon Classics Seminar: John Laurence Hilton (University of the Free State)

Various explanations have been offered for the strange trajectory of the second half of the narrative of Heliodorus’ Aethiopica, most notably the earlier theory that the author was himself an Ethiopian, and the more recent thesis that the novel was influenced by mercantile developments in the region in the fourth century. This paper will argue instead that the starting and ending point of the narrative can best be explained in terms of the idiosyncratic philosophical ideas of the Emperor Julian and Heliodorus’ numerological pointer to Charicleia’s identity as the Platonic World Soul.

START AND END DATE: 2023-10-31

LOCATION: FLUL - Sala B112.G | 14h30

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Conferência “Leques Chineses. Um projecto de investigação e expositivo da Linha Sinica”

Conferência do Professor Paulo de Assunção.

A trajetória histórica do leque não é fácil de ser estabelecida, tendo em conta que é uma peça que vem da Antiguidade e foi utilizada em diversas civilizações, passando por transformações variadas em função do contexto socioeconómico em que foi produzido/utilizado. No contexto chinês, o termo “shan” é utilizado para se referir a todos os tipos de leques, cada um deles com particularidades importantes. A conferência tem como objetivo discorrer sobre a história dos leques chineses – a produção e uso de leques para consumo interno na China e para o mercado de exportação “China Trade”, entre os séculos XVI e XIX.

START AND END DATE: 2023-11-07

LOCATION: FLUL - Sala B112.C | 18h00

Conferences and Workshops

“Pliny the Elder: on Medicine” – Lisbon Conference

The Centre for Classical Studies, in collaboration with Sapienza Università di Roma, is organising an international conference to celebrate the bimillenary birth of Pliny the Elder. Taking place in Lisbon (October 19-20, 2023) and Rome (November 9-10, 2023), the conference aims to examine Pliny’s Natural History in three areas that frequently intersect and at times blur together—medicine, magic, and religion—from antiquity to the modern age.

Both conferences will feature the participation of experts in Pliny’s work and the three areas of the congress, totaling approximately 40 participants from seven countries, with the hope that this will be a landmark event in Plinian studies and serve as inspiration for the future.

 

Organising Committee: Gabriel Silva (University of Lisbon), Giorgio Ferri (Sapienza University of Rome), Paolo Garofalo (University of Lisbon)

START AND END DATE: 2023-10-19 / 2023-10-20

LOCATION: National Museum of Natural History and Science (19) School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon - B112.C (20)

ORGANIZED BY: CEC, Sapienza Università di Roma

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATIONS: pliniusbimillenary@gmail.com

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“Pliny the Elder: on Magic and Religion” – Rome Conference

The Centre for Classical Studies, in collaboration with Sapienza Università di Roma, is organising an international conference to celebrate the bimillenary birth of Pliny the Elder. Taking place in Lisbon (October 19-20, 2023) and Rome (November 9-10, 2023), the conference aims to examine Pliny’s Natural History in three areas that frequently intersect and at times blur together—medicine, magic, and religion—from antiquity to the modern age.

Both conferences will feature the participation of experts in Pliny’s work and the three areas of the congress, totaling approximately 40 participants from seven countries, with the hope that this will be a landmark event in Plinian studies and serve as inspiration for the future.

 

Organising Committee: Gabriel Silva (University of Lisbon), Giorgio Ferri (Sapienza University of Rome), Paolo Garofalo (University of Lisbon)

START AND END DATE: 2023-11-09 / 2023-11-10

LOCATION: Biblioteca Vallicelliana (9), Accademia di Danimarca (10)

ORGANIZED BY: CEC, Sapienza Università di Roma

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATIONS: pliniusbimillenary@gmail.com

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International Conference The Silence of (the) God(s)

From the Egyptian god Harpocrates – mentioned, among others, by Plutarch, Catullus, Ovid, Augustine, and Politian – to the Roman goddesses Angerona and Tacita, from the God-Logos of the Gospel of John to Jesus’ silence in reply to the accusations levelled against him in Mark 14,60, from the rare silences of the usually talkative gods and goddesses of the Homeric poems to the “Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe [who] chose to be silent” – because of its inexistence, death or temporary absence – on the first night when Elie Wiesel arrived at Auschwitz, the history of literature is rich in examples of the relation between gods and silence.
What this short list suggests is that the intertwining of the notion of “divinity” and the notion of “silence” is extremely rich and multifaceted, both notions being affected by subjective and cultural variability as well as by conceptual oscillations. It is precisely that richness and multifariousness that “The Silence of (the) God(s) International Conference” aims to explore through the prism of literary, comparative, and philosophical studies.

START AND END DATE: 2023-11-23 / 2023-11-24

LOCATION: FLUL - Salas B112.B e B112.C

PRICE: Regular fee for presentation: 100€; Students presentation: 50€; Registration without presentation: 15€

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VII Colóquio Internacional “A Literatura Clássica ou os Clássicos na Literatura: presenças clássicas nas literaturas de língua portuguesa”

Promovendo a reflexão crítica em torno da recepção da Antiguidade Greco-Latina nas Literaturas Portuguesa, Brasileira e dos Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa, o Centro de Estudos Clássicos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa organiza a sétima edição do colóquio A LITERATURA CLÁSSICA OU OS CLÁSSICOS NA LITERATURA: PRESENÇAS CLÁSSICAS NAS LITERATURAS DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA com o propósito de discutir e confrontar ideias acerca da reconfiguração temática, dos valores, do imaginário e das obras clássicas, bem como das personagens, cultura literária e poética, história e ficção gregas e latinas, atendendo a diversas cronologias e diferentes lugares onde se escreve português.

As comunicações têm a duração de 20 minutos.

 

Comissão Organizadora

Coordenação: Cristina Pimentel e Paula Morão

Joana Augusto Veiga

Ricardo Nobre

Rui Carlos Fonseca

START AND END DATE: 2023-12-04 / 2023-12-06

LOCATION: FLUL - Salas A201 Anfiteatro III

PRICE: Conferencistas: 100€. Estudantes de mestrado e doutoramento com comunicação: 70€

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATIONS: literaturaclassica@letras.ulisboa.pt

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