The Defeat of Athens
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE, SPEAKERS, AND PAPER TITLES
Defeat and the West: Interpretations of the Defeat of Athens in 404 BCE.
La défaite et l’Occident: les interprétations de la défaite d’Athènes en 404 avant J.-C.
Niederlage und das Abendland: Interpretationen der Niederlage Athens in 404 vor Christus
May 13 and 14, 2016
A Workshop of the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Studies.
All papers will be held in the Salle des Conférences
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Alsace (MISHA),
5 allée du Général Rouvillois - 67083 Strasbourg.
Friday, May 13:
8:30:
Introduction: Dr. Rifka Weehuizen, Managing Director, USIAS.
9:00-10:30: Panel 1
Defeat Defined:
Edmond Lévy (University of Strasbourg): Athènes vaincue: l'impensable, l'impossible défaite du plus fort selon Thucydide.
Neville Morley (University of Bristol): The Psychology of Defeat and the Invention of Historiography.
10:30—11:00 break
11:00 to 13:30: Panel 2
The Defeat of Athens and the Fourth Century
David Pritchard (University of Queensland): Democracy and War in Ancient Athens.
Cinzia Bearzot (University of Milan): La symphora de la cité. La défaite d’Athènes (404 av. J.-C.) dans les orateurs attiques.
13:30-15:00 lunch
15:00-16:30: Panel 3
The Defeat of Athens and Republican Rome
Michel Humm (University of Strasbourg): Rome, une « cité grecque » prise par les Hyperboréens.
David Levene (New York University): Rome Redeems Athens: Livy on the Peloponnesian War and the Conquest of Greece.
16:30-17:00 break
17:30:
Keynote Address
Tim Rood (University of Oxford): Thucydides, Sicily, and the Defeat of Athens.
Saturday, May 14:
9:00-10:30: Panel 4
The Defeat of Athens and Greek Writers of Imperial Rome
Estelle Oudot (University of Bourgogne): ‘Presque invaincue…’: stratégies rhétoriques autour de la défaite d’Athènes dans l’œuvre d'Aelius Aristide.
Vassiliki Pothou: Echo der Katastrophe: Die Spuren der Niederlage Athens in Flavius Josephus' Bellum Judaicum.
10:30-11:00 break
11:00 to 13:00: Panel 5
The Defeat of Athens and Modern Democracies
Hans Kopp (Freie Universität Berlin): "that famous and fatal war ... which ... terminated in the ruin of the
Athenian commonwealth”: Athens Niederlage in den Federalist Papers.
Oliver Schelske (University of Munich): A Struggle for Democracy: Thucydides in Germany after World War I.
Maciej Junkiert (Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań): Polish Reflections: The Reception of the Defeat of Athens in the Works of Gottfried Ernst Groddeck and Joachim Lelewel.
13:00 – 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 15:30: Panel 6
The Defeat of Athens and Modern German Scholarship
Christian Wendt (Freie Universität Berlin): Spree-Athen nach dem Untergang: Eduard Meyer zur Parallelität von Geschichte.
Tobias Joho (University of Bern): A commotion at the heart of Greek culture: Jacob Burckhardt on the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
15:30 to 16:00 break
16:00 to 17:30: Panel 7
The Defeat of Athens and Modern France
Dominique Lenfant (University of Strasbourg): D’Athènes à Vichy: défaite militaire et faillite démocratique selon Les Oligarques de Jules Isaac.
Christophe Pébarthe (University of Bordeaux Montaigne): Lectures françaises de Thucydide: Jacqueline de Romilly, Nicole Loraux et Cornelius Castoriadis.
Concluding Remarks: Edith Foster
Post-workshop discussion
18:00: Ancient Studies and the Nations: Maintaining Connections, Strengthening Identities. (Les études anciennes et les nations: maintenir les connexions, confirmer les identités.)
Introducer: Maria Schettino (President, Collegium Beatus Rhenanus).
