School of History, Classics & Archaeology

The causes of conflict in ancient history and historiography

The workshop is the product of a collaboration with the international research group ‘Aitia / Aitiai: Le lien causal dans la pensée antique : origines, formes, transformations’, which includes partners from France, Italy, Portugal and Brazil.

Programme:

25 May 2017

  • 17.10-18.40: Keynote Lecture - Sarah Brown Ferrario (Catholic Univesity of America), 'Historical Agency and the ‘Great Man’

18.40-19.30 Drinks reception

19.30 Dinner at a local restaurant

26 May 2017

10.00-10.30: Registration

  • Chair: Carlo Natali
  • 10.30-11.30: Cristina Viano (Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and Catherine Darbo-Peschanski (Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/MFO), 'Eris: une passion politique? / Eris: a political emotion?'

11.30-12.00 Tea/Coffee

  • 12.00-13.00: Mirko Canevaro (University of Edinburgh), 'Aristotle, stasis and institutional change in Athenian democracy'

13.00-14.00 Lunch

  • Chair: Douglas Cairns
  • 14.00-15.00: Andrew Erskine (University of Edinburgh), 'Changes of Fortune: Polybius and the Transformaton of Greece'

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

  • 15.30-16.30: Benjamin Gray (University of Edinburgh), 'Changing Approaches to Conflict and Reconciliation in Later Hellenistic Cities'
  • 16.30-17.30: Nicolas Wiater (University of St Andrews), 'Debating causes through history: the controversy about the causes of the Second Punic War from Fabius Pictor to Appian'

19.30 Dinner at a local restaurant

27 May 2017

  • Chair: Jean-Louis Labarrière
  • 10.00-11.00 Marco Enrico (Università Degli Studi Di Genova/Paris-Sorbonne), 'θεοῦ παράγοντος: responsabilité humaine et action divine dans les Guerres civiles d'Appien'

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

  • 11.30-12.30am   Francesca Gazzano (Università Degli Studi Di Genova), 'May flattery be a cause of war? The people and the commander in Plutarch's Greek Lives'
  • 12.30-13.00 Final discussion

13.00 Lunch

 

 

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The causes of conflict in ancient history and historiography

The School and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities are happy to announce the workshop ‘The causes of conflict in ancient history and historiography’, which will take place on 25-27 May, 2017. (Published 5 April, 2017)

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
The University of Edinburgh
Hope Park Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9NW