Center for Greek Studies

Organizers: Ifigeneia Giannadaki, Kostas Kapparis, Andy Wolpert

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Conference Program

WEDNESDAY 10 APRIL

• 1-1.45 Registration/arrival
• 1.45-2.15 Welcome (Kostas Kapparis/Ifigeneia Giannadaki)
• 2:15-3.00 Key-note address: Michael Edwards (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘Democracy in Peril. Walls and Rhetoric in Classical Athens’

Session 1: Democracy in Athens and beyond. Chair: Christos Kremmydas

• 3.00-3.30pm David Phillips (UCLA) ‘ Ὁ δημοτικώτατος Σόλων? Cleisthenes, Solon, and the Contested Foundation of Athenian Democracy’
• 3.30-4.00pm James Sickinger (FSU) ‘Ostracism as a Response to Threats to Athenian Democracy’
• 4.00-4.30pm Peter O’Connell (University of Georgia) ‘The Sublimity of Imperiled Democracy: Fourth-century Athens and Longinus’
• 4.30-5.00pm Michael Gagarin (University of Texas) ‘Cretan democracies in the Hellenistic world’
• 7/7.30: RECEPTION

THURSDAY 11 APRIL

• 9.30-10.00 Registration – COFFEE

Session 2 Democracy and crises. Chair: Mike Edwards

• 10-10.30 Lene Rubinstein (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘Crisis and corrosion. The vulnerability of democratic institutions and the road to autocracy in classical Greece’ (on Zoom)
• 10.30-11 Athanasios Efstathiou (Ionian University), ‘Democracy against monarchy: Rhetoric and policy of king Philip II and Athenian politics in 4th c.’ (on Zoom)
• 11-11.30 Rosalia Hatzilambrou (University of Athens), ‘Democracy in Crisis before Chaeronea? The “evidence” of Demosthenes symboulos’
• 11.30-12.00 Kostas Kapparis (University of Florida), ‘The unseen victims: faltering democracy and the impact on women, children, and families’
• 12.00-12.30 COFFEE BREAK

Session 3 Athenian democracy and the Thirty. Chair: Andrew Wolpert

• 12.30-1.00 Eleni Volonaki (University of the Peloponnese), ‘The rhetoric of oligarchic conspiracy before the overthrow of the Athenian democracy’
• 1.00-1.30 Brenda Griffith-Williams (University College London), ‘Wills and inheritance: the “reform” of Solon’s “democratic” law under the Thirty’
• 1.30-2.00 Matthew Christ (Indiana University), ‘Recollections of an oligarchic coup: Xenophon on the Thirty’
• 2.00-3.00 LUNCH

Session 4 Democracy and demagoguery. Chair: Ifigeneia Giannadaki

• 3.00-3.30: David Rosenbloom (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), ‘Demagoguery and the Perilous Contradictions of Athenian Democratic Culture’
• 3.30-4.00 Andrew Wolpert (University of Florida) ‘Evoking fear in the Athenian courts’
• 4.00-4.30 Hilary Lehmann (Knox College), ‘Violence and the Political Body’
• 4.30-5.00 Chris Kremmydas (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘The Dual Threat of Deception and Tyranny and its Role in Athenian Oratory’
• 7.00 for 7.30 CONFERENCE DINNER

FRIDAY 12 APRIL

Session 6 Democracy and participation. Chair: Kostas Kapparis

• 9.00-9.30: Ifigeneia Giannadaki (University of Florida) ‘Metics in the Athenian democracy and society: legal rights and political ‘participation’
• 9.30-10.00 Jakub Filonik (University of Silesia Catowice), ‘“Sharing in the polis” in crisis: Greek political upheavals and the discourse of participation’
• 10.00-10.30 Janek Kucharski (University of Silesia Catowice), ‘Punishment and participation in democratic Athens’
• 10.30-11.00 CLOSING REMARKS: Andy Wolpert
• 11.00-12.30 LUNCH
• 12.30 for 1.00 EXCURSION TO ST AUGUSTINE

THE EVENT IS GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY THE LANGADAS ENDOWMENT IN GREEK STUDIES, CENTER FOR GREEK STUDIES.