 Time and Eternity -Time in Archaic Greek Literature Conference September 22-24 Time is a concept central to human existence, and all forms of verbal and narrative art present or reconfigure events that occur in time. Time can also be an objective natural measure, but in literature it appears malleable and can be shaped according to the needs of the moment. In addition, time can be perceived in many ways as linear, circular, or kairos; it can also be refracted through human and divine temporalities. Reflections on time begin in the archaic age when the Greeks composed literature that explored the representation and ordering of time. Our conference sets out to examine how time functions in archaic texts and what those texts can tell us about ideas and conceptions of time in early Greece. Please visit our website at http://classics.virginia.edu/conference-time-and-eternity-conception-time-archaic-greek-literature. For further information, please contact Matthew Pincus at mbp3cf@virginia.edu. PROGRAM: September 22, 2017 9:30-9:45 Introductions; Welcome from the Chair of Classics, Sara Myers (UVa) 9:45-10:30 Jenny Strauss Clay (UVa): Orientations: “Time in Archaic Greek Literature” 10:30- 10:45 Coffee Session I “Time and Metaphor” 10:45-11:30 Tom Zanker (Amherst): Conceptual Metaphor and Time inHomer 11:30-12:15 Robert A. Rohland (Cambridge): Getting a grasp on time. The emergence of a haptic conception of time in archaic Greek literature 12:30- 14:30 Lunch Session II “Chasing Time” 14:30-15:15 Anastasia Maravela (Oslo): Chasing in time. Intersections of time and space in early Greek literature and thought 15:15-16:00 Stephen Sansom (Stanford): The Never-Ending Race: Eternity in the Hesiodic Shield of Heracles and Early Greek Philosophy 16:00-16:15 Coffee Session III “Epigrammatic Time” 16:15-17:00 Barnaby Chesterton (Durham/Texas Tech): Immediacy and Eternity in Archaic Sepulchral Epigram 17:00-17:30 Power Point Presentation on the Humboldt Foundation and its Programs 18:30-20:15 Reception at JSC’s house September 23, 2017 Session IV “Time and the Presocratics” 9:00- 9:45 Christopher Moore (Penn State): Two orders of time in Heraclitus 9:45-10:30 Sandra Scepanovic (Belgrad): Some patterns of temporal cyclicality in archaic Greek literature and their philosophical conceptualization in the early Presocratics 10:30-10:45 Coffee Session V “Human Temporal Modalities” 10:45-11:30 Rudi Schmid (HU Berlin): Coping with contingency. Notions of time and their poetological aspects in Solon, Mimnermus and Sappho 11:30-12:15 Alex Purves (UCLA): Sappho’s “Lyric Present” 12:30-14:00 Lunch Session VI “Futurity” 14:00-14:45 Michele Solitario (Trento/Göttingen): The Concept of Time in Solon’s Fragments 14:45-15:30 Sarah Nooter (Chicago): Writing the Future in Pindar and Aeschylus 15:30-15:45 Coffee Session VII “Hesiodic Time” 15:45-16:30 Xenja Herren (Tübingen): The Cultural Meaning of Time in Hesiod’s Works and Days 16:30-17:15 Alexander Kirichenko (Berlin): The farming calendar and the epic time in Hesiod's Works and Days 18:30 Buffet Dinner for all participants, Garden Room September 24, 2017 Session VIII “Homeric Temporality” 9:00-9:45 Athanassios Vergados (Newcastle): Revisiting Zieliński’s Law 9:45-10:30 Tobias Myers (Connecticut College): Temporal ‘Distance’ and Intimacy: Evoking the Eternal in Iliadic Warfare 10:30-10:45 Coffee Session IX “Poetic and Divine Time” 10:45-11:30 Anke Walter (Rostock): ‘... how you first went over the earth’: Interactions of Human and Divine Time in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo 11:30-12:15 Jonas Grethlein (Heidelberg): Human and poetic time in Pindar 12:15-12:30 Coffee 12:30-13:15 General Remarks and Final Discussion The conference is generously supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, the UVa Classics Department, the Corcoran Department of History, and the University of Virginia Institute for Global Humanities. For further information and registration, please contact Matthew Pincus: mbp3cf@virginia.edu Classical Association of Virginia Fall meeting Saturday, September 30 Hellenistic Conference October 14-15 Gendering the Garden Conference Thursday, March 15 |