Sven Günther, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC), Northeast Normal University
(all times are Central European Time, i.e. UTC+2)
Friday, 16 October 2020
14.00–14.20: Opening and greeting words
14.20–14.45
OPENING REMARKS
Elisabeth Günther (Institute for Digital Humanities, University of Göttingen)
How to understand an owl in armor: frames and framings in ancient studies
14.45–16.00
KEY-NOTE LECTURE
Hartmut Leppin (University of Frankfurt)
Parrhesía and the framing of expectations in the social worlds of antiquity
Saturday, 17 October 2020
PANEL I: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
8.30-9.00
Sven Günther (IHAC, NENU, Changchun)
Frames and framing theory avant la lettre? Johann Gustav Droysen’s Historik and the future of ancient studies
9.00-9.30
Martina Sauer (Institute of Image and Cultural Philosophy, Bühl)
Promise of happiness, security and community − frames and framing in a new light
Respondents: Ben White (Günther), Elisabeth Günther (Sauer)
PANEL II: GREEK FRAMES AND MODERN PERCEPTION
9.45–10.15
Riccarda Schmid (University of Zurich)
Frames and framing in Attic rhetoric
10.15–10.45
Sven-Philipp Brandt (Special Collection “Amploniana”, University of Erfurt)
Sustainability as a framework? The concept of αὐτάρκεια in late classical Athens
10.45–11.15
Jelle Stoop (Brussels / University of Sydney)
Taste in early Greek poetry: production versus consumption
11.15–11.45
Guendalina Taietti (University of Liverpool)
Framing the Macedonians, becoming Greek: on the importance of Ancient Macedon in the nation-making of the Hellenic state
Respondents: Guo Zilong (Schmid & Stoop), Sven Günther (Brandt & Taietti)
PANEL III: GREEK AND ROMAN FRAMES
13.30–14.00
Hendrikus A.M. van Wijlick (Peking University)
Re-framing friendship in the late Republic and early Principate: the personification of φίλος-epithets
14.00–14.30
Guo Zilong (IHAC, NENU, Changchun)
Framing the Delphic oracle, institutionalizing the Olympian Games: a case study on Phlegon of Tralles’s Olympiads (FGrH 257 F 1)
14.30–15.00
Xu Zhenhuang (IHAC, NENU, Changchun)
Framing accusations against prosecutors: multi-level images of delatores in the 1st and 2nd century AD
Respondents: Sven Günther (van Wijlick & Guo Zilong), Francesco Ginelli (Xu Zhenhuang)
Sunday, 18 October 2020
PANEL IV: FRAMING STRATEGIES IN THE LATE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND EARLY EMPIRE
9.00-9.30
Jan Lukas Horneff (TU Dresden)
How to treat cunnilingus – Framing in Apuleius’ Apologia
9.30–10.00
Zhang Hongxia (IHAC, NENU, Changchun)
From Chinese perspective: frame and framing theory, Cicero’s Pro Cluentio, and Chinese modes of perception
10.00–10.30
Francesco Ginelli (Università degli Studi di Verona)
«...rem publicam a domination factionis oppressam in libertatem vindicavi». Frame analysis, ancient life writing, and political propaganda
Respondents: Hendrikus van Wijlick (Horneff & Zhang Hongxia), Elisabeth Günther (Ginelli)
PANEL V: FRAMING NARRATIVES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
13.30–14.00
Amy Smith (Curator, Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology / Department of Classics, Reading)
Unpeeling the Pan Painter’s pictures
14.00–14.30
Ben White (University of Nottingham)
Porticus, keys, and brackets: towards a Goffmanian framework for exploring the colonnades of ancient Rome
Respondents: Martina Sauer (Smith), Amy Smith (White)
14.30–15.00
Final Discussion