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CAESAR VS. LIBERTY?
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CAESAR VS. LIBERTY?
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THE SEVENTH ANNUAL LANGFORD CONFERENCE
Augustus B. Turnbull Conference Center
Florida State University
March 1-3, 2001
A conference sponsored by the Department of Classics at
the Florida State University
under the direction of R. Elaine Fantham, Langford Eminent
Scholar in Classics
| Thursday, March 1 | |
| 5:00-9:00 PM | Check-in to hotels. A registration and hospitality desk will be open in the lobby at the Doubletree Hotel in the evening |
| 6:00-7:30 PM | Reception for all visitors attending the conference. Adams Park Room, Doubletree Hotel |
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Friday, March 2 |
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| 7:30-8:00 AM | Rides provided to Florida State University |
| 8:00-8:30 AM | Continental breakfast at the Turnbull Center |
| 8:30 AM | Greeting: R. Elaine Fantham |
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Session I. Turnbull Center. Presider: W. Jeffrey Tatum, Florida State University |
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| 8:45 AM | Address: "Caesar the Political Strategist: Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics in the Civil War." Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University |
| 9:45-10:15 AM | Coffee Break
Sign up for reservations for lunch at Spring Creek and excursion to Wakulla Springs (scheduled for Saturday afternoon) and for rides to restaurants for dinner on Friday evening |
| 10:15 AM | Address: "Cicero and Caesar as Pen-pals." Peter White, The University of Chicago |
| 11:15 AM | Address: "Syme's Caesar: An Unfinished Portrait." Mark Toher, Union College |
| 12:15 PM | Lunch |
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Session II. Turnbull Center. Presider: Francis Cairns, Florida State University |
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| 1:45 PM | Address: "The Ideology of Caesar's Continuators." Ronald Cluett, Pomona College |
| 2:45-3:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:00 PM | Address: "The Three Wise Men and the Death of the Republic." Elaine Fantham, Florida State University |
| 4:15 PM | Adjournment. Rides provided to hotels |
| 6:00 PM | Rides provided to dinner |
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Saturday, March 3 |
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| 8:00-8:30 AM | Rides provided to FSU |
| 8:30-9:00 AM | Continental breakfast for all at Turnbull Center |
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Session III. Presider: Hans F.O. Mueller, Florida State University |
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| 9:00 AM | Address: "Clemency after Caesar: Political Thought
in the Age of Nero." Miriam Griffin,
Somerville College, Oxford |
| 10:15-10:30 AM | Coffee break |
| 10:30 AM | Address: "Breaking the Bounds: Writing about Caesar." Christopher
Pelling, University
College, Oxford |
| 11:30 AM | Summation and Closing of Conference. R. Elaine Fantham |
| 12:15 PM | Adjournment. Departure for lunch at Spring Creek and excursion to Wakulla Springs |
| 5:00 PM | Return to Tallahassee |
| 6:30 PM | Rides provided as needed to the Doubletree Hotel |
| 7:00-10:00 PM | "Feast of the Gods" with performance of Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis,
Florida Room, the
Doubletree Hotel |
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Sunday, March 4 |
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| Rides provided to airport upon request | |
A conference booklet will be available with bibliography, abstracts of the papers, and other information.
The Langford Family Eminent Scholar Chair and the Annual
Langford Conference were established in 1992 by
George and Marian Langford and their sons Lawton Langford
and G. Robertson Langford, Jr.