Day 1
8:30 - 9:00 Security Registration, front desk, Strand Building (KCL), Strand Campus
9:00-9:15 Jean-Christophe Courtil (Institut Universitaire de France and University of Toulouse) and Martin T. Dinter (KCL)
9:15-10:00 key note I:
Sandra Boehringer (Strasbourg)
Sex, Pleasure, and Theory: What Do Aphrodisia Really Stand For?
10:00-10:15 Response by Niall Slater (Emory)
10.15-10.30 Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Session 1a: Practicing Sex (chair Susan Deacy, Bristol)
11:00-11:30 Nikos Manousakis (Athens)
Who’s Afraid of the Eunuch?: Dionysus’ Sexual Anatomy in Aeschylus’ Edonians
11.30-12.00 Cătălin Enache (Vienna)
Incestuous Desire in Platon
12.00-12.15 Discussion
12:15-13:00 Lunch Break
13.00-13.45: key note II:
Gabriel Alexandre Fernandes Da Silva (Lisbon), Animals and Sexuality in Pliny and the Plinian Tradition
14.15-14.30: Response by Anthony Corbeill (Virginia)
14.30-14.45: Discussion
14.45-15.15 coffee break
15.15-15.45: Effrosyni Tsakou (Lille), The Body as Canvas: Paraphilias in Ancient Greek Love Letters
15.45-16.15: Oroel Marcuello Gil (Zaragoza), Games of Shepherds. Interpreting Incestuous Homosexual Rape in Daphnis and Chloe 3.9: Harpagmós, Rite of Passage or Intertextual Play?
16.15-16.30: Discussion
Session 2: Invective and Shaming (chair: Flavia Vasconcellos Amaral, Winnipeg)
16.30-17.00: Margot Neger (Cyprus), Versus Intemperantissimi: Erotic Poetry and Sexual Morality in Ancient Lawsuits
17.00-17.30: Jean Coert (Dresden), Shaming Sexual Deviance with Attic Eloquence
17.30-17.45 Discussion
from 18h drinks reception and buffet dinner
Day 2
9.00-9.45: key note III:
Antoine Pietrobelli (Besançon), Galen and Aphrodisia
9.45-10.00: Response by Rebecca Langlands (Exeter)
10.00-10.15: Discussion
10.15-10.45: Coffee Break
Session 3a: Sex and Medicine (chair: Antoine Pietrobelli, Besançon)
10.45-11.15: Lorenzo Ronchini (Padova), Οἰκειότης and Ἔθος as Coordinates of Sexuality in Galen
11.15-11.45: Justo Hernández (La Laguna), The Sexual Hygiene within Galenism: Tractado Del Uso de las Mugeres (1572) by Francisco Núñez De Coria
11.45-12.00: Discussion
12.00-12.45: Lunch Break
Session 3b: Sex and Medicine (chair: Jean-Christophe Courtil, Toulouse/ Institut Universitaire de France)
12.45-13.15: Victoria Recio Muñoz, Ana Isabel Martín Ferreira (Valladolid): Hymen: From Literature to Medicine (Lexical and Literary Aspects)
13.15-13.45: Bénédicte Delignon (Paris-Nanterre), Semen and Sexuality: The Lucretian Rereading of Hippocrates and its Influence on some Latin Poets
13.45-14.00 Discussion
14.00-14.45: key note IV:
Jean-Christophe Courtil (Toulouse), Venereal Diseases in Antiquity? New Perspectives
14.45-15.00: Response by Katharina Lorenz (Giessen)
15.00 -15.15: Discussion
15.15-15.45: Coffee break
Session 4: Historiography and Sexuality (chair: Martin Dinter, KCL)
15.45-16.15: Gilson Charles dos Santos (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil), A Reflection on Male Homosexual Relationships in Latin Historiography and Rhetoric: The Cases of Julius Caesar, Mark Anthony and Seianus
16.15-16.45: Darja Šterbenc Erker (HU-Berlin), Suetonius on Augustus’ Harnessing of the Sexual Lives of the Roman Elite
16.45-17.00: Discussion
Free evening (museums open till 22h)
room K -1.14 (read minus 1, lower ground floor)
Session 5: Poetry, Sex, and Eroticism (chair: Anthony Corbeill, Virginia)
9.00-9.30: Flavia Vasconcellos Amaral (Winnipeg), Meleager’s Erotica and his Poetic Composition
9.30-10.00: Adrien Bresson (Saint-Étienne), Delineating Masculine Sexuality in the Fourth Century: Ausonius and Claudian
10.00-10.30: Benjamin Demassieux (Lille), Divine Abduction and Mortal Justice: Negotiating Consent, Power, and Legal Frameworks in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae and Dracontius’ De Raptu Helenae
10.30-11.00: Discussion
11.00-11.30: Coffee Break
Session 6: Ethnography, Anthropology, Society (chair Niall Slater, Emory)
11.30-12.00: Ralph Moore (Dublin), Like Beasts in the Field?: Theories of Nature vs Nurture in Greek and Latin Ethnographies of Sexuality in the Barbarian North
12.00-12.30: Huiling Zhang (Oxford), Brothers in Love and Crime: The Address Frater and a Legal Reading of the Male Love Triangle in the Satyricon
12.30-13.00: Lothar Willms (Berlin), All Greek to us? A Structuralist Rereading of Sexuality in Antiquity
13.00-13.30: Discussion
Farewell and sandwich lunch