Seneca 2022 International Conference
What more can we say about Seneca?
Lisbon. October 17-20, 2022
The Centre for Classical Studies of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon is organizing an International Conference on Seneca to promote and encourage a critical reflection on the permanence of themes, values, perspectives and representations of Seneca’s works in Western literature and culture.
The Conference will take place between 17-20 October 2022, and, through the interdisciplinary debate of the contribution given by the experiences of researchers from different fields of study, it aims to:
- determine how Seneca became one of the most prominent figures in Western culture;
- consider, examine and reflect on our current knowledge about Seneca, his life and works;
- explore new study angles and what remains to be said about Seneca in the Twenty-First Century, in light of the renewed interest shown in his works.
Keynote Speakers
Alessandro Schiesaro (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
António de Castro Caeiro (Nova University Lisbon)
Catharine Edwards (University of London)
Chiara Torre (University of Milan)
Christopher Star (Middlebury College)
Gareth David Williams (Columbia University)
Jean-Christophe Courtil (University of Toulouse)
José Pedro Serra (University of Lisbon)
Paulo Sérgio Ferreira (University of Coimbra)
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (University of Chicago)
Scientific Committee
Alessandro Schiesaro (University of Manchester)
António de Castro Caeiro (Nova University Lisbon)
António Pedro Mesquita (University of Lisbon)
Catharine Edwards (University of London)
Chiara Torre (University of Milan)
Christopher Star (Middlebury College)
Cristina Pimentel (University of Lisbon)
Cristina Santos Pinheiro (University of Madeira)
Gareth David Williams (Columbia University)
Gottfried Mader (University of London)
Jean-Christophe Courtil (University of Toulouse)
Jesús Luque Moreno (University of Granada)
José Pedro Serra (University of Lisbon)
Mireille Armisen-Marchetti (University of Toulouse)
Nuno Simões Rodrigues (University of Lisbon)
Paulo Sérgio Ferreira (University of Coimbra)
Ricardo Duarte (University of Lisbon)
Organizing Committee (University of Lisbon)
Coordinator: Ricardo Duarte
Cristina Pimentel
Nuno Simões Rodrigues
Ana Matafome
Gabriel A. F. Silva
Rui Carlos Fonseca
Contacts
Email: seneca2022ic@gmail.com
Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/Seneca2022
Conference Venue
TRANSPORTATION
The airport is within city limits, so you can easily and quickly get to the center.
There is a subway line from the airport (red line, Metropolitano de Lisboa: https://www.metrolisboa.pt/en/) that will get you to the center in about 35 min (you may also get a taxi, an uber, or a Carris bus: https://www.carris.pt/en/).
The subway is also the best way to get around in the city. To get to campus (Cidade Universitária) you must get off at Cidade Universitária Station (yellow line) and then take the tunnel way out (not the stairs way out). After getting out of that tunnel, do not cross but go straight ahead with the main building of the University – Reitoria – on your left on the other side of the road. When you reach the end of Reitoria, turn left at the zebra crossing. The Faculdade de Letras will be in front of you.
Please check the map at http://www.letras.ulisboa.pt/pt/sobre-a-flul/contactos and do not hesitate to contact us if you have any doubts.
ACCOMMODATION (some hotel suggestions)
Near campus
Vip Inn Berna Hotel ***
Vip Executive Zurique Hotel ***
3k Barcelona Hotel 3k Barcelona ****
https://www.hotel3kbarcelona.pt/
Vip Executive Saldanha Hotel ****
Lisbon Marriott Hotel ****
https://www.marriott.pt/hotels/travel/lispt-lisbon-marriott-hotel/
DoubleTree by Hilton Lisbon - Fontana Park ****
Center
Lisboa Central Park ***
America Diamonds Hotel ***
https://www.americadiamondshotel.com/
Hotel Marquês de Pombal ****
https://www.hotel-marquesdepombal.pt/pt/
Turim Marquês Hotel ****
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Downtown
Borges Chiado Hotel ***
https://www.hotelborges.com/pt/index.html
Rossio Garden Hotel ***
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Turim Terreiro do Paço Hotel ****
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Rossio Boutique Hotel ****
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PROGRAM
October 17, 2022 (Monday)
9h00 Opening of the registration desk
10h00-10h30 Opening session
Anf. III. Main building
10h30-11h30 Keynote address
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (University of Chicago)
Dynamic Exemplarity in Seneca’s De Ira
Chair: Cristina Pimentel. Anf. III
11h30-12h30 Keynote address
António de Castro Caeiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Ontology with and without time: Sen., Ep. 58
Chair: Cláudia Teixeira. Anf. III
12h30-14h00 Lunch
14h00-15h30 Panels. Library building, ground floor
1st Panel. Chair: Bernardo Mota. Room: B112.B
Education in Seneca, Moral Virtue, and Ulysses as the Hero of Virtus
Renata Raccanelli (Università di Verona)
Education paths towards communication in Seneca’s De beneficiis
Tamara Plecas (University of Belgrade)
Roman Stoics Seneca and Epictetus on moral education: opponents or like-minded philosophers?
2nd Panel. Chair: Pascale Paré-Rey. Room: B112.C
Ovid in Seneca, and Ancient Receptions
Niall W. Slater (Emory University)
Seneca Re-Writes Ovid: Metamorphosing Apotheosis in the Apocolocyntosis
George Pliotis (University of Cambridge)
Tacitus on Seneca: an intertextual approach
Gabriel A. F. Silva (Universidade de Lisboa)
Cento Alcesta: Reading Seneca’s Phaedra through the lens of Vergil?
15h40-16h40 Keynote address
Rogério Sousa (Universidade de Lisboa)
Nile and Self-transformation: Alexandrian influence in Seneca’s writings
Chair: Paulo Farmhouse Alberto. Anf. III
16h40-17h10 Coffee break
17h10-18h40 Panels. Library building, ground floor
3rd Panel. Chair: Maijastina Kahlos. Room: B112.B
Senecan Tragedy: Conversational Behavior, Gestures, and ‘Speaking Hands’
Federica Iurescia (Zürich Universität - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano)
Conversational behaviour as characterisation: Pragmatics in Senecan Tragedy
Evita Calabrese (Università degli Studi di Verona)
Prospects for gestural investigation into Senecan theatre
Mairéad McAuley (University College London)
Seneca’s Tragic Hands
4th Panel. Chair: Luísa Resende. Room: B112.C
Readings and Receptions of Seneca: from 16th and 17th-centuries to contemporaneity
Zsuzsanna Varhelyi (Boston University)
Imperial Losses: Reading Seneca through a trauma lens in the 21st century
Ana Isabel Correia Martins (Universidade de Coimbra)
The reception of Seneca in 16th century: Loci communes sententiarum et exemplorum of Andreas Eborensis (1569)
André Teixeira (Universidade de Lisboa)
Fr. João dos Prazeres and Seneca. How to read Seneca in late 17th-century Portugal?
October 18, 2022 (Tuesday)
9h30-11h00 Panels. Library building, ground floor
5th Panel. Chair: Gabriel A. F. Silva. Room: B112.B
Seneca’s Geographical Boundaries: Spatiality, Philosophy, Ideology
Kathrin Winter (Universität Heidelberg)
Senecan Landscapes and the Limits of Power
Elena Giusti (University of Warwick)
Seneca’s Africa and the Empire’s Last Threshold
Barbara Del Giovane (Università di Firenze)
Boundary Crossing in Senecan Tragedies
6th Panel. Chair: João Teles e Cunha. Room: B112.C
Senecan Theatre: Topography, (Un)Stageability, Humanist Editions
Lisl Walsh (Beloit College, Wisconsin)
Seeing Seneca in Rome: Theatre Topography and the Meaning of Senecan Drama
Oliver Baldwin (University of Reading)
The (un)stageable Seneca: A Spanish response
Pascale Paré-Rey (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
The contribution of humanist editors to the history of Seneca’s tragedies: texts and peritexts
11h00-11h30 Coffee break
11h30-12h30 Keynote address
Catharine Edwards (University of London)
Breathing freely: body, mind, and personal identity in Seneca’s philosophical writing
Chair: Nuno Simões Rodrigues. Anf. III
12h30-14h00 Lunch
14h00-15h30 Panels. Library building, ground floor
7th Panel. Chair: Luís Cerqueira. Room: B112.B
Seneca, Epicurus, Stoic Theory, and a Jewish approach
Myrto Garani (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
The principle of multiple explanations: an Epicurean weapon in Seneca’s Stoic arsenal
Claudio Camacho Rodríguez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Self-scrutiny and theory of cognition in Ep. 13.6
Pierluigi Leone Gatti (Università L’ “Orientale” di Napoli)
The epistula Annae ad Senecam de superbia et idolis: A Jewish Approach to Seneca
8th Panel. Chair: Vanda Anastácio. Room: B112.C
Seneca Redivivus. The Early Modern Reception of Greek Drama through Senecan Tragedies
Arianna Capirossi (Università di Bologna)
Hippolito, Thesida, Fedra: The Recovery of Seneca’s Phaedra in 16th-century Italian Tragedies
Giulia Fiore (Università di Bologna)
Rewriting Seneca’s Oedipus: Fate, Human Responsibility, and Neo-Stoicism
Giovanna Casali (Università di Bologna)
The Reception of Seneca’s Tragedies into the Operatic Stage
9th Panel. Chair: William J. Dominik. Room: B112.D
Seneca and his Audience: Future Readers, the Addressee’s Role, and Declamatory Performances
Jonathan Master (Emory University)
Seneca’s Future Audiences
Janja Soldo (Swansea University)
What about Lucilius? On the dynamic between letter writer and addressee
Federico Maviglia (Yale University)
Declamation and Truth. The philosophical value of declamation-like passages in Seneca the Younger’s prose (with a case study)
15h40-16h40 Keynote address
Jean-Christophe Courtil (Université de Toulouse)
The philosophical function of ‘disgust’ (taedium, fastidium, nausea) in Seneca
Chair: Ricardo Duarte. Anf. III
16h40-17h10 Coffee break
17h10-18h10 Keynote address
Gareth David Williams (Columbia University)
Having It All: Totality, Fragmentation, and Primitivism in Seneca
Chair: Rogério Sousa. Anf. III
19h30 Conference Dinner
October 19, 2022 (Wednesday)
9h30-11h00 Panels. Library building, ground floor
10th Panel. Chair: André Simões. Room: B112.B
Seneca and Stoic Values: The Righteous Man; Good and Bad Conscience, Intertextuality and Stoic Epistemology
Yosef Liebersohn (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
nihil mihi videtur infelicius eo cui nihil umquam evenit adversi: Seneca and the problem of Theodicy
Georgia Tsouni (University of Crete)
The Natural Origin of conscientia in Seneca
Esther Meijer (University of St. Andrews)
Intertextuality, Pedagogy, and Stoic Progress in Senecan Drama
11th Panel. Chair: Ricardo Duarte. Room: B112.C
Ancient and Modern Readings of Seneca, and Representations of Seneca on Screen
Sofia Bongiovanni (University College London)
Outrageous women: An in dept comparative analysis of the suicides of Jocasta and Phaedra in Seneca’s Oedipus and Phaedra
Nuno Simões Rodrigues (Universidade de Lisboa)
Seneca in Film
11h00-11h30 Coffee break
11h30-12h30 Keynote address
Christopher Star (Middlebury College, Vermont, USA)
Witness to the End: Senecan and Pseudo-Senecan Eschatology
Chair: Rodrigo Furtado. Anf. III
12h30-14h00 Lunch
14h00-15h30 Panels. Library building, ground floor
12th Panel. Chair: Sofia Frade. Room: B112.B
Senecan Tragedy: Returning Hero, Passions, and the Comic
Michael Paschalis (University of Crete)
The Returning Hero: A Study of Senecan Tragedy
Emily Mitchell (Harvard University)
Quis furor? Senecan tragic passions in Neronian and Flavian epic
Andrew R. Lund (American Academy in Rome)
Seneca Comicus: Comic Enrichment and Seneca’s Phaedra
13th Panel. Chair: Carlos Guardado da Silva. Room: B112.C
Seneca and Philosophy: meditatio mortis, ‘spiritual exercises’, and monstrous Caligula
João Onofre Pinto (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga)
Seneca and Philosophy as meditatio mortis
Bruno Nobre (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga)
Seneca as a therapist of the soul
Maria José Ferreira Lopes (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga)
Seneca and Caligula once again: notes on a memorable disagreement
14th Panel. Chair: Elena Giusti. Room: B112.D
Sicily, the Hospitality Theme, and magnitudo animi in Senecan Works
Martina Russo (Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’)
Seneca and Sicily’s mirabilia
Ana Paula Pinto (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga)
Expulsa supplex sola deserta (Med. 208): the despair of inhospitality
Luís Simões Coelho (Universidade de Lisboa)
Pulcherrimam uirtutem omnium, animi magnitudinem (De Constantia Sapientis, 11, 1): μεγαλοψυχία on De Constantia Sapientis
15h40-16h40 Keynote address
Paulo Sérgio Ferreira (Universidade de Coimbra)
Claudius as a mirror for those around him and the purpose of the Apocolocyntosis
Chair: Isabel Almeida. Room: B112.B (Library building, ground floor)
16h40-17h10 Coffee break (Main building)
17h10-18h40 Panels. Library building, ground floor
15th Panel. Chair: Paulo Ramos. Room: B112.C
Seneca and the Jesuits between Western and Eastern Culture
Andrea Balbo (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Confucius another Seneca? Critical revision of a cultural parallelism
Elisa Della Calce (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Circumspectissime esse legendum: Seneca in Possevino’s Bibliotheca selecta
Simone Mollea (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Seneca behind the curtain in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus
16th Panel. Chair: Christopher Star. Room: B112.D
Cosmic Cycle and Stoic Cosmic Theory: Apocalypse, Conflagration and Thyestes
Amit Shilo (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Demise and the Work of Thought in Seneca’s Natural Questions
Anastasiia Starovoitova (University of Southern California)
From Unity to Fragmentation: Cosmic Cycle as an Explanation for Social Change in Seneca’s Epistle 90
Celia Campbell (Emory University)
Intrepid Atreus: A Bilingual Name-Marker in Seneca’s Thyestes
October 20, 2022 (Thursday)
9h30-11h00 Panels. Library building, ground floor
17th Panel. Chair: Jean-Christophe Courtil. Room: B112.B
Accounts on Death, the Stoic Proficiens, and the Concept of Work in Seneca
Attila Németh (Institute of Philosophy Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest)
Seneca and the narrative self
James L. Zainaldin (University of Oklahoma)
Reading Senecan Consolation: The Case of the Ad Marciam
Christopher Trinacty (Oberlin College)
The Work of Mourning: Seneca’s Consolatio Ad Marciam
18th Panel. Chair: Ana Isabel Martins. Room: B112.C
Rhetoric and Philosophy in Senecan Works: Style, Hortatory Shaming, and Exempla
William J. Dominik (Universidade de Lisboa / University of Otago)
Talis Hominibus Fuit Oratio Qualis Vita: Seneca’s Anticipated Response to Quintilian’s Criticism of His Style
Bart Van Wassenhove (National University of Singapore)
Hortatory Shaming in Seneca’s Philosophical Works
Patricia M. Craig (The Catholic University of America)
Seneca’s Critique of Exemplarity in his Prose and Poetry
11h00-11h30 Coffee break
11h30-12h30 Keynote address
José Pedro Serra (Universidade de Lisboa)
The stoic logos between the tragic logos and the Christian logos
Chair: Rui Pina Coelho. Anf. III
12h30-14h00 Lunch
14h00-15h30 Panels. Library building, ground floor
19th Panel. Chair: João Figueiredo. Room: B112.B
Epistulae Morales: Death, Ecocriticism, and Food
Ivan Spurio Venarucci (Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’)
Staging a “Good Death”: Tullius Marcellinus’ suicide (ep. 77), Augustus’ death, and ancient εὐθανασία
Nicoletta Bruno (Alfried-Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald)
Philosophy of History and Ecocriticism in Seneca, Epistles 89, 90, 91
Robert Santucci (University of Michigan)
Food and Eating in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales: Matter out of Place?
20th Panel. Chair: Christopher Trinacty. Room: B112.C
Senecan Poetics and Compositional Techniques: Trimeters, Lexicon of the Sea, and Monologues
Joseph Smith (San Diego State University, California)
The Modularity of Syntax and Meter in Senecan Trimeter: New measures of compositional method and technique
Denise Ugliano (State Archives of Naples / Vatican School of Palaeography, Diplomatics and Archives / Università degli studi di Napoli “Federico II”)
The argonautic fabula: a specific use of the lexicon of the sea in Seneca, Medea and Phaedra (vv. 483-573) as regards his models and successors
Mariana Hetti Gomes (Universidade de São Paulo)
Monologues, the tragic structure, and Stoicism in Seneca’s Medea
21st Panel. Chair: Rui Carlos Fonseca. Room: B112.D
Time in Seneca: Power, Ethics, and Astronomy
Tiziana Ragno (Università degli Studi di Foggia)
The power of time vs Times of power in Seneca
Hélder Telo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
The Temporality of Virtue: A dialogue between Chrysippus and Seneca’s De brevitate vitae
Daniele Pellacani (Università di Bologna)
Seneca’s On Comets and the history of astronomy
15h40-16h40 Keynote address
Alessandro Schiesaro (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Of time, knowledge, and feelings
Chair: Ana Lóio. Anf. III
16h40-17h00 Closing session.
Anf. III
Farewell Coffee Break