REINVENTING TACITUS

The Dynamics of Reappropriation

All sessions take place at

the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies

Innrain 52a, Innsbruck

 

All times are (GMT+2) Vienna

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(Titles link to abstracts)

 

 

Thursday 26 September

09:00-10:00 James McNamara: Introduction 

Commentaries

Peter Hatlebakk, moderator

10:00-10:45 Keynote, Lucie Claire: Tacitus in Latin editions and commentaries of the Annals and Histories (15th-16th centuries): a study of the paratexts

10:45-11:00 Discussion

11:00-11:30 Coffee

11:30-12:00 Louis Autin: The Tacitus On Line Project: an Electronic Edition of Neo-Latin Commentaries on the Annals to Analyse Early Modern Politicization(s) of Tacitus (1513-1607)

12:00-12:15 Discussion

12:15-1:30 Lunch

Challenging Models of Tacitism

Victoria Pagán, moderator

1:30-2:00 Jan Waszink: The Frisian take on the Dutch Revolt: Pier Winsemius’ Tacitist history of Philip II’s reign

2:00-2:15 Discussion

2:15-2:45 Gennaro Celato: The ‘Grey’ Tacitus of Jesuits: The case of Famiano Strada (1572-1649)

2:45-3:00 Discussion

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-4:15 Keynote, Claudio Buongiovanni: Reinventing Tacitus as a Poet and an Artist: The Evolution of a Critical Perspective

4:15-4:30 Discussion

4:30- 5:15 General discussion

 

Friday 27 September

Claiming Tacitus

Roland Mayer, moderator

09:00-9:45 Keynote, Shushma Malik: Tacitus between Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft

9:45-10:00 Discussion

10:00-10:30 Karl Enenkel: Prae-Tacitism and Anti-Tacitism: Gerolamo Cardano’s Encomium Neronis

10:30-10:45 Discussion

10:45-11:30 Coffee

11:30-12:00 Zofia Żółtek: Who can read Tacitus? Tacitean identities in Francis Bacon and Ben Jonson

12:00-12:15 Discussion

12:15-1:30 Lunch

Tacitus Politicus

James McNamara, moderator

1:30-2:00 Anna Maria Laskowska: Tacitus through a Socinian Lens: Joachim Pastorius’s Integration of Classical Historiography and Royal Patronage

2:00-2:15 Discussion

2:15-2:45 Carolina Ferraro: Imperium and Peace: Deciphering Tacitus in Early Modern Spain

2:45-3:00 Discussion

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-4:00 Roland Mayer: Tacitus Aulicus

4:00-4:15 Discussion

4:15-4:45 Victoria Pagán: Conclusion

4:45-5:30 Open Discussion