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Bilateral Conference with Peking University

We will welcome scholars from the newly-formed Department of Western Classics at Peking University to Durham to inaugurate our partnership.

Conference Programme

Monday 16th

Place: Weardale Hall, Collingwood College

Opening of the conference 9:45-10:00

Paper 1: 10:00 – 10:45

Prof. Yuang Huang, History Department, PKU:
“The Athenian Revolution Revisited”

Paper 2: 10:45 – 11:30

Dr. Tianyue Wu, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, PKU: “Rethinking Bernard Williams' Criticism of the City-Soul Analogy in Plato's Republic”

Coffe & Tea break 11:30 – 12:00

Paper 3: 12:00 – 12:45

Prof. Johannes Haubold, Department of Classics and Ancient History, DU:
“Conflict and consensus in the Theogony and Enuma elish”

Lunch 13:00 – 14:30

Paper 4: 14:30 – 15:15

Dr. Thomas, Edmund, Department of Classics and Ancient History, DU:
"Built upon love? Architectural eroticism, the female body, and the aesthetics of the spiral column"

Tuesday 17th

Paper 1: 10:00 – 10:45
Dr. Fengfeng Gao, Associate Professor and head of the English Department, School of Foreign Languages,PKU:
“Biblical Interpretation in Juvencus' Gospel Epic”

Paper 2: 10:45 – 11:30

Prof. Graziosi, Barbara, Department of Classics and Ancient History, DU:
“Homer in the Middle Ages: Florence, Byzantium and Baghdad”

Coffe & Tea break 11:30 – 12:00

Paper 3: 12:00 – 12:45
Dr. Chun, Liu, Lecturer, English Department, School of Foreign Languages, PKU,
“Eros, Hypnos, Thanatos and the Singing Cicada: a Reading of A. P. 196 and Phaedrus 259”

Lunch 13:00 – 14:30

Paper 4: 14:30 – 15:15

Van Wijlick, Rik, Graduate Student DU,
“"Flexible loyalties: the attitude of Near Eastern kings and princes towards Rome between 44 and 31 BC"

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