Saturday 29th November 2014 Didier PRALON Professor Emeritus, University of Aix-Marseille

Didier Pralon is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the University of Aix- Marseille. editerra n ea

Didier Pralon has published widely on ancient philosophy and ancient poetry. His expertise ranges from the

M Archaic period to the Byzantine era. Nominated Ambassador of Hellenism by Greece in 2009, Didier Pralon has developed outreach activities intended to make academic debate accessible to a wider public. He founded, and then for 12 years chaired, the association “The days of antiquity” with the aim to promote he the study of classical culture and its legacies. T f

Naoíse MAC SWEENEY O Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Leicester

Naoíse Mac Sweeney is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leicester. Before taking up this yth s position in January 2011, she was a Junior Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge, where she had previously completed her PhD.

M Naoíse Mac Sweeney’s main focus of research is the interaction between the Greek world and the Near East from the Early Iron Age until the Classical period, with a particular focus on Anatolia. She has recently published Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia (Cambridge University Press 2013) and is currently preparing an edited volume on foundation myths for publication (with Cambridge University Press).

Paul CARTLEDGE A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus, University of Cambridge

Paul Cartledge is an ancient historian and the first A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, having previously held the chair in Greek History at Cambridge.

Paul Cartledge is widely acknowledged to be one of the world’s leading experts on Ancient Greece, and has extensively published on topics concerning ancient Greece, and especially Sparta. His numerous academic achievements aside, Professor Cartledge has also served as a consultant for films and documentaries on Ancient Greece. He was chief historical consultant for the BBC TV series The Greeks and the Channel 4 peaker s series The Spartans. S

Peter STEWART Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford

Peter Stewart is Director of the Classical Art Research Centre and Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Before moving to Oxford in 2011, he was Reader in Classical Art and its Heritage at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He previously taught at Cambridge and at Reading University, where he was Lecturer in Classics and Curator of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology.

His research mainly lies in the field of ancient sculpture, including Roman provincial art and the sculpture collection at Wilton House, for which he is completing the history and catalogue. His past publications include: Statues in Roman Society: Representation and Response (Oxford 2003); Roman Art (Oxford/Cambridge 2004); and The Social History of Roman Art (Cambridge 2008). o n fere nc e C 1/4

François LISSARRAGUE Director of Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (EHESS)

François Lissarrague is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Having conducted his doctoral research under the direction of Pierre Vidal-Naquet, he entered the CNRS in 1980 before taking up his current position at the EHESS in 1996. editerra n ea François Lissarrague is one of the world’s leading experts on the iconography of ancient Greece, often adopting sociological and structuralist approaches. He is the author of numerous important books (e.g. M The aesthetics of the Greek banquet, Princeton University Press 1990; Greek vases: The Athenians and their images, Riverside Book Company 2001) and he has taught as a guest lecturer at many universities around he the world. He was the Sather Professor at the University of California in Berkeley in Spring 2014. T f

O Renaud GAGNÉ University Lecturer in Classics, University of Cambridge

Renaud Gagné is Lecturer in Classics at Cambridge University. He previously taught at McGill University yth s (Montreal, Canada).

His research interests include early Greek poetry, Greek religion, Greek drama, cultural history, and the M history of classical scholarship. He has recently published a major monograph on Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece as well as an edited volume on the chorus in ancient Greek drama (both Cambridge University Press 2013).

Anna ANGUISSOLA Postdoctoral Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich

Anna Anguissola is a postdoctoral fellow of the Distant Worlds graduate school at the Ludwig-Maximil- ians-Universität in Munich. She previously held fellowships at the American Academy in Rome and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Her research interests encompass a variety of topics, including Roman architecture, Classical and Hellen- peaker s istic sculpture, the iconography of ancient art and the history of collections. Her current research focuses on the function, semantics and aesthetics of supports in Roman marble statues. S

Miwa TAKIMOTO University of Paris IV-Sorbonne

Miwa Takimoto recently completed her doctoral thesis on the iconography of the Mosaic of the Mediter- ranean Islands from ancient Ammaedara (Haïdra, Tunisia).

Her research interests lie in the use of figurative as well as realistic details in the construction of space as well as cartography and mythological landscapes. o n fere nc e C 2/4

Nicolas WIATER Lecturer in Classics, University of St Andrews

Nicolas Wiater is Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews. He previously taught at the University of Bonn where he had also completed his PhD. editerra n ea Nicolas has written widely on Hellenistic and early Imperial Greek literature and culture, focusing in particular on historiography, literary criticism, and Greek intellectual culture and cultural identity. He has published the monograph The ideology of classicism: Language, history, and identity in Dionysius of Halicarnassus M (de Gruyter 2011) and is currently preparing a commentary on Book 3 of Polybius’ Histories. he

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Michael SQUIRE

O Lecturer in Classical Greek Art, King’s College London

Michael Squire is Lecturer in Classical Greek Art at King’s College London. Prior to joining King’s, Michael held research fellowships in Cambridge, Berlin and Munich. He was elected to the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin yth s in 2012, and has been awarded a 2012 Philip Leverhulme Prize for his research into Classics and Classical art history. M Michael’s research interests include Graeco-Roman visual culture, representations of the body in Greek and Roman art and the history of aesthetics. He has published several books, among them Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Cambridge University Press 2009) and The Iliad in a Nutshell: Visualizing Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae (Oxford University Press 2011). He is currently preparing a monograph on Philostratus the Elder’s Imagines.

Luca GIULIANI Professor of Classical Archaeology, Humboldt Universität, Berlin

Luca Giuliani is the Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Professor of Classical Archaeology at Humboldt Universität. He previously taught at Freiburg, Heidelberg and Munich and was a visiting professor at the EHESS in Paris.

His research focuses on forms and functions of ancient pictorial narrative, portrait art in the field of tension between depiction and statement, and the history of classical archaeology and of archaeological collections. peaker s His numerous publications include the monograph Bild und Mythos. Geschichte der Bilderzählung in der griechis- chen Kunst (München 2003; English translation 2013, Chicago University Press). S

Julia LENAGHAN Junior Research Fellow, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Julia Lenaghan is a Researcher at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. She has taught classical studies and art history in Rome, Italy and in the United States. She has participated in New York University’s Aphrodisias excavations for over 15 years and is currently the Associate Director of Sculptural Studies at the site.

Her research expertise is Roman sculpture, and she has contributed significantly to several publications concerning sculpture from Aphrodisias. She is currently working in Oxford on the Last Statues of Antiquity project. o n fere nc e C 3/4

Jacques LE RIDER Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris

Jacques Le Rider is Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris where he has held, since 1999, the Chair in Modern and Contemporary History on Europe and the German-speaking world. editerra n ea Jacques Le Rider is one of the world’s leading authorities on the cultural history of fin-de-siècle Vienna. He has published many important monographs, among them Modernité viennoise et crises de l’identité (PUF

M 1990, 2nd edition 1994) and Freud, de l’Acropole au Sinaï. Le retour des modernes viennois (PUF 2002). he T f

Almut-Barbara RENGER

O Professor of Ancient Religion and Culture, Freie Universität Berlin

Almut-Barbara Renger is Professor of Ancient Religion and Culture and Their Reception History at Freie Universität Berlin. She previously taught at Goethe Universität Frankfurt, and has been an associate professor yth s at Harvard University since 2010.

M Her research focuses on the creation and dissemination of myths, legends, idols and icons in high and popular culture. Primarily, she is concerned with the Classical Tradition. Her numerous publications include the recent monograph Oedipus and the Sphinx: The threshold myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau (Chicago University Press 2013).

Mourad EZZINE Director, Center for Mediterranean Integration, World Bank Education Specialist

Mourad Ezzine is the Director of the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) in Marseille. Prior to joining the CMI, Mourad Ezzine was Sector Manager for Education for the Middle East and North Africa at the World Bank, having previously held various positions of increasing responsibilities at the same institution.

Before joining the World Bank (in 1992), Mourad Ezzine was Director of Planning and Informations Systems peaker s in the Tunisian Ministry of Education and held management-level positions in a Tunisian private development bank. S o n fere nc e C 4/4