Workshop on Cicero’s Academici Libri

9 May 13:30 to 10 May 16:00
Brasenose College

Organised by Valentina Arena

 

Programme

Friday, May 9
1.20 at the Porters’ Lodge, Brasenose College
 
1.30-2 pm, Medieval kitchen  
Coffee/tea

2-6pm, Stocker Room

  • 2.30-2.45pm: FRRAnt introduction
  • 2.45-3.45pm: Giorgio Piras, ‘Varro philosophus’: the character of Varro in Cicero's Academica
  • 3.45-4.45pm: Orazio Capello, Thinking Historically in Philosophy: Models of Philosophical Historiography in Cicero

4.45-5pm: coffee/tea

5-6pm: David Blank, Diogenes of Babylon, Antiochus, and the History of Academic Epistemology in Cicero

6.00pm: Concert, Brasenose Chapel
Katelyn Emerson will showcase the magnificent Orgues de Facto instrument, now housed in the Chapel. She will perform a varied programme including works by Rachel Laurin, Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck, Antonio Vivaldi arranged by JS Bach, Ethel Smyth and Charles-Marie Widor.

7.00pm: drink reception, Amersi

 

 

 

 

Saturday, May 10

9.30am, Old Library

  • 9.30-10.30am: Irene Leonardis, Approaching Varro: Cicero’s opening gambit through the Academici libri
  • 10.30-11.30am: Yelena Baraz, Meeting in the middle: translation and/as access to knowledge

11.30-11.45am: coffee/tea break

11.45-12.45pm: Ermanno Malaspina, The studia of Lucullus, Varro and Cicero: A reappraisal in the light of the letters to Atticus and Fam. IX, 8.

1pm: lunch

2.30-3.30pm: Stephen Blair, Cicero’s Academici Libri and FRRAnt

4.00pm: conclusion