Keynote Speakers:

Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago): ‘Sine ira et studio: Lucan and the Lies of History’
Cynthia Damon (University of Pennsylvania): ‘Fides penes auctorem erit? The Apocolocyntosis on Narrative in Verse and Prose’
Denis Feeney (Princeton University): ‘Causalities: Historiographical and Epic Modes of Explanation in Statius’ Thebaid’
Philip Hardie (Trinity College, Cambridge): ‘Crowd Psychology in Imperial Historiography and Poetry’

Other Speakers:

Rhiannon Ash (Merton College, Oxford): ‘Rhoxolani Blues (Tacitus, Histories 1.79): Virgil’s Scythian Geography Revisited’
Martin Dinter (King’s College, London): ‘Lucan’s Poetics of Repetition: Re-writing Civil War’
Bruce Gibson (University of Liverpool): ‘Causation in Post-Augustan Epic’
Jean-Michel Hulls (St Anne’s College, Oxford): ‘Replacing History: Inaugurating the New Year in Statius’ Silvae 4.1’
John Jacobs (Yale University): ‘From Sallust to Silius: metus hostilis and the Fall of Rome in the Punica’
Timothy Joseph (College of the Holy Cross): ‘Ac rursus noua laborum facies: Tacitus’ Repetition of Virgil’s Wars at Histories 3.26-34’
Helen Lovatt (University of Nottingham): ‘Cannibalising History: Livian Moments in Statius’ Thebaid’
Ilaria Marchesi (Hofstra University): ‘Beyond ktema and agonisma: Pliny’s Theory of Poetic Historiography’
Christopher Nappa (University of Minnesota): ‘The Unfortunate Marriage of Gaius Silius’
Damien Nelis (University of Geneva): ‘Myth and History in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus’
Carole Newlands (University of Wisconsin): ‘The Eruption of Vesuvius: the Epistles of Pliny and Statius’
Matthew Taylor (University of Southern California): ‘Reading Seneca, Writing Tacitus: Tragic Composites and Historical Composition’
Kathryn Williams (Canisius College): ‘Amicus Caesaris: Vibius Crispus in the Works of Juvenal and Tacitus’

Chairs:

Edward Courtney, Stephen Harrison, Charles McNelis and Vassiliki Panoussi