Alexandrian Personae

A very interesting conference on Alexandrian Personae is to be held at the University of North Carolina February 23-24, 2008.Alexandrian Personae
Scholarly Culture and Religious Traditions in Ancient Alexandria (1st ct. BCE—4th ct. CE) The conference is presented thus:The Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in collaboration with the Department of Theology at the University of Göttingen, will host a two-day conference on February 23-24, 2008, with contributions by an international group of scholars. The principal goal of this conference is to explore various forms of interaction between philosophy, textual exegesis, and religious discourses in late Hellenistic and Roman Alexandria (1st ct. BCE-3rd ct. CE), as they are reflected in the literary work, private records, and public activity of the following Alexandrian 'personae': (i) the Egyptian priest; (ii) the gymnasiarch; (iii) the magician; (iv) the astrologer; (v) the alchemist; (vi) the apocalyptic prophet; (vii) the philologist; (viii) the rhetorician; (ix) the antiquarian; (x) the physician; (xi) the Hermetist; (xii) the 'Gnostic'; (xiii) the Christian teacher; (xiv) the doxographer; (xv) the philosopher.The conference program is also available on their website, and here is the list of the various lectures to be held:Saturday, February 23, 2008
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Introduction
Zlatko PLEŠE (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Rainer HIRSCH- LUIPOLD (Göttingen)

9:15 – 10:00 Frederick BRENK (Rome) Alexandria and Egyptian Religion as Praeparatio Evangelica

10:00 – 10:45 Grant PARKER (Stanford) Missing Personae: The Alexander Romance,Its Author and Context

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break (Center for Global Initiatives)

11:15 – 12:00 Philip STADTER (UNC-Chapel Hill) Plutarch’s Alexandrias

12:15 – 1:45 Lunch (Place TBA)

2:00 – 2:45 Armin LANGE (Wien) Derveni-Qumran-Alexandria: Omen Interpretation, Philology, and Commentary

2:45 – 3:30 Troels ENGBERG PEDERSEN (København) Philo of Alexandria: A Typical
Alexandrian Persona

3:30 – 4:00 Ilinca TANASEANU-DÖBLER (Ohio State), Clement of Alexandria: a Christian Philosopher and Teacher

4:00 – 4:30 Coffee Break (Center for Global Initiatives)

4:30 – 5:15 Aurelio PÉREZ JIMÉNEZ (Malaga) The Horoscope of Alexandria

5:15 – 5:45 Zlatko PLEŠE (UNC-Chapel Hill) The Hermetist and His Socio-Intellectual Milieu

5:45 – 6:45 Break

7:00 – 8:00 Plenary Lecture
Heinrich VON STADEN (IAS-Princeton) Title TBA

8:00 – 9:30 Reception (Center for Global Initiatives)

Sunday, February 24, 2008

9:00 – 9:30 Rainer HIRSCH-LUIPOLD (Göttingen) God: An Alexandrian Persona?

9:30 – 10:00 Tobias THUM (Göttingen) An Alexandrian Philosopher? Plutarch’s Teacher Ammonius as Literary Character

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break (Center for Global Initiatives)

10:30 – 11:15 Kevin CORRIGAN (Emory) The Shadow of Alexandria in the 4th Century:City and Desert

11:15 – 12:00 Catherine Chin (UC Davis) Rufinus of Aquileia and Alexandrian Afterlives

12:00 – 1:45 Lunch (Place TBA)

2:00 – 2:45 Elizabeth CLARK (Duke) ‘The Schleiermachers of Antiquity’: Alexandrian Theologians in the Nineteenth-Century Protestant Imaginary

2:45 – 3:30 Christopher ROBERTS (Reed) Antiquarians, Gravediggers, and the Old Age of Mankind: Nietzsche on Alexandrian Historical Culture

3:30 – 3:45 Coffee Break (Center for Global Initiatives)

3:45 – 4:30 Diskin CLAY (Duke) Cavafy’s Alexandria

4:30 – 5:00 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION


(Thanks to info on Mark Goodacre's Blog.)