[MGSA-L] Princeton conference: Bad Kings March 5, 2011

[Roland Moore]

From: "Dimitri H. Gondicas" <gondicas at Princeton.EDU>

http://www.princeton.edu/hellenic/images/BadKingPoster.pdf 

The Second Day of the Bad King

 

March 5, 2011

 

211 Dickinson Hall 

Princeton University


9:30 a.m. Coffee

10:00 a.m. Introduction

 

Nino Luraghi (Princeton) 

 


10:10 a.m. First Session

                Beate Pongratz-Leisten (NYU), Bad Kings in the Literary History of Mesopotamia 

                Jennifer Barbour (Harvard), “A king like the other nations”: Oriental despots in the Hebrew Bible


12:00 noon Lunch



1:30 p.m. Second Session

                Yelena Baraz (Princeton), Discourse of Kingship in Late-Republican Invective 

                John Haldon (Princeton), Tyrannicide and Usurpation of Power in the Early Byzantine Empire


3:15 p.m. Coffee break


3:45 p.m. Third Session
                
                Paul Kershaw (University of Virginia), Bad Kingship and Royal Badness in the Carolingian Age

                Cary Nederman (Texas A & M University), There Are No Bad Kings: Evil Counselors and  Tyrannical Characters in Medieval Political Thought

 

Conference sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World, the Davis Center for Historical Studies, the Department of History, the University Center for Human Values, and the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund