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| Research Interests: | |||
| Social Memory, Trauma Studies, Archaic & Classical Greek History, Greek & Roman Historiography, Classical Rhetoric and Oratory, Late Antiquity | |||
| Research: | |||
| Books: | |||
Social Memory in Athenian Public Discourse: Uses and Meanings of the Past. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012 (paperback edition 2020) |
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| Reviews: | |||
| Lucia Cecchet, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.11.57 | |||
| Paul Christesen, Classical Philology 109.2 (2014) 170-174 | |||
| Carolyn Higbie, The American Historical Review 119.2 (2014) 574-575 | |||
| Katharina Kostopoulos, H-Soz-u-Kult 18.11.2013 | |||
| Janek Kucharski, Phoenix 68 (2014) 170-172 | |||
| Polly Low, American Journal of Philology 135.1 (2014): 152-155 | |||
| Pavel Nývlt, Eirene 50.1-2 (2014) 345-348 | |||
| Maria Osmers, sehepunkte 13 (2013), Nr. 9 | |||
| Frances Pownall, The Classical Journal – Online 2013.12.04 | |||
| Julia Shear, The Classical Review 64 (2014) 506-508 | |||
| Katharina Wojciech, Gnomon 86.3 (2014) 236-242 | |||
| David Yates, Histos 8 (2014) | |||
| Articles: | |||
| “Contesting the Lessons from the Past. Aeschines’ Use of Social Memory,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 143 (2013) 65-103 | |||
| “A Lesson in Patriotism. Lycurgus’ Against Leocrates, the Ideology of the Ephebeia and Athenian Social Memory,” Classical Antiquity 30 (2011) 279-317 | |||
| Book Chapters: | |||
| “'Sufferings too Great for Tears': The Destruction of the Athenian Expeditionary Corps in Sicily,” in Melanie Jonasch (ed). The Fight for Greek Sicily: Society, Politics, and Landscape. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020, 73-98 | |||
| “The Narrative Richness of the Argus Scene (Od. 17.290-327),” in Louise Pratt and C. Michael Sampson (eds). Engaging Classical Texts in the Contemporary World: From Narratology to Reception. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018, 9-28 |
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| “The Contested Memory of Nicias after the Sicilian Expedition,” in Elena Franchi and Giorgia Proietti (eds). Conflict in Communities. Forward-looking Memories in Classical Athens. Trento 2017, 109-170 | |||
| “The Multipolarity of Athenian Social Memory: Polis, Tribes and Demes as Interdependent Memory Communities,” in Kerstin Hofmann, Reinhard Bernbeck and Ulrike Sommer (eds.), Between Memory Sites and Memory Networks: New Archaeological and Historical Perspectives. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 45. Berlin, 2017, 97-125 | |||
| “Coin Types and Latin Panegyrics as Means of Imperial Communication,” in N. T. Elkins and S. Krmnicek (eds.), ‘Art in the Round’: New Approaches to Ancient Coin Iconography. Tübinger Archäologische Forschungen 16. Rahden/Westfalen, 2014, 51-67 | |||
| Encyclopedia Entries: | |||
| "Eurymachus son of Leontiades";
"Hysiae"; "Marathon"; "Medize"; "Orchomenus in Boeotia";
"Panhellensim"; "Plataea"; "Tanagra"; in Christopher Baron (ed.) The
Herodotus Encyclopedia. 3 Vol. (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021) |
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| Book Reviews: | |||
| Review of Peter Meineck, David Konstan (ed.), Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks. The New Antiquity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) in BMCR 2015.08.15 | |||
| Review of John Marincola, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Calum Alasdair Maciver (ed.), Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History without Historians. Edinburgh Leventis Studies 6 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) in BMCR 2013.10.53 | |||
| Review of Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne (eds) Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece (Cambridge 2006) in Phoenix 63 (2009) 169-71 | |||
| Review of Wolfgang Blösel, Themistokles bei Herodot: Spiegel Athens im fünften Jahrhundert. Studien zur Geschichte und historiographischen Konstruktion des griechischen Freiheitskampfes 480 v. Chr. (Stuttgart 2004) in BMCR 2006.08.11 | |||
| Presentations: | |||
| “Working through Trauma: Thucydides’ Empathic Account of the Athenians’ Departure from Syracuse” | |||
| •Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, April 2022 | |||
| •University of Trento, Italy, March 2022 |
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| “The Sicilian Expedition as Social Trauma for the Athenians” | |||
| University of Trento, Italy, March 2022 |
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| “Working through
Trauma: Thucydides and the Empathic Unsettlement of the Reader” |
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| Virtual CAC, University of Montreal, May 2021 | |||
| “Working through Trauma: Enargeia and Pathos
in Thucydides’ Account of Harrowing Events” |
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| Research Seminar Series, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, March 2021 |
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| “The Epitaphios Logos of Pericles: Thucydides’
Ambivalence towards the Funeral Oration” |
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| The Funeral Oration and Nicole Loraux, University of Lyon, France, Feb 2020 | |||
| “Working through Trauma: Thucydides’ Account of the Athenians’ Departure from Syracuse” | |||
| Internationales Netzwerk historiai, University of Trento, Italy, Nov 2019 | |||
| “Pericles’ epitaphios: Thucydides’ Ambivalent Attitude toward the Athenian Funeral Orations” | |||
| Greek History and Theory Group, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Nov 2019 | |||
| “Working through Trauma: Thucydides’ Account of the Sicilian Expedition” | |||
| Research Seminar Series, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, March 2019 | |||
| “Combat Trauma in Ancient Greece: The Case of the Athenians’ Sicilian Expedition” | |||
| Combat Stress and the Pre-Modern World, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Dec 2018 | |||
| “‘Sufferings Too Great for Tears’ – The Destruction of the Athenian Expeditionary Corps in Sicily" | |||
| Warfare and Society in Colonial Sicily, University of British Columbia, BC, April 2018 | |||
| “Social Trauma: A Useful Concept for the Study of Greek History?” | |||
| •Research Seminar Series, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Nov 2017 | |||
| •Greek History and Political Theory Group, Columbus, OH, Oct 2017 | |||
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| "The Limits of Athenian Memory Politics: The Trauma of the Sicilian Expedition" | |||
| CAC, St. John's, NF, May 2017 | |||
| “Finding Solace in the Face of Disaster: Thucydides’ Tragic Account of the Sicilian Expedition" | |||
| Thucydides Symposium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, March 2016 | |||
| “From Hot to Cold Memory: Literary Treatments of the Sicilian Expedition" | |||
| Greek History and Theory Group, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Oct 2015 | |||
| “Coping with Defeat: Athenian Responses to the Sicilian Expedition,” | |||
| •CAC, Toronto, ON, May 2015 | |||
| •ISPCS, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel, May 2014 | |||
| “Persistent Memories: The Trauma of the Sicilian Expedition" | |||
| Greek History and Theory Group, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Nov 2014 | |||
| “Langlebige Erinnerungen: Das Trauma der Sizilischen Expedition,” | |||
| Internationales Netzwerk historiai, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, July 2014 | |||
| “Nikias im Urteil seiner Zeitgenossen nach der Sizilischen Expedition,” | |||
| THOUKYDIDEIA, Free University of Berlin, Germany, June 2014 | |||
| “‘Um den Leontinern Hilfe zu bringen:’ Athenische Sinnstiftungsversuche nach der Sizilischen Expedition,” | |||
| •University of Bamberg, Germany, June 2014 | |||
| •Heidelberg University, Germany, June 2014 | |||
| •University of Würzburg, Germany, May 2014 | |||
| “Die Sizilische Expedition im kollektiven Gedächtnis der Athener,” | |||
| •Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, May 2014 | |||
| •Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, May 2014 | |||
| •University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, Feb 2014 | |||
| “The Sicilian Expedition in Athenian Memory and Public Discourse,” | |||
| University of Trento, Italy, Feb 2014 | |||
| “‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ im klassischen Athen. Die Sizilische Expedition als Fallbeispiel,” | |||
| Geschichtszirkel, University of Freiburg, Germany, Jan 2014 | |||
| “Coping with Defeat: Athens after the Sicilian Expedition” | |||
| AAH, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 2013 | |||
| "Coin Imagery and Latin Panegyrics as Means of Imperial Communication" | |||
| ‘Art in the Round’: New Approaches to Ancient Coin Iconography, International Workshop, University of Tübingen, Germany, Nov 2012 | |||
| “Remembering the Sicilian Expedition" | |||
| Greek History and Theory Group, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Nov 2012 | |||
| “Ambitus in Polybius’ Greek Political Theory” | |||
| APA, Philadelphia, PA, Jan 2012 | |||
| “Debating the Peace of Philocrates: Social Memory as Political Factor?” | |||
| Research Seminar Series, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Oct 2011 | |||
| “Contesting the Lessons from the Past – Aeschines' Arguments for the Peace of Philocrates" | |||
| Greek History and Theory Group, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 2011 | |||
| “A Mythical Precedent – Athens’ Intervention for the Fallen Argives" | |||
| Greek History and Theory Group, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 2010 | |||
| “A Lesson in Patriotism. King Codrus as Eponymous Hero" | |||
| Research Seminar Series, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Mar 2009 | |||
| “King Codrus as Historical Paradigm in Lycurgus’ Leocratea” | |||
| APA, Chicago, IL, Jan 2008 | |||
| “Contesting the Lessons from the Past – Aeschines’ Recourse to Family History” | |||
| CAMWS, Cincinnati, OH, Apr 2007 | |||
| “Razing Athens to the Ground – Social Memory of a Radical Proposal" | |||
| McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Oct 2006 | |||
| “Once a Traitor, Always a Traitor? Demosthenes on Theban Medizing” | |||
| CAC, Toronto, ON, May 2006 | |||
| “Athenian Memory of Thebes’ Help for the Democratic Exiles” | |||
| APA, Montreal, PQ, Jan 2006 | |||
| “Forgetting the Plataeans” | |||
| CAC, Toronto, ON, May 2006 | |||
| “Ambitus in Practice and Theory. Polybius on the Roman Politeia” | |||
| Graduate Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Feb 2005 | |||
| “Contesting the Lessons of the Persian War” | |||
| Graduate Student Colloquium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Feb 2005 | |||
| “Imagining the Unimaginable: The Proposed Eradication of Athens” | |||
| University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Jan 2005 | |||
| “City-Destruction in Athenian and Theban Social Memory” | |||
| APA, Boston, MA, Jan 2005 | |||
| Outreach Lectures: | |||
| "Coping with Defeat: The Trauma of the Sicilian Expedition in Athenian Social Memory" | |||
| Symposium, Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaft, Berlin, Germany | |||
| “Die Bedeutung von Gedenktagen für unser kollektives Gedächtnis,” | |||
| 2000 Jahre Kaiser Augustus – 1200 Jahre Kaiser Karl der Große, Herder-Gymnasium Forchheim, Germany, April 2014 | |||
| “The Battle of Marathon: History and Mystique,” | |||
| Centre for Continuing Education, Guelph, ON, Sept 2011 | |||
| “Democracy in Ancient Greece: Familiar and Yet So Strange,” | |||
| Centre for Continuing Education, Guelph, ON, Sept 2009 | |||
| Classics at Western | |||
