Call for Papers: Origin Stories

Submit an abstract for the Paideia Institute's 2025 Living Latin in NYC Conference!

ORIGIN STORIES

The Paideia Institute is pleased to announce that the twelfth iteration of the Living Latin and Ancient Greek in New York City conference will take place in February 2025. The conference will host a number of invited speakers and will also welcome abstract submissions. This conference, which features papers delivered in Latin, Ancient Greek, and English as well as small breakout sessions where participants practice speaking Ancient Greek and Latin under the guidance of expert instructors, will be held at Fordham University in New York City on February 15th and 16th, 2025.

The theme of this year’s conference is “Origin Stories.” Through myths of origin, people have long rooted their identities with specific places. What does it mean to be from a place? Who does land belong to, and who belongs on land? What does it mean to be Greek or Roman? What is Hellas? What is Romanitas? Where do these concepts come from and how are they applied in Greek and Latin literature and culture?

We invite proposals for short talks in Latin, Ancient Greek, or English on this theme with examples from Ancient Greek and Latin literature or material culture. Outstanding submissions on other topics will also be considered, particularly (but not only) if they focus on classical language pedagogy. Please use the link below to send in an abstract of no more than 500 words. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2024. Travel bursaries are available and can be requested through that same form. We encourage accepted speakers to apply for external funding as well since the number of travel bursaries is limited.

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ORIGINES, ET DE FABULIS AD EAS PERTINENTIBUS

Magnopere iuvat Institutum Paideiam pronuntiare, duodecimum conventum Latinitatis ac Graecitatis Vivae Novi Eboraci mense Februario anni 2025 celebratum iri: ad quem non modo invitabuntur complures, qui acroases faciant, verum etiam ratio habebitur eorum, qui summaria tradiderint consideranda. Conventus hic, cuius participes tum acroases sermone Latino vel Graeco vel Anglico ab hominibus disertis prolatas audient, tum aliis in sessiunculis, magistris doctis eruditisque freti, operam exercitationibus vel Graece vel Latine colloquendi dabunt, Novi Eboraci apud Universitatem Fordhamensem inde ab a.d. XV Kal. Mar. ad a.d. XIV Kal. Mar. usque anno 2025 celebrabitur.

Huiusce conventus propositum ad eas attinet fabulas, quae origines aliquo modo attingunt. Fabulis enim mythologicis, in quibus origo vel populi vel alicuius rei vel loci tractatur, enarrandis, homines ipsi suam identitatem, hoc est, qui, et quales, et cuias sint, in locis propriis ac particularibus iam pridem constituunt. Haec autem notio, id est, a quodam loco oriri, quid sibi vult? Terram quandam quis tenet, et quem tenere decet? Quid hoc sibi vult, hominem esse Graecum aut Romanum? Quid est Hellas? Quid Romanitas? Hae notiones unde originem traxerunt, et quemadmodum in litteris moribusque Graecorum ac Romanorum adhibentur?

Si cui acroasiunculam ad hoc thema pertinentem, exemplis ex litteris Graecis Latinisve aut ex rebus archaeologicis sumptis bene instructam, sermone Latino vel Graeco vel Anglico habere libet, praecipimus, ut summarium nobis tradat. Ratio etiam eorum habebitur, qui de aliis rebus disserere volunt, praesertim (sed non tantummodo) si propositum est rationem utriusque linguae docendae tractare.

Rogamus ut nexu, quem infra reperies, adhibito summarium vocabulorum non plus quam quingentorum tradas: quod ante diem praestitutam, quae Kal. Oct. anno 2024 est, elapsam tradendum erit. Stipendia itineraria praesto erunt, quae per eandem formulam petere licebit. Suademus eis, qui ad conventum invitabuntur, ut stipendia etiam ab aliis locis petant, propterea quod stipendia itineraria omnibus non suppetent.

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ΕΘΝΟΓΟΝΙΑΙ Η ΑΡΧΗΓΟΙ ΜΥΘΟΙ

Ἡ ἑταιρεία τῆς Παιδείας ἥδιστ' ἀγγέλλει ὅτι μηνὸς Φεβρουαρίου τῷ ἔτει 2025 γενήσεται ἡ δωδεκάτη σύνοδος ἡ καλουμένη Ῥωμαϊκή τε καὶ Ἑλληνικὴ ζῶσαι ἐν Νέῳ Ἐβοράκῳ. Εἰς δὲ τὴν σύνοδον ῥήτορας τινὰς προσκαλέσομεν καὶ δὴ καὶ κεφάλαια ἀποδεξόμεθα ἀφ' ὧντινων βούλοιντο ἂν τῆς συνόδου μετέχειν. Οἱ δὲ τῆς συνόδου μεθέξοντες οἷοι τ' ἔσονται ἀκρόασιν ποιεῖσθαι ῥητόρων ῥωμαϊστὶ ἑλληνιστί τε καὶ βρεττανιστὶ λεγόντων καὶ μετὰ διδασκάλων διατρίβειν περί τόν τε ῥωμαϊσμὸν καὶ τὸν ἑλληνισμόν. Ἡ δὲ σύνοδος γενήσεται ἐν τῷ πανεπιστημίῳ Fordham ἐν Νέῳ Ἐβοράκῳ τῇ τε ἕκτῃ καὶ δεκάτῃ καὶ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ καὶ δεκάτῃ ἡμέρᾷ Φεβρουαρίου μεσοῦντος.

Τὴν μὲν οὖν κυρίαν ὑπόθεσιν ὑποτίθεμεν "Ἐθνογονίαι ἢ ἀρχηγοὶ μῦθοι". Ἐθνογονίαις ἢ ἀρχηγοῖς μύθοις ἑαυτὰ κατερρίζωται τὰ ἔθνη εἰς χώρας καὶ τόπους τινάς. Τί τὸ ἐξ' οὑτινοσοῦν γενονέναι; Τίσιν ἡ χώρα καὶ τίνες οἱ ἐπιχώριοι; τί τὸ Ῥωμαῖον ἢ τὸ Ἕλληνα εἶναι; Τί τοῦτο ὁ Ἑλληνισμὸς καὶ τί ὁ ῾Ρωμαϊσμός; Ἐκ τίνων πηγῶν αἱ ὑπολείψεις αὗται καὶ τί περὶ αὐτῶν λέγει τὰ Ἑλληνικά τε καὶ Ῥωμαϊκά;

Λόγους βραχεῖς περὶ τῆς κυρίας ὑποθέσεως ἀποδεχόμεθα ῥωμαϊστὶ, ἑλληνιστί ἢ βρεττανιστὶ γεγραμμένους καὶ παραδείγματα ποιουμένους τὰ γράμματα ἢ τὰ ἀρχαιολογικὰ τῶν πάλαι. Ἀποδεχοίμεθα δ'ἂν καὶ κρατίστους λόγους περὶ ἄλλων ὑποθέσεων γεγραμένους, οὐκ ἥκιστα περὶ τῆς διδασκαλίας τῶν παλαιῶν γλωττῶν.

Τοὺς δὲ βουλομένους μετέχειν τῆσδε συνόδου δεῖ ἡμῖν πέμψαι κεφάλαιον τοῦ λόγου (μὴ ὑπερβάλλον πεντακόσια ῥήματα) διὰ τοῦ κάτω δεσμοῦ ἐντὸς τῆς πρώτης τοῦ Ὀκτωβρίου τοῦ προϊόντος ἔτους. Οἱ ἂν βούλωνται δύνανται αἰτῆσαι πορευτικὰς χορηγίας διὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ δεσμοῦ. Ὀλίγαι μόνον ὑπάρχουσιν, διὸ παραινοῦμεν τοῖς ἀποδεχθεῖσιν ῥήτορσιν καὶ ἄλλας ζητῆσαι χορηγίας.

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