2009 Langford Conferenceof the Department of Classicsat The Florida State University
February 27-28, 2009Broad Auditorium, The Pepper CenterThe Florida State UniversityTallahassee, FloridaConference Organizer:Prof. Kenneth ReckfordLangford Eminent Scholar FSU and Kenan ProfessorEmeritus of Classics, University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill
www.fsu.edu/~classics/langford/langfordspring09.html
This conference is open to the public. For further information, contact Prof. Allen Romano, [email protected] | 850-644-0307
SpeakersProf. Eckart Lefèvre (University of Freiburg) Plautus and Improvisatory Techniques
Prof. C.W. Marshall (University of British Columbia)Living Next Door to a Roman Comedy
Prof. Kathleen McCarthy (University of California, Berkeley)Prologues: Between Performance and Fiction
Prof. Timothy Moore (University of Texas, Austin)Even the Meter is Funny
Prof. Amy Richlin (University of California at Los Angeles)Lighting out for the Territory: Slave Fantasies of Escape in Plautine Comedy
Prof. Niall W. Slater(Emory University)Plautus the Theologian
Prof. John H. Starks, Jr.(Binghamton University, State University of New York)servitus, sudor, sitis: Syrian Slave Stereotypes in Plautus