Programme

Find the full programme for The Emotions of Crisis event below.

Location

The workshop will be held on 7 July 2025 in Seminar Rooms 2 and 4 in the University of Liverpool Management School, Chatham Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZH.

Event programme

9-9.10am: Registration & Welcome (ULMS Seminar Room 2)

9.10-10.40am: Keynote (ULMS Seminar Room 2)

Professor Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh): Between Anarchy and Despotism: Fear, Anxiety, and Their Antidotes in Greek Thought

10.50-10.50am: Coffee Break

10.50am-12.50pm: Session 1

Session 1A: Epic (ULMS Seminar Room 2)

Chair: Professor Bruce Gibson (Liverpool)

Dr Manos Tsakiris (Manchester)
- The Space of Anguish: Charting Emotional Distress in Apollonius’ Argonautica
Helen Lovatt (Nottingham)
- Restlessness and Paralysis: Motion, Emotion, Gender and Trauma in Virgil’s Aeneid
Dr Ben Cartlidge (Liverpool)
- Fear in Virgil’s Aeneid
Isabel Caspar (Köln)
- Names as Channel of Emotions in Roman Civil War Epic

Session 1B: Drama (ULMS Seminar Room 4)

Chair: Dr Alexei Zadorozhny (Liverpool)

Poppy Steel Swayne (NYU)
- Aeschylus’ Oresteia: Drama as Therapy
Dr Victoria Rooney (Liverpool)
- Ecstasy and Outrage: Bacchic Emotion and Ritual Crisis in Sophocles’ Antigone
Fiona McHardy (Roehampton)
- ‘Disenfranchised Grief’: The Emotional Experience of Mothers who Expose their Neonates in Euripidean Tragedy
Dr Esther Meijer (St Andrews)
- The Terminal Beach: Languages of Trauma in Seneca’s Trojan Women

12.50-1.35pm: Lunch break

1.35-3.05pm: Session 2

Session 2A: Grief, Distress, Passions (ULMS Seminar Room 2)

Chair: Dr Elaine Sanderson (Liverpool)

Nia Lowri Morris (Liverpool)
- Grief and the Loss of Self: Rethinking Bodily Transformation in the Predictive Dreams of Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica
Dr Susannah Wright (Rice University, TX)
- Towards a Decorum of Grief
Lida Bournou Stavroulopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
- The Emotion of Complaint in Private Papyrus Letters among Family Members in Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt
Carole Pinnington (Liverpool)
- The Emotions of Medieval Crises
Dr Pollie Bromilow (Liverpool)
- Love as Crisis in the works of Hélisenne de Crenne (active 1538-43)

Session 2B: Historiography (ULMS Seminar Room 4)

Chair: Dr Laura Donati (Liverpool)

Dr Ryan Boehm (Tulane University, NOLA)
- Emotion, Lament, and Historiography: The Language of Destruction and Displacement from Ancient Greece to Modern Syria
Dr Mariana Franco San Román (University of Silesia in Katowice)
- Scaring the Demos Witless? Trauma-based Rhetoric, Punishment, and Forgiveness in Thucydides and Lysias
Dr Nicoletta Bruno (Basel/Liverpool)
- Tiberius and the Power of Emotional Elusiveness in Tacitus, Suetonius, and Dio

3.05-3.15pm – Coffee break

3.15-4.45pm – Session 3

Session 3A: Philosophy (ULMS Seminar Room 2)

Chair: Dr Ben Cartlidge (Liverpool)

Dr Thomas Moody (UCSB)
- Epistemic Trauma in Socratic Discourse
Jonathan Thomas Wild (Oxford)
- The Philosophy of Emotions in the Histories of Agathias of Myrina
Dr Alexei Zadorozhny (Liverpool)
- Katêpheia in Plutarch: Body Language and Linguistic Framing

Session 3B: Conflict & Communities (ULMS Seminar Room 4)

Chair: Dr Elaine Sanderson

Dr Bernd Steinbock (Western University, Canada)
- Athenian Responses to the Disaster in Sicily as Indicators of a Social Trauma
Dr Tommaso Suaria (Lisbon)
- War Trauma and Imperialist Agenda in Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes
Sophia Häberle (Humbolt)
- What is Forensic Horror? Cicero’s Speeches as Communication of Civil War Experience