Agenda

International Conference
Global Thucydides: Editors, Readers, Translators (1848-2024) 

19-20 September 2024
Aula Mario Baratto, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

19 September 2024 (9.30-19.00)

9.30 Welcome address

10.00 INTRODUCTION
Luca Iori (University of Parma, Italy), Global Thucydides: Aims, Scope, and Methods of the Project

10.30-12.30 SESSION I – COMMUNIST EUROPE
Chair: Stefania De Vido

Jakub Filonik (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland), The ‘War’ after the War: Thucydides in Communist Poland

Pavel Nývlt (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), Thucydides on Good Governance in Czech and Slovak Translations

Ivan Matijašić (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy), Thucydides in Yugoslavia: on Stjepan Telar’s 1957 Translation

14.00-16.00 SESSION II – LATIN AMERICA
Chair: Claudia Stern

Maria das Graças de Moraes Augusto (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) & Paulo Butti de Lima (University of Bari, Italy), A Historian Far from His Place. Reading and Translating Thucydides in Brazil

Paulo Donoso Johnson (Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile) & Alvaro Moreno Leoni (National Universities of Córdoba and Río Cuarto, Argentina), Thucydides in Argentina and Chile. Receptions and Translations

16.30-19.00 SESSION III – IRAN AND THE CAUCASUS
Chair: Ivan Matijašić

Farnoosh Shamsian (Leipzig University, Germany), The Reception of Thucydides in Iran

Aram Topchyan & Gohar Muradyan (Matenadaran, Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Armenia), The Armenian Tradition of Translating from Greek and the 1887 Edition of Thucydides

Levan Gordeziani & Irene Tatishvili (Tbilisi State University, Georgia), Thucydidean Studies in Georgia

20 September 2024 (10.30-18.00)

10.30-12.00 SESSION IV – DURING AND AFTER THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Chair: Claudia Antonetti

Tim Rood (University of Oxford, UK), Thucydides and British India

David van Schoor (Emory University, USA), Thucydides in Modern South Africa: Native Helots, Zulu Spartans & British Athenians

14.00-16.30 SESSION V – EAST ASIA
Chair: Luca Iori

Chiara Ghidini (University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy), No Longer Uncharted Territory: The Journey of Ancient Greek Studies in East Asia and the Case of Thucydides

Yasunori Kasai & Kensuke Mizushima (Tokyo University, Japan), Thucydidean Studies in Japan – World History and Translation

Yuanguo He (Wuhan University, China), The Reception and Translations of Thucydides in China
 

For the link to attend the conference online, please contact ivan.matijasic@unive.it

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