Arnaldo Momigliano was one of the great twentieth-century historians of the ancient world. But his many essays and lectures also called attention to the methods that, over the centuries since the Renaissance, have been used to make sense of the lived life of antiquity. This aspect of Momigliano’s intellectual legacy is the subject of the present conference. It will focus, in particular, on Momigliano’s provocative suggestion that modern disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, art history, sociology, and the history of religion developed out of the practices and questions of early modern antiquarianism. In this claim lies the kernel of a yet-to-be-written history of modern cultural history, and the papers to be presented at the conference, and later developed into a publication, will give us that history. The presentations will fall into two categories: those that reflect on Momigliano’s link between antiquarianism and the disciplines that developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and those that assess the contribution of Momigliano as a cultural historian by placing him alongside other twentieth-century masters such as Warburg, Huizinga, Scholem, and Foucault.
 
 

9:30 a.m.   •   coffee

10:00 a.m. ——

Peter H. Reill, UCLA
    Welcome

Peter N. Miller, Bard Graduate Center
    Opening Remarks

Riccardo Di Donato, Università di Pisa
    Momigliano, from the Antiquarians to Cultural History: Some Reasons for a Quest

Marc Fumaroli, Collège de France
    Caylus: Un antiquaire dans la France des Lumières

12:30 p.m.   •   lunch

2:00 p.m. ——

Guy G. Stroumsa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Arnaldo Momigliano and the History of Religions

Moshe Idel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    History and Tradition in Momigliano and Scholem

4:00 p.m.   •   reception
 

Saturday, May 4

9:30 a.m.   •   coffee

10:00 a.m. ——

Wilfried Nippel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    New Paths of Antiquarianism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries:
    Mommsen and Max Weber

Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
    Momigliano and German “Orientalism”

12:00 noon   •   lunch

1:30 p.m. ——

Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
    Momigliano’s England: The Classical Tradition in a Cold Climate

Glenn W. Most, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/University of Chicago
    Momigliano and Foucault

Registration deadline:
April 26, 2002.
Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached.

Fees:
UC faculty & staff: $15; students with id: no charge; others: $25.
Fees include the cost of lunches and other refreshments.

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