Published on 15 June 2010
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June 28 - Prof. John Scheid's study day - Rites and legitimation: secular games in the light of the social sciences

Study day organized by A. Gailliot, R. Laignoux and F. Roa Bastos

at the Collège de France
Seminar room
3, rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris

9:00 - 9:30 Welcome of participants
9:30 - 10:00 Raphaelle Laignoux, Francisco Roa Bastos, Antoine Gailliot
Introduction

The construction of an official discourse from epigraphic and literary sources.
10h00 - 10h30 Aude Leblond (Université de Paris 3)
Horace's Carmen Saeculare in the light of discourse analysis.
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Discussion

Break

The organizers of the Secular Games and their role in establishing rituals.
11h00 - 11h30 Françoise Van Haeperen (Université catholique de Louvain)
The organization of the Secular Games and the establishment of rituals: quindecemvirs, prince, senate.
11:30 - 12:00 Christophe Le Digol (Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre)
A contretemps. Sociological considerations on secular games.
12h00 - 12h30 Discussion

Break

The construction of jubilation and membership.
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Antoine Gailliot (Université de Paris 1)
Ritual displacements during the Secular Games, a staging of piety.
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Nicolas Mariot (CNRS)
Les Jeux séculaires et la sociologie de la liesse, éléments d'analyse.
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Discussion

Break

Secular Games rituals and the construction of legitimacy.
15h45 - 16h15 Emmanuelle Rosso (Université de Provence)
From Augustus to Domitian, secular games, legitimization and the dynastic idea.
16h15 - 16h45 François Héran (INED)
For an epistemology of legitimation rites.
16:45 - 17:15 Discussion
Conclusion: John Scheid

This day is part of the activities of the Atelier - légitimation (ENS)