october 9-11, 2008 Paris
Organized by Collège de France, EHESS and EPHE. In collaboration with the Centre Louis Gernet. With the support of the CNRS, the Centre Gustave Glotz and the Fondation Hugot du Collège de France.
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Welcome of participants
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Introduction
Pierre Corvol, Administrator of the Collège de France
Danièle Hervieu-Léger, President of EHESS
Jean-Claude Waquet, President, EPHE
Philippe Hoffmann, Dean of the Religious Sciences Section of the EPHE: Presentation of the symposium
Yves Touchefeu (Nantes): "Jean-Pierre Vernant ou la fraternité de la recherche" (Jean-Pierre Vernant or the fraternity of research)
Chair: Renate SCHLESIER (Freie Univ. Berlin)
15 h 00 - 15 h 30: Gunnel Ekroth (Stockholm Univ.), "Vernant versus the bones. Greek sacrifice in theory and practice"
3:30 - 4:00 p.m.: Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge (FNRS, Univ. de Liège), "Everyone in his place, but creating links: communication in the sacrificial operation"
4:00 - 4:30 pm: Discussion
16 h 30 - 17 h 00 : Paolo Fabbri (Univ. of Venice, IUAV), "Enigmatic signs and oracular dialogue".
17 h 00 - 17 h 30 : David Garcia (Univ. de Mexico), " Significado y analisis della muerte "
17 h 30 - 18 h 00 : Discussion
Chair: François Hartog (EHESS, Paris)
09 h 30 - 10 h 00 : Marc Abélès (EHESS, Paris), " L'énigme du politique " (The enigma of politics)
10 h 00 - 10 h 30 : Emmanuel Terray (EHESS, Paris), " Jean-Pierre Vernant, religion and freedom "
10:30 - 11:00 a.m.: Discussion
11 h 00 - 11 h 30 : Break
11 h 30 - 12 h 00 : Andrea Taddei (Univ. of Pisa), "Some aspects of judicial symbolism in ancient Greece"
12 h 00 - 12 h 30 : Bernard Sobel (Paris), "Le théâtre, entre anthropologie et ontologie" (Theater, between anthropology and ontology)
12:30 - 13:00: Discussion
Chair: Carlo Ossola (Collège de France)
2.30 - 3.00 pm: Richard Neer (Univ. of Chicago), "Are Statues Semata? Archaic Sculpture after Vernant"
3:00 - 3:30 pm: Milette Gaifman (Univ. of Yale), "De la figuration de l'invisible à la figuration du rituel" (From the figuration of the invisible to the figuration of ritual)
3:30 - 4:00 pm: Discussion
4:00 - 4:30 pm: Break
4:30 - 5:00 pm: Francis Prost (ENS, Paris), "Vernant face au dieu grec : retour sur le corps des dieux" (Vernant and the Greek god: a return to the body of the gods)
5:00 - 5:30 p.m.: Didier Viviers (Univ. libre de Bruxelles), "En aparchè ou en dékatè : retour sur l'offrande aux dieux" (In aparch or in dekate: a return to offering to the gods)
5:30 - 6:00 p.m.: Vadim Mikhailin (Univ. of Saratov, Russia), "Homer's Doloneia: the "animal-style" as a system of warrior culture codes"
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm: Discussion
Chair: Fabienne Blaise (MESHS, Lille)
09 h 30 - 10 h 00 : Barbara Cassin (CNRS, Paris), " Vernant, Homère et les philosophes " (Vernant, Homer and the philosophers)
10 h 00 - 10 h 30 : Anne Balansard (Univ. de Provence), "Division du travail" et société politique : trois discours sur l'origine des sociétés humaines dans les dialogues de Platon" (Division of labor and political society: three discourses on the origin of human societies in Plato's dialogues)
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: Discussion
11 h 00 - 11 h 30 : Break
11 h 30 - 12 h 00 : Julián Gallego (Univ. de Buenos Aires), "From tragic will to political action: subjective decision"
12 h 00 - 12 h 30 : Charles Malamoud (EPHE, Paris), " Entendre (avec) Jean-Pierre Vernant " (Hearing (with) Jean-Pierre Vernant)
12:30 -13:00: Discussion
Chair: Riccardo Di Donatio (Univ. of Pisa)
14 h 30 - 15 h 00 : Philippe Rousseau (Univ. Ch. de Gaulle - Lille 3), " Réflexions sur une vertu herméneutique : l'impureté philologique " (Reflections on a hermeneutic virtue: philological impurity)
3:00 - 3:30 pm: José Otávio Nogueira Guimarães (Univ. de Brasília), "Faire le voyage au Brésil : Vernant, l'anthropologie de la Grèce antique et les humanités "indigènes"" (Making the journey in Brazil: Vernant, ancient Greek anthropology and "indigenous" humanities)
3:30 - 4:00 pm: Svetlana Slapsak (Inst. of Classical Studies, Ljubljana), "La réception de la pensée de Jean-Pierre Vernant en ex-Yougoslavie et en Slovénie : les trajets intellectuels et idéologiques des écoles" (The reception of Jean-Pierre Vernant's thought in the former Yugoslavia and Slovenia: the intellectual and ideological trajectories of the schools)
4:00 - 4:30 pm: Discussion
4.30 - 5.00 pm: Break
5:00 - 6:30 pm: Round-table discussion
Philippe Borgeaud (Univ. of Geneva), Bruno D'Agostino (Institut Univ. Oriental, Naples), Riccardo Di Donatio (Univ. of Pisa), Oswyn Murray (Univ. of Oxford), Froma Zeitlin (Univ. of Princeton)
Maurice Godelier (EHESS, Paris) : Conclusions
