Tacitus 2025: A conference celebrating The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus
University of Cincinnati - October 16-17, 2025
We are delighted to announce a conference showcasing current research on the works of Tacitus. We will be celebrating both the recent appearance of The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus (OUP, 2025), and the volume’s dedicatee and the conference’s guest of honor, our friend and mentor A.J. Woodman (Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics Emeritus, University of Virginia).
We gratefully acknowledge support from the University of Tennessee Department of Classics and the Semple Fund of the University of Cincinnati Department of Classics.
Program information is below. We welcome attendees who wish to come to the conference at their own expense. There is no registration fee, but we ask you to let both of us know no later than September 1, 2025 that you will attend.
Organizers:
Salvador Bartera (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) [email protected]
Kelly Shannon-Henderson (University of Cincinnati) [email protected]
Thursday, October 16
12:00-1:00pm Lunch for participants
1:00-1:30 Welcome and opening remarks
1:30-3:00 First paper session:
Timothy Joseph (College of the Holy Cross) – “‘Tacitus Now’ Now”
Caitlin Gillespie (Brandeis University) – “Tacitus’ Livia Reviewed”
3:00-3:30 coffee break
3:30-5:00 Second paper session:
Theodore Boivin (Bucknell University) – “Tiberius in Command? Control of Information in Annales 1-6.”
David Levene (New York University) – “Fake News and True Emotion: Tacitus' Audiences and the Death of Germanicus”
Friday, October 17
9:00-10:30am Third paper session:
. Victoria Pagán (University of Florida) – “Wonder in Sallust’s Jugurtha”
Thomas Strunk (Xavier University) – “The Damnatio Memoriae of Tacitus”
10:30-11:00 coffee break
11:00-12:30 Fourth paper session:
Christopher Whitton (University of Cambridge) – “Associative intertextuality in Tacitus, Annals 14”
Concluding remarks
