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PARATEXTUALITY AND THE READER IN LATIN COLLECTIONS

March 19, 2011 – School of Classics, University of St Andrews

Organiser: Laura Jansen (lij AT st-andrews.ac.uk)

This workshop explores the interplay between paratextuality and reception in
Latin verse and prose collections. Amongst critical and methodological
issues, it will probe the role indices, book numbers, inscriptions, titles,
false prefaces, and editorial postscripts have in our reading of collected
letters and poems, works of historiography and the commentary tradition.
Discussion aims to develop a new direction in the criticism of the structure
of Latin collections, and a new understanding of how this literature signals
the construction of its own readers through the lens of the paratext.

Speakers and papers:

Duncan Kennedy, University of Bristol
"’The ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of paratextuality: theoretical reflections"

Laura Jansen, University of St Andrews
"Ovidian Paratexts: Editorial Postscript and Readers in ex Ponto 1-3"

Roy Gibson, University of Manchester
"Starting with the index in the Letters of Pliny the Younger"

Roger Rees, University of St Andrews
"Texts and Paratexts as deliberate misinformation in Ammianus"

Monica Gale, University of Dublin, Trinity College
" ‘aliquid putare nugas’: literary filiation, critical communities and
reader-response in the Catullan paratext"

Donncha O’Rourke, University of Oxford
"Paratext and Intertext in Propertius"

Bruce Gibson, University of Liverpool
"Commentary as Paratext: Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender and the Eclogues of
Virgil"

For more details, please see:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/conferences/paratextuality/index.shtml

For further information, please contact:

Dr Laura Jansen(lij AT standrews.ac.uk)

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Call for papers – Postgraduate Conference

Ancient Ideas in the Modern World: Reinventing the Legacy of Greece
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, Friday 8th July 2011

This postgraduate conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary
forum for those working on the reception of classical Greek thought,
specifically vis-à-vis the conceptual life of the polis in modern
theory and practice.

Why does Greek political thought continue to fascinate western
political theorists from wildly divergent ideological traditions?
Why have the ideas behind the Athenian paideia and Spartan agoge had
so strong an influence across so many different societies?
How significantly have our own perceptions of the ancient world been
coloured by the interpretations of 19th century Classicists?
Why are classical foundations so important in the work of post-modern
critics such as Derrida and Kristeva?

We welcome contributions in any of these areas, both from Classicists,
and from those working in other relevant humanities disciplines.
Interested students are invited to submit titles and abstracts (c. 300
words) for 20 minute papers to Helen Roche (hber2) and Carol
Atack (cwa24 AT cam.ac.uk) by Friday March 25th 2011.

We envisage there being two panels – one more focused on theory and
theorists, the other on political actors and cultural history. In
addition, there will be a keynote address given by Professor Paul
Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Faculty of
Classics, Cambridge University.

For further information please contact the organisers: Carol Atack
(cwa24) or Helen Roche (hber2 AT cam.ac.uk).