Call for Papers – Defining Classical Scholarship: The Research/Teaching Interface CA2014
Category: Conferences
CFP: Rhetoric of the Page in Latin Manuscripts of the Middle Ages
The Afterlife of Ovid ~ Conference Videos!
Last weekend, the Warburg Institute and the Institute for Classical Studies hosted a conference called The Afterlife of Ovid and a number of videos from the meeting have made it to Youtube. I’m going to sort of intersperse an ‘edited program’ with the videos (not all talks are there … not sure if they will be coming later today or what):
Thursday 7 March 2013
10. 50 Welcome: John North (IClS)
11.00 Professor Frank Coulson (Ohio State University)
Bernardo Moretti: A Newly Discovered Humanist Commentator on Ovid’s Ibis
11.50 Dr Ingo Gildenhard (University of Cambridge)
Dante’s Ovidian Poetics
1.50 Professor Gesine Manuwald (University College London)
Letter-writing after Ovid: his impact on Neo-Latin verse epistles
2.40 Professor Hélène Casanova-Robin (Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV)
D’Ovide à Pontano : le mythe, une forma mentis? De l’inuentio mythologique à l’élaboration d’un idéal d’humanitas
4.00 Dr Fátima Díez-Platas (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Et per omnia saecula imagine vivam: The imaged afterlife of Ovid in fifteenth and sixteenth century book illustrations
4.50 Dr Caroline Stark (Ohio Wesleyan University)
Reflections of Narcissus
Friday 8 March 2013
10.30 Professor John Miller (University of Virginia)
‘Ovid’s Janus and the Start of the Year in Renaissance Fasti Sacri.
11.20 Professor Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge)
Milton as Reader of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
12.10 Dr Victoria Moul (King’s College London)
The transformation of Ovid in Cowley’s herb garden: Books 1 and 2 of the Plantarum Libri Sex (1668).
2.00 Professor Maggie Kilgour (McGill University)
Translatio Studii, Translatio Ovidii
2.50 Professor Hérica Valladares (John Hopkins University)
The Io in Correggio: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of a Renaissance Painter
4.10 Professor Elizabeth McGrath (Warburg Institute)
Rubens and Ovid
Note in passing: this is a pretty good model for recording a conference or panel session although it might be useful if handouts were posted at the original conference website.
CFP: Plutarch Among the Barbarians
seen on various lists:
PLUTARCH AMONG THE BARBARIANS
Inaugural Meeting of the North American Sections of the International Plutarch Society
At the Banff Centre
Banff, Alberta, Canada
http://www.banffcentre.ca/
March 13-16, 2014
Please send abstracts of 300-400 words to Noreen Humble (nmhumble AT ucalgary.ca) by April 30, 2013
Cultural identity is an important concern for writers of the second sophistic, but there has yet to be a concerted consideration of Plutarch’s views on the matter. He is represented primarily by chapters in Goldhill’s Being Greek Under Rome (2001) and Swain’s Hellenism and Empire (1996). Yet Plutarch is especially important in this regard, since he lived during the period when the empire was really establishing an identity for itself (Julio-Claudians > Flavians > "Good Emperors") and he helped to usher in the second sophistic, where cultural identity, conceptions of the Greek past, and an understanding of the Greco-Roman present were being worked out in literature and rhetoric. Both the Lives and the Moralia obviously play an important role in our understanding of Imperial Greek impressions of the past and the present, and one of the aims of the conference will also be to consider Plutarch’s oeuvre as a whole in this regard.
Topics for consideration may include (but are not confined to): Plutarch’s exploration of his own cultural identity as well as what it means to be Greek, what constitutes barbarism in Plutarch’s eyes, Plutarch and the otherness of Sparta, Plutarch on the Macedonians, Plutarch compared with other second sophistic writers.
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Philip Stadter (University of North Carolina, US)
Anthony Podlecki (University of British Columbia, CA)
Christopher Pelling (Oxford University, UK)
Frances Titchener (Utah State University, US)
Organizing Committee:
Jeff Beneker (jbeneker AT wisc.edu)Craig Cooper (craigc AT nipissingu.ca)
Noreen Humble (nmhumble AT ucalgary.ca)
Frances Titchener (frances.titchener ATusu.edu)
CFP: Textiles and Cult in the Mediterranean Area in the first millennium BC
seen on the Classicists list:
First call for papers
Textiles and Cult in the Mediterranean Area in the first millennium BC
International workshop in Copenhagen, Denmark
Date: 21st – 22nd of November 2013 (two full days)
Place: The Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research, SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
It is a pleasure to announce an international workshop on the theme of textiles and cult in the Mediterranean in the first millennium BC. The workshop will be arranged by The Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research in collaboration with the National Museum of Denmark, and will take place in Copenhagen November 21st – 22nd 2013.
The workshop will explore the use and production of textiles in cultic contexts in the Mediterranean area. The aim of the workshop/colloquium is to gain a greater knowledge on the use of textiles in ancient cults, such as the dedication of garments to deities, the dressing of cult statues, the existence of certain priestly garments and clothing regulations for visitors to sacred areas, as well as the question of whether textiles were produced in sanctuaries.
We welcome papers that treat textiles in sacred contexts from all aspects – archaeological, philological, historical and ethnographical. Each paper will be allocated 20 minutes.
A publication of the workshop is scheduled for 2015: C. Brøns & M.-L. Nosch (eds.), Textiles and Cult in the Mediterranean in the first millennium BC, Ancient Textiles Series, Oxbow Books, Oxford (2015).
Please send us a confirmation of your interest and a preliminary title of your contribution as soon as possible, before June 1st 2013. Abstracts (max. 250 words) should be sent to Cecilie.Broens AT natmus.dk by August 1st.
There are no conference fees, but participants will have to provide their own funding for travel and accommodation.
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