Programme Notes
All times are in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). See below for a further note on conference timings and time zones.
The conference will be held on Zoom. To register your attendance, please email alison.sharrock@manchester.ac.uk. A joining link will be circulated to attendees in advance.
All attendees should be members of the International Ovidian Society at the time of the conference. Students and non-tenure track faculty are eligible for free membership for the first year. Membership details are available at https://ovidiansociety.org/joinus/.
Friday 12th June
| Panel
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Time (UTC) | Papers |
| Welcome | 08:45 | Organising committee
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| 1. Technical pedagogy | 09:00 – 10:30 | Suzanne Adema (Leiden University):
‘Designing Latin Language Exercises for Ovid’s Texts’ Ronald Blankenborg (Radboud University Nijmegen): ‘Poeta doctissimus: Ovid’s parsing, parsing Ovid’ Sonia Sabnis (Reed College): ‘Roman Topography with Ovid’s Fasti’
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| 2. Ovid and exile | 11:30 – 13:00 | Jacek Hajduk (Jagiellonion University):
‘Ovid Emerging from Exile: A Reversed Approach to Teaching the Poet’ Gabriel Evangelou (Ionian University): ‘Ovid in exile, students in dialogue: teaching displacement, voice, and belonging through the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto’ Barbara Weiden Boyd (Bowdoin College): ‘Ovid’s New Worlds’
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| 3. The Medieval Ovid (I) | 13:15 – 14:15 | Julie van Peteghem (Hunter College, CUNY):
‘In Concordance with Ovid: Exploring Medieval Ovidian Afterlives with Intertextual Dante’ Kyle Gervais (University of Western Ontario): ‘Teaching John Teaching Ovid: The Integumenta Ovidii’
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| 4. Rewritings and retellings | 14:30 – 16:00 | Charilaos N. Michalopoulos (Democritus University of Thrace):
‘Alternative Endings, Ovidian Techniques: Pedagogical Reflections and Critical Engagement’ Laura Aresi (University of Florence): ‘On Galatea’s Side: Teaching Ovid through Madeline Miller’s Intertextual Web’ Inger Kuin (University of Virginia): ‘Translation and Creativity in the Ovid Classroom’
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| 5. Teaching with the Metamorphoses (I) | 16:15 – 17:45 | Thomas Barrett (Royal Holloway University of London):
‘Teaching with Tiresias’ Emily Rushton (University of West London): ‘Vygotsky, Trauma, and Echo: Using Musical Response to Ovid’s Metamorphoses as Inclusive Pedagogy’ Christine L. Albright (University of Georgia): ‘Teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses through Art and Ekphrasis’
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Saturday 13th June
| Panel | Time (UTC) | Papers
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| 1. Teaching with the Metamorphoses (II) | 07:00 – 08:30 | Andrew Turner (University of Melbourne):
‘Teaching Latin Epic with the Metamorphoses’ Emily Lord-Kambitsch (Pacifica Graduate Institute): ‘Teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Ecopsychology’ Artemis Archontogeorgi (Democritus University of Thrace): ‘Teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses through Ecocriticism: Water and the Persephone Myth’
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| 2. The Heroides (I) | 09:00 – 10:30 | Paul White (University of Leeds):
‘Teaching the Heroides comparatively’ Anna-Rose Shack (University of Freiburg): ‘Directing the War Monologues: Retellings of Ovid’s Heroides’ Andrea Barcelot Orts (University of Ioannina): ‘From Emojis to Elegiac Voice: Teaching Ovid’s Heroides to Restore Emotional Expression’
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| 3. Raptus in the post-#MeToo era | 11:30 – 12:30 | Francesca Ludovici (University of Bologna):
‘Reading Ovid’s Rapes in the Italian Secondary School Classroom’ Elżbieta Górka and Anna Rogowska-Wandowicz (Schola Latina “Ad fontes”; University of Wrocław): ‘Teaching Ovid through Neo-Latin Pastoral: Reading Raptus in Sannazaro’s Salices’
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| 4. Workshop: Teaching with Manuscripts
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12:45 – 13:45 | Caitlin Hines and Caleb Dance (University of Cincinnati; Washington and Lee University):
‘Making Manuscripts Matter (More) in the Ovidian Classroom’
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| 5. The Heroides (II) | 14:00 – 15:30 | Sarah Corrigan (University of Melbourne):
‘Classical Reception through Ovid's Heroides and the Lens of Fan Fiction’ Ashley Walker (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): ‘Teaching the Heroides with Rare Books’ Sebastián Altamirano (Universidad de Costa Rica): ‘The Exercise of “new Heroids” based on Roman women’
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| 6. Workshop: Teaching with Editions
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15:45 – 17:15 | Sarah-Jane Murray and Matthieu Boyd (Fairleigh Dickinson University; Baylor University): ‘Teaching with The Medieval French Ovide Moralisé: An English Translation’ |
| Concluding remarks | 17:15 | Organising committee
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Conference timings and time zones
Times are expressed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This means that the first day, Friday 12 June, is spread across the following times:
UTC 08:45 – 17:45
BST 09:45 – 18:45 (e.g. London)
CEST 10:45 – 19:45 (e.g. Rome)
EEST 11:45 – 20:45 (e.g. Athens)
EDT 04:45 – 13:45 (e.g. New York)
CDT 03:45 – 12:45 (e.g. Chicago)
PDT 01:45 – 10:45 (e.g. Los Angeles)
AEST 18:45 (12 June) – 03:45 (13 June) (e.g. Canberra)
We appreciate, of course, that not everyone will be able to attend all the sessions, but we have done our best to enable everyone to speak at a fairly reasonable time, while also having panels that make reasonable intellectual sense.
The organising committee
Darcy Krasne (Barnard College)
William Little (The Ohio State University)
Rebecca Menmuir (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina)
Alison Sharrock (The University of Manchester)
The International Ovidian Society and Societas Ovidiana
The purpose of the International Ovidian Society is to advance the study of Ovid, with attention to all media and time periods and a commitment to supporting students and younger scholars. More at https://ovidiansociety.org/.
Societas Ovidiana is a network for the study of Ovid in the Middle Ages. The society organises, among other activities, events at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo).