IOS On-line Discussion of Recent Books on Ovid - Session 1
26 October 2023
The International Ovidian Society is inaugurating a new series of on-line discussions of recent books on Ovid. The format will be a 20-minute presentation by the author and a 20-minute response to the book by an Ovidian scholar, followed by general discussion. The organizer is Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Université de Lille)
The first session will address Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and The Imperial Family (Brill 2023), by Darja Šterbenc Erker (Humboldt Universität, Berlin). The commentator will be John F. Miller (University of Virginia).
Date and time: Thursday, October 26, 12 pm EST = 6 pm CET. Duration: up to 90 minutes.
Sustainable Ovid
12-14 September 2023 - International Society in Europe
Organisiert von Lisa Cordes und Ulrich Schmitzer mit Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
Humbolt Universität Berlin
Dienstag 12. September
15:45 Eröffnung der Tagung.
Neue politische Fragen und die Frage nach dem politischen Ovid.
16:00 Ovid and the Ecological Crisis
Alison Sharrock (Manchester)
16:30 Ovid and the post-human: Listening to Trees
Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State Univ.)
17:00 Die Metamorphosen als politisches Epos gelesen
Ulrich Schmitzer (HU Berlin)
17:30 Diskussion
18:00 Pause
18:30 Schulische Ovid-Lektüre im 21. Jahrhundert
Stefan Kipf (HU Berlin)
Mittwoch 13. September
Neue Texte – neue Perspektiven?
9:00 Imiter Ovide (et le signaler?) dans le roman grec: les modèles érotiques ovidiens dans Leucippé et Clitophon et la question des marqueurs d’intertextualité
Florence Klein (Lille)
9:30 Ovide et les poétesses: la Corinne des Amours
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Lille)
10:00 Diskussion
10:30 Pause
Narrative und rhetorische Strategien im Werk Ovids.
11:00 The Lover’s Calendar
John F. Miller (Univ. of Virginia)
11:30 The elusive voice of the puella in Ovid’s Amores
Andreas Michalopoulos (Athen)
12:00 Ovid’s personae and theories of character
Lisa Cordes (HU Berlin)
12:30 Diskussion
13:00 Mittagspause
14:00 Ovid and the Augustan gods
Darja Šterbenc Erker (HU Berlin, Ljubljana)
14:30 Balance and Excess in Ovid
Robert Kirstein (Tübingen).
15:00 Diskussion
15:30 Pause
Narrative und rhetorische Strategien in den Metamorphosen.
16:00 Erysichthon, Mestra and Sustainable Metamorphosis
Andrew Feldherr (Princeton)
16:30 Diventare Dio. Percorsi dell’apoteosi nelle Metamorfosi di Ovidio
Mario Labate (Firenze)
17:00 (Zoom) Nymphs, Art and Elemental Creativity in the Metamorphoses
Mariapia Pietropaolo (McMaster University)
17:30 Diskussion.
Donnerstag 14. September
Wege der Rezeption und Transformation Ovids. Philosophie und Ovid.
9:00 Docebo: The praeceptor and Pythagoras
Thea Selliaas Thorsen (Trondheim)
Frühchristliche Rezeption.
9:30 Christian metamorphoses of Ovidian metamorphosis
Philip Hardie (Cambridge)
10:00 Ovid and the Early Church Fathers
Gianpiero Rosati (Pisa)
10:30 Diskussion.
11:00 Pause.
Globale Rezeption.
11:30 Ovidianisms in Martha Marchina’s Musa Posthuma and in Sor Juana
Erika Zimmermann Damer (Univ. of Richmond)
12:00 Ovidianism in Gavin Douglas’s translation of the Aeneid
Carole Newlands (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder).
12:30 Diskussion.
13:00 Mittagspause.
Gesprengte Grenzen von Gattung und Medium: Rezeption und Transformation im 20. und 21.
Jahrhundert.
14:00 Ovid’s Scottish Brogue
Barbara Weiden Boyd (Bowdoin College)
14:30 Ovid in Haut Couture. The transformative work of Iris van Herpen,
Alessandro Barchiesi (New York University).
15:00 Diskussion.
15:30 Pause.
16:00 Ovid’s Pygmalion in 21st c. science fiction
Hunter Gardner (Univ. of South Carolina)
16:30 From Belfast to Tomis: Ovid’s Exile in the poetry of Derek Mahon,
Peter Kelly (Princeton)
17:00 Diskussion.
17:30 Schlussdiskussion und Verabschiedung.
Ovidian Poetry and Its Afterlife: New Approaches and Perspectives
March 29-30, 2023
Wednesday 29 March 2023
01:45 pm CEST / 12:45 am BST / 07:45 am EDT
Introduction & Welcome: Fabio Nolfo, Dominique Longrée, Costas Panayotakis
02:00 pm CEST / 01:00 pm BST / 08:00 am EDT
Session 1, Chair: Costas Panayotakis
Sergio Casali (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata")
«Intersections between Ovid's poetry and the late antique exegesis of Virgil»
Joe L. Watson (University of Warwick)
«Erotic Atalanta between Ovid's "Ars Amatoria" and "Metamorphoses": sex, epic, elegy»
Laura Aresi (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
«Love is competition: Corinna, Atalanta and the "certamen amori"s in Ovid and beyond»
Giovanni Zago (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
«Some remarks on the genesis and composition of Ovid's "Remedia amoris"»
04:00 pm CEST / 03:00 pm BST / 10:00 am EDT
Break
04:30 pm CEST / 03:30 pm BST / 10:30 am EDT
Session 2, Chair: Dominique Longrée
Sophia Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
«Instances of Ovidian interaction in early imperial mythography»
Ioannis Ziogas (University of Durham)
«Law in Ovid's "Fasti": the case of Claudia Quinta»
Carole Newlands (University of Colorado Boulder)
«Text, textile, and Ovid's "Fasti" in the "Delitiae Poetarum Illustrium Scotorum"»
Thursday 30 March 2023
01:45 pm CEST / 12:45 am BST / 07:45 am EDT
Session 3, Chair: Fabio Nolfo
Damien Nelis (Université de Genève)
«The historian in Ovid: universal histories and poetic traditions»
Lisa Piazzi (Università degli Studi di Pisa)
«Placatus mitisque: Alcune riflessioni sulla figura di Bacco nelle "Metamorfosi"»
Robert Kirstein – Simon Grund ("Eberhard Karls" Universität Tübingen)
«Narrating a State in Between: 'Daseinsmetaphern' in Ovid's poetry»
Chiara Battistella (Università degli Studi di Udine)
«Traces of Ovidian invective in the speeches of Seneca's "Medea"?»
04:00 pm CEST / 03:00 pm BST / 10:00 am EDT
Break
04:30 pm CEST / 03:30 pm BST / 10:30 am EDT
Session 4, Chair: CostasPanayotakis
Bruce Gibson (University of Liverpool)
«Ovid on the 'Parilia': "Fasti" 4.721–862»
Gian Luca Gregori (Sapienza Università di Roma)
«Reminiscenze ovidiane negli epitaffi cristiani di Roma»
Andreas Michalopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
«Ovid's afterlife: Ceyx and Alcyone in Christoph Ransmayr's dystopian Tomi»