August 30-September 1, 2021: New Trends in Ovid's Reading and Reception
Organizers: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith
The 2nd meeting of the International Ovidian Society in Europe, organized by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith, will take place, using an hybrid format, at the Fondation Hardt. Conference attendance is open for everyone interested. The link zoom for the three days is: https://zoom.us/j/93320054508?pwd=REw0U3docXlxekIxUERtRi8vSXJoZz09
Zoom ID: 933 2005 4508
Zoom Password: 718479
Monday 30 Aug
17:00: Introduction by Pierre Ducrey, Directeur de la Fondation Hardt, Andrew Feldherr and Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
17:30-18:30: Philip Hardie - The Ovidian Sublime. Antiquity and After
Tuesday 31 Aug
14:00-15:00 (Chair: Damien Nelis)
Andrew Feldherr - The Gate of Horns: Politics and Reception in Ovid's Cipus Episode (Met. 15.565-621)
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris - L'extension du domaine de l'amour (Mét. 1.452-73 et 5.346-84): deux moments clefs dans l’epos ‘empédocléen’ d’Ovide ?
15:25-16:55 (Chair: Barbara Weiden Boyd)
Andreas Michalopoulos – Male Voices in the Heroides
Theasellias Thorsen – The ontology of Ovid’s femina
Alison Keith - Women’s Voices in Ovid’s Pyramus & Thisbe and Salmacis & Hermaphroditus
17:25–18:25 (Chair: Hunter Gardner)
Alessandro Schiesaro - Freeze! Of stones, humans, and metamorphoses
Alison Sharrock - Human, inhuman and post-human
Wenesday 1 Sept
14:00-15:00 (Chair: Carole Newlands)
Ulrich Schmitzer - Ficta refers - Ovids subversive Erzählung von Philemon und Baucis
Frank Coulson - Phaethon's Wild Ride: Medieval Commentary on Met. II.1-400
15:25-16:55 (Chair: Alison Keith)
John Miller - Connecting the Disconnected: the Kalends of May in Ovid’s Fasti
Barbara Weiden Boyd - Ovidian Linearities
Florence Klein - Retour sur le problème du carmen perpetuum
17:25-18:25 (Chair: Philip Hardie)
Hunter Gardner - Anatomies of Failed Revolution in Ovid's Aeginetan Plague and Mary Shelley's The Last Man
Carole Newlands - Ali Smith and Robin Robertson: Scottish Ovidianism in the Twenty-first century
January 7-10, 2021: Ovid and the Constructed Visual Environment (SCS Panel of the International Ovidian Society)
Organizers: Andrew Feldherr (Princeton University) and Teresa Ramsby (UMass Amherst)
Herica Valladares, UNC Chapel Hill: “Viewing and Reading the Heroides in the House of Jason in Pompeii.”
Albert Bates, Cambridge University: “Arachne’s Tapestry and the Metaphors of Ecphrasis.”
Miriam Kamil, Harvard University: “Locus suspectus: Landscape and the Uncanny in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.”
Ashley Simone, Columbia University: “Ovid’s Phaethon and Failed Cosmic Vision.”
Del A. Maticic, New York University: “Materiam superabat opus? Raw Materiality in Ovid’s Phaethon Episode (Met. 2.1-366).”