Forthcoming Events
16-17 May 2012: The Early Modern Lucretius, conference (with Stephen Greenblatt)
Details and registration at: http://www.cems-oxford.org/lucretius2012
16 June 2012: Imperial Greek Epic day
Please join us on 16 June 2012 in the Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College, for a day devoted to the wonderful world of imperial Greek epic.
The event is designed to be an exploratory workshop rather than a formal conference. There will be three short papers of a general nature (what is imperial Greek epic? Does it make sense as a unity? How do we read it? How do we place it, culturally and historically?) There will also be 5 text sessions (marked with an asterisk below), devoted to working through passages that will be circulated to those who signal their interest in advance.
Cost: £10, or £15 with lunch included. If you are interested, please email Tim Whitmarsh.
9:45 - 10:30 Tim Whitmarsh (Oxford), ‘The genres of imperial Greek epic'
10:30 - 11.15 *Amin Benaissa (Oxford), ‘Dionysius, Bassarica'
11.15 - 11.45 BREAK
11.45-12:30 *Calum Maciver (Leeds), ‘Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica'
12:30-1:15 *Laura Miguélez Cavero (Salamanca/Oxford), ‘On poets, critics and ivory towers; or the temptations of reading epic in isolation'
1:15 - 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 2:45 *Anna Lefteratou (Göttingen), ‘Nonnus, Paraphrase'
2:45 - 3:30 *Rob Shorrock (Eton College), ‘Nonnus, Dionysiaca'
3:30 - 4:00 BREAK
4:00 - 4:45 Emily Kneebone (Cambridge) ‘Epic encounters: literary strategies in imperial Greek epic'
4:45 - 5.30 Closing discussion
22 June 2012: Writing bling-bling: gems and their representation in antiquity, day workshop
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Sanne Rishoj Christensen, ‘Non-Posidippean gem epigrams'
12.00 Verity Platt, ‘Graeco-Roman seal-stones and the poetics of impression'
1.00-1.45 Lunch
1.45 Mike Squire, ‘Gems and the poetics of size'
2.45 Laura Miguélez Cavero, ‘"When Cytherea gave the glorious necklace to her girl": gems in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus'
3.45-4.15 Tea
4.15 Jas' Elsner, ‘Lithic poetics'
5.15-5.45 Closing discussion
If you are interested in attending, please contact Tim Whitmarsh
Those planning to attend should also note the workshop on ancient gem research to be held in the Beazley archive on the following day (23rd June):
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/events/gems.htm
23 June 2012: The Transformation of the Imperial Office in Late Antiquity, Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity one-day colloqium.
Details available here and on the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity website.
