Forthcoming Events
Centuries of Original Latin (COOL)
1300 to 2015? That's a lot of Latin.
The huge corpus of Latin works dating from the medieval period to present day is formidable and exciting.
A colloquium on Saturday 13th June 2015 (9.30am-1.30pm)
Rainolds Room, Corpus Christi College
Whatever term we use, 'New Latin', 'Neo-Latin' etc., those of us who engage with Medieval and Renaissance learning are grappling with a treasure trove and a cluster of special challenges.
If you have ventured into this world, come and share your research with us.
You will be surprised how many scholars within the University are engaging with neo-Latin sources in their current research.
We are all hidden in different faculties and departments, but on June 13th we have an opportunity to meet and share a morning together.
9.30-11: 5 short papers (15 mins) with questions
11-11.15: Break for biscuits (provided*)
11.15-12.45: 5 short papers (15 mins) with questions
12.45pm Group discussion
Neo-Latin in Oxford: taking stock of where we are now.
Future directions and developments in the field; a major conference in Vienna this August (International Association for Neo-Latin Studies); plans for a reading group in Oxford next year.
Participants are welcome to bring lunch to eat during this session.
1.15 Depart
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‘Drawing the Greek Vase’
A One-Day Workshop at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Friday 26 June 2015, 9.30 am to 7.00 pm
Generously supported by the Oxford University John Fell OUP Research Fund and The Corpus Christi College Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity
Organisers:
Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (Corpus Christi College, Oxford and King’s College London) &
Dr Caspar Meyer (Birkbeck College, London)
A one-day workshop exploring the depiction of ancient Greek Vases in two-dimensional media from the eighteenth century to the present. Issues to be discussed include the range, purpose and audience of drawings, their aesthetic choices, the manner in which they transform three-dimensional functional ceramic artefacts into two-dimensional depictions evoking the value and desirability of antiquities. What effect have these drawings had on the status, understanding and scholarship of Greek Vases? The workshop is intended to raise questions about visualization and representation, to focus attention on a key mode of receiving Classical material culture, and to stimulate discussion and new approaches to Greek Vases.
Programme
Registration and Coffee from 9.30 in the Rainolds Room
Session 1: 10.00-12.30
Chair: Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
10.00-10.50 Dr Caspar Meyer: ‘Drawings of Vases as Simulacra: On the Non-Mimetic Content of Antiquarian Visualizations’
10.50-11.40 Dr Katharina Lorenz (Nottingham): ‘Studying Narrative on Late-Fifth Century Vases. Adolf Furtwängler’s Hervorragende Vasenbilder and their Methodological Implications’
11.40-12.30 Professor Richard Neer (Chicago): ‘Beazley, Drawing and the Use of Pleasure’
12.30-13.30 Lunch (Fraenkel Room)
Session 2: 13.30-14.30
Chair: Dr Thomas Mannack
13.30-14.00 Dr Peter Stewart (CARC Director) and Dr Diana Rodriguez Perez
(Beazley Archive Pottery Database): ‘Beazley’s Drawings and the Beazley Archive’, followed by a Handling Session of a selection of Beazley’s Drawings
Session 3: 14.30-18.00
Chair: Professor Jas’ Elsner
14.30-15.20 Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis: ‘Incipient Archaeology and Two-Dimensional Recording of Greek Vases in the Early C19th: The Case of Thomas Burgon in Ottoman Athens’
15.20-16.10 Professor Milette Gaifman (Yale): ‘The Flattened Greek Vase’
16.10-16.40 Tea (Fraenkel Room)
16.40-17.30 Dr Nikolaus Dietrich (Berlin and Heidelberg):‘Drawing vs. Photography: On the Gains and Losses of Technical Innovation’
17.30-18.00 Plenary Discussion
18.00-19.00 Drinks Reception
19.30 Speakers’ Dinner
Due to the size of the room there is a limit on numbers of participants and registration in advance is necessary by emailing Dr Caspar Meyer (h.meyer@bbk.ac.uk). Participation costs £9.50, which covers lunch, coffee, tea and drinks reception (CCC graduates do not pay). Please send a cheque payable to Corpus Christi College Oxford to Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, Corpus Christi College Oxford OX1 4JF, by 15 June (alexia.petsalis-diomidis@ccc.ox.ac.uk).
