Marco Formisano, Humboldt University Humboldt Formisano, Marco Respondent:

MARCH 30 - APRIL 1, 2012 2012 1, APRIL - 30 MARCH

Summarizing Virgil in the Anthologia Latina Anthologia the in Virgil Summarizing

Lidia Kuhivchak, and Emily Schurr (Yale graduate students) graduate (Yale Schurr Emily and Kuhivchak, Lidia

Scott McGill, Rice McGill, Scott

Department of Classics Classics of Department

Devecka, Martin Beasley, Thomas and Cambridge/Yale Billings, Joshua by moderated

Design Marta Ricci Design Marta

Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund of Yale University University Yale of Fund Kempf Clarke Dorothy and J. Edward A conference at Yale at conference A

Varro‘s Passions and the Romancing of the Classical the of Romancing the and Passions Varro‘s

10:45-12:00 round table and wrap-up discussion discussion wrap-up and table round 10:45-12:00

Mark Vessey, UBC Vessey, Mark

Generously funded by: funded Generously

coffee coffee 10:15-10:45 Chair: John Matthews, Yale Matthews, John Chair:

11:30-12:45 session 4 4 session 11:30-12:45

Respondent: Glenn Most, Scuola Normale/Chicago Scuola Most, Glenn Respondent: Sonderforschungsbereich 644 Sonderforschungsbereich

Transformationen der Antike der Transformationen

Against discipline: The philology of Pascal Quignard Pascal of philology The discipline: Against Alessandro Barchiesi, Stanford/Sienna (Arezzo) Stanford/Sienna Barchiesi, Alessandro Respondent:

John Hamilton, Harvard Hamilton, John

Textures and fluids: for a materialistic cultural history cultural materialistic a for fluids: and Textures

Classics at the margins of the West: Observations on modern China modern on Observations West: the of margins the at Classics Giulia Sissa, UCLA Sissa, Giulia

Shadi Bartsch, Chicago Bartsch, Shadi

Sexuality, reception, and scholarship and reception, Sexuality,

Chair, Chris Kraus, Yale Kraus, Chris Chair, UC Davis UC Hexter, Ralph

9-10:15 session 8 8 session 9-10:15 Chair: Craig Williams, Brooklyn College Brooklyn Williams, Craig Chair: [email protected]

(Yale University) (Yale Kraus S. Christina

10:15-11:30 session 3 3 session 10:15-11:30

SUNDAY, APRIL 1 1 APRIL SUNDAY, 211 Linsly Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street High 63 Hall, Chittenden Linsly 211

and

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(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) zu (Humboldt-Universität Formisano Marco

Respondent: Emma Buckley, Saint Andrews University Andrews Saint Buckley, Emma Respondent:

Respondent: David Konstan, Brown/ NYU Brown/ Konstan, David Respondent:

An international conference organized by: organized conference international An

Writing at the margins: Classics and credibility from Herodotus to Mtunthama to Herodotus from credibility and Classics margins: the at Writing

On the bastardy of the Rhesus: unknown father-author or plural father-genres? plural or father-author unknown Rhesus: the of bastardy the On

Emily Greenwood, Yale Greenwood, Emily

Marco Fantuzzi, Columbia Fantuzzi, Marco

Marginality, ‘popular’ culture and social status social and culture ‘popular’ Marginality,

Romancing the classics: The Hellenic standard and its vicissitudes under the Empire the under vicissitudes its and standard Hellenic The classics: the Romancing

other literatures. other

Serafina Cuomo, Birkbeck College Birkbeck Cuomo, Serafina

Froma Zeitlin, Princeton Zeitlin, Froma

raises the fundamental question of the specificity of the study of Greek and Latin as opposed to to opposed as Latin and Greek of study the of specificity the of question fundamental the raises

Chair, Marco Formisano, Humboldt University Humboldt Formisano, Marco Chair,

Chair: Kirk Freudenburg, Yale Freudenburg, Kirk Chair: new scholarly trends is in some cases drawing attention precisely to previously understudied texts, texts, understudied previously to precisely attention drawing cases some in is trends scholarly new

5:00-6:15 session 7 7 session 5:00-6:15

theories have entered scholarly discourse within the discipline of Classics, and when the rise of of rise the when and Classics, of discipline the within discourse scholarly entered have theories 8:45-10:00 session 2 2 session 8:45-10:00

discussing marginality and the related issue of canonicity at this point in time, when post-modern post-modern when time, in point this at canonicity of issue related the and marginality discussing

4:30-5:00 coffee 4:30-5:00

SATURDAY, MARCH 31 31 MARCH SATURDAY, 211 Linsly Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street High 63 Hall, Chittenden Linsly 211 characteristic differences between European and North American scholarly traditions. Finally, Finally, traditions. scholarly American North and European between differences characteristic

discourse, it has become increasingly canonical within academic institutions, with significant and and significant with institutions, academic within canonical increasingly become has it discourse, Respondent: Chris Kraus, Yale Yale Kraus, Chris Respondent:

extreme case indeed: no longer active as an aesthetic or ethical model within contemporary literary literary contemporary within model ethical or aesthetic an as active longer no indeed: case extreme

The elusive middle: Vitruvius’ mediocracy of virtue of mediocracy Vitruvius’ middle: elusive The

Respondent: Irene Peirano, Yale Peirano, Irene Respondent:

itself by shedding light on past and current scholarly trends. Classical literature represents an an represents literature Classical trends. scholarly current and past on light shedding by itself

John Oksanish, Wake Forest Wake Oksanish, John Passion

Nothing to do with Dionysus? Classics and outlandish research outlandish and Classics Dionysus? with do to Nothing investigate the inner process of the discipline and to offer a sort of assessment of the discipline discipline the of assessment of sort a offer to and discipline the of process inner the investigate

Living texts/Marginal texts: A material philology of Medieval Latin literature Latin Medieval of philology material A texts: texts/Marginal Living Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers Edmunds, Lowell

This conference aims to re-open the discussion at this particular historical moment in order to to order in moment historical particular this at discussion the re-open to aims conference This

Columbia Franklin, Vircillo Carmela Homer in the gutter: From Samuel Butler to the Second Sophistic and back again back and Sophistic Second the to Butler Samuel From gutter: the in Homer

Canonicity

Chair, Barbara Shailor, Yale Shailor, Barbara Chair, James Porter, UC Irvine UC Porter, James the intersection of the concepts of marginality, canonicity and passion. and canonicity marginality, of concepts the of intersection the

certain paradox informs the habitus and the intellectual profile of many classicists, and it lies at at lies it and classicists, many of profile intellectual the and habitus the informs paradox certain

3:15-4:30 session 6 6 session 3:15-4:30 Chair: Jay Fisher, Yale Fisher, Jay Chair:

of passion and personal inclination: individual tendencies and approaches matter too. In short, a a short, In too. matter approaches and tendencies individual inclination: personal and passion of

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Marginality

Respondent: Brooke Holmes, Princeton Holmes, Brooke Respondent: lems and professional aspects. Moreover, the choice of which texts to study is frequently a matter matter a frequently is study to texts which of choice the Moreover, aspects. professional and lems

- prob theoretical both consider must which analysis, deeper a requires marginality and canonicity

Anecdotal evidence: Life on the margins in Machon‘s Chreiae Machon‘s in margins the on Life evidence: Anecdotal Taste and Justice and Taste

does not seem to have truly affected professional and interpretive practices. The discourse of of discourse The practices. interpretive and professional affected truly have to seem not does Pavlos Avlamis, Oxford Avlamis, Pavlos & Yale LeVen, Pauline Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Duke University Duke Smith, Herrnstein Barbara

classical literatures and their cultural canonicity for Western civilization at large, this discussion discussion this large, at civilization Western for canonicity cultural their and literatures classical

3:30-5 The minor, the specialized, the occasional: Ancient ways out of the canon the of out ways Ancient occasional: the specialized, the minor, The Welcome (Marco Formisano and Chris Kraus) and keynote address: address: keynote and Kraus) Chris and Formisano (Marco Welcome

and Vergil. Although there has been in the past a lively debate devoted to questioning the status of of status the questioning to devoted debate lively a past the in been has there Although Vergil. and Reviel Netz, Stanford Netz, Reviel

Antiquity immediately suggests big names such as Homer, Sophocles, Thucydides, Cicero, Horace Horace Cicero, Thucydides, Sophocles, Homer, as such names big suggests immediately Antiquity 3-3:30 Registration, coffee Registration,

Chair, Bob Kaster, Princeton Kaster, Bob Chair,

field: for non-classicists there is practically an equation between „classical antiquity“ and „canon“. „canon“. and antiquity“ „classical between equation an practically is there non-classicists for field:

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Pavlos Avlamis is College Lecturer in Emma Buckley is Lecturer in Latin and Marco Formisano is Lecturer at the John Hamilton is Professor of Brooke Holmes is an Assistant Professor Pauline LeVen is Assistant Professor of John Oksanish is Asst. Professor Mark Vessey is Professor of English Classics at St John’s College, Oxford. He speciali- Classical Studies at the University of St Andrews. Humboldt University in Berlin. He is a scholar of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. in the Department of Classics at Princeton Univer- Classics at Yale. Her main area of interest is Greek of Classical Languages at Wake Forest Univer- at the University of British Columbia and Princi- ses in postclassical Greek literature and culture, She works on post-Virgilian epic and tragedy, and Latin literature and focuses in particular on late He has held previous teaching positions at New sity. She works at the intersections of Greek lite- poetry and musical culture, and her first book is sity where he began teaching in Fall 2011. He is pal of Green College in the same university. He is and is currently preparing a monograph on The also has research interests in the reception of antique literary aesthetics and poetics as well as York University, with visiting professorships at the rature, science and medicine, and philosophy, with mostly devoted to the late fifth- and early fourth- preparing two articles for publication on Vitruvius‘ interested in long western histories of knowledge, popular, the polis, and the everyday in Imperial Virgil and Ovid in the medieval and Renaissance on literary aspects of technical writing, especially University of California-Santa Cruz and at Bristol particular interests in the history of subjectivity century BC phenomenon known as the New Music De architectura, which was the subject of his literature, and nationality, especially as they Greek literature. A related recent publication is periods. She is the Yale-St. Andrews Visiting Scho- the art of war. His publications include the mono- University‘s Institute of Greece, Rome and the and the body, materialism, tragedy, ethics, critical (The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation dissertation at Yale. He contributed several entries pivot on (Christian) Latin late antiquity, and so his his chapter on “Isis and the people in the Life of lar in the Spring of 2012. graph Tecnica e scrittura (Carocci 2001), editions Classical Tradition. Resident fellowships include theory, and reception studies. Her first book, The in Late Classical Greek Lyric Poetry, Cambridge to The Vergil Encyclopedia (R.F. Thomas, J.M. Ziol- passions embrace such marginal classics of the Aesop“ in P. Townsend & M. Vidas, eds., Revelation, of Vegetius, Epitoma rei militaris and the Passio the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2005 – 2006) Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the UP). Her next project (The Anecdote) deals with an- kowski, eds. and has given numerous papers, at canon as Augustine, Erasmus, W. H. Auden, and Literature, and Community in Late Antiquity (Mohr Serafina Cuomo is Reader in Roman Perpetuae et Felicitatis (Rizzoli 2003 and 2008), and Berlin‘s Zentrum für Literatur- und Kultur- Physical Body in Ancient Greece, appeared in cient anecdotes as narrative and cultural practice. the annual meeting of the APA and elsewhere. Jacques Derrida. His „Writing before Literature: Siebeck, Tübingen 2011) History at Birkbeck, University of London. She has the co-edited volumes War in Words. Transforma- forschung (2011). Publications include Soliciting 2010. Among her forthcoming publications is an Derrida‘s Confessions and the Latin Roman World“ published in the history of ancient Greek and Ro- tions of War from Antiquity to Clausewitz (with H. Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity and the Classical Tra- edited volume (with W. H. Shearin) on the recepti- Scott McGill is associate professor of Irene Peirano is Assistant Professor appeared in Derrida and Antiquity, ed. Miriam Alessandro Barchiesi teaches Latin man mathematics and technology. She is currently Böhme, De Gruyter 2011) and Perpetua’s Passi- dition (2004), Music, Madness and the Unworking on of Epicureanism, due to appear in 2012. Classics at Rice University. His book Plagiarism of Classics at Yale. Her research focuses on Leonard (Oxford UP 2010), and he recently edited Literature at Stanford and the University of Siena working on a project entitled: Ancient Numeracy. ons. Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio of Language (2008), and Security: Politics, Humani- in Latin Literature is set to be published with Roman poetry and its relation to rhetoric and a Companion to Augustine (2012) for the series of at Arezzo. His recent research includes the 2011 Counting, calculating and measuring in ancient Perpetuae et Felicitatis (with J.N. Bremmer, Oxford ty and the Philology of Care (forthcoming 2012). David Konstan is Professor of Classics Cambridge UP in June 2012. His first book, Virgil literary criticism, both ancient and modern. She Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Sather Classical Lectures (‚The War for Italia‘, on Greece and Rome. UP 2012). at New York University, and Professor Emeritus Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Centos is especially interested in notions of authorship Italy, Rome, and Virgil‘s Aeneid) and the editing of Barbara Herrnstein Smith of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown in Antiquity, was published with Oxford in 2005. He in antiquity and in the history of scholarship and Froma Zeitlin is Charles Ewing Professor the Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (with W. Lowell Edmunds is Professor Emeritus Carmela Vircillo Franklin’s research is Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative University. Among his recent publications are also edited with Cristiana Sogno and Ed Watts a editing. Her book, The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake: of Greek Language and Literature and Professor Scheidel), and of a multi-authored commentary of Classics at Rutgers University. His most recent focuses on medieval Latin texts and the material Literature and English Emerita at Duke Univer- Greek Comedy and Ideology (1995), Friendship volume in honor of John Matthews entitled From Latin Pseudepigrapha in context, is forthcoming of Comparative Literature (Emerita), at Princeton on Ovid‘s Metamorphoses (an English updated book is Oedipus (2006) for the Routledge series and historical contexts in which such texts were sity. Her publications include Contingencies of in the Classical World (1997), Pity Transformed the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians: Later Roman His- with Cambridge UP. University. She has published extensively in the version is being prepared by Cambridge UP). ‚Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World‘. Some of created, studied and transformed, as in her last Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory (2001), The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (2006), tory and Culture 284-450 CE (Cambridge UP 2010). field of Greek literature (epic, tragedy and comedy, his recent and forthcoming articles are on minor book, Material Restoration: A Fragment from (Harvard UP 1988) and Belief and Resistance: “A Life Worthy of the Gods”: The Materialist Pyscho- He is currently working on a blank verse translati- James Porter is Professor of Classics novel) and in gender studies. Author of Under the Shadi Bartsch is the Helen A. Regenstein Roman poetry. He is currently completing a book Eleventh–Century Echternach in a Nineteenth- Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Contro- logy of Epicurus (2008), and Before Forgiveness: on of Juvencus‘ Evangeliorum libri IV as part of Joe and Comparative Literature at UC Irvine. His Sign of the Shield: Semiotics and Aeschylus‘ Seven Distinguished Service Professor of Classics at on the myth of Helen and its folklore analogues. Century Parisian Codex (UCLA/Brepols 2009). versy (Harvard UP 1997). Smith’s work has dealt The Origins of a Moral Idea (2010). He is currently Pucci‘s new Routledge series of translations of research and teaching interests lie in philosophy, Against Thebes (1982; 2d ed. 2009) and Playing the University of Chicago. Her interests inclu- She has also a special interest in the literary and with questions of aesthetics, language and critical working on a book on the ancient Greek concepti- later Latin poetry. aesthetics, literary and cultural criticism, the the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek de Roman Stoicism, Silver Latin literature, and Marco Fantuzzi is Visiting Professor book culture of medieval Rome, and has written theory, with concepts of truth and value, and with on of beauty. history of the classical disciplines, and reception Literature (1996), she also edited Mortals and the history of rhetoric. She is the author of four of Greek Literature at Columbia University, New on Roman hagiography and its manuscripts, and issues involving taste, knowledge and judgment. Glenn W. Most is Professor of Greek studies. He is the author, most recently, of The Immortals: Selected Essays of Jean-Pierre Vernant books, including The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, York, and Professor at the University of Macerata the city’s early medieval Greek milieu. Her current Smith was elected president of the Modern Lan- Christina S. Kraus is Thomas A Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: (1991) and coedited two collective volumes, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman (Italy). He is a member of the board of Bryn Mawr project, The Liber pontificalis of Pandulphus Ro- guage Association in 1988. She is a member of the Thacher Professor of Latin at Yale University and Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at Matter, Experience and Sensation (Cambridge UP Nothing to Do with Dionysos?: Athenian Drama Empire (Chicago UP 2006) and Actors in the Au- Classical Review, Materiali e Discussioni, Seminari manus: from Schismatic Document to Renaissance American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Chair of the Department of Classics. She works the University of Chicago, and External Scienti- 2010). His current projects include The Sublime in in its Social Context (1990) and Before Sexuality: dience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Romani di Cultura Greca, and the author of Traditi- Exemplar, is concerned with a non-canonical Honorary Fellow of the American Association for primarily on Latin historiography, with special in- fic Member at the Max Planck Institute for the Antiquity: The Evolution of a Concept and Homer: Structures of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Hadrian (Harvard UP 1994). She is the recipient of on and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry, Cambridge redaction of the papal chronicle and its reception the Advancement of Science. terests in narrative, prose style, and commentary. History of Science in Berlin. He works on ancient The Very Idea. Greek World (1990). She is currently at work on a Guggenheim and ACLS fellowships and is current- 2004 (with R. Hunter); Achilles in Love. Intertex- from the 12th to the 20th century. Recent co-edited volumes include Visualizing the and modern literature and philosophy, and on the project entitled Vision, Figuration, and Image from ly working on a book on the history of metaphor. tual Studies, Oxford 2012. He co-edited (with R. Ralph Hexter is Distinguished Professor Tragic. Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and history of scholarship and the classical tradition. Giulia Sissa is Professor of Classics Theater to Romance. Pretagostini) Struttura e storia dell’esametro greco, Emily Greenwood is Professor of of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC Literature (2007) and Ancient Historiography and His publications include the monograph Doubting and Political Science at UCLA. She has been a re- Joshua Billings is Research Fellow at Rome 1995–6 and (with T. Papanghelis) Brill’s Classics at Yale University. Her research interests Davis, where he also serves as Provost & Executive its contexts (2010); she gave the Martin Lectures Thomas (Harvard UP 2005) and the co-edited volu- searcher at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Soci- St John‘s College, University of Cambridge and, Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral, Leiden include ancient Greek historiography, Black Clas- Vice Chancellor. He has focused primarily on Latin in 2009 on “Tacitean polyphonies: The Agricola and me The Classical Tradition (with A.T. Grafton and S. ale, at the CNRS in Paris, and professor of Classics from 2012, Assistant Professor of Classics and 2000. He is now co-editing with with C. Tsagalis A sicism, Classics and Postcolonialism, and the the- literature with special focuses on medieval Latin its scholarly reception”. She is currently finishing Settis, Harvard UP 2010). at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author Humanities, Yale University. His research focuses Companion to the Epic Cycle (Cambridge UP), and ory and practice of translating the Classics. She and issues of reception. His most recent publi- a collaborative commentary on Tacitus, Agricola of numerous books and articles on the history, on tragedy and intellectual history in the classi- completing, a full scale commentary on the Rhe- is the author of Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between cations are Shades of Ovid: pseudo- (and para-) with Tony Woodman, and beginning a project with Reviel Netz is Professor of Classics at anthropology and philosophy of the ancient world, cal tradition, with emphasis on ancient Greece sus ascribed to Euripides (Cambridge UP). Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in Ovidiana in the Middle Ages, in James G. Clark, Chris Stray on classical commentaries. Stanford University. His most recent monograph is including, Greek Virginity (Harvard UP 1990), The and modern Germany. He is currently at work on the Twentieth Century, and Thucydides and the Frank T. Coulson, and Kathryn L. McKinley, eds., Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexand- Daily Life of the Greek Gods (with Marcel Detienne, a book about the theory of tragedy in Germany Shaping of History. Ovid in the Middle Ages (Cambridge UP 2011), and rian Aesthetic (Cambridge UP 2009), and one of his Stanford UP 2000), Le Plaisir et le Mal. Philoso- around 1800 and is co-editing a volume on the Canonicity and Location, Location, Location: Geo- main research interests is in science as a literary phie de la drogue (Paris 1997), L‘ame est un corps Greek chorus and its reception. graphy, Knowledge, and the Creation of Medieval genre. de femme (Paris 2000) and Sex and Sensuality in Latin Textual Communities, in Ralph J. Hexter and the Ancient World (Yale UP 2008). She is currently David Townsend, eds., Oxford Handbook of Medie- working on ancient democracy and imperialism, val Latin Literature (Oxford UP 2012). on politics and the passions, and on the pursuit of pleasure from Athens to Utopia.