[MGSA-L] Marginality, Canonicity and Passion conference

Syrimis, George george.syrimis at yale.edu
Tue Mar 27 09:51:37 PDT 2012




MARGINALITY, CANONICITY, PASSION
A  3-DAY CONFERENCE AT YALE
MARCH 30-APRIL 1, 2012
Generously funded by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund of Yale University
and by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung



FRIDAY, MARCH 30
101 Linsly Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, New Haven
3-3:30 Registration, coffee
3:30-5  Welcome (Marco Formisano and Chris Kraus) and keynote address: Hindy Najman, Yale University: “Between Hebrew and Greek philology”

5:15-6:45:  session 1. Chair, Jay Fisher, Yale
James Porter, UC Irvine: “Homer in the gutter: From Samuel Butler to the Second Sophistic and back again”
Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers: “Nothing to do with Dionysus? Classics and outlandish research”
Respondent: Irene Peirano, Yale

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
All sessions will be in 211 Linsly Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street
8:45-10:00 session 2. Chair, Kirk Freudenburg, Yale
Froma Zeitlin, Princeton: “Romancing the classics: The Hellenic standard and its vicissitudes under the Empire”
Marco Fantuzzi, Columbia: “On the bastardy of the Rhesus: unknown father-author or plural father-genres?”
Respondent: David Konstan, Brown/ NYU

      10:00-10:15 coffee

10:15-11:30: session 3. Chair, Craig Williams, Brooklyn College
Ralph Hexter, UC Davis: “Sexuality, reception, and scholarship”
Giulia Sissa, UCLA: “Textures and fluids: for a materialistic cultural history”
Respondent:  Alessandro Barchiesi, Stanford/Sienna (Arezzo)

11:30-12:45: session 4. Chair, John Matthews, Yale
Mark Vessey, UBC: “Varro's Passions and the Romancing of the Classical”
Scott McGill, Rice: “Summarizing Virgil in the Anthologia Latina”
Respondent:  Marco Formisano, Berlin


2:00-3:15:  session 5. Chair, Bob Kaster, Princeton
Reviel Netz, Stanford: “The minor, the specialized, the occasional: Ancient ways out of the canon”
Pauline LeVen & Pavlos Avlamis, Yale; Oxford: “Anecdotal evidence: Life on the margins in Machon's Chreiae”
Respondent: Brooke Holmes, Princeton

3:15-4:30: session 6. Chair, Barbara Shailor, Yale
Carmela Vircillo Franklin, Columbia: “Living texts/Marginal texts: A material philology of Medieval Latin literature”
John Oksanish, Wake Forest: “The elusive middle: Vitruvius’ mediocracy of virtue”
Respondent: Chris Kraus, Yale

      4:30-5:00: coffee

5:00-6:15: session 7. Chair, Marco Formisano, Berlin
Serafina Cuomo, Birkbeck College: “Marginality, ‘popular’ culture and social status”
Emily Greenwood, Yale: “Writing at the margins: Classics and credibility from Herodotus to Mtunthama”
Respondent: Emma Buckley, Saint Andrews University

SUNDAY, APRIL 1
All sessions will be in 211 Linsly Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street
9-10:15:  session 8. Chair, Chris Kraus, Yale
Shadi Bartsch, Chicago: “Classics at the margins of the West: Observations on modern China”
John Hamilton, Harvard: “Against discipline: The philology of Pascal Quignard”
Respondent:   Glenn Most, Scuola Normale/Chicago

      10:15-10:45  coffee

10:45-12:00  round table and wrap-up discussion, moderated by Joshua Billings, Cambridge/Yale and Thomas Beasley, Martin Devecka, Lidia Kuhivchak, and Emily Schurr (Yale graduate students).

 NO FORMAL REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
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Thomas A Thacher Professor of Latin
Chair, Department of Classics
401 Phelps Hall, 344 College Street
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