Overwhelmed: Spectacles and visuality in Early and Late Imperial Poetry Programme Overwhelmed: Spectacles & Visuality in Early and Late Imperial Poetry The University of Edinburgh and Ghent University Conference organised by Beatrice Bersani, Clara Lazzoni, Aaron Pelttari, and Vicente Flores Militello 18 April 15:00 Introductory remarks 15:15 Session 1 Pelttari, A. (Edinburgh) The Illustrated Psychomachia. Pellacani, D. (Bologna) Between Words and Pictures: Texts, Paratexts and Iconographic Apparatus in the Late Antique Model of Cicero’s Aratea. 16:15 Coffee Break 16:30 Session 2 Alitalo, A. (Oxford) Frightful Colours: Chromophobia and Chromophilia in Latin Poetry. Bersani, B. (Edinburgh) Polychromy in Prudentius and Claudian 17:30 Drinks Reception in the McMillan Room of the Old Medical School 19:00 Conference Dinner 19 April 9:45 – 10:45 Session 3 Benvenuti, F. (Bologna) The Spectacularization of Nature and the Environment in Statius’ Silvae. Between Ekphrasis and Ecology. Philip, T. (Rutgers, N.J.) Chaste Spectacles in the Symposion of Methodius. 10:45 Coffee Break 11:00 Session 4 Lazzoni, C. (Edinburgh) Optatian Poem II: The figurative between inter- and intra-textuality. Foster, F. (Cambridge) Verbal-visual Display in Ausonius’ Poetry. 12:00 Lunch 14:00 Keynote Lecture: Katharina Lorenz 14:45 Coffee Break 15:00 Session 5 Castelnuovo, E. (Trento) The Cross in Red: Symbolic and Spectacular Communication in Venantius Fortunatus’ Hymns to the Cross. Van der Sype, N. (Gent) Orator Toto Clarus in orbe fui: Vision and Rhetoric as Performance in the Elegiae of Maximianus. 16:00 Coffee Break 16:30 Keynote Lecture: Jesús Hernández Lobato Through Heaven’s Eyes: The Spectacle of Transparency and All-Seeingness in Late Antique Poetry. 17:15 Closing Remarks We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Institute of Classical Studies, the School of History Classics & Archaeology of the University of Edinburgh (in particular their Student Led Initiative Fund), and the University of Ghent. Image Image Apr 18 2024 00.00 - Apr 19 2024 23.59 Overwhelmed: Spectacles and visuality in Early and Late Imperial Poetry A conference organised by Beatrice Bersani, Clara Lazzoni, Aaron Pelttari, and Vicente Flores Militello. Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, University of Edinburgh, 15a George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD Find the venue Register
Overwhelmed: Spectacles and visuality in Early and Late Imperial Poetry Programme Overwhelmed: Spectacles & Visuality in Early and Late Imperial Poetry The University of Edinburgh and Ghent University Conference organised by Beatrice Bersani, Clara Lazzoni, Aaron Pelttari, and Vicente Flores Militello 18 April 15:00 Introductory remarks 15:15 Session 1 Pelttari, A. (Edinburgh) The Illustrated Psychomachia. Pellacani, D. (Bologna) Between Words and Pictures: Texts, Paratexts and Iconographic Apparatus in the Late Antique Model of Cicero’s Aratea. 16:15 Coffee Break 16:30 Session 2 Alitalo, A. (Oxford) Frightful Colours: Chromophobia and Chromophilia in Latin Poetry. Bersani, B. (Edinburgh) Polychromy in Prudentius and Claudian 17:30 Drinks Reception in the McMillan Room of the Old Medical School 19:00 Conference Dinner 19 April 9:45 – 10:45 Session 3 Benvenuti, F. (Bologna) The Spectacularization of Nature and the Environment in Statius’ Silvae. Between Ekphrasis and Ecology. Philip, T. (Rutgers, N.J.) Chaste Spectacles in the Symposion of Methodius. 10:45 Coffee Break 11:00 Session 4 Lazzoni, C. (Edinburgh) Optatian Poem II: The figurative between inter- and intra-textuality. Foster, F. (Cambridge) Verbal-visual Display in Ausonius’ Poetry. 12:00 Lunch 14:00 Keynote Lecture: Katharina Lorenz 14:45 Coffee Break 15:00 Session 5 Castelnuovo, E. (Trento) The Cross in Red: Symbolic and Spectacular Communication in Venantius Fortunatus’ Hymns to the Cross. Van der Sype, N. (Gent) Orator Toto Clarus in orbe fui: Vision and Rhetoric as Performance in the Elegiae of Maximianus. 16:00 Coffee Break 16:30 Keynote Lecture: Jesús Hernández Lobato Through Heaven’s Eyes: The Spectacle of Transparency and All-Seeingness in Late Antique Poetry. 17:15 Closing Remarks We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Institute of Classical Studies, the School of History Classics & Archaeology of the University of Edinburgh (in particular their Student Led Initiative Fund), and the University of Ghent. Image Image Apr 18 2024 00.00 - Apr 19 2024 23.59 Overwhelmed: Spectacles and visuality in Early and Late Imperial Poetry A conference organised by Beatrice Bersani, Clara Lazzoni, Aaron Pelttari, and Vicente Flores Militello. Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, University of Edinburgh, 15a George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD Find the venue Register
Apr 18 2024 00.00 - Apr 19 2024 23.59 Overwhelmed: Spectacles and visuality in Early and Late Imperial Poetry A conference organised by Beatrice Bersani, Clara Lazzoni, Aaron Pelttari, and Vicente Flores Militello.
