Overwhelmed: Spectacles and visuality in Early and Late Imperial Poetry ProgrammeOverwhelmed: Spectacles & Visuality in Early and Late Imperial PoetryThe University of Edinburgh and Ghent UniversityConference organised by Beatrice Bersani, Clara Lazzoni, Aaron Pelttari, and Vicente Flores Militello 18 April15:00 Introductory remarks15:15 Session 1Pelttari, 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 Break16:30Session 2Alitalo, A. (Oxford) Frightful Colours: Chromophobia and Chromophilia in Latin Poetry.Bersani, B. (Edinburgh) Polychromy in Prudentius and Claudian17:30 Drinks Reception in the McMillan Room of the Old Medical School19:00 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 Break11:00 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 Lunch14:00 Keynote Lecture: Katharina Lorenz14:45 Coffee Break15:00 Session 5Castelnuovo, 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 Break16:30 Keynote Lecture: Jesús Hernández LobatoThrough 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. Apr 18 2024 - Apr 19 2024 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 ProgrammeOverwhelmed: Spectacles & Visuality in Early and Late Imperial PoetryThe University of Edinburgh and Ghent UniversityConference organised by Beatrice Bersani, Clara Lazzoni, Aaron Pelttari, and Vicente Flores Militello 18 April15:00 Introductory remarks15:15 Session 1Pelttari, 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 Break16:30Session 2Alitalo, A. (Oxford) Frightful Colours: Chromophobia and Chromophilia in Latin Poetry.Bersani, B. (Edinburgh) Polychromy in Prudentius and Claudian17:30 Drinks Reception in the McMillan Room of the Old Medical School19:00 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 Break11:00 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 Lunch14:00 Keynote Lecture: Katharina Lorenz14:45 Coffee Break15:00 Session 5Castelnuovo, 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 Break16:30 Keynote Lecture: Jesús Hernández LobatoThrough 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. Apr 18 2024 - Apr 19 2024 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 - Apr 19 2024 Overwhelmed: Spectacles and visuality in Early and Late Imperial Poetry A conference organised by Beatrice Bersani, Clara Lazzoni, Aaron Pelttari, and Vicente Flores Militello.
