CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD
A one-day colloquium on working with literary fragments from early Rome will be held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, organized by Gesine Manuwald (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) and Costas Panayotakis (University of Glasgow) under the auspices of the Corpus Christi College Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity on Saturday 10th March 2007.
The purpose of this conference is to highlight the problems scholars are confronted with when working with literary genres partly preserved in fragments, to demonstrate the importance of including fragmentary works into the study of the respective genre and thus of Roman literature, to look at the advantages and the dangers in comparing authors whose text survives in fragments with authors (of the same genre) whose text survives in complete form, and to discuss what may be established for the works surviving in fragments and for the whole genre despite the fragmentary nature of the evidence.
Speakers will either discuss the problems which a literary genre or an aspect of this genre presents for interpretation in view of the extant fragmentary evidence, or deal with the general question of working with fragments with regard to their respective genre or author.
Papers should last for 30 minutes at most, allowing 20 minutes for discussion.
The programme is as follows:
10:15 Coffee and Registration
10:45 Opening Remarks
10:50 Adrian Hollis (Keble College, Oxford): on fragmentary Hellenistic and Roman didactic poems
11:40 Matthew Leigh (St Anne’s College, Oxford): on tragic fragments and Roman comedy
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Sander Goldberg (UCLA): on Roman epic
14.20 Anna Chahoud (Trinity College, Dublin): on Roman satire
15:10 Tea
15:40 Christopher Smith (University of St Andrews): on Roman oratory
16:30 Tim Cornell (University of Manchester): on Roman historiography
17:20 – 17:45 Concluding discussion led by Elaine Fantham (Princeton) (followed by drinks)
The colloquium is open to all. There will be a small charge of £12.50 (not applicable to graduates of Corpus Christi and to speakers): this will contribute to the cost of lunch and refreshments.
We shall also book a table for a meal at a local restaurant afterwards. If anyone would like to come to this dinner, please let Costas (c.panayotakis AT classics.arts.gla.ac.uk) or Gesine (gesine.manuwald@altphil.uni-freiburg.de) know in advance. Those wishing to make a booking for the conference should write to Professor Stephen Harrison, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, OX1 4JF, UK (stephen.harrison AT corpus-christi.oxford.ac.uk), enclosing a payment of £12.50 if appropriate (UK bank cheque preferred; overseas visitors can pay in cash on the day). Cheques should be made payable to Corpus Christi College, Oxford'. Bookings should be made by February 28th 2007.'
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A one-day colloquium on working with literary fragments from early Rome will be held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, organized by Gesine Manuwald (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) and Costas Panayotakis (University of Glasgow) under the auspices of the Corpus Christi College Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity on Saturday 10th March 2007.
The purpose of this conference is to highlight the problems scholars are confronted with when working with literary genres partly preserved in fragments, to demonstrate the importance of including fragmentary works into the study of the respective genre and thus of Roman literature, to look at the advantages and the dangers in comparing authors whose text survives in fragments with authors (of the same genre) whose text survives in complete form, and to discuss what may be established for the works surviving in fragments and for the whole genre despite the fragmentary nature of the evidence.
Speakers will either discuss the problems which a literary genre or an aspect of this genre presents for interpretation in view of the extant fragmentary evidence, or deal with the general question of working with fragments with regard to their respective genre or author.
Papers should last for 30 minutes at most, allowing 20 minutes for discussion.
The programme is as follows:
10:15 Coffee and Registration
10:45 Opening Remarks
10:50 Adrian Hollis (Keble College, Oxford): on fragmentary Hellenistic and Roman didactic poems
11:40 Matthew Leigh (St Anne’s College, Oxford): on tragic fragments and Roman comedy
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Sander Goldberg (UCLA): on Roman epic
14.20 Anna Chahoud (Trinity College, Dublin): on Roman satire
15:10 Tea
15:40 Christopher Smith (University of St Andrews): on Roman oratory
16:30 Tim Cornell (University of Manchester): on Roman historiography
17:20 – 17:45 Concluding discussion led by Elaine Fantham (Princeton) (followed by drinks)
The colloquium is open to all. There will be a small charge of £12.50 (not applicable to graduates of Corpus Christi and to speakers): this will contribute to the cost of lunch and refreshments.
We shall also book a table for a meal at a local restaurant afterwards. If anyone would like to come to this dinner, please let Costas (c.panayotakis AT classics.arts.gla.ac.uk) or Gesine (gesine.manuwald@altphil.uni-freiburg.de) know in advance. Those wishing to make a booking for the conference should write to Professor Stephen Harrison, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, OX1 4JF, UK (stephen.harrison AT corpus-christi.oxford.ac.uk), enclosing a payment of £12.50 if appropriate (UK bank cheque preferred; overseas visitors can pay in cash on the day). Cheques should be made payable to Corpus Christi College, Oxford'. Bookings should be made by February 28th 2007.'
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