Women Writers and the Classical Tradition

Organized by Laura McClure, University of Wisconsin, and Yopie Prins, University of Michigan

On the absence of a literary tradition for female writers, Virginia Woolf once remarked, "For we think back through our mothers if we are women."  This process involves not only the recovery of neglected female writers, but also the re-examination of the male literary tradition from a feminist perspective.  Like many other women writers, Woolf repeatedly, and often paradoxically, returned to the classical past as a source of inspiration and as a means of reframing the literary agenda.

The Women's Classical Caucus invites abstracts for its panel session at the Montreal meeting of the American Philological Association in 2006.  This session will focus on the ways in which the classical past inspired or engaged the minds of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American women writers.  Topics that might be addressed include the influence of classical mythology on women writers, "ladies' Greek" or the study of classical languages by women, the importance of Euripides for the suffragettes, travel narratives about ancient monuments and sites, and the use of classical models in modernist poetry.

For more information on the panel, please contact the panel organizers, Laura McClure (lmcclure@facstaff.wisc.edu) or Yopie Prins (yprins@umich.edu).  Abstracts may be up to 600 words in length and should not contain the author's name, as they will be refereed anonymously.  Send by February 1, 2005 to lmcclure@facstaff.wisc.edu.    Abstracts sent by regular mail should be postmarked by February 1, 2005, and addressed to Laura McClure, Classics, University of Wisconsin, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706.

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CINEMATIC ROME

An international conference organised by Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture (NIRVC), September 2005.

CALL FOR PAPERS

From the early days of filmmaking to the present, Rome has been both an important centre for film production, and a compelling location for cinematic narrative. The city as a cinematic subject inherits a rich tradition of literary, artistic, and architectural representations - an inheritance which has hardly been investigated. Whether capitalising on the unique spectacle of Ancient Roman remains, exploring the social conflicts arising from the imposition of modern urbanism on the city, or mythologising touristic encounters with the Eternal City, filmmakers have seized on Rome as a symbolically resonant setting.
This conference aims to bring together historical and interpretative explorations of these complementary dimensions of the city's evolving cinematic identity. Proposals for papers are invited on any relevant topic. Papers which address the following themes would be particlarly welcome:

The city as mis-en-scène
Antique  Rome as theme and narrative
Film under Fascism
Cinecittà - origins and development
Rome as a site of crisis and destabilisation
Tourism in film: cliché and critique
The postwar city as modern ruin and international playground

Keynote speakers:
Professor Maria Wyke (University of Reading), author of Projecting Rome, and Jacopo Benci (Assisant Director, Fine Art, British School at Rome).

For enquiries and proposals, please contact;
Richard Wrigley, Department of Art History, University of Nottingham richard.wrigley@nottingham.ac.uk
Tel. 0115 951318Craig Kallendorf (University A&M Texas)
Virgil, Filelfo, Foucault
 
Stefano Carrai (Università di Siena)
Fra canzoniere e 'liber carminum': due modelli per la poesia rinascimentale italiana
 
Hugo Tucker (University of Reading)
A Roman Dialogue with Virgil and Homer: The 'Centones ex Virgilio' of Lelio Capilupi
 
Roberto Tissoni (Università di Genova)
Aspetti del classicismo letterario italiano da Giuseppe Parini a Giacomo Leopardi

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