All sessions will be held at UCLA Royce Hall 314.
Friday, October 11, 2019
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8:45 AM
Introduction and Welcome
Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)
Giulia Sissa (UCLA)
Francesca Martelli (UCLA)
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9:00 AM
Chair: Robert N. Watson (English, UCLA)
Lesley Kordecki (DePaul University)
Ovid’s Deconstruction of the Chain: Metaphoric Hybridity in Chaucer and ShakespeareLara Bovilsky (University of Oregon)
Becoming Brute: Golding’s Ovid, Bryskett’s Dogs and Human Exceptions -
10:45 AM
Coffee Break
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11:15 AM
Chair: Francesca Martelli (UCLA)
Sandra Fluhrer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
“Who can impress the forest?” Terranean Deployments in Ovid and ShakespeareEmily Gowers (Cambridge University)
Are Trees Really Like People? -
1:00 PM
Lunch Break
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2:00 PM
Chair: Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)
Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan)
The Feelings of Things: Animism, Ecology, and Phaethon’s CrashBronwen Wilson (UCLA)
Lithic Images, Jacopo Ligozzi, and the “Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Vernia” (1612) -
3:45 PM
Coffee Break
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4:30 PM
Chair: Robert N. Watson (UCLA)
Sir Jonathan Bate (Arizona State University)
Metamorphosis and Sustainability from Ovid and Lucretius to the Renaissance -
5:45 PM
Reception
Saturday, October 12, 2019
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8:45 AM
Chair: Andre Matlock (UCLA)
Diana Spencer (University of Birmingham)
Language, Life and Metamorphosis in Ovid’s Roman BackstoryFrancesca Martelli (UCLA)
Roman “Fasti” and Multispecies’ Temporalities in Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” -
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
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11:15 AM
Chair: Erica Weaver (UCLA)
Eleanor Kaufman (UCLA)
Classifying StonesMiranda Griffin (Cambridge University)
The World in an Egg: Reading Medieval Ecologies -
1:00 PM
Lunch Break
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2:00 PM
Chair: Zachary Borst (UCLA)
Marco Formisano (Ghent University)
Ovid’s Gaia. The Earth, the Middle and the Muddle in the “Metamorphoses”Giulia Sissa (UCLA)
The Fluidity of Life in Ovid’s Metamorphic World -
3:45
Coffee Break
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4:30 PM
Chair: Alex Purves (UCLA)
Mark Payne (University of Chicago)
Ancient Aliens: Biotechnology, Slavery, and the Greeks in H. P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness”John Shoptaw (UC Berkeley)
Readings from “Whoa!” -
6:00 PM
Closing Remarks