Origins and Original Moments in Late Latin Literature, I - 27/04/2018, New York (NY, USA)

Late antique texts regularly try to establish a direct link with the literature of the origins by obscuring and erasing the poetic tradition in between. Such yearning for finding a connection between the contemporary and the original moment has received little attention within current scholarship, but, in the view of the workshops' organizers, it is one of the most striking and distinctive characteristics of the textual language of late antique literature, both poetry and prose.

FECHA / DATE/DATA: 27/04/2018

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Classroom 3-06, Law School Seminar, Fordham University, New York (NY, USA)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Cristiana Sogno (Fordham University) ; Marco Formisano (Ghent University)

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10am

Welcome and Introduction Cristiana Sogno (Fordham and Ghent University) and Marco Formisano (Ghent and Fordham University)

10:30

I. Expunging Originality: Alexandrian Critics in Late Antique Gaul Brian P. Sowers, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

Origins in Jerome's Life of Paul the First Hermit Charles Kuper, Haverford College & Bryn Mawr College

11:30: coffee break

12:00

II.

Marrying the Mistress: Bards of a Feather Flock Together: Animals, Anachronism, and Late Antique Amicitia.

Kimberly Passaro, University of Cincinnati

Heresy and Apotheosis from Agamben to Prudentius Catherine Conybeare, Bryn Mawr College

1-2:30 Lunch

2:30pm

III.

Finis cunctis et semina: natural regeneration in Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae Elizabeth Heintges, Columbia University

The Bible as Writing Machine: Reflections on a Late Ancient Theory of Literature Virginia Burrus, University of Syracuse

3:30-4: coffee break

4pm

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The Mundus of Ausonius' Mosella Del Maticic, New York University

The End of Antiquity: Practical and Theoretical Reflections

Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania

5pm wrap-up discussion

This event is the result of a co-operation between Fordham University and Ghent University. The second part of the workshop will take place at Ghent University in Spring 2019 (date to be announced).