Symposium Cumanum 2019: Virgil and the Feminine - 20-21-22/06/2019, Cuma (Italy)
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 20-21-22/06/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Villa Vergiliana (Cuma, Italy)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Vergilian Society
INFO: web - virgilandthefeminine@gmail.com - E.Giusti@Warwick.ac.uk - V.Rimell@Warwick.ac.uk
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Aquí/here/qui
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19
12pm–7:00pm Arrivals at the Villa Vergiliana
Optional visits to the Parco Archeologico di Cuma (on your own)
6:30pm–7:00pm Opening reception 7:00pm Dinner
THURSDAY, JUNE 20
8:00am Breakfast 10:00am–11:00am Welcome and introduction 11:00am–11:15am Break 11:15am–12:45pm Panel 1: The Feminine Matrix (Presider: )
HELEN LOVATT (Nottingham) “The power of sadness and women’s grief in the Aeneid”
JEFFREY ULRICH (Rutgers) “Vox omnibus una: a re-assessment of the feminine vox in Aeneid 5”
FRANCES BERNSTEIN (Princeton) “Vergil’s Camilla and the metapoetics of gendered paradox”
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm–3:00pm Panel 2: Feminine Spaces in the Aeneid (Presider:)
SIOBHAN CHOMSE (RHUL) “Virgil’s Aeneid and the feminine sublime”
RITA DEGL’INNOCENTI PIERINI (Firenze) “In and out of the palace. The feminine spaces in the Aeneid”
3:00pm–3:15pm Break 3:15pm–4:14pm Panel 3: Nature and the Feminine (Presider:)
BOB COWAN (Sydney) “Mothers in arms: towards an ecofeminist reading of the Georgics”
ERIN M. HANSES (PSU) “Natura creatrix? Virgil’s de-feminizing of Lucretius’ concept of nature in the Georgics”
4:15pm–4:30pm Break
4:30pm–6:00pm Panel 4: Eros and Affect (Presider:)
VIOLA STARNONE (UCD) ‘Erotic love and its matrix in Virgil’
MAIRÉAD MCAULEY (UCL) ‘Dextrae iungere dextram: Virgil, Venus, and the affective dynamics of touch in the Aeneid’
ERIK GUNDERSON (Toronto) “The asexual reproduction of gender as problematic: Vergil, Aeneid 4 and beyond”
6:00pm–7:00pm Break 7:00pm Dinner
FRIDAY, JUNE 21
8:00 Breakfast 9:30am–11:00am Panel 5: Women and Labour (Presider: )
TOM GEUE (St Andrews) “Power of deduction, labour of reproduction: Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue and the exploitation of women”
ALEX DRESSLER (Wisconsin-Madison) “Vergil, gender, personification, and aesthetics: “omni nunc arte magistra” (Aeneid 8.442)”
NANDINI PANDEY (Wisconsin-Madison) “Metapoetic midwives in and around Vergil: gender-bending generative labor from Vulcan to Proba”
11:00am–11:15am Break 11:15am–12:45pm Panel 6: The Appendix and the Feminine (Presider:)
LAURA ARESI (Firenze) ‘The hidden seduction: Circe, the Sirens and the pseudo-Virgilian Copa’
FRANCESCA BELLEI (Harvard) ‘E pluribus unum: reassessing race relations in ancient Rome through Scybale’s gender”
KATHRIN WINTER (Heidelberg) “Woman without womb. Scylla’s body, identity and fluidity in the pseudo-Virgilian Ciris”
1pm Lunch
2:00pm–3:00pm Panel 7: Female Threats (Presider:)
SERGIO CASALI (Roma Tor Vergata) “The dangerousness of Dido”
CRESCENZO FORMICOLA (Napoli Federico II) “Female revenge, revenge of destiny: from Virgil to Ovid to Rushdie.”
3:00pm–3:30pm Break
3:30pm–5:00pm Panel 8: Variations on Dido (Presider:)
JACQUELINE KLOOSTER (Groningen) “Love and the city. Dido in the Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante.”
CHRISTINE G. PERKELL (Emory) “Creusa and Dido revisited”
SARAH SPENCE (Georgia) “Dido redux”
5:00pm–5:30pm Concluding Remarks
5:30pm–7:00pm Break 7:00pm Dinner
SATURDAY, JUNE 22
8:00am Breakfast
9:00am– Departures from the Villa