Fleshing Out Words: Poetry on Objects, from Classical Epigrams to Modern 'Light Poems' - 09/
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 09/03/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Warwick (Warwick, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Paloma Perez Galvan ; Alessandra Tafaro
INFO: web - fleshingoutwords.warwick@gmail.com
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Aquí/here/qui Deadline: 22/02/2019
-Estándar/standard/standard: £20
-Estudiantes y desempleados/students and unemployed/studenti e disoccupati: £10
-Empleados o estudiantes de Warwick/Warwick staff or students/ Warwick staff o studenti: £8
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Provisional Programme
9th March 2019, Wolfson Research Exchange (Library Road; Floor 3 of the Library Extension), University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL
09.45-10.15 Registration and Coffee/Tea
10.15-10.30 Welcome and Introduction
10.30-11.15 Keynote lecture by Professor Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge) ‘Flesh into Stone: the Inscribed Voices of Antiquity’
11.15-11.30 Coffee/Tea break
11.30-13.00 Session 1: Believe the Impossible. Objects, Epigrams and Stony Voices. Chair: Professor Alison Cooley
Hans Bork (Stanford University), ‘Performative Epigraphy in Latin Comedy’
Michael Tueller (Arizona State University), ‘Stranger Things: Epigram for Unbelievable Objects’
Flavia Licciardello (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), ‘Speaking Statues in the Hellenistic Age: The Interplay of Words and Images in Inscribed Dedications’
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Session 2: Convivial Epigrammatic Consumptions and Ekphrastic Experiments. Chair: Dr. Elena Giusti
Nick Brown (University of Warwick), ‘Archaic Epigram’s Gift and Curse: Nestor’s Cup and its Context’
Ugo Mondini (Università degli Studi di Milano), ‘Text, Visuality, and Materiality in John Mauropous’ Epigrams’
Robert Rohland (University of Cambridge), ‘Reading Epigrams and Objects: Cups, Gems and the Pleasure of the Text (100 BCE-100 CE)’
15.30-15.50 Coffee/Tea break
15.50- 17.20 Session 3: The Afterlife of the Epigram in the 21st -Century. Re-interpreting the Material Poetics. Chair: TBC
Rowena Fowler (independent scholar), ‘Poem as Inscription: from Ezra Pound to Ian Hamilton Finlay’
Will May (University of Southampton), ‘The Value of Whimsy, or How Much Is It Worth?’
Leo Bazzurro (University of Warwick) ‘Opening Juan Luis Martinez’s Poetic Box’
17.20-17.30 10-minute comfort break
17.30-18.15 Roundtable
18.15-18.30 Closing remarks
18.30-19.15 Wine Reception