CALL. 15.01.2020: Images of Early Rome. Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar 34 - Boston (MA, USA)
FECHA LÍMITE/DEADLINE/SCADENZA: 15/01/2020
FECHA CONGRESO/CONGRESS DATE/DATA CONGRESSO: 10-11-12/07/2020
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Boston University (Boston, MA, USA)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Hannah Čulík-Baird.
INFO: web - culik@bu.edu
CALL:
The thirty-fourth meeting of the PacRim Roman Literature Seminar will be held at Boston University from 10 to 12 July 2020. The theme for the 2020 conference will be “Images of Early Rome in Latin Literature.”
Papers are invited to explore different depictions of the figures of early Rome in Latin literature; Aeneas, Ilia, Romulus and Remus, the Sabine Women, Lucretia, etc. How do the iterations of these figures reflect (or problematize) political and literary attitudes in Rome? And what does the continued presence of these early figures in the works of successive literary generations tell us about the enduring nature of these Roman “myths”? We also invite papers on the reception of early Rome in any medium, from Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece (1594), to Ursula K. Le Guin’s Lavinia (2008), to Matteo Rovere’s Il Primo Re (2019).
Papers should be 30 minutes in length (with fifteen minutes of discussion time). The Pacific Rim Seminar does not run parallel sessions; participants can attend any or all papers. Abstract proposals of 200-300 words should be sent to the organizer, Hannah Čulík-Baird, at culik@bu.edu. Submissions from graduate students and early-career researchers are welcome. Please have abstracts submitted by 15th January 2020 (earlier submissions welcome).