November 1, 2019
9:00 am
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5:00 pm
Barbie Tootle Room. 3rd floor, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street
Texts and Contexts Seminar: November 1, 2019
November 1, 2019 – Barbie Tootle Room, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street
9:30 – 10:00 am – Coffee and snacks
10:00 am – 12:30 pm – SESSION I: Byzantium
Moderator: Dana Munteanu (The Ohio State University, Newark Campus)
10:00 – 10:45 am – Tommaso Braccini (Università di Siena)
From margins to rolls: the adventures of the early attestations of the Exorcism of Gello
10:45 – 11:30 am – Gemma Storti (The Ohio State University)
An Ancient "Lonely Planet." Manuscripts for Travelling through Byzantium
11:30 – 11:45 am – BREAK
11:45 am – 12:30 pm – Federica Ciccolella (Texas A&M University)
Greek poetry at the school of Andreas Donos
12:30 – 2:00 pm – LUNCH
2:00 – 3:30 pm – SESSION II: Early Empire
Moderator: Pierandrea Martina (Universität Zürich)
2:00 – 2:45 pm – Rebecca Benefiel (Washington and Lee University)
Writing, reading, and jumbling the alphabet: The diffusion of writing in the early
Roman Empire
2:45 – 3:30 pm – Stephanie Ann Frampton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology/
Frances Yates Research Fellow, Warburg Institute, London [2019–20])
Pliny and His Sources
3:30 – 4:00 pm – BREAK
4:00 – 5:00 pm – Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture
Introduction: Michael Meckler (The Ohio State University)
Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University/Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection)
Medieval Conceptions of Imitation and the Classical Tradition
5:00 – 6:30 pm – Reception in the Suzanne M. Scharer Room
