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Texts and Contexts Seminar: The Fortuna of Ovid

October 27, 2023
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Student-Alumni Council Room, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street

Event Schedule

Breakfast  8:30am – 9:00am
Coffee, bagels, pastries, etc. will be provided.

Opening remarks  9:00am – 9:05am 
Frank Coulson, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University

SESSION I:  Ovid in the French Tradition  9:05am – 10:30am
Moderator: Piero Andrea Martina, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes

Laura Endress, Academic Visitor, Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford
   From the Metamorphoses to the Ovide moralisé: What role did medieval Ovid commentaries play?

Prunelle Deleville, Département de Langues et Littératures françaises et Latines Médiévales, Université de Genève
   From Latin commentaries to Christine de Pizan: poetic transfigurations of Io-Isis

Marylène Possamaï-Pérez, Professor Emerita, Université de Lyon          
   Translating and interpreting Ovid in the 14th century: the legend of Syrinx in the Ovide moralisé in verse

Break  10:30am – 11:00am

SESSION II: Varia, 11:00am – 12:30pm
Moderator: Michael Meckler, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University

Kyle Gervais, Department of Classical Studies, Western University
   Serlo of Wilton: How to Out-Ovid Ovid

Jinyu Liu, Department of History, Emory University 
   Perceptions of Time in Ovid's Exile Poetry

Brianda Otero, Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
   For lectures and court: an unknown illuminated Metamorphoses manuscript of the fourteenth century

Lunch  12:30pm – 2:00pm

SESSION III: Medieval Commentaries on Ovid  2:00pm – 3:30pm
Moderator: Harald Anderson, George Washington University School of Business

David Gura, Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame        
   Narratological Movement in the Metamorphoses Commentary Tradition

Justin Haynes, Department of Classics, Georgetown University            
   Allegory in Bersuire’s Moralized Ovid and Petrarch’s Africa

William Little, Department of Classics, The Ohio State University           
   Some Other Medieval and Renaissance Readers of the Nux

Break  3:30pm – 4:00pm

Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture  4:00pm – 5:00pm
Introduction: Anna A. Grotans, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University
Speaker: Fátima Díez-Platas, Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela            
                  Mutatas videre formas: manuscripts, miniatures and medieval visual responses to Ovid’s 
                  Metamorphoses

Reception and Laudatio for Frank Coulson  5:00pm – 7:00pm
Ohio Staters, Inc. Traditions Room, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street