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
