New Approaches to Ekphrasis: Humans and the Natural Environment

Programm

Thursday 4 June

10.00 am
Daria Molinari (Princeton University): Reading the Unreliable Body: Medea’s Gestural Language in Euripides’ Medea and Apollonius’ Argonautica

10.40 am
Lisa Cordes (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Ekphrasis and Individual Anachronisms in Cicero’s De finibus 5,1-6

11.20 Coffee break

11.40 am 
Sophia Häberle (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): The 'Allegorical Image' and Cicero's Forensic Horror

12.20 pm
Robin Kreutel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Ekphrasis Ancient & Modern: Talking about Ekphrasis in the Postrhetorical Condition

1.00 pm Lunch 

3.00 pm
Albert Bates (Heidelberg University): Divine Metamorphosis and the Dangers of mimēsis: Interpreting Roman Pictures of Jupiter’s Erotic Metamorphoses through the Lens of Ancient Ekphrasis

3.40 pm
Andrew Feldherr (Princeton University): Ulysses’ Wand:  Ekphrasis and Ephemerality at Ars Amatoria 2.129-142

4.20 Coffee break
 
5.00 pm 
Anna Demeter (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Ekphrastic framing: Atreus’ Agency in Seneca’s Thyestes

5.40 pm 
Discussion

7.00 pm Dinner

Friday 5 June

9.30 am
Grace DeAngelis (Princeton University): A Written Walk through Pliny’s Estates

10.10 am
Darja Šterbenc Erker (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Embodying Supreme Power in Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars

10.50 Coffee break

11.10 am 
Izzy Friesen (Princeton University): Visualisation as Situation: Readers' Responses to the Cupid and Psyche Narrative in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

12.50 pm
Peter Kelly (Princeton University): Ekphrasis and the not so New ‘New-Materialisms’      

1.30-2.30 pm Lunch and Final discussion