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17th Trends in Classics

Parentheses of Reception

Thessaloniki, 1-3 June 2023

Thursday, June 1, 2023

9.30–10.00
Registration and Greetings
Franco Montanari (Genova) & Antonios Rengakos (Thessaloniki)

10.00–12.00
Keynote Lecture
John T. Hamilton (Harvard): A Part Apart: Niobe in Günter Grass' The Tin Drum
Panel 1: Parenthesis in Rome
Chair: Theodore D. Papanghelis (Thessaloniki)
Richard Hunter (Cambridge): Roman Comedy and (Greek) Comedy
Therese Fuhrer (München): Filling Narrative Gaps in (Ps-)Senecan Tragedy

12.30–14.00
Antje Wessels (Leiden): Catullus & Calvus on How to Write a Poem - Catull 51 as Parenthesis and Paratext
Karin Schlapbach (Fribourg): (In)validating Parentheses in the Song of the Parcae (Catullus 64)
Thomas Tsartsidis (München/Thessaloniki): Negotiating Roman Identity in Prudentius: Inclusion and Exclusion of Traditional Roman Norms

15.00–17.00
Panel 2: Parenthesis in Scholarship and History
Chair: Franco Montanari (Genova)
Mark-Georg Dehrmann (Berlin): Classic Philological Theory and the Figure of
Parenthesis (Schlegel, Boeckh, Schleiermacher)
Constanze Güthenke (Oxford): Scholarship as Parenthetic Form
Miriam Leonard (London): Antiquity “in/to the side of” Revolution
Alexandra Lianeri (Thessaloniki): Parentheses of Time: Antiquity's Disconnective Futures

17.30–18.30
Panel 3: Parenthesis in Drama
Chair: Martin M. Winkler (Virginia)
Eckart Goebel (Tübingen): Three Witches – Three Unities: Aristotle in Macbeth
Martin Vöhler (Thessaloniki): Embracing Antiquity: Brecht's Antigonemodell 1948


Friday, June 2, 2023

10.00–11.00
Panel 4: Parenthesis in Art
Chair: James Porter (Berkeley)
Christopher Wood (New York): Reversible Nestings of the Mythic and the Real (Velázquez, The Drinkers)
Daniel Orrells (London): Illustration in and to the side of Eighteenth-Century
Antiquarianism

11.30–13.00
Michael Lüthy (Stuttgart): Fragment-Bodies: Rodin's and Rilke's Torsos
Evina Sistakou (Thessaloniki): The Classics in Viennese Modernity: A Hesiodic Parenthesis in Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze
Brooke Holmes (Princeton): Parentheses, Rings, and Cosmological Experimentation: From Cy Twombly's Fifty Days at Iliam to a History of Sympathy

14.00–15.30
Panel 7: Parenthesis in Poetry
Chair: Stephen Harrison (Oxford)
Michalis Chrysanthopoulos (Thessaloniki): The Unpublished Flirt with Antiquity, a Parenthesis in C. P. Cavafy's Early Poetical Work
Richard Thomas (Harvard): Lyric Parentheses, Horace to Dylan
Stella Alekou (Ioannina): Rethinking Ovidian Womanhood in Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife

16.00–17.30
Panel 8: Parenthesis in Philosophy
Chair: Richard H. Armstrong (Houston)
Felix Christen (Heidelberg): Artemidorus and the Question of Method in
Freud's Interpretation of Dreams
Christoph Horn (Bonn): The Parenthetical Presence of Ancient Ethics in Modern Moral Philosophy
James Porter (Berkeley): Rachel Bespaloff Reads (Homer)

Saturday, June 3, 2023

10.00–11.00
Panel 9: Parenthesis in Translation
Chair: Maria C. Pantelia (Irvine)
Richard H. Armstrong (Houston): Translating for the Dead: Love, Loss, and Learning
in Moshe Ha-Elion's Homeric Translations into Ladino
Stephen Harrison (Oxford): Inside and Outside: David Hadbawnik's Translation of
Vergil's Aeneid

11.30–13.00
Panel 10: Parenthesis in Narrative
Chair: John T. Hamilton (Harvard)
Martin M. Winkler (Virginia): Narrative and Parenthesis: From Homeric Simile to
Cinematic Flashback
Glenn Most (Pisa/Chicago): Roundtable Discussion

Closing Remarks by the Trends Organizer


With the kind support of

Social and Cultural Affairs Welfare Foundation (KIKPE)
Aristotle University Research Committee
University Studio Press

Lieu de la manifestation : Thessaloniki, Auditorium I at KEDEA, September 3rd Avenue, University Campus (https://kedea.rc.auth.gr).
Organisation : John T. Hamilton, Harvard University Martin Vöhler, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Evina Sistakou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Antonios Rengakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Academy of Athens Stavros Frangoulidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Contact : Evina Sistakou (sistakou[at]lit.auth.gr)