Programme

 

4^th September 2014

 

10:15  Registration / Tea & Coffee

 

Session 1: Negotiating Inferiority – Modes, Concepts, Metaphors

Chair: Sebastian Matzner, University of Exeter

 

10:45  William Fitzgerald, King’s College London

            Claiming Inferiority: Types, Contexts, Strategies and Questions

            Respondent: Amy Richlin

 

11:30  Gregory Hutchinson, Exeter College, Oxford

            On Not Being Beautiful

            Respondent: Philip Hardie

 

12:15  Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, University of Chicago

            A Stomach for Verse: The Appropriation of the Canon in Persius’ Satires

            Respondent: Tom Geue

 

13:00 Lunch

 

Session 2: Genre & Social Status – Creative Tensions of Weakness

Chair: Stephen Harrison, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

 

14:00  Philip Hardie, Trinity College, Cambridge

            Cowherds and Saints: Paulinus of Nola Carmina 18

            Respondent: Dunstan Lowe

 

14:45  Jean-Claude Julhe, Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne

            Literary Inferiority and Social Inferiority: The Revenge of the Poet in Martial’s Epigrams

            Respondent: Dorothee Gall

 

15:30  Dunstan Lowe, University of Kent

            Loud and Proud: The Voice of the Praeco in Roman Love-Elegy

            Respondent: Vassiliki Panoussi

 

16:15  Tea & Coffee

 

Session 3: Inferiority and Cultural Identity

Chair: Fiachra Mac Góráin, University College London

 

16:45: Victoria Rimell, Università di Roma – La Sapienza

            The Director’s Cut: Horace’s Ars Poetica and the Creative Superiority of Self-Critique

            Respondent: Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer

 

17:30 Amy Richlin, University of California – Los Angeles

            Blackface and Drag in the Palliata

            Respondent: Ellen O’Gorman

 

18:15  Drinks Reception

 

19:00 Conference Dinner

 

5^th September 2014

 

Session 4: Women’s Voices and (In-)Versions of Inferiority

Chair: Gail Trimble, Trinity College, Oxford

 

9:30    Vassiliki Panoussi, College of William and Mary

            From Adultery to Incest: Messalina and Agrippina as Sexual Aggressors in Tacitus’ Annals

            Respondent: Gregory Hutchinson

 

10:15 Dorothee Gall, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn

            Ovid`s Heroides: Female Argumentation Versus Male Reality

            Respondent: Victoria Rimell

 

11:00  Tea & Coffee

 

Session 5: Whose Voice Is It Anyway?

Chair: Ahuvia Kahane, Royal Holloway, University of London

 

11:30  Tom Geue, Trinity College, Oxford

            Drawing Blanks: The Pale Shades of Phaedrus and Juvenal

            Respondent: Jean-Claude Julhe

 

12:15  Ellen O’Gorman, University of Bristol

            “The Noise, and the People”: Popular clamor and Political Discourse in Latin Historiography

            Respondent: William Fitzgerald

 

13:00 Lunch

            Continued informal conversation and reflections on the conference