Classics Colloquium, November 2008

Seventh Classics Colloquium:
Metamorphosis between Science and Literature
University of Bologna
Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali
20-21st November 2008

Conference Coordinator: Professor Francesco Citti, Professor of Classics, University of Bologna

The theme for the 2008 Classics Colloquium – seventh in the series – was on the classical concept of Metamorphosis, both its literal and metaphorical meanings. It included both scientific subjects such as alchemy and chemistry, and literary themes such as intertextuality, disguising, pastiche, translation, and so forth.

Classics graduate students at member universities of the Europaeum were invited to take part in this Colloquium which aimed to bring young European scholars together with leading academic experts with the chance to present papers for discussion and critique by a fellow international body.

Programme

Please download the event programme and participants.

08.30 Registration

08.45 WELCOME

9.15 Keynote Lecture: Professor A. Battistini (Bologna)
The Antagonistic Affair between Literature and Science

10.00-13.00 SESSION 1
Chair: Professor L.A. Guichard (Salamanca)

• Tazuko van Berkel (Leiden): The hunter transformed
  Response: Angelo Giavatto (Bologna)
• Brian Moss (Oxford): Myth in Nicander’s Theriaca
  Response: Valentina Garulli (Bologna)
• Silvia Porres Caballero - Zoa Alonso Fernández (Madrid): From myth to simulacra: maenadic metamorphosis. Part 1: Greece; Part 2: Rome
  Response: Maria Paola Funaioli - Francesco Fantuzzi (Bologna)
• Krzysztof Bielawski (Krakow): Zeus and the torches: between literature and religion. Some remarks on the Berlin Paian 6870
  Response: Marco Ercoles (Bologna)

• M. Vanikova (Prague): Metamorphosis of the Odyssey: versification of Livius’ translation
  Response: Tommaso Del Vecchio (Bologna)
• Ben Watson (Oxford): Continuity and change: metamorphosis in Cicero’s Pro Caelio
  Response: Lucia Pasetti (Bologna)
• Laura Buchholz (Helsinki): Disappearance, continuity or metamorphosis? The lot oracles in imperial Italy
  Response: Carla Salvaterra – Giada Orlietti – Elisa Bizzarri (Bologna)
• Mark Heerink (Leiden): Death and resurrection: Ovid’s metamorphosis of Vergil’s plague
  Response: Antonio Ziosi (Bologna)

6.45-19.15 SESSION 3

• Karine Descoings (Paris): Metamorphosis of desire and elegy in Ovid’s work: from the ciceronian voluntas to the ovidian cupido and desiderium
  Response: Leonardo Fiorentini (Bologna)
• Anna Maria Wasyl, (Krakow): Maximianus: the metamorphosis of the elegiac lover and the metamorphoses of the erotic elegy in late antiquity
  Response: Paola Pinotti (Bologna)
• Aleksandra Klęczar (Krakow): Hellenistic scholarship and the Greek Jewish literature of the Second Temple period
  Response: Andrea Villani (Bologna)
• Antonia Rísquez (Madrid): The metamorphosis of ancient science in a medieval encyclopaedia: the Clauis Sapientiae
  Response: Alberto Zama (Bologna)
• Ivan Prchlik (Prague): Differences between the first and the second edition of Justinian’s code and what we know about them
  Response: Stefano Valente (Bologna)

Friday 21st November
RAVENNA: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, via degli Ariani 1

8.20 – 8.40 Coach travel to RAVENNA

10.30-13.00 SESSION 4
Chair: Professor C. Lévy (Paris 1)

• A. Bernabé (Madrid): Metamorphosis metamorphoseos: Dionysos and the daughters of Minyas
  Student Response
• L.A. Guichard (Salamanca): Catalogues of Metamorphoses in the Imperial Period and Late Antiquity
  Student Response
• P. Li Causi (Palermo): Ibridazione e speciazione? Il punto di vista dell'etnobiologia antica (e di Aristotele) sul mutamento delle specie
  Student Response
• General Discussion

• D. Nelis (Genève): Ovid, metamorphosis and the laws of nature
  Student Response
• A. Barchiesi (Siena - Arezzo): Roman transformations of Greek metamorphosis
  Student Response
• General Discussion

16.35-18.00 SESSION 6

• M. Conforti (Roma): Medea and the phoenix. The prolongatio vitae in early modern medicine
  Student Response
• M. Martelli (Bologna) Alchemical Distillations and "Divine Water": the Metamorphosis of Matter
  Student Response
• General Discussion

18.00 FINAL CONCLUSIONS

Graduate Participants:

Alonso FernÁndez, Zoa, Universidad Complutense Madrid

Berkel van, Tazuko Universiteit Leiden

Berlincourt, Valéry GIIDS, Geneva

Bielawski, Krzysztof Uniwersytet Jagiellonski

(Prof.) Bizzarri, Elisa Universitá di Bologna

Buchholz, Laura Helsingin Yliopisto

Del vecchio, Prof Tommaso Universitá di Bologna (computer & Humanities)

Descoing, Karine Université Paris I

Ercoles, Marco Universitá di Bologna

Fantuzzi, Francesco Universitá di Bologna

Fiorentini, Leonardo Università di Ferrara

Funaioli, Prof Maria Paola Universitá di Bologna (Greek and Latin drama )

Garulli, Valentina Universitá di Bologna

Giavatto, Angelo Universitá di Bologna

Heerink, Mark Universiteit Leiden

Klęczar, Aleksandra Uniwersytet Jagiellonski

Moss, Brian University of Oxford

Orlietti, Giada Universitá di Bologna

Pasetti, Lucia Universitá di Bologna

Pinotti, Prof Paola Universitá di Bologna (History of Latin Language)

Porres Caballero, Silvia Universidad Complutense Madrid

Prchlik, Ivan Charles University in Prague

Rísquez, Antonia Universidad Complutense Madrid

Salvaterra, Prof Carla Universitá di Bologna (Papyrology)

Valente, Stefano Universitá di Bologna

Vanikova, Martina Charles University in Prague

Villani, Andrea Universitá di Bologna

Wasyl, Anna Maria Uniwersytet Jagiellonski

Watson, Ben University of Oxford

Zama, Alberto Universitá di Bologna

Ziosi, Dr Antonio Universitá di Bologna

PROFESSORS: including Chairs, Lecturers, & Scientific Committee members

Barchiesi, Prof Alessandro Università di Siena - Arezzo (Latin Literature)

Battistini, Prof Andrea Universitá di Bologna (Italian Literarure)

Beretta, Prof Marco Universitá di Bologna (History of Science)

Bernabe, Prof Alberto Universidad Complutense Madrid (Greek Philology)

Citti, Prof Francesco Università di Bologna (Latin Literature)

Conforti, Maria Università di Roma, Exec. Librarian at the Univ. La Sapienza, Historian of science

Dionigi, Prof Ivano Università di Bologna (Latin Literature)

Flather, Dr Paul Europaeum & University of Oxford

Guichard Romero, Prof. Luis Arturo Universidad de Salamanca (Greek Philology)

li Causi, Prof Pietro Università degli Studi di Palermo, Researcher (assegnista)

Levy, Prof Carlos Université Paris IV (Latin Literature)

Martelli, Dr Matteo Universitá di Bologna, PhD in Classical Philology

Nelis, Prof Damien GIIDS, Geneva (Latin Literature)

Tammaro, Prof Vinicio Università di Bologna (Head of Department) (Gerek Literature )

Tosi, Prof Renzo Università di Bologna (Greek Literature)