Dear Colleagues,
Just a reminder that bookings for AMPAL (Annual Meeting of Postgraduates
in Ancient Literature) closes on Saturday 20th October.
This is a FREE postgraduate conference, to be held at the University of
Nottingham on Saturday 10th-Sunday 11th November.
You can download a booking form from
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~abxsnm/ampal, along with full details. Please
return to [log in to unmask] (subject: registration) or to Toni Badnall,
AMPAL 2007 (Registration), Department of Classics, University of
Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD by 20th October.
Full details of programme are enclosed below.
Regards,
Toni Badnall
AMPAL 2007, University of Nottingham
Saturday 10th November
All of the conference will be held in: The Graduate School, Trent Building
(room A18),
University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD.
Registration and Lunch 12 noon – 1.30 pm
Welcome 1.30 pm – 2 pm
Panel 1: Greek literature 5th - 4th c. BC
2 pm – 3.30 pm. Chair: tba.
"Admetos as an Everyday Hero in Euripides' Alkestis"
Dimitra Kokkini (UCL)
"Euripides' Ion – Slavery and the (De)construction of an Athenian Hero"
Laura Proffitt (RHUL)
"The Similar Chiastic Structure of the Iliad and the Republic"
Maya Alapin (Balliol College, University of Oxford)
Coffee
3.30 pm – 4 pm
Panel 2a: Latin Literature -Real Romans as literary heroes
4 pm – 5.30 pm. Chair: tba.
"Thesea fide: Heroic Faith and Faithlessness in Ovid's Exile Poetry"
Gail Trimble (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford)
"When a God Becomes a Hero: Terminology of Emperor Worship as Recorded by
Cassius Dio"
Gwynaeth McIntyre (University of St. Andrews)
"Cicero the Heroic Litterateur"
Steve Kennedy (University of Exeter)
Panel 2b: Reception 1 -Classics and the 20th c.
4 pm – 5.30 pm. Chair: tba.
"From Herakles to the Hulk: Considering the Grotesque Hero"
Lynn Kozak (University of Nottingham).
"Aesop: Teller of Tales, Slayer of Monsters, Pawn of the Playful Gods"
Leanne Hunnings, (RHUL).
"The Classical Pastoral War Hero in 20th century War Poetry"
Georgina Willms (University of Exeter)
Coffee
5.30 pm – 6 pm
Keynote Speech: Jasper Griffin
6 pm – 7 pm. Chair: tba
Wine Reception followed by dinner
7 pm
Optional entertainment after dinner
The screening of two "Xena Warrior Princess" episodes in arrangement with
Amanda Potter (OU).
Sunday 11th November
Panel 3a: Greek literature Hellenistic-Roman period
9 am – 10.30 am. Chair: tba
"A Few Good Men: A Phoenician Among Heroes"
Hannah Mossman (University of Exeter)
"Spartan Heroes in Plutarch's Parallel Lives"
Michele Lucchesi (Lincoln College, University of Oxford)
"Death of a Hero? Euripides in Hellenistic Epigrams"
Ranja Knöbl (University of Durham)
Panel 3b: Reception 2
9 am – 10.30 am. Chair: tba
"Performing Odysseus: the ‘Man of Many Turns’ in Musical Theatre"
Charles MacDougall (RHUL)
"Invisible Odysseus"
Justine McConnell (RHUL)
"Hélisenne de Crenne and the New Epic Hero: Aeneas in 16th c. France"
Sharon Marshall (University of Exeter)
Coffee & Planning for AMPAL 2008
10.30 am – 11.15 am
Panel 4: Latin Literature -Literary Roman heroes and heroism
11.15 am – 1 pm. Chair: tba
"Plotina: An Intra-Textual Heroine in Apuleius' Metamorphoses and her
Significance"
Joanna Atkin (Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge)
"Dying Like a Hero: Paulus and Varro at Cannae in Silius Italicus’ Punica"
Kiu Yue (University of Exeter)
"Deceptive Pietas?"
Dalida Agri (University of Nottingham)
Lunch & Departure
1 pm onward
Conference ends.
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