Below is the finalised programme for this conference, to be held at King's College London on June 3-4 2016, under the joint aegis of the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature and the Centre for Hellenic Studies. There are a very few places left, which can be booked very inexpensively by KCL e-store at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/eventrecords/2015-16/Classics-world-literature-conference.aspx.
The convenor is Edith Hall: [log in to unmask]
PROGRAMME
3rd June
1000 COFFEE and Registration
1030 Welcome Edith Hall (KCL) and William Fitzgerald (KCL)
1100-1230 Session 1 Chair, Russell Goulbourne (KCL)
1100 Michael Silk (KCL)
Introductory Address: Problematising 'World Literature' (but not 'Classics'?)
1130 Andrew Laird (Warwick)
Aztec Humanists: Uses of the Classics by Nahua Writers in Early Colonial Mexico
1200 Nicholas Ollivere (Oxford)
The Road to Morocco: Reading Back to the Classics via Sartre
1230 SANDWICH LUNCH
1330-1500 Session 2 Chair, Sebastian Matzner (KCL)
1330 Emily Greenwood (Yale)
Local World Classics: A Manifesto
1400 Pramit Chaudhuri (Dartmouth)
Outsourcing: Classics in World Literature and Digital Humanities
1430 Ayelet Haimson Lushkov (University of Texas at Austin)
Broad Classics: Damnatio Memoriae on the Global Stage
1500 TEA
1600-1730 Session 3 Chair, William Fitzgerald (KCL)
1600 Justine McConnell (Oxford)
Riddling Mirrors: Comparing Oral Poetics in Ancient Greece and Contemporary South Africa
1630 Keynote 1, David Damrosch (Harvard)
Hellenistic World Literature: Apuleius and Walcott Read the Greeks
1800 Drinks Reception in RIVER ROOM
Includes toast to celebrate of publication of Justine McConnell & Edith Hall (eds.)
Ancient Greek Myth and World Fiction since 1989 (Bloomsbury 2015).
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ancient-greek-myth-in-world-fiction-since-1989-9781472579393
1930 Speakers’ dinner in local restaurant, hosted by Department of Comparative Literature
4th June
10-00-1100 Session 4 Chair, Dan Orrells (KCL)
1000 Henry Stead (Open University)
A spectre is haunting World Literature -- the spectre of Classics (1917-1956)
1030 Miryana Dimitrova (KCL)
Dissident Ancients: The Cases of the Theatrical Socrates and the Cinematic Aesop in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria
1100 COFFEE
1130-1300 Session 5 Chair, David Ricks (KCL)
1130 Rachel Bower (Leeds)
World Literature and Epistolarity
1200 Ziad Elmarsafy (KCL)
Photosynthesis: Neoplatonisms from Suhrawardi to Abdelwahab Meddeb.
1230 Maria Vamvouri Ruffy (Lausanne):
A Translation’s Sociolect: The Weak Point of ‘World Literature’?
1300 LUNCH
1400-1600 Session 6 Chair: Pavlos Avlamis (KCL)
1430 Bobby Xinyue (Warwick)
Ovid in China
1500 Simon Perris (Wellington, NZ)
Māori Writers and the Classics: Sources, Questions, and Hypotheses
1530 Phiroze Vasunia (UCL)
How we Lost the Classics, in India, For Example
1600 TEA
1630-1830 CLOSING SESSION Chair: Susan Bassnett (Glasgow)
1630 Keynote 2, Patrice Rankine (University of Richmond)
Slavery, the Book, and Classical Tensions: The U.S. and Brazil
1730 Roundtable, kicked off by Susan Bassnett as Respondent
1830 Wine or Pub
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