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Physical delegate booking has now closed but booking for virtual delegates is open until the 13th of July.
The Reception of Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche from 1600 to Today
An international conference at Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds, 13th – 15th July 2016
Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was first written in the second century AD as part of his novel Metamorphoses or the Golden Ass. This story of the love between the mortal princess Psyche (or “Soul”) and the god of Love, their secret meetings, separation and final union in eternal love and marriage has fascinated readers as early as Fulgentius and as recent as Emily C.A. Snyder. Cupid and Psyche has given rise to treatments as diverse as plays, masques, operas, poems, sculptures, paintings and novels, with a huge range of diverse approaches to the text. This conference explores the Western World's rich and ever varied response to this tale over the last 400 years, bringing together international scholars from various disciplines and encouraging interactions between diverse subjects to understand more deeply the historic and continuing impact of Cupid and Psyche on Western fine art and literature.
Invited speakers include: Robert Carver Durham), Julia Haig Gaisser (Bryn Mawr), Lucia Pasetti (Bologna) and Christiane Reitz (Rostock). The current full programme is copied below, for updated versions, please see http://cupidandpsyche.leeds.ac.uk/programme-and-abstracts/
Booking has now opened for residential, day delegate and virtual delegate places and will remain open until 29th June. For more information on prices and to book, see http://cupidandpsyche.leeds.ac.uk/booking/
Organisers:
Regine May (University of Leeds) and Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Cupid and Psyche Conference – Provisional Programme 13/05/2016
Wednesday July 13th
10:00-11:00 Conference Registration and Check In
Devonshire Foyer
10:30-11:00 Refreshments: Devonshire Foyer
11:00 Conference Opening: Tabbron Room (JCR)
11:15-12:45 Tabbron Room (JCR) Fenton Room
1a) Apuleius for Youth
Chair: Owen Hodkinson
1b) C.S. Lewis and the Divine
Chair: Julia Gaisser
Apuleius’ Graphic Novel: the Comics and Cupid and Psyche
Edmund Cueva (University of Houston-Downtown)
Venus reimagined: the reception of Apuleius’ Venus from Cupid and Psyche as C.S. Lewis’ Orual in Till We Have Faces
C. R. Kirkman (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Cupid and Psyche for Children
Lisa Maurice (Bar-Ilan University)
Cupid & Psyche in C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces: a Christian-Platonic metamorphosis
Friedemann Drews (Münster)
12:45-13:45 Buffet lunch – Dining Room
14:00-15:30 JCR Fenton
2a) 18th Century Paintings
Chair: Elizabeth Prettejohn
2b) Echoes and Allusions
Chair: Paula James
Psyche and Beauty in Paintings from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
Nadia Scippacercola
(Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
with Rosanna Scippacercola
Undertones of Cupid and Psyche in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth
Janice Siegel (Hampden-Sydney, Virginia)
Psyche in the Salon: French Interior Decoration in the 18th Century
Jared Simard (CUNY)
The Background Radiation of the Tale: Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche in the Gardzienice performanceMetamorphosis, or The Golden Ass
Lech Trzcionkowski (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)
15:30-16:00 Refreshments – Devonshire Foyer
16:00-17:00 JCR
3) Neoplatonism Chair: Maeve O'Brien
The Platonic Ass: Thomas Taylor’s Cupid and Psyche in Context (1795-1822)
Robert Carver (Durham)
18:30-19:00 Pre-Dinner Wine reception – Devonshire Foyer (Sponsored by The British Academy)
19:00-20:00 Dinner for Delegates with Orange Stickers
20:00-23:00 Bar open
Thursday July 14th
08:00-9:00 Breakfast – Main Dining Room (for Residential Delegates)
08:30 Conference Registration Desk Opens
09:00-10:30 Tabbron Room (JCR)
4) Visible Voices Chair: Roger Brock
Operatic adaptations of Cupid and Psyche
Stelios Panayotakis (Crete)
Apuleius at the court of Louis XIV: Lully and Molière
Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi, Oxford)
10:30-11:00 Refreshment break – Devonshire Foyer
11:00-12:30 JCR
5) Psyche in Italy Chair: Michael Paschalis
‘Del soffrir degli affanni è dolce il fine’: Ancient Myth and Comic Drama in G.F. Fusconi (with G.F. Loredano and P. Michiel) for F. Cavalli, Amore innamorato (1642)
Tiziana Ragno (University of Foggia )
‘In the calm whirlpool of the void’: Psyche in C19th and C20th Italian literature
Lucia Pasetti (Bologna)
12:30-13:30 Buffet lunch – Dining Room
13:30-15:00 JCR Fenton
6a) Modern Reflections
Chair: Ed Cueva
6b) The Romantic Psyche
Chair: Maria Haley
Looking back and forward with Apuleius: Why Cupid and Psyche keep moving from the simple to the complex
Paula James (Open University)
Classical Themes in Irish Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
Maeve O’Brien (Maynooth)
Cupid and Psyche on stage in the 21st century
Hendrik Müller
Keats’ Ode to Psyche: Poetry and Inspiration
Regine May (Leeds)
15:00-15:30 Refreshment break – Devonshire Foyer
15:30-17:00 JCR
7) Images Telling Tales Chair: Regine May
Walter Scott’s Kenilworth and the story of Cupid and Psyche
Michael Paschalis (Crete)
Apuleius and Interior Decoration: Cupid and Psyche on a French Wallpaper
Christiane Reitz (Rostock)
18:30-19:00 Pre-Dinner Wine reception – Devonshire Foyer
19:00-20:30 Conference Dinner (including wine) for Delegates with Blue Stickers
20:00-23:00 Bar open: drinks can be bought in the bar and taken in to dinner
Friday July 15th
08:00-9:00 Breakfast – Main Dining Room (for Residential Delegates)
08:30 Conference Registration Desk Opens
09:00-10:30 Tabbron Room (JCR)
8) Narrative Poetry, Poetic Narratives Chair: Robert Carver
Robert Bridges’ Eros & Psyche and its Models
Luca Ruggeri (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Gothic allegory and feminist critique:
Cupid and Psyche in the novels of Charlotte M. Yonge and Sylvia Townsend Warner
Clemence Schultze (Durham)
10:30-11:00 Refreshment break – Devonshire Foyer
11:00-12:30 JCR Fenton
9a) Psychology and Philosophy
Chair: Stephen Harrison
9b) Modernism
Chair: Charles Martindale
Kierkegaard as a Reader of Apuleius
Zacharias Andreadakis (Michigan)
‘The heart in conflict with itself’:
Faulkner’s humanistic reception of Cupid and Psyche in The Reivers
Vernon Provencale (Beveridge Arts Centre, Wolfville)
Psyche the Psychotic: Cupid and Psyche in Franz Riklin’s Wunscherfüllung und Symbolik im Märchen
Geoffrey Benson (Colgate University)
‘I have tried to be blind in love’:
Sylvia Plath’s House of Eros
Holly Ranger (Birmingham)
12:30-13:30 Buffet lunch – Dining Room
13:30-15:00 JCR
10) Illustrating Psyche Chair: Clemence Schultze
Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche:
Narrative, Reception, Aestheticism in 19th-Century Britain (Pater, Morris, Burne-Jones)
Elizabeth Prettejohn (York)
Charles Martindale (York & Bristol)
Between Symbolism and Popular Culture:
Cupid and Psyche in Fin de Siècle Book Illustration
Christoph Leidl (Heidelberg)
15:00-15:30 Refreshment break – Devonshire Foyer
15:30-16:30 JCR
11) Psyche in Mississippi Chair: Stephen Harrison & Regine May
Eudora Welty’s The Robber Bridegroom: Cupid and Psyche on the Natchez Trace
Julia Haig Gaisser (Bryn Mawr)
16:30-17:00 Conference Closing
Cupid and Psyche Conference Team
For further details about the conference, location and bookings, please see http://cupidandpsyche.leeds.ac.uk/
Twitter Username: Cupid and Psyche
Handle: @Apuleius16
Hashtag: #Apuleius16
Postal Address:
Dr E. R. OKell,
Conference Administrator, Cupid and Psyche Conference,
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies,
Michael Sadler Building,
University of Leeds
LEEDS LS2 9JT
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