Dear list members,
I am pleased to announce that registration is open for the following international conference hosted by the Durham Centre for Classical Reception:
Monuments Made of Words: Text and Architecture, from Antiquity to Modernity
8-11 September 2016
Birley Room, Hatfield College, Durham University
From Horace's odes to the sonnets of Shakespeare and beyond, the idea that the written word outlasts even the grandest of monuments has long been a literary topos. In the case of antiquity it rings particularly true. Despite their apparent vulnerability during centuries of transmission in manuscript form¬¬¬, classical accounts of architecture have almost always outlived their subjects; of brick and stone, often only words survive.
This conference seeks to explore the diverse content and legacy of ancient descriptions of architecture. Modern studies have tended to concentrate on specific accounts or periods. The present conference addresses a much broader selection of classical texts and the various ways they were perceived over a wider geographical compass and timeframe. It situates these accounts - such as Greek reports of architecture in the Near East and Latin poetry on the architectural wonders of Rome - within the intellectual and aesthetic discourse of their time but also, importantly, in the context of later ages, when they came to fire the imagination of new generations of architects, artists, writers and scholars.
With contributions drawn from an international group of scholars, ranging from classicists to architectural historians and specialists in other fields, the intention of this conference is to elicit a richer understanding of the contribution of these 'literary monuments' to thought and visual culture from antiquity onwards, as well as of the dialogues between these monuments over time.
Conference Programme:
Thursday 8th September
17.00 Registration
17.45 Peter Heslin Welcome Address
18.00 Mark Wilson Jones Keynote Address: 'Buildings and Words: The Recognition Factor'
19.30 Dinner - Hatfield College
Friday 9th September
Antiquity and Early Antiquarianism
Chair: David Cowling
09.00 Peter Heslin Architecture and the Aeneid in Statius, Silvae 4.2
10.00 Ruth Webb Building with Words: Paul the Silentiary's Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia
11.00 Coffee Break
11.15 Frances Muecke The fama of the Theatre of Pompey. Between Antiquity and Antiquarianism
12.15 Tour of Durham Castle
13.45 Buffet Lunch
Architects and the Written Word
Chair: Carlo Caruso
15.00 Hubertus Günther Renaissance Ideas of Antique Houses
16.00 Peter Fane-Saunders Literary Excavations at Tivoli: Sangallo the Younger, Pirro Ligorio and the Villa of Vopiscus
17.00 Coffee Break
17.15 Margaret Daly Davis Sebastiano Serlio's Books on Architecture and his Investigation of Ancient Historical Sources
Evening Free
Saturday 10th September
Rebuilding the Word: Villas and Obelisks
Chair: Edmund Thomas
09.30 Klaus Jan Philipp Varro's Aviary: Reconstructions and Interpretations through Five Centuries
10.30 Carlo Caruso Paolo Giovio's suburbanum on Lake Larius and its Ancient Models
11.30 Coffee Break
11.45 Edward Chaney 'Thy pyramids built up with newer might.': Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Obelisks
12.45 Buffet Lunch
13.45 Tour of Durham Cathedral
Baroque and Neo-Classical Encounters
Chair: Hubertus Günther
15.30 Edmund Thomas The Theatres of Gaius Curio and the Evolution of the Baroque
16.30 Thomas-Leo True Rousham: Classical Literary Echoes in an English Garden
19.00 Dinner - Restaurant
Sunday 11th September
Philological and Conceptual Approaches
Chair: Peter Fane-Saunders
09.30 Giulia Perucchi Architectural Knowledge in Petrarch's Writings
10.30 Willem de Bruijn The House that Ovid Built: Conceptual Architecture from Antiquity to the Present
11.30 Closing remarks
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