Neo-Latin Symposium 2019
The Seventh Annual Cork/Lexington Neo-Latin Symposium will take place 11-13 April, 2019 in Cork, Ireland, hosted by the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork.
The Neo-Latin Symposium is devoted to the presentation of scholarly research in the area of Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Latin Studies. The Symposium was established in 2013 by Professor Jennifer Tunberg at the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Kentucky, Lexington, under the auspices of the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). Since 2017 it has been held in Lexington and Cork in alternate years as part of a continuing collaboration between 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork and the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Kentucky (Lexington).
Conference Programme:
Thursday, 11th April
10-11 Registration and Welcome
11.00-12.30 Panel 1: Poetry in Context
Sara Hale (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Manchester/British Library) Anglo-Italian Relations in Vincenzo da Filicaia鈥檚 Mogarineides
Sharon Van Dijk (深夜亚洲福利久久 College London) Recontextualising Fletcher鈥檚 Verse in the 1650s
Christian Guerra (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Basel) Satire as a Mirror: Johannes Atrocianus鈥� Neo- Latin Satires
2-3.30 Panel 2: Latinity
Jason Harris (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork) Erasmus and Cicero in Richard Stanihurst鈥檚 De rebus in Hibernia gestis
Violeta Moretti and Ana Mihaljevi膰 (Juraj Dobrila 深夜亚洲福利久久, Croatia) Vernacular Influences on Neo-Latin of the East Adriatic Coast
Guglielmo Monetti (Universit脿 degli Studi di Padova, DISSGEA) 鈥楿tinam scires latine, clarissime vir!鈥� Christian Adolph Klotz, Reviewer of d鈥橝lembert鈥檚 Sur l鈥檋armonie des langues, et sur la latinit茅 des modernes
3.30-4 Coffee
4-5 Panel 3: Classical Reception
Camilla Tosi (Universit脿 degli Studi di Ferrara) Plautus and the Ancient Roman Law in the Studies of the Humanists
Olivia Montepaone (International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture, Florence) Classics, Antiquarianism and Theology: Collecting Fragments of the Caesars in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Friday, 12th April
10-11.30 Panel 4: Pedagogical Texts
Laura Manning (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Kentucky) Teaching Active Latin: Johannis Posselii De Ratione Discendae ac Docendae Linguae Latinae
Anita Martins (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Rennes 2/ 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Coimbra) Collectanea Moralis Philosophiae (1571): let鈥檚 talk about corpus and corpora
Renate Berga (Special Collections Department, National Library of Latvia) Deconstructing the Early Modern Dissertations of 17th Century Riga Academic Gymnasium: Text and Paratext
11.30-12.30 Guided Tour of UCC Campus in Latin
2-3.30 Panel 5: Interpreting Narratives
Adir Fonseca Jr (Wolfson College, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Oxford) Of sheep and men: Boccaccio, allegory and the bucolic genre
Jennifer Tunberg (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Kentucky) Performing the Patrimony and the Power of Words in Barclay鈥檚 Argenis (1621)
Jennifer Nelson (The Robbins Collection, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Florida) Gian Vittorio Rossi鈥檚 Eudemia: A Who鈥檚 Who (and Where鈥檚 Where) of Roman Literary Society under Pope Urban VIII
3.30-4 Coffee
4-5.30 Panel 6: Representing Nature
Peter Dennistoun Bryant (Conventicula Lexintoniensia) Rhodologia Rapiniana: Rhodanthe, Queen of Corinth, the Rose, and the Feminisation of Floral Myths in the 鈥楬ortorum Libri IV鈥� (1665) of Renatus Rapinus
Dominik Berrens (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Innsbruck, Austria) Naming an Unknown Species 鈥� The Case of the Sloth
Angela Helmer (深夜亚洲福利久久 of South Dakota) Theobroma cacao 鈥� A nineteenth century medical thesis of Peru
6.45pm Conference Dinner
Saturday, 13th April
10-11.30 Panel 7: Philosophical Texts
Matthew Gorey (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Puget Sound) The Poetics of Infinity in Giordano Bruno鈥檚 De immenso
Bartholomew Begley (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork) Authority and freethinking in the work of Jakob Thomasius, Spinoza鈥檚 earliest critic
Juliane K眉ppers (Humboldt-Universit盲t zu Berlin and Freie Universit盲t Berlin) Fighting About All and Nothing with Lucretius 鈥� The Anti-Lucretian didactic poem as a medium of contemporary scientific debate in the early 18th century
12-3 Excursion to Blarney Castle and Lunch
