Conference Program

Impoverished Aesthetics: New Approaches to Marginality in Latin Literature
October 20-22, 2022 – University of Toronto

— Schedule —

Thursday, October 20

7:00 pm: Welcome Dinner

Friday, October 21
CDRS University of Toronto – Mississauga Campus

9:00 am: Shuttle to UTM

9:45-10:00 am: Coffee and pastries

Panel 1: Elegy and Epigram (10:00 am – 12:30 pm)
Chaired by Andreas Bendlin

  1. Alison Keith (University of Toronto), “First-Person Feminine Latin Poetry: Sulpicia’s Elegidia“
  2. Kate Stevens (Rutgers University), “gula est: Appropriating the aesthetics of illness in Martial’s Epigrams“
  3. Emilia Barbiero (New York University), “How to Talk to Paper About Poetry: Materiality and Aesthetic Judgment in a Catullan Diptych”

12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch

Panel 2: Epic and Tragic Weaknesses (1:30-4:00 pm)
Chaired by Regina Hoeschele

  1. James Uden (Boston University), “Empire of Exhaustion: The Tired Subject of Latin Epic”
  2. Mariapia Pietropaolo (McMaster University), “The Poetics of Hunger in Metamorphoses 8″
  3. Elaine Sanderson (University of Edinburgh), “An Unhomely Homecoming: The Aesthetics of the Uncanny in Seneca’s Agamemnon“

4:30 pm: Shuttle to hotel

7:00 pm: Conference dinner

Saturday; October 22
Department of Classics – University of Toronto

9:30-9:45 am: Coffee and pastries at UTSG

Panel 3: Impoverished Criticisms (9:4 5-12:15 pm)
Chaired by David Sutton

  1. Andrew McClellan (Davidson College), “Virgil’s Troilus and Metapoetry”
  2. Erik Gunderson (University of Toronto), “The aesthetic foolsgoldstandard in Petronius”
  3. Alex Dressler (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Way and Its Poor: Bareness of Life from Seneca to Jerome”

12:15-1:15 pm: Lunch

Panel 4: Excess and Lack (1:30-4:00 pm)
Chaired by Victoria Wohl

  1. Rebecca Moorman (Providence College), “Beyond Utility: Paradoxes of Knowledge Acquisition in the Aeneid”
  2. Thomas Bolt (Lafayette College), “The Sublime in Seneca and Statius: Aesthetics, Excess, and the Canon”
  3. Basil Dufallo (University of Michigan), “Couture’s The Romans of the Decadence and the Unmooring of Rome’s Decline”

4:00-4:30 pm: Retrospective Round Table (Chair: Lorenza Bennardo, University of Toronto)

7:00 pm: Dinner