Writing the Embodied Experience in Imperial Ecphrasis

The programme for the conference ‘Writing the Embodied Experience in Imperial Ecphrasis,’ which will be held at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge between 4-5 September 2019 has been announced.

Papers will be pre-circulated to all participants.

Programme

DAY 1: Wednesday, 4/09/2019

10.30–11.00 Coffee & opening remarks

11.00–12.30 Session 1: PAINTING
Jonas Grethlein (Heidelberg): ‘The Philostratus Trap: Enargeia and
Ecphrasis in the Imagines’
Response: Emma Greensmith (Cambridge)

Albert Bates (Cambridge): ‘The Synthetic Imagination: Centaurs in
Imperial Ecphrasis (Lucian, Philostratus, Callistratus)’
Response: Ruth Webb (Lille)

12.30–13.30 Lunch break

13.30–15.00 Session 2: BODY IN SPACE
Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (Stanford): ‘Toward a Biology of Images’
Response: Robin Osborne (Cambridge)

Anna Athanasopoulou (Cambridge): ‘Inscribing the Body in Architectural
Ecphrasis: Affect, Experience, and Sense Perception’
Response: Michael Squire (King’s College London)

15.00–15.30 Coffee break

15.30–17.00 Session 3: SPECTACLE IN EPIC AND SATIRE
Karin Schlapbach (Fribourg): ‘Nauseous Art in Petronius’
Response: Caroline Vout (Cambridge)

Calum Maciver (Edinburgh): ‘Ecphrasis in Imperial Greek Epic: What is it
For?’
Response: Richard Hunter (Cambridge)

17.30 Wine reception (Cast Gallery, Faculty of Classics)

19.30 Dinner (at local restaurant)

DAY 2: Thursday, 5/09/2019

9.00–9.30 Coffee

9.30–11.00 Session 4: ARCHITECTURE
Edmund Thomas (Durham): ‘Matter, Senses, and Surface in the Paper
Palaces of the Imperial Roman Baroque’
Response: Helen Lovatt (Nottingham)

Carole Newlands (Colorado Boulder): ‘Architectural Ecphrasis in Statius
and Fortunatus: Restoration, Repetition, and Renewal’
Response: Helen Slaney (Roehampton)

11.00–11.30 Coffee

11.30–13.00 Session 5: STATUES
Basil Dufallo (Michigan): ‘Empire from Another Angle: Queer Pleasures of
Art in Statius, Silvae 4.6’
Response: Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St Andrews)

James Porter: ‘Philostratean Heroics’ (Berkeley)
Response: Benedek Kruchió (Cambridge)

13.00–13.45 Final discussion
Moderator: Simon Goldhill (Cambridge)

INVITED EXPERTS:
Froma Zeitlin (Princeton)
Nina Braginskaya (Moscow)

For more information and updates:
https://embodiedecphrasis.weebly.com

For registration:
https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-classics/writing-the-embodied-experience-in-imperial-ecphrasis/writing-the-embodied-experience-in-imperial-ecphrasis

The deadline for registration is 4th August 2019.

The organisers: Anna Athanasopoulou ([email protected]); Albert Bates ([email protected]); Benedek Kruchió ([email protected])