5th ISLALS Conference 2017:
Literature squared: metaliterary reflections in Late Antiquity
Universidad de Salamanca, October 6-7
Friday 6 October 2017
9.00 Registration. Palacio de Anaya: Aula Magna
9.15 Opening. Welcome address by the Vice-Chancellor of Research and Technology Transfer of the University of Salamanca
9.45 Session 1: Self-(re)presentation of the author Chair: H. S. Sivan
- Boshoff (University of Oxford), Reflections of the poet in Dracontius’ Hylas (Romul. 2)
- Castelnuovo (Università di Milano), Prudentius’ Cathemerinon and the self-presentation of a hymnodist
- J. Falcone (Friedrich Alexander Universität – Erlangen-Nürnberg), A poet and his fault: meta-literary hints in Dracontius’ Satisfactio
11.00 Coffee/Tea
11.30 Session 2: New trends in Late Antique Literature Chair: J. Hernández Lobato
- Kaufmann (University of Oxford), Towards an Aesthetics of Unity in Late Latin Poetry
- M. Tissi (LabEx RESMED, Paris), The ‘Poetics of ainigma’ as a cultural Manifesto in late antique proems (IV-VI c. AD)
- Guast (University of Bristol), What can the paratexts to declamation tell us about late antique rhetoric?
- F. Sacchi (University of Ghent), Monstrous Grammars. Some Remarks on Erasure, Virgilius Grammaticus, the Liber monstrorum, and Flaubertian Stupidity
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Session 3: Self-awareness of the new Christian author Chair: M. Formisano
- Hadjittofi (Universidade de Lisboa), Metapoetry in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of the Gospel according to John
- Prieto Domínguez (Universidad de Salamanca), Literary reflections in the hagiographical proems
- S. Rigo (Università di Roma–Sapienza), Re-writing Hagiography with the language of Homer: Eudocia Augusta’s De S. Cypriano
- Gibson (University of Liverpool), The Buildings of Procopius as Metaliterary Monument
16.00 Coffee/Tea
16.30 Session 4: Imperial politics through the mirror of literature Chair: B. Gibson
- Niccolai (University of Cambridge), In blame of Constantine: Tracks of typology in Emperor Julian’s Caesars
- J. Quiroga Puertas (Universidad de Granada), The Poetics of Psógos in late antique Christian Historiography: the case of Socrates Scholasticus
- Roffi (Universität zu Köln), Vergil’s poetic in Late Antiquity: the elegiac component in the Historia Augusta
18:00 Visit to the Historical Library of the University of Salamanca
Saturday 7 October 2017
9.30 Session 5: Late Antique biblical commentary tradition Chair: E. Wolff
- van der Velden (University of Leiden), Rhetorical pagan and Christian exegesis
- S. Sivan (University of Kansas), Domesticating the Bible: Rabbinic Scriptural Dialectics
- de la Fuente Marina (Universidad de Salamanca), De Doctrina Christiana de San Agustín: dificultades hermenéuticas de un no traductor
- Formisano (University of Ghent), Jesus as Text. Juvencus’ Evangeliorum Libri IV
11.00 Coffee/Tea
11.30 Session 6: The sociological approach: reader and author in Late Antiquity
Chair: H. Kaufmann
- Coombe (The Oratory School, Reading), Writers and readers in the epigrams of Luxorius
- Pelttari (University of Edinburgh), The Reader and the Resurrection in Prudentius
- P. Sowers (City University of New York), Ausonius’ Metaliterary Games: Self-Reflection in the Griphus and Technopaignion
- Wolff (Université de Paris-Nanterre), The discourse of the poets of the Latin Anthology of Vandal time on their epigrammatic production
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Session 7: Metaliterature and intertextuality in Late Antiquity Chair: A. Pelttari
- Hernández Lobato (Universidad de Salamanca), Repetitaque mortis imago: Ausonius’ metaliterary reflections on the problem of representation
- Onorato (Università di Messina), Pinguia alabastra: metaliterature and intertextuality in Sidonius Apollinaris’ poems
- Neger (Universität Salzburg), Lascivire vetat mascula dictio: Metaliterary reflections on poems in late antique prose letters
- J Hartman (University of Washington), Creative Destruction: Metaliterary Meaning in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae
16.00 Coffee/Tea
16.30 Session 8: Eros as a meta-poetical symbol Chair: O. Prieto Domínguez
- D. Smith (Hofstra University), The Chaste Bee and the Promiscuous Bee in John of Gaza’s Ekphrasis and the Cycle of Agathias
- Moreno Soldevila (Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla), Love Motifs in Christian poets: A Paradoxical, Intriguing Dialogue
- Verhelst (University of Ghent), The meaning of Eros. Cupid’s arrows and poetic creativity in Late Antique poetry
20.00 Conference Dinner
Organised by Jesús Hernández Lobato (jhlobato@usal.es) and Óscar Prieto Domínguez (praxo@usal.es)