Coming soon, the international conference ‘The Making of the Author: Self-Fashioning in Letter Collections Across the Mediterranean (4th-14th c.)’. Giulia Marolla will give a paper on Sidonius: ‘Authorial self-fashioning and editorial designs in Sidonius’ letter collection’.
4-6 September 2024, University of Vienna, Faculty of Protestant Theology
Convenor: Madalina Toca (madalina.toca AT univie.ac.at).
Stefania Santelia on ‘Raccontarsi nei carmina: Sidonio e il tempo della ‘tenera giovinezza” is among the speakers of the upcoming workshop on Late Antique Latin Autobiographies, 13-14 June at the University of Siena.
This is an in-person only event. To attend, please email to filomena.giannotti AT unisi.it by 13 May.
PROGRAMME (Source Classicists List)
Forms of Autobiography in Late Latin Literature
Thursday 13 June
WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
15:00-15:15 Alessandro Fo (Siena University)
15:15-15:45 Filomena Giannotti (Siena University), Presentation of the Website LALAB – Late Antique Latin Autobiographies
KEYNOTE SPEECH
15:45-16:15 Roy Gibson (Durham University), Autobiographical Elements in Printed Editions of Late Antique Latin Letter Collections
COFFEE BREAK
SESSION I
The Great Latin Fathers of the Church – chair Silvia Mattiacci
16:45-17:15 Daniele Di Rienzo (Federico II University of Naples), Lacrimaui ergo, fateor, etiam ego: elementi autobiografici nel De excessu fratris di Ambrogio
17:15-17:45 Leopoldo Gamberale (Sapienza University of Rome), Dal sogno alla realtà. Spunti di autobiografia intellettuale in Gerolamo
17:45-18:15 Fabio Gasti (Pavia University), Esperienza di sé e scrittura: le Retractationes di Agostino
DISCUSSION
DINNER
Friday 14 June
SESSION II
Pagan Poetry – chair Leopoldo Gamberale
9:00-9:30 Angelo Luceri (Roma Tre University): Carmina sola loquor: Claudiano e l’autorappresentazione di sé come poeta
9:30-10:00 Silvia Mattiacci (Siena University): L’Ephemeris di Ausonio e l’autobiografia del quotidiano: riflessioni a partire da un’analisi del carme 1
10:00-10:30 Stefania Santelia (Bari University), Raccontarsi nei carmina: Sidonio e il tempo della ‘tenera giovinezza’
COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30 Rocco Schembra (Torino University), Gli Itineraria ad loca sancta di età tardoantica: un genere in costruzione tra resoconto di viaggio e autobiografia. Il caso di Egeria
DISCUSSION
LUNCH
SESSION III
Christian Poetry – chair Fabio Gasti
15:00-15:30 Francesco Lubian (Padova University), In te compositae mihi fixa sit anchora uitae: autobiografia (e agiografia) nei Natalicia di Paolino di Nola
15:30-16:00 Antonella Bruzzone (Sassari University): Lettere dal carcere. Spazi di autobiografia nella poesia di Draconzio
16:00-16:30 Silvia Condorelli (Messina University): Ego Fortunatus amore (Ven. Fort. carm. 2, 16, 165): autorappresentazione di Venanzio Fortunato, poeta elegiaco cristiano
DISCUSSION
COFFEE BREAK
ROUNDTABLE
Existential Trauma and Thanksgivings to God – chair Daniele Di Rienzo
17:30-18:30 Elena Castelnuovo (Trento University), Il caso dell’Eucharisticos di Paolino di Pella
Noelia Bernabeu Torreblanca (Salamanca University): Il caso della Confessio di Patrizio d’Irlanda
CLOSING REMARKS by the Organizers
DINNER
Scientific and organizing Committee: Daniele Di Rienzo, Alessandro Fo, Filomena Giannotti, Silvia Mattiacci
Call for Papers. Deadline 30 April 2024
The Jeweled Materiality of Late Antique/Early Medieval Objects and Texts From Cloisonné to Stained Glass to Experimental Poetry (4th–9th Centuries)
International conference, November 11–12, 2024
Center for Early Medieval Studies, Masaryk University, Brno
Organizers: Alberto Virdis, Marie Okáčová
The interface among the material, visual, and literary cultures of the long late antiquity and beyond has become a topic of scholarly interest ever since the publication of the seminal 1989 book The Jeweled Style by Michael Roberts. The visual–verbal dialectics of this period of geopolitical and cultural transformation, as manifested in various instances of spoliation, patterns of fragmentation, and a preoccupation with (exquisite) detail in different cultural media, were subsequently studied especially by Jaś Elsner and Jesús Hernández Lobato. The topical relevance of Roberts’ original concept more than 30 years after its invention is clear from, among other scholarly endeavors, the recent edited volume A Late Antique Poetics? The Jeweled Style Revisited (2023), which offers numerous insightful contributions on the topic across different genres, regions, and temporal contexts.
Read on via ResearchGate
Two immediately upcoming conferences, involving both scholars and subject matter also related to Sidonius, include:
– Messina, 4-5 December: ALES PICTA LOQUELLIS – Nuove prospettive sulla poesia di Paolino di Nola. Programme here. Link to live stream upon request.
– Ghent, 7-8 December: OVERWHELMED: Spectacles and Visuality in Early and Late Imperial Latin Poetry. Programme here. Link to live stream upon request.
Sara Fascione organizes an International Conference “Tradizione e nuovi auctores della Tarda Antichità” at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II on 26-27 October 2023.
For registration and Zoom link please write to sara.fascione AT unina.it
Download poster with programme here
26 October 2023
15.30 Welcome
15.50 Introduction: Sara Fascione, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Chair: Marisa Squillante
16.00 Jean-Louis Charlet, Université Aix-Marseille
Alcuni aspetti del dialogo culturale tra poeti latini della Tarda Antichità
16.30 Luca Mondin, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Dicendi arte nova parem vetustis: la celebrazione dei nuovi auctores nella poesia tardolatina
Chair: Lucio De Giovanni
17.00 Andrea Pellizzari, Università degli Studi di Torino
Il lessico dell’agronomia nella scoliastica tardoantica: prestiti e confronti letterari
17.30 Sara Fascione, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Nullo veterum minor noster Symmachus. Leggere Simmaco in un mondo in cambiamento
18.00 Discussion
27 October 2023
Chair: Luca Mondin
9.00 Pierre Descotes, Université Paris-Sorbonne – Institut d’Études Augustiniennes
Hilaire, Cyprien, Tychonius: une discussion sur l’autorité d’auteurs ‘récents’ dans l’epistula 93 d’Augustin d’Hippone
9.30 Gavin Kelly, University of Edinburgh
The Latin secular historians of the fourth century and their early reception
10.00 Umberto Roberto, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Tradizione e nuovi modelli nella riflessione storico-politica dell’aristocrazia senatoria di Roma tra quarto e quinto secolo: la rappresentazione di Domiziano e Diocleziano
10.30-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.30 coffee break
Chair: Chiara Renda
11.30 Silvia Condorelli, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Sidonio Apollinare e Paolino di Périgueux: consonanze poetiche
12.00 Alfredo Mario Morelli, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Lussorio e gli auctores epigrammatici latini tardo-antichi
12.30 Discussion
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
14.30 Conclusion and final remarks: Claudio Buongiovanni, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Roman Continuity and Discontinuity in the Vandal Kingdom is the title of a two-day conference at the University of Hamburg, 7-8 December.
Marzia Fiorentini (University of St. Andrews) speaks on ‘Africa calling: Roman emperors against the Vandalic tyrant in Sidonius Apollinaris’.
Programme here
1-2 December, Conference at the University of Bielefeld
Diesseits und jenseits der Imperien: Wissensordnung und ethnographisches Vergleichen in der Spätantike
Veronika Egetenmeyr will speak on ‘How to create a community? Sidonius Apollinaris and his others’
Information and registration here
As part of the Celtic Conference (Lyon, 18-21 July), a panel, organised by Scott DiGiulio and Dominic Machado, will convene on “Poeticis magis decora? Latin Prose and the Limits of Intertextuality”. Joop van Waarden will be speaking on “Sidonius’ Journey to Rome at Ockham’s Razor’s Edge”.
Full programme on the conference website.
Alison John and Alan Ross will be organising a conference in Oxford on 8-9 July titled “Translation and the Limits of Greek-Latin Bilingualism in Late Antiquity”. Among other speakers, Filomena Giannotti will speak on “Challenging Decadence Through Translation. A Literary Example from Sidonius Apollinaris (Ep. 8.3) and his work on Philostratus’ Vita Apollonii”.
Programme and particulars here
Featuring among others:
Lisa Bailey on Women in Service
Audrey Becker on Women in the Lex Burgundionum
Veronika Egetenmeyr on Education at the Visigothic and Burgundian Courts
Jeroen Wijnendaele on the Emergence of Queens.
Website here
