Category: Conference

Gallia docta? Programme

The definitive programme has come out for the digital international conference ‘Gallia docta? Learning and Its Limitations in Late Antique Gaul’, 17-20 March 2021, Greifswald, organised by Tabea Meurer and Veronika Egetenmeyr.

Wednesday 17, 18.00 CET Public Keynote Lecture by Sigrid Mratschek: Sidonius’ kunstsinnige Musen.

Thursday 18 – Saturday 20 Sessions 1-5. Participation by invitation only. Speakers include Tabea Meurer, Veronika Egetenmeyr, Peter Gemeinhardt, Christian Stadermann, Nikolas Hächler, Joop van Waarden, Gernot M. Müller, Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser, Raphael Schwitter, Willum Westenholz, Hendrik Hess, Maik Patzelt, Judith Hindermann, Alison John, Danuta Shanzer.

Website here. Information Conference Office Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, Natalia Zborka, natalia.zborka AT wiko-greifswald.de

Download programme and poster.

Call: Stumbling Texts Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS
Lector, quas patieris hic salebras! The Stumbling Texts (and Stumbling Readers) of Late Latin Poetry
International Conference and Workshop, Basel, 30th September – 2nd October 2021

Confirmed speakers include L. Furbetta, J. Hernández Lobato, S. McGill, A. Pelttari, C. Schindler, A. Stoehr-Monjou

Organisation: a.staehle@unibas.ch and markus.kersten@unibas.ch

Click here to download the invitation

Sidonius at Leeds IMC

At this year’s virtual Leeds International Medieval Congress, Sidonius will be addressed by Madeleine St. Marie, ‘A Bishop in Unstable Times: Conflict in the Letters of Sidonius Apollinaris’, and Richard Rush, ‘When the Rhône Boils: Literary Uses of Hot Summer Weather in Sidonius Apollinaris’s Epistula 2.2 and the Vita Apollinaris‘.

For details, see the Events post on this website.

Gallia docta? Conference

From 17-20 March, Veronika Egetenmeyr and Tabea Meurer will be organizing the online conference ‘Gallia docta? Learning and its limitations in late antique Gaul / Gallia docta? Bildung (begrenzen) im spätantiken Gallien’ at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald. Webpage here.

The opening keynote speech ‘Sidonius’ kunstsinnige Muse’ will be given by Sigrid Mratschek. It can be freely accessed here.

Other speakers include Christine Delaplace, Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser, Ulrich Eigler, Nikolas Hächler, Hendrik Hess, Angela Kinney, Alison John, Gernot Müller, Maik Patzelt, Raphael Schwitter, Danuta Shanzer, Christian Stadermann, Peter Van Nuffelen, Joop van Waarden, and Willum Westenholz.

Lo specchio del modello

Anita Di Stefano and Marco Onorato are organizing an international Sidonius conference in Messina, 4-5 October. Speakers include Franca Ela Consolino, Jesús Hernández Lobato, Maria Jennifer Falcone, Stefania Santelia, Marco Onorato, Gavin Kelly, Matthijs Zoeter, Aaron Pelttari, Rosa Santoro, Luciana Furbetta, Silvia Condorelli, Étienne Wolff, Anita Di Stefano, and Joop van Waarden.

See further in the Events Calendar