The Next Ovid(s)
Organization
Organizing Secretaries
Organized by Scuola Normale Superiore in collaboration with the International Ovidian Society, the conference is funded by the PNRR through the MERITA, the network for talent project*.
Program
Thursday June 19
Session I
15:30 Welcome and Introduction
15:45 Panel 1 – Politics and Poetics
Chair: Paul Allen Miller | University of South Carolina
Discussant: Francesca Romana Berno | Sapienza Università di Roma
Olivia May | Princeton University
Tollitur index: The Poetics of Complicity in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria
Luca Onorato | Scuola Normale Superiore
Spolia altera: Medea and Empire in the Metamorphoses
Miriam Kamil | Bryn Mawr College
The Politics and Poetics of invidia in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
17:00 Discussion
17:40 Coffee Break
18:10 Panel 2 – Times and Mirrors
Chair: Alessandro Barchiesi | New York University
Discussant: John F. Miller | University of Virginia
Freddie Kimpton | University of Exeter
Tempus Edax: Aspects of Time in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Pei He | New York University
Mirrors, Maternity, Distorted Temporality in the Tales of Narcissus and Niobe
Mirko Donninelli | Scuola Normale Superiore
Metamorphoses and Fasti as a Diptych: Minerva’s and Marsyas’ Pipes
19:25 Discussion
Dinner
Friday June 20
Session II
9:30 Panel 3 – Roman Receptions
Chair: Gianpiero Rosati | Scuola Normale Superiore
Discussant: Lisa Piazzi | Università di Pisa
Francesca Econimo | University of Toronto
Pluto in love: metamorphosis of a god from Ovid to Claudian
Luigi Maria Guerci | Sapienza Università di Roma / Universität Würzburg
Erisittone e la quercia: da Ovidio a Silio Italico
10:20 Discussion
10:50 Coffee Break
11:20 Panel 4 – Gender
Chair: Andrew Feldherr | Princeton University
Discussant: Alison Keith | University of Toronto
Marta Perilli | Scuola Normale Superiore
Phaedra and Ovid on Theseus: Rewriting a Hero from the Heroides onwards
Imogen Briscoe | University of Exeter
The ‘Traffic in Women’: Homosociality in the Amores and the Importance of Sexual Access
12:10 Discussion
Lunch
Session III
14:30 Panel 5 – Contemporary Receptions
Chair: Edoardo Galfré | Università degli studi di Palermo
Discussant: Jessica Westerhold | University of Tennessee
Danae Christidou | University of Ioannina
A plump, golden cat reading Ovid in C. Whitman’s “Winter in Tomi or Dido’s Complaint”
Emily McConkey | McGill University
Women Reading Ovid: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poetic Metamorphosis
15:20 Discussion
15:50 Coffee Break
16:20 Panel 6 – Ecocriticism
Chair: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris | Université de Lille
Discussant: Alison Sharrock | University of Manchester
Erica Krause | University of Virginia
Dark Ecology in the Storm Scene of Ceyx and Alcyone (Met. 11.474-572)
Alicia Matz | San Diego State University
Subverting the Augustan Botanical Code in the Metamorphoses
Frances Myatt | University of Cambridge
Mother Earth, Medea, and Matricide in the Metamorphoses
17:35 Discussion
Dinner
Saturday June 21
Session IV
9:30 Panel 7 – Ovid and the Modern
Chair: Christopher Nappa | Florida State University
Discussant: Leah Whittington | Harvard University
Enrico Salvatore Simonetti | Università Telematica Pegaso
Nasoni respondere: fedeltà e infrazioni negli Heroes di Boyd (1590)
Ambra Marzocchi | Brown University
Heu quam vicina est ultima terra mihi! Ovid as the first classical Latin poet to be published in the New World
10:20 Discussion
10:50 Coffee Break
11:20 Panel 8 – Gender
Chair: Alison Keith | University of Toronto
Discussant: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris | Université de Lille
Francesco Busti | Universiteit Leiden
Queering the Aeneid. The Ovidian Orpheus’ Alternative to Genealogy
Sebastian Hyams | University of Oxford
Emotion, Myth, and Masculinity in Ovid’s Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto
12:10 Discussion
Lunch
Session V
14:30 Panel 9 – Body and the Poet
Chair: Irene Peirano Garrison | Harvard University
Discussant: Paul Allen Miller | University of South Carolina
Sophie Emilia Seidler | LMU München
Metabolic Body Horror: Proserpina (Met. 5) and Erysichthon (Met. 8) in Light of Bulimia, Disorder, and Violence
Federico Maviglia | Yale University
Suspecting Beauty, Trusting Form. Ovid and Horace on Horse Heads and the Language of Imperial Power (Met. 12.393-422 vs. Ars 1.1-9)
Simona Martorana | Australian National University
The Monstrous Famine: Erysichthon’s Abject Body in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 8
15:45 Discussion
16:25 Coffee Break
16:55 Panel 10 – Visual Receptions
Chair: Alessandro Schiesaro | Scuola Normale Superiore
Discussant: Thea S. Thorsen | Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Khushi Jain | Trinity College Dublin
Receiving Titian Receiving Ovid: A Reading of Metamorphosis (2012)
Emma Louise Mendez Correa | New York University
Narcissus/Pygmalion in Spike Jonze’s Her (2013): Ovid and the Black Mirror
17:55 Discussion
18:25 Conclusion
Dinner
A link to attend the conference remotely is available upon request at ovidconference2025@gmail.com.
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