The Next Ovid(s)
Organization
Organizing Secretaries
A link to attend the conference remotely is available upon request at ovidconference2025@gmail.com.
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