9:00-9.30 Breakfast and Registration – Room 5409
9:30-9.45 Welcome and Introduction – Room C198 (Concourse level)
Alessandra Migliara and Nathan Oglesby, Conference co-chairs
9:45-11:00 Panel One: Poetry and Poetics – Room C198
Moderator: Chaya Cassano, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“Healing Through Story and Song? A Study of Odysseus with the Phaiakians”
Emily Austin, Boston University
“Tradition and Performance: Rethinking Homer’s Kleos.”
Yukai Li, Yale University
“Pindar’s Protean Muses”
Elizabeth Baxter, Boston University
11:00 – 11:25 Coffee Break – Room 5409
11:25-12:40 Panel Two: Theory and Transmission – Room C198
Moderator: Alannah Karas, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“Entering the Stage of Language: Sweetbitter Remembrance in Sappho 16″
Hilary Ilkay, The New School for Social Research
“Brise Marine: The Metaphysical Feminine in Plato’s Laws”
Irene Han, UCLA
“Readership and Remembrance in Pannonian Verse Epitaphs”
David Stifler, Duke University
12:40 – 2:00 Lunch – Room 5409
2.00 – 3.30: Workshop – Room C198
“The Laboratory of Literary Architecture. The joy of cardboard, glue and storytelling: a cross-disciplinary exploration of literature as architecture”, with Matteo Pericoli, Architect
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break – Room 5409
3:45-5:00 Panel Three: Commentaries and Translations – Room C198
Moderator: Tristan Husby, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“Cinna, Crassicius and the Nuptial Erotics of Commentary”
Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Yale University
“The Late Antique and Medieval Commentaries on Ptolemy’s Almagest and the History of Astronomical Literature”
Maria Americo, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU)
“Oedipus Tyrannus and the translatability of Sophoclean poetics: a case study in the 1543 Latin translation of Gian Battista Gabia”
Bryan Whitchurch, Fordham University
5:00-6.00 Keynote Address – Room C198
“Pathos and Poetics in Aristotle”
Prof. Andrew Ford, Princeton University
6.00–7:00 Reception – Room 5409
