OIKOS workshop "Ecocriticism and Classical Literature"
When: | Fr 21-05-2021 |
Where: | online (Zoom) |
Workshop
On May 21, 2021, 11:00-16:30, the OIKOS research group Classical Literature: Theory and Contexts will hold an exploratory workshop about Classical Literature and Ecocriticism. During this workshop, OIKOS members will experiment with ecocriticial and environmentally inflected readings of classical literature. We aim to explore what the study of Greek and Roman texts can bring to current ecocritical debates, and what we, as scholars of antiquity and its receptions, can learn from viewing our object of study from an environmental perspective.
The workshop will be held on Zoom. If you would like to join for all or part of the programme, please register (via B.L.Reitz-Joosse rug.nl) by the 20th of May.
Keynote
The keynote will be delivered by Dr Kristine Steenbergh, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and co-founder of the Environmental Humanities Centre . Her research focuses on early modern literature and culture, the history of emotions, ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities.
Program
11:00-12:00 |
SESSION 1: ECOCRITICISM - WHAT AND WHY?
Bettina Reitz-Joosse (RUG): Welcome and introduction (5 minutes) Breakout rooms (15 minutes) and discussion (15 minutes) |
12:00 – 12:30 |
Lunch |
12:30-13:30 |
SESSION 2: ANCIENT ANIMAL ETHICS? REPRESENTATIONS OF HUNTING AND FISHING Chair: Jacqueline Klooster Massimiliano Carbonari (RUG): Taming the wild? Some thoughts on Homeric hunting similes and Mycenaean wall paintings (20 minutes) Sean McGrath (TC Dublin): The aquatic apocalypse: fishing with poison in Oppian’s Halieutica (20 minutes) Discussion: 20 minutes |
13:45-14:45 |
SESSION 2: READING POETIC LANDSCAPES Chair: Christoph Pieper Marco Formisano (Gent): Litora summa legens: landscape and boundary in Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae (20 minutes) Discussion: 5 minutes Mark Heerink (UvA) en Pieter van den Broek (UvA): Vesuvius in Flavian Epic (10 minutes) Louis Verreth (UL): Green Politics in Renaissance Florence: Reading the Landscape in Neo Latin Medici Panegyrics (10 minutes) Discussion: 15 minutes |
15:00-16:00 |
SESSION 3: NARRATIVES OF NATURECULTURE Chair: Floris Overduin Bart Blokland (UU): Representation of Nature and Climate in the Potter’s Oracle (10 minutes) Jikke Koning (UL): The Concept of Nature and Faith in Cultural Progress in Greek Tragedy (20 minutes) Discussion and conclusion: 25 minutes |
16:00-16:30 |
Drinks |