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Exchange Princeton University - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Workshop 1: New Approaches to Ekphrasis

  • When Oct 04, 2024 from 10:00 to 05:00
  • Where Princeton University, Classics Department Seminar Room,
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Organizers: Peter Kelly (Princeton) and Darja Šterbenc Erker (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Venue: Classics Department Seminar Room, Princeton University

The workshop is the first in a series of events organized by Dr. habil. Darja Šterbenc Erker (Berlin), Prof. Peter Kelly and Prof. Andrew Feldherr (Princeton) within the project Classics and the Contemporary Imagination: Ekphrasis. This Princeton University-Humboldt University cooperation seeks to extend the partnership between the Classics department in Princeton and the Institut für Klassische Philologie of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin through establishing a new venture on Classics and the Contemporary Imagination, beginning with two workshops on ekphrasis in 2024 and 2025, frequently defined as the literary description of a visual object, especially a painting, statue, or other artwork. The cooperation adopts a new approach to ekphrasis as a literary device which is not tied to visual art but is an expression of the power of verbal art to make visual worlds come to life in a moment of metamorphosis. This project establishes ekphrasis as a new paradigm for challenging the interfaces between the ancient and modern and exploring the interconnections between the experience of literary and visual representation in texts from a variety of genres.

 

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Peter Kelly (Princeton): Welcome and Opening Remarks

Melissa Haynes (Princeton): Title TBC

Daria Molinari (Princeton): Verbal and Visual Communication in Greek Drama

Robin Kreutel (Humboldt): Cicero's Imagines and Textual Memoria

Dan el Padilla Peralta (Princeton): Blazing Devotion: Ekphrasis and the Overcoming of Matter (Ovid Met. II.5)

Darja Šterbenc Erker (Humboldt): Suetonius’ Ekphrasis as Discourse of Power

Kate Hildreth (Rutgers): Psyche Twice Punished: Objectification and Desirability in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Andrew Feldherr (Princeton): Pyrrha and the Purple Patch: Horatian Lyric Ekphrasis?

Olivia May (Princeton): Robert Fagles and the Pictures of Van Gogh

Peter Kelly (Princeton): Closing Remarks and Final Discussion