From Thursday May 15, may enroll those interested in participating in this conference, to be held from 29 to 31 May and will feature expert speakers from universities in Italy, UK, Spain, Switzerland, Greece and the United States
On Thursday May 15 the deadline for registration for the International Congress on Greek Orality and Literature in the Roman Empire, to be held from May 29 to 31 at the Auditorium of the Museum of the Roman Theatre opens.
Congress is coordinated by Professor Consuelo Ruiz Montero, Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Murcia, and with the participation of professors and researchers from 14 renowned European and American universities.
The aim of this conference is to study the interplay between orality and Greek literature, especially prose, in imperial times, from both a philological and historical.
Orality will be studied from different points of view: the material / source texts, forms of representation / execution of texts, public and transmission techniques, style.
Special attention will be paid to the iconographic data as a form of oral communication and as evidence of the oral circulation of literary texts.
In addition to the conference sessions are scheduled visits to museums and monumental sites of the city, if the Roman Theatre, the Neighbourhood Forum and ARQUA and a visit to Cabo de Palos and Mar Menor where texts Ora will review of Avieno.
Speakers:
Andreassi M. (Univ. of Bari, Italy): Le barzellette tra oralità and scrittura: il Philogelos case.
EL Bowie (Corpus Christi College, Oxford, United Kingdom): Poetic prose and oral performance in the Greek world of the Roman Empire: the evidence of epigraphy.
A. Chaniotis (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, USA): The oral transmission of memory in the Greek cities of the Imperial period.
JA Fernández Delgado (University of Salamanca (Spain): Literaturiedad and orality in the works of Plutarch.
Konstantakos I. (Univ. of Athens, Greece): The Alexander Romance and the archaelogy of folk narratives.
F. Mestre (University of Barcelona, ​​Spain): The spoken word or prestige of orality in Luciano.
JA Molina (University of Murcia, Spain): Presence of orality in the Secret History of Procopius.
J. Nolle (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich, Germany): Implanting stories in the collective consciousness.
The role of the so called Greek Imperials memoralising in Greek literature and oral traditions.
L. Núñez (University of Lausanne, Switzerland): Embedded orality in Apuleius and Metamorphoses? Florida.
A. Petsalis-Diomidis (King's College, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, United Kingdom): Orality and materiality in pilgrimage contexts in Roman Greece.
C. Ruiz Montero (University of Murcia, Spain): Greek oral stories and fictional narrative in the Empire.
IC Rutherford (University of Reading, UK): From Egyptian to Greek Literature: Oral or written transmission?
Stramaglia A. (University of Cassino, Italy): Comic Books' in Graeco-Roman Antiquity.
H. Tarrant, (Univ. of Newcastle, NSW, Australia): Plutarch and the Novel: Register change and inserted in the De Genio narratives and in Achilles Tatius Socratis.
Organizing committee ‰
Consuelo Ruiz Montero (Universidad de Murcia) Elena Ruiz Valdez (Roman theater in Cartagena) José Antonio Hernández Artes (University of Murcia) José Antonio Molina Gómez (University of Murcia)
The proceedings will be published in a volume of the Pierides (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK) series, whose editors are Ph. Hardie (University of Cambridge) and S. Kyriakidis (Univ. of Thessaloniki).
Registration: http://casiopea.um.es (Arts and Humanities, 7)
For more information, see: http://www.ruiz-montero.com
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena