Conférence | Roman Poets as Characters in Contemporary Literature

Programme : Roman Poets Conference Schedule

May 30 

2.30 pm: Zara Torlone & Giampiero Scafoglio, “Introduction” 

Panel 1: “Poets of Republican Age”. Chair: Zara Torlone 

3.00 pm: Giampiero Scafoglio (Université Côte d’Azur) 

“Lucretius as a Character in Guido Della Valle’s Kypris” 

3.30 pm: Fabio Stok (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) 

“Recent views on Catullus’ life: Benita Kane Jaro, Daisy Dunn, Daniele Coluzzi” 

4.00 pm: Giampiero Scafoglio, Interview with the writer Daisy Dunn 

4.30 pm: Coffee-break 

Panel 2: “Poets of the Augustan Age”. Chair: Andrea Balbo 

5.00 pm: Zara Torlone (Miami University, Ohio) 

“Talking with the Un/Dead: Alexander Pushkin’s Epistle To Ovid and Joseph Brodsky’s Letter to Horace” 

5.30 pm: Andrea Labianca (Sorbonne Université) 

“Le roman de la peur : Étude de l’architecture émotionnelle de Dieu est né en exil (Vintila Horia, 1960)” 

6.00 pm: Zara Torlone, Interview with the writer Benita Kane Jaro 

8.00 pm: Dinner 

May 31 

Panel 3: “Virgil”. Chair: Étienne Wolff 

9.00 am: Stephanie Quinn (Rockford College, Illinois) 

“Hermann Broch’s Vergil the Man: The Poet as Character in The Death of Virgil” 

9.30 am: Alessandro Barchiesi (New York University) 

“Virgil as a Character in Sebastiano Vassalli’s Un infinito numero” 

10.00 am: Frances Foster (University of Cambridge) 

“The Shade of Virgil: Lavinia’s Encounter with her Poet” 

10.30 am: Coffee-break 

Panel 4: “Poets of the Imperial Period”. Chair: Fabio Stok 

11.00 am: Beatriz Biaggioni Leme de Cerqueira Leite Seelaender (Universidade de São Paulo) 

“The ‘Pumpkinfication’ of Seneca in Claudius the God by Robert Graves” 

11.30 am: Étienne Wolff (Université Paris Nanterre) 

“Ausone comme personnage dans le roman Bissula de Felix Dahn” 

12.00 pm: Andrea Balbo (Università di Torino) 

“Spigolature su Rutilio Namaziano : Paola Mastrocola, Folco Giusti, Agnès Adda (con un omaggio ad Alessandro Fo)” 

12.30 pm: Andrea Balbo, Entretien avec la poétesse et écrivain Agnès Adda 

13.00 pm: Zara Torlone & Giampiero Scafoglio, “Conclusions” and plans for the publication of the proceedings