‘Theoretical Approaches to Terence’
Conference: Friday 8 March 2024, 10.00am to 6:00pm (GMT), Corpus Christi College Oxford and Zoom
The APGRD and Corpus Christi College Classics Centre are pleased to announce the details of their upcoming one-day conference ‘Theoretical Approaches to Terence’.
The hybrid event will take place on the 8th March at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Rainolds Room). If you are planning to attend the event (either in person or via Zoom), please register your details in our online form. An abstract can be found here and the programme is included below.
10.00-10.10 Introduction to the Conference
10.10-10.55 Beppe Pezzini (University of Oxford), The Language and Text of Terence: Some Methodological Reflections
10.55-11.40 Erica Bexley (Durham University), Plotting Realism in Terence
11.40-12.00 Coffee Break
12.00-12.45 Mario Telò (UC Berkeley), The Title’s Ungendered Flesh: Terence with Hortense Spillers
12.45-1.30 Domenico Giordani (University of Oxford/UCL), The Cultural Biography of Phormio: Subalternity and Commodification in Terence
1.30-2.30 Lunch at Corpus Christi
2.30-3.15 Tom Lister (University of Oxford), A Sensory Terence: (Dis)embodiment and (Im)materiality
3.15-4.00 Ruth Caston (University of Michigan), Intersections between Comedy and Philosophy: Skepticism and parrhesia in Terence’s Andria
4.00-4.20 Coffee Break
4.20-5.05 David Youd (UC Berkeley), Terence’s Queer Aesthetics: Hecyra and the Death Drive
5.05-5.50 Martin Dinter (KCL), Terence the Intermedial – Referencing Roman Comedy
5.50-6.00 Closing Remarks
For further information or queries, please contact Tom at thomas.lister@lmh.ox.ac.uk, or Beppe at giuseppe.pezzini@ccc.ox.ac.uk.
Seminar: Wednesdays, 17 January to 6 March, 5-6.30pm (GMT), Corpus Christi College Oxford and on Zoom
In anticipation of the conference, there will be a weekly seminar on Terence’s Phormio during Hilary (Spring) term 2024. This will bring together the ‘close reading’ typical of the Oxford seminar, with big-picture methodological discussion, to create a better understanding of how we have, how we might, and how we should, interpret Terentian comedy. Graduate students and early career researchers will introduce select passages, before we open up to the room for roundtable discussion. Anyone can participate. It is by no means expected that participants will have any prior knowledge of Phormio or of Roman comedy in general. In fact, our aim is to bring a range of different approaches to bear on the text. Confirmed speakers: Anna-Sofia Alitalo; Valentino Gargano; Sebastian Hyams; Jonathan Katz; Melina McClure; David Shipp; Charlotte Susser; Matthew Wainwright.