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In conjunction with Dr Magdalena Zira’s residency at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Durham University in Michaelmas Term 2023, where she will be working on hew new play about the Phoenician Dido, you are warmly invited to the workshop 'The Afterlives of the Aeneid's Women', on December 14-16 2023. Convened by Dr Zira and Professor Edith Hall within the Dept. of Classics and Ancient History and the Durham Centre for Classical Reception, the aim is to investigate the afterlives of the mortal women in the Aeneid.
Please note this is for online attendance. You will be sent the Zoom links once you've registered.
Provisional Schedule
Thursday 14th Deember
1500 Panel One: Setting the Medieval & Early Modern Scene
1500 Lynn Gordon (Re)Articulating Virgil's Women: Dido, Camilla and Lavinia in an epic mediaeval afterlife
1530 Valentina Prosperi Rewriting Virgil and his women: Barbera Tigliamochi’s Ascanio errante (Florence 1640)
1600 Tea
1630 Panel Two: Aeneid Books 2-3
1630 Sarah Cullinan Herring ‘I’m a bitch, I’m a lover, I’m a child, I’m a mother...”: the disembodied voice(s) of Creusa
1700 Helen Eastman Lesia Ukrainka’s Cassandra
1730 Edith Hall Albanian Andromache
Friday 15th December
0900 Panel 3: Dido 1
0900 Patricia Wareh Anna’s Agency in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage
0930 Clemence Schultze ‘Virgil travestied’ in German-speaking lands: from Enlightenment Austria to Wilhelmine Germany
1000 Timothy Joseph Dido the Suffragist? The Carthaginian Queen and Public Discourse about Women’s Rights in the U.S., 1880s-1920s
1030 Coffee Break
1100 Panel 4: Lavinia
1100 Justin Vyvyan-Jones Lavinia as 12th c. AD coming-of-age heroine [in Heinrich von Veldeke’s Romance of Aeneas]
1130 Julia Pelosi-Thorpe “Mutationi d’affetti” and Lavinia’s erotic reversal in the 1641 lost opera Le nozze d’Enea con Lavinia
1200 Anactoria Clarke Psychology, Morality, Desire: Lavinia and Amata in Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia
1230-1330 Lunch Break
1330 Panel 5: Numinous Presences in Italy
1330 Anne Rogerson Angelica Kauffman and Sylvia’s Stag
1400 Niall Slater “Give me the branch!”: Lady Sibyl as Guide and Seer in von Veldeke’s Eneas
1430 Panel 6: Dido 2
1430 Zainab Imran Tyrian Purple – a poetry zine on Virgil’s Dido
1500 Tea Break
1530 Daniel Ruprecht Digital Dido: Roleplay as Reception in the Civilization Video Game Series
1600 Patrice Rankine African American Dido
16:30 Maureen Attali Dido and the Jews: From Enemy to Legitimizing Figure
1700 Magdalena Zira Dido/Elissa: the genesis and creation of a new play
1800 Conference Dinner
Saturday 16th December
1000 Panel 7: Camilla and Amata
1000 Jeremy Lam Warrior Maiden: A new interpretation of Sandro Botticelli’s Pallas and the Centaur
1030 Jennifer Ingleheart Queer Camillas
1100 Edmund Thomas Early modern images of Amata
Date & Time
Dec 14, 2023 2:00 pm - Dec 16, 2023 11:30 am
Venue Details
Dept of Classics & Ancient History, Durham University
Ritson Room, Dept of Classics & Ancient History, 38 North BaileyDurham, County Durham DH1 3EU
