Note: All lecture attendees must follow the university’s COVID-19 guidelines and safety precautions (https://goforward.uchicago.edu/). Please write to lineandturn@gmail.com to register in advance.
Friday, May 13th, 2022 (Swift Hall, Common Room, 1st Floor)
1:00 - 1:15 Introductory remarks, Sarah Nooter and Alex Purves
1:15 - 3:30 Panel 1: Epic lineage, chaired by Seth Estrin
Sheila Murnaghan, “Returning to Troy: From Homer to Sophocles and Back”
Melissa Mueller, “Of horses and men: divine-human entanglements in Sappho and Homer”
Pascale Brillet-Dubois, “The mortal heroine: tragic metamorphosis of a Homeric line”
3:45 - 5:15 Panel 2: Lyric twists, chaired by Jonah Radding
Nancy Felson, “His line, her turn: stopping at the garden gate in Archilochus’ Erotic Fragment”
Richard Hunter, “Beyond busy: Pindar, Plato and the philosophical turn”
5:30 - 6:00 Seth Schein, “Turning toward Greek meter”
Saturday, May 14th, 2022 (Classics 101, 1st Floor)
9:30 - 11:45 Panel 3: Limning the Iliad, chaired by Emily Austin
Alex Purves, “Lines of Time in Iliad 1”
Sarah Nooter, “Lives that bend, lines that break: revisiting Simoeisius on the banks”
Mario Telò, “The Line and the Hyphen: Re-reading The Battle of the Frogs and Mice”
1:00 - 2:30 Panel 4: Tragic breaks, chaired by Sarah Olsen
Nancy Worman, “Posthuman Turns in the Agamemnon”
Karen Bassi, "Lives Long and Short”
2:45 - 4:15 Panel 5: The Material turn, chaired by Marianne Hopman
Lauri Reitzammer, “Sight Lines and Theôria in Aristophanes”
Anna Uhlig, “Lines in the Sand: Poetry and Papyrology”