Speakers

Sir Jonathan Bate

Professor of English, University of Oxford. Metamorphosis and Sustainability from Ovid and Lucretius to the Renaissance

Lara Bovilsky

Associate Professor of English, University of Oregon. Becoming Brute: Golding’s Ovid, Bryskett’s Dogs and Human Exceptions

Marco Formisano

Professor of Classics, Ghent University. Ovid’s Gala. The Earth, the Middle and the Muddle in the “Metamorphoses”

Sandra Fluhrer

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. “Who can impress the forest?” Terranean deployments in Ovid and Shakespeare

Emily Gowers

Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge. Are Trees Really Like People?

Miranda Griffin

Lecturer of French and Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge. The World in an Egg: Reading Medieval Ecologies

Eleanor Kaufman

Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies, UCLA. Classifying Stones

Lesley Kordecki

Professor of English, DePaul University. Ovid’s Deconstruction of the Chain: Metaphoric Hybridity in Chaucer and Shakespeare

Peggy McCracken

Professor of Humanities, University of Michigan. The Feelings of Things: Animism, Ecology, and Phaethon’s Crash

Francesca Martelli

Associate Professor of Classics, UCLA. Roman “Fasti” and Multispecies’ Temporalities in Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”

Mark Payne

Professor of Classics, University of Chicago. Ancient Aliens: Biotechnology, Slavery, and the Greeks in H.P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness”

Giulia Sissa

Distinguished Professor of Classics and Political Science, UCLA. The Fluidity of Life in Ovid’s Metamorphic World

Diana Spencer

Professor of Classics, University of Birmingham. Language, Life and Metamorphosis in Ovid’s Roman Backstory

Bronwen Wilson

Professor of Art History, UCLA. Lithic Images, Jacopo Ligozzi, and the “Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Vernia” (1612)