Schedule

Introduction and Welcome

Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)

Giulia Sissa (UCLA)

Francesca Martelli (UCLA)

Chair: Robert N. Watson (English, UCLA)

Lesley Kordecki (DePaul University)
Ovid’s Deconstruction of the Chain: Metaphoric Hybridity in Chaucer and Shakespeare

Lara Bovilsky (University of Oregon)
Becoming Brute: Golding’s Ovid, Bryskett’s Dogs and Human Exceptions

Coffee Break

Chair: Francesca Martelli (UCLA)

Sandra Fluhrer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
“Who can impress the forest?” Terranean Deployments in Ovid and Shakespeare

Emily Gowers (Cambridge University)
Are Trees Really Like People?

Lunch Break

Chair: Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)

Coffee Break

Chair: Robert N. Watson (UCLA)

Sir Jonathan Bate (Arizona State University)
Metamorphosis and Sustainability from Ovid and Lucretius to the Renaissance

Reception

Chair: Andre Matlock (UCLA)

Diana Spencer (University of Birmingham)
Language, Life and Metamorphosis in Ovid’s Roman Backstory

Francesca Martelli (UCLA)
Roman “Fasti” and Multispecies’ Temporalities in Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”

Coffee Break

Chair: Erica Weaver (UCLA)

Eleanor Kaufman (UCLA)
Classifying Stones

Miranda Griffin (Cambridge University)
The World in an Egg: Reading Medieval Ecologies

Lunch Break

Chair: Zachary Borst (UCLA)

Marco Formisano (Ghent University)
Ovid’s Gaia. The Earth, the Middle and the Muddle in the “Metamorphoses”

Giulia Sissa (UCLA)
The Fluidity of Life in Ovid’s Metamorphic World

Coffee Break

Chair: Alex Purves (UCLA)

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

John Shoptaw (UC Berkeley)
Readings from “Whoa!”

Closing Remarks