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Texts and Contexts Seminar: November 1, 2019

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November 1, 2019
9:00AM - 5:00PM
Barbie Tootle Room. 3rd floor, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street

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Add to Calendar 2019-11-01 09:00:00 2019-11-01 17:00:00 Texts and Contexts Seminar: November 1, 2019 Texts and Contexts Seminar: November 1, 2019 November 1, 2019 – Barbie Tootle Room, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street   9:30 – 10:00 am – Coffee and snacks   10:00 am – 12:30 pm – SESSION I: Byzantium   Moderator: Dana Munteanu (The Ohio State University, Newark Campus)   10:00 – 10:45 am – Tommaso Braccini (Università di Siena)  From margins to rolls: the adventures of the early attestations of the Exorcism of Gello   10:45 – 11:30 am – Gemma Storti (The Ohio State University) An Ancient "Lonely Planet." Manuscripts for Travelling through Byzantium    11:30 – 11:45 am – BREAK   11:45 am – 12:30 pm – Federica Ciccolella (Texas A&M University) Greek poetry at the school of Andreas Donos     12:30 – 2:00 pm – LUNCH     2:00 – 3:30 pm – SESSION II: Early Empire Moderator: Pierandrea Martina (Universität Zürich)   2:00 – 2:45 pm – Rebecca Benefiel (Washington and Lee University) Writing, reading, and jumbling the alphabet: The diffusion of writing in the early  Roman Empire   2:45 – 3:30 pm – Stephanie Ann Frampton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology/  Frances Yates Research Fellow, Warburg Institute, London [2019–20]) Pliny and His Sources   3:30 – 4:00 pm – BREAK      4:00 – 5:00 pm – Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture Introduction: Michael Meckler (The Ohio State University)   Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University/Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection)    Medieval Conceptions of Imitation and the Classical Tradition     5:00 – 6:30 pm – Reception in the Suzanne M. Scharer Room   Barbie Tootle Room. 3rd floor, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street Department of Classics classics@osu.edu America/New_York public

Texts and Contexts Seminar: November 1, 2019

November 1, 2019 – Barbie Tootle Room, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street

 
9:30 – 10:00 am – Coffee and snacks
 
10:00 am – 12:30 pm – SESSION I: Byzantium  
Moderator: Dana Munteanu (The Ohio State University, Newark Campus)
 
10:00 – 10:45 am – Tommaso Braccini (Università di Siena) 
From margins to rolls: the adventures of the early attestations of the Exorcism of Gello
 
10:45 – 11:30 am – Gemma Storti (The Ohio State University)
An Ancient "Lonely Planet." Manuscripts for Travelling through Byzantium 
 
11:30 – 11:45 am – BREAK
 
11:45 am – 12:30 pm – Federica Ciccolella (Texas A&M University)
Greek poetry at the school of Andreas Donos
 
 
12:30 – 2:00 pm – LUNCH
 
 
2:00 – 3:30 pm – SESSION II: Early Empire
Moderator: Pierandrea Martina (Universität Zürich)
 
2:00 – 2:45 pm – Rebecca Benefiel (Washington and Lee University)
Writing, reading, and jumbling the alphabet: The diffusion of writing in the early 
Roman Empire
 
2:45 – 3:30 pm – Stephanie Ann Frampton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology/ 
Frances Yates Research Fellow, Warburg Institute, London [2019–20])
Pliny and His Sources
 
3:30 – 4:00 pm – BREAK 
 
 
4:00 – 5:00 pm – Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture
Introduction: Michael Meckler (The Ohio State University)
 
Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University/Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection)
   Medieval Conceptions of Imitation and the Classical Tradition
 
 
5:00 – 6:30 pm – Reception in the Suzanne M. Scharer Room