Boundaries and Liminality in Flavian Poetry
Cologne International Forum Innovative Tandem Collaboration: August 2023 - July 2024
Dr. India Nattermann (Chapel Hill, USA)
Partner at the University of Cologne: Prof. Dr. Anja Bettenworth (Classical Philology)
Abstract
Dr. India Watkins Nattermann, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Anja Bettenworth and with support from the Cologne International Forum, will organize a conference titled “Boundaries and Liminality in Flavian Poetry” (June 6–9, 2024). This conference’s theme will examine the Flavian flowering of literature (69–96 CE) through the interdisciplinary theme of borders—both upheld and breached, metaphorical and literal—and through sociopolitical, metapoetic, and theoretical perspectives. With contributors from across Europe and North America and from all career levels, this conference will facilitate international collaboration and scholarly exchange, resulting in the publication of a peer-reviewed volume.
International Conference
June 6-9, 2024
University of Cologne – International House, Kringsweg 6
With Julene Abad Del Vecchio, Anja Bettenworth, Francesco Busti, Mark Heerink, Alison Keith, Jan Telg gen. Kortmann, Moritz Kuhn, Andrew McClellan, Gideon Nisbet, Fabio Nolfo, Claire Stocks, and India Watkins Nattermann
Programme
— Thursday, June 6 —
7:00 pm conference dinner
— Friday, June 7 —
9:00 am conference opening
Section 1: Breaking Generic Bounds: Intertextuality in the Flavian Poets
Section 2: Bodily Boundaries Breached: Violence in Flavian Epic and Drama
12:45 - 2:00 pm lunch
Section 3: Pushing Physical Limits
3:30 - 4:00 pm coffee break
5:00 pm guided tour through Roman Cologne followed by dinner
— Saturday, June 8 —
Section 4: Betwixt and Between: Doubled and Liminal Characters in Flavian Epic
12:30–2:00 pm lunch
Section 5: Expanding the Boundaries of Poetic Authorship in the Flavians
4:15–4:45 pm coffee break
4:45–5:15 pm wrap-up discussion
7:30 pm dinner
— Sunday, June 9 —
departure
Registration
Registration for the conference will be open soon.
Dr. India Watkins Nattermann
Dr. India Watkins Nattermann is a scholar of imperial Latin literature and the body and identity in antiquity, who combines new theoretical approaches (feminist psychoanalysis, gender studies, critical race theory) with close philological readings of the texts. She recently completed her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a dissertation that reads the failure of the male body in Julio-Claudian literature to act as an interpretable sign in light of the Roman sociopolitical context and modern theories of bodily identity as a crisis of elite masculinity. In addition to imperial Latin literature, her research interests include Roman comedy and Greek historiography.
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