Events calendar
BSR-Warwick Conference: Imagined Landscapes of Campania
Location: British School at Rome
British School at Rome. Organised by Ian Fielding and Alison Cooley. Supported by BSR Conference Support Scheme.
Thursday, 29 May
- 10.00: Alison Cooley (Warwick) and Ian Fielding (Oxford), Introduction
- 10.15: Diana Spencer (Birmingham), ‘Vergil’s ever-consuming gaze: Campanian capriccios’
- 11.00: Coffee
- 11.30: Alison Pollard (Oxford), ‘Virgil’s Aeneid in Campanian wall painting’
- 12.15: Peter Heslin (Durham), ‘Homer, Virgil and the Temple of Apollo in Pompeii’
- 13.00: Lunch
- 14.30: Alison Cooley (Warwick), ‘Augustus in Campania’
- 15.15: Marilynn Desmond (SUNY Binghamton), ‘The View from Naples: Robert of Anjou and the Landscapes of Troy’
- 16.00: Coffee
- 16.30: Zahra Newby (Warwick), ‘The myths beyond the walls: Campanian mythological landscape paintings’
- 17.15: Bianca de Divitiis (Napoli Federico II), ‘Giants, heroes and nymphs: mythic founders and ancient ancestors in Campania between the fifteenth and sixteenth century’
Friday, 30 May
- 9.30: Carole Newlands (UC Boulder), ‘Trilingual love on the Bay of Naples: Philodemus, AP 5.132’
- 10.15: Peter Knox (UC Boulder), ‘Elegiac Landscapes in Pompeii’
- 11.00: Coffee
- 11.30: Steven Tuck (Miami Ohio), ‘Carmina Epigraphica Campania: verse, philosophy, and memory along the Bay of Naples’
- 12.15: Dennis Trout (UM St Louis), ‘Damasus, Paulinus, and the Carmen Epigraphicum’
- 13.00: Lunch
- 14.30: Ian Fielding (Oxford), ‘Felicitas at Cimitile: The Cultivation of the Soul in Paulinus’ Nola’
- 14.45: Lorenzo Miletti (Napoli Federico II), ‘Beyond Naples: antiquarian representations of Campania felix in sixteenth century literary works from Capua and Nola'
- 15.30: Carlo Vecce (Napoli L’Orientale), TBC
- 16.15: Coffee
- 16.45: Roundtable Discussion
- 18.00: Reception drinks
- 20.00: Conference dinner (speakers only)
A delegate fee (covering catering costs, but not dinner on Friday) of €20 per day can be paid in cash on arrival at the conference. To register, please contact both/either of the organizers, at ian.fielding@classics.ox.ac.uk and/or a.cooley@warwick.ac.uk.