This workshop explores the various appearances and meanings of water in pre-modern literary cultures. What role did the geography of waterways play in the transregional movement of authors, texts, styles, and poetics? What commonalities and differences can we identify across pre-modern literary canons, including those in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and other vernaculars? How does water function as a literary motif and/or device in various traditions? Which (metaphorical) meanings are attached to it? And what light can our understanding of pre-modern human-nature relationships shine on modern-day ecological concerns?
The aim of this workshop is to explore these questions through a variety of disciplinary, literary and linguistic contexts and approaches. In doing so, it seeks to build on a growing body of scholarship that turns the critical lens onto water. We kindly invite people who are interested in this workshop, on the 4th and 5th of April at St-Peter’s Abbey.
You can register via the following link: https://event.ugent.be/registration/waterways.
Conference organised by Dr. Vicente Flores Militello (Ghent), Prof. Marco Formisano (Ghent) and Prof. Aaron Pelttari (Edinburgh), taking place at Ghent University on December 7th and 8th.
Overwhelmed Conference Program
Late antique texts regularly try to establish a direct link with the literature of the origins by obscuring and erasing the poetic tradition in between. Such yearning for finding a connection between the contemporary and the original moment has received little attention within current scholarship, but, in the view of the conference’s organizers, it is one of the most striking and distinctive characteristics of the textual language of late antique literature, both poetry and prose.
Location:
- Faculty Room, Blandijnberg 2 (1st floor) on Monday 16 December
- Vandenhove Paviljoen, Rozier 1 on Tuesday 17 December.
https://www.fasticongressuum.com/single-post/2019/11/13/Origins-and-Original-Moments-in-Late-Greek-and-Latin-Literature-II—16-17122019-Ghent-Belgium
Please note: the conference has been postponed again due to the continuing uncertainties related to the covid-19 pandemic and will take place from Monday, September 5th to Friday, September 9th, 2022.
The 14th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Latin vulgaire – latin tardif XIV) will be held at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Ghent University (Belgium) from Monday, September 5th to Friday, September 9th, 2022. It will be organized by the Latin section and the research group DiaLing at the Department of Linguistics, under the auspices of the Comité international pour l’étude du latin vulgaire et tardif (www.unibg.it/lvlt).
The colloquium will be held in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Latin. As per tradition, it will be devoted to all linguistic aspects of late, informal, non-standard and colloquial Latin (including the transition from Latin to Romance).
For all further information, please visit the website of the colloquium at https://www.lvlt14.ugent.be. For any additional questions you may have, please contact the organisers at lvlt14@ugent.be.