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LOCATION:St. John’s College, Durham University
SUMMARY:TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF SOLITUDE: Exile After Ovid
DESCRIPTION:An international conference to be held at St. John’s Col
 lege, Durham University, 3rd-4th September 2009, under the auspices of the
  Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition. Confirmed speakers inclu
 de: Josephine Balmer (poet and author of the forthcoming The Word for Sorr
 ow, incorporating versions of the Tristia), Professor Susan Bassnett (Warw
 ick), Professor Philip Hardie (Cambridge), Professor Stephen Harrison (Oxf
 ord), Professor Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle), Profess
 or Duncan Kennedy (Bristol).   The poet Ovid stands at the head of the Wes
 tern tradition of the exile of the artist. Banished by the emperor Augustu
 s in AD 8 from Rome to the far- off shores of Romania, in his Tristia and 
 Epistulae ex Ponto Ovid records his unhappy experience of political, cultu
 ral, and linguistic displacement from his homeland. For a huge variety of 
 artists in the two millennia after his exile, Ovid has performed the r&#24
 4;le of archetypal exile, allowing them to articulate a range of experienc
 es of disgrace, dislocation, and alienation.   This conference brings toge
 ther scholars working in a range of disciplines (Classics, Reception Studi
 es, Modern Languages, Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, and Art
  History)in order to assess the broad cultural impact of Ovid’s exil
 e. Held to mark the bi-millennium of Ovid’s banishment, the conferen
 ce should provide a unique vantage point from which to assess the historic
 al and contemporary aetas Ovidiana.   Authors and topics confirmed speaker
 s intend to treat include Joachim du Bellay’s Regrets, Marvell, Ovid
 ’s exile as treated in modern novels, the Anglo-Latin poet Westonia,
  C20th and 21st poetry, Russian responses, and the translator’s role
  in reception.
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