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CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months ago The executive committee for the MLA Discussion Group in Classical Studies and Modern Literature invites you to our annual MLA panel at noon on Saturday, January 11, 2014, featuring two eminent classical translators:
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HOMER’S ILIAD AND VERGIL’S AENEIDSession 527: 12-1:15 pm, January 11, 2014
Sheraton I (Sheraton Chicago, 301 E. Water Street)STANLEY LOMBARDO is professor of Classics at Kansas University and well known as translator of Homer, Plato, Hesiod, Callimachus, Sappho, Vergil, Dante, and Ovid. He has recorded his translations of Homer in audiobooks and given dramatic readings at venues such as the Chicago Poetry Center, C-Span, and NPR.
SARAH RUDEN has received wide acclaim for her translations from Vergil, Petronius, Aristophanes, and Apuleius, and she is the first woman to publish a complete translation of Vergil’s Aeneid into English. She has also published original poetry and essays on religion and culture.
The translators will discuss the creative process of translating classical epic poems from Greek and Latin into English for modern readers. They will read excerpts from their translations of Homer’s Iliad and Vergil’s Aeneid and respond to questions from the audience.
We hope to see you at the panel, and welcome suggestions for future panels.
Executive Committee Members
William Germano
Stathis Gourgouris
Heath Hutto
Andrew Parker
Yopie Prins
Sarah Winter
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Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across the Humanities, Fine Arts, and the Social and Natural Sciences dealing with worlds and words in all their many forms. Papers, performances, exhibits, and screenings may be submitted by scholars, writers, artists, and performers and may be in English, French, German, or Spanish. Conference participants will be encouraged to expand and revise (and translate into English) their papers for submission to the peer-reviewed JAISA: The Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts.
Suggested topics include but are not limited to Worlds and Words in relation to:
· literary studies, including all periods and genres
· ecocriticism and environmental studies
· the visual arts, including film studies, photography and graphic design
· feminist, queer and postcolonial approaches
· geocriticism; geopoetics
· public intellectualism
· ecologies and geographies of the written word
· collaboration between the Humanities and the Sciences
· linguistics and anthropology
· theatre, scenes and landscapes
· philosophy
· history and historical revisions
· music, including musical history and theory
Keynote speakers: Marine biologist James McClintock and poet Adam Vines, both from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will deliver this year’s keynote address. McClintock is a world-renowned scientist and activist who works primarily with Antarctica. Vines assisted him in editing his last book Lost Antarctica (2012 Macmillan) and traveled there with him last fall. They will speak about the ways in which art and science can combine to form powerful social and political tools.
For individual proposals please submit a one-page, double-spaced abstract in English, French, German, or Spanish via email to Dr. Betsy Dahms, uwgconference2014@gmail.com. Include the presenter’s name, institution, email address, phone number, and any audio-visual or technical requirements for the presentation. Submissions for panels of 3-4 presenters are especially welcome. For panel proposals please submit the panel title, abstracts, and contact information for all speakers and for the panel moderator. Proposals are due by July 22, 2014. Visit http://www.westga.edu/forlangconf/ for details and updates.