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Going home for Passover this weekend. I will have to study for Latin but who cares, since PS moved the test from tomorrow to next Wednesday.
Next weekend is Binger's annual CEMERS Conference. This year the theme is "Venus and the Venereal." As I am a CEMERS undergrad geek, I'll be working most of the time. Fine with me though, since meals (including two shwanky dinners yay) are included. And because, ya know, I would have been there anyway.
Here are the lectures I'm going to:
Friday
2:00 - 3:15
Form and Formlessness: Aphrodite as Evolving Goddess
1. Did it Take Time to Create Aphrodite? (E.F. BEALL, independent scholar)
2. Aphrodite: Warrior Princess (STEPHANIE LYNN BUDIN, Rutgers University, Camden)
3. Aphrodite: The Goddess of Appearances (VERED LEV KENAAN, University of Haifa)
6:30 - 7:45
Situated Readings: Venus in Medieval (Con)Texts-France, England, and Spain
1. ‘The Work of Venus’: Artists’ Readings of the Roman de la Rose (MERADITH MCMUNN, Rhode Island College)
2. Chaucer’s Temple of Venus, A New Image for the Memory-House (TERESA RUSSO, University of Toronto)
3. Venus’s Handiwork: Desire and Melibea’s Misogamy in Fernando de Rojas’s ‘Tragicomedia’ (alias ‘Celestina’) (PETER COCOZZELLA, Binghamton University)
Saturday
1:30 - 2:30
Venus: Latin and Vernacular Dualities and Doublings
1. Medieval Marriage and the Two Venuses (TRACY ADAMS, University of Auckland)
2. ‘Cestus’: The Belt of Venus in Neo-Latin Poetry and Mythography (JOHN NASSICHUK, University of Western Ontario)
2:45 - 4:00
Venus and Affect in Early Modern French Literature
1. Venus Up-Ended: Brantôme’s Erotic Old Dame Galante (DORA E. POLACHEK, Binghamton University)
2. From the Visual to the Concrete: Venus as Metaphor in Racine’s Phèdre (SANDRO
STICCA, Binghamton University)
3. Vénus en deuil à la Renaissance: Vénus adonine et Astarté (CÉLINE BOHNERT, Université de Marne-la-Vallée)
7:15 - 8:15
Plenary Speaker: LOUISE K. STEIN, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
VENUS AMIDST THE THORNS: VENEREAL MUSIC AND THE EROTIC POLITICS OF MONARCHY
My first big conference- I'm so excited. I bitch about it sometimes, I know, but DAMN! I kind of love academia. There's so much cool shit to learn, the bitchfights are better, and the wine flows like water. Huzzah.
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Next weekend is Binger's annual CEMERS Conference. This year the theme is "Venus and the Venereal." As I am a CEMERS undergrad geek, I'll be working most of the time. Fine with me though, since meals (including two shwanky dinners yay) are included. And because, ya know, I would have been there anyway.
Here are the lectures I'm going to:
Friday
2:00 - 3:15
Form and Formlessness: Aphrodite as Evolving Goddess
1. Did it Take Time to Create Aphrodite? (E.F. BEALL, independent scholar)
2. Aphrodite: Warrior Princess (STEPHANIE LYNN BUDIN, Rutgers University, Camden)
3. Aphrodite: The Goddess of Appearances (VERED LEV KENAAN, University of Haifa)
6:30 - 7:45
Situated Readings: Venus in Medieval (Con)Texts-France, England, and Spain
1. ‘The Work of Venus’: Artists’ Readings of the Roman de la Rose (MERADITH MCMUNN, Rhode Island College)
2. Chaucer’s Temple of Venus, A New Image for the Memory-House (TERESA RUSSO, University of Toronto)
3. Venus’s Handiwork: Desire and Melibea’s Misogamy in Fernando de Rojas’s ‘Tragicomedia’ (alias ‘Celestina’) (PETER COCOZZELLA, Binghamton University)
Saturday
1:30 - 2:30
Venus: Latin and Vernacular Dualities and Doublings
1. Medieval Marriage and the Two Venuses (TRACY ADAMS, University of Auckland)
2. ‘Cestus’: The Belt of Venus in Neo-Latin Poetry and Mythography (JOHN NASSICHUK, University of Western Ontario)
2:45 - 4:00
Venus and Affect in Early Modern French Literature
1. Venus Up-Ended: Brantôme’s Erotic Old Dame Galante (DORA E. POLACHEK, Binghamton University)
2. From the Visual to the Concrete: Venus as Metaphor in Racine’s Phèdre (SANDRO
STICCA, Binghamton University)
3. Vénus en deuil à la Renaissance: Vénus adonine et Astarté (CÉLINE BOHNERT, Université de Marne-la-Vallée)
7:15 - 8:15
Plenary Speaker: LOUISE K. STEIN, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
VENUS AMIDST THE THORNS: VENEREAL MUSIC AND THE EROTIC POLITICS OF MONARCHY
My first big conference- I'm so excited. I bitch about it sometimes, I know, but DAMN! I kind of love academia. There's so much cool shit to learn, the bitchfights are better, and the wine flows like water. Huzzah.
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