The CAMWS 2021 Meeting is happening later this week (7-10 April) and we are very much looking forward to attending a couple of panels:
- "The Politics of Contagious Disease: From Homer’s Plague to COVID-19" (organised by Vassiliki Panoussi and Hunter Gardner); - "Teaching Classics and STEM: Recruitment, Enrichment, Outreach, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration", organised by Michael Goyette and Clifford Robinson, and sponsored by CPL(G)-the Committee for the Promotion of Latin (and Greek). For the full programme, visit: https://camws.org/camws2021annualmeeting.
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We are extremely pleased to announce that we have recently signed a contract with De Gruyter for the publication of an edited volume in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes. The provisional title of the volume is (not surprisingly!) "Body and Medicine in Latin Poetry", and we're very much looking forward to collaborating with all our authors on this exciting project!
Check out this series of events, which is organised by one of our great speakers Julia Nelson Hawkins:
https://www.humanitiesinthepandemic.com/free-registration.html. We'll be back soon with some very exciting news. Stay tuned! Julia Nelson Hawkin Our first (!) conference is over and it was a great success. We would like to thank once more all the speakers for their insightful papers, our chairs for conducting the discussion so brilliantly, and all the participants for their questions and comments. Keep an eye on our blog, and keep following us on Facebook and Twitter. Very exciting news coming soon!
Our conference is taking place later this week and we're very excited about that! Almost all abstracts are now available and we have also published a definitive programme. Please, check them out in the relevant sections!
This week we are publishing Laurence Totelin's "Carmen salutiferum: Quintus Serenus and his health-giving Liber medicinalis". We are looking forward to finding out more about Quintus Serenus and his (re-)use of classical authors!
Today, it's the turn of Chiara Thumiger's "Painful knowledge: suffering and the human interior in some passages from Latin poetry", which will be the opening paper at our conference. This looks like an excellent way to start our discussion on medicine, the body and Latin poetry. We can't wait to find out more!
Today, we publish the abstract of Judith Hallett and Donald Lateiner's co-authored paper: "Connotation and Commotion: Putting the 'Kinesis' into the 'Cinaedus'". The two speakers will dedicate their paper to the memory of Professor William Nethercut (1936-2020), who passed away on the 14th of August. This is a touching and very generous dedication, and we're looking forward to welcoming these great speakers to our online conference!
Following Lucretius' (didactic) epic, we are now introduced to the Vergilian epos by James Uden's "Suffering and the Roman Body in the Aeneid". We can't wait to find out more about the depictions of diseases within the Aeneid!
After an elegiac start, we'll now move onto didactic epic with George Kazantzidis' "The 'Medical Body' in Lucretius: A Few Thoughts on the Use and Abuse of 'Medical Discourse' in Latin Poetry." We're looking forward to hearing more about such an exciting topic!
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