On September 21st and 22nd, there was a wonderful celebration of the career of Richard Tarrant in the Thompson Room at the Barker Center. The event was organized by three of his former doctoral students: Lauren Curtis (PhD ’13), Irene Peirano Garrison (PhD ’07), and Jarrett Welsh (PhD ’09). See the event program below.
“Texts, Authors, and Readers: A Conference in Honor of Richard Tarrant”
Friday 21 September
SESSION I
Presider: David Elmer, Harvard University
Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University: Welcome and opening remarks
Jeanne Neumann, Davidson College: “Est enim difficilis cura rerum alienarum: Terence and his contemporary adulescentes”
Jarrett Welsh, University of Toronto: “Listening to Roman comic verse”
SESSION II
Presider: Jared Hudson, Harvard University
Gianpiero Rosati, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: “Pauca meo Stellae…Genres and poetic models in Statius’ Silva 1.2”
Richard Thomas, Harvard University: “Aesthetics, form and meaning in the Georgics”
Thomas Jenkins, Trinity University: “Augustan poetry and the Age of Rust: music and metaphor in Mitchell’s Hadestown”
Saturday 22 September
SESSION III Presider: Leah Kronenberg, Boston University
Michael Reeve, University of Cambridge: “Iuppiter imperator?”
Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania: “Medius aliqui sensus interuenit: on (authorial and other) parentheses in Caesar and Tacitus”
SESSION IV Presider: Stephanie Frampton, MIT
Rebecca Benefiel, Washington and Lee University: “Editing ancient handwriting”
Alison Keith, University of Toronto: “Epicurean postures in Martial, Epigrams 10.47—48”
SESSION V Presider: Julia Dyson Hejduk, Baylor University
Gareth Williams, Columbia University: “Ax of love: Clytemnestra’s motivation for murder in Seneca’s Agamemnon’
James Ker, University of Pennsylvania: “It’s the Animae, stupid: the end of Seneca’s Consolatio ad Marciam”
Lauren Curtis, Bard College: “Causation and complaint in Ovid’s exile poetry”
SESSION VI Presider: Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University
Irene Peirano Garrison, Yale University: “Nescit quod bene cessit relinquere: Ovid the rhetorician”
Frank Coulson, The Ohio State University: “Ceyx and Alcyone in the medieval school tradition on Ovid”
