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CLASSICS POST-GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

December 12, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Details

Date:
December 12, 2023
Time:
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Venue

THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom

Organizers

Darcy Ireland D.Ireland2@universityofgalway.ie
Luke Mc Dermott L.MCDERMOTT21@universityofgalway.ie

CLASSICS POST-GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

12TH DECEMBER 2023, THB G011

10.00 – 10.15 Arrival

10.15 – 10.30 Welcome and Opening: Edward Herring

10.30 – 12.00 PANEL I · LIVES AND CHARACTERISATIONS

Chair: Pádraic Moran

Christian Schweizer: ‘Dicuil and DICUIL’

Honor Faughnan: ‘The Language of Wisdom in the Epistulae Senecae
ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam’

Érin McKinney: ‘Brigit for the people? Bilingualism and audience in
Bethu Brigte, the Old Irish Life of St Brigit’

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch Break

13.00 – 14.30 PANEL II · PARATEXTUAL MANUSCRIPT STUDIES

Chair: Jacopo Bisagni

Darcy Ireland: ‘On Sobriety and Drunkenness: Reassessing an Unedited Text
in León, Archivo Capitular MS 22’

Chiara Corongiu: ‘The trigon sign within the Book of Mulling’

Mary Sweeney: ‘‘Dislocated Glosses’ in the Tradition of Priscian’s
Institutiones Grammaticae’

14.30 – 14.45 Coffee Break

14.45 – 15.45 PANEL III · LITERARY INFLUENCE AND ALLUSION

Chair: Grace Attwood

Luke McDermott: ‘Likening Strikes Twice: Intertextuality in a Neo-Assyrian Simile’

Andrew Levie: ‘The supplanting of a Gaelic core with an Ovidian guise: Edmund Spenser’s reappropriation of the Dinnshenchas tradition’

15.45 – 16.00 Closing Remarks: Edward Herrin