Conference at the Warburg Institute: ‘The Afterlife of Apuleius’, 3-4 March 2016

The Afterlife of ApuleiusConference at the Warburg Institute

3 – 4 March 2016

Organised by the Warburg Institute and the Institute of Classical Studies the two-day conference will investigate the legacy of Apuleius’ literary and rhetorical works, focusing on the Ancient and Early Modern period. Lectures will be delivered by internationally renowned specialists in the fields of Classics, Renaissance studies and Comparative Literature, and a specific workshop will be devoted to discussions about Apuleianism in Renaissance rhetoric.

Organisers: Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute) and Greg Woolf (Institute of Classical Studies)

Speakers: Florence Bistagne (Avignon/Institut universitaire de France), Carole Boidin (Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defénse), Igor Candido (Freie Universität Berlin), Robert Carver (Durham), Julia Gaisser (Bryn Mawr), Stephen Harrison (Oxford), Ahuvia Kahane (Royal Holloway), Andrew Laird (Brown University/Warwick), Françoise Lavocat (Paris 3/Institut universitaire de France), Clementina Marsico (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck), Regine May (Leeds), Loreto Núñez (Lausanne), Olivier Pédeflous (Paris) and Andrea Severi (Bologna).

To view the full programme and to register please visit: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2015-16/afterlife-of-apuleius/

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