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Date(s) - 26 Apr 2017
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Event Space
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Christopher Richards (Institute of Fine Arts) will lead the workshop this Wednesday April 26th, 7 o’clock in the Department of English, Event Space. Please note, previous emails have listed this event as on Thursday the 27th of April. His topic: “Catachresis: The Face of Daphne and Other Vegetables.” A short blurb can be found below:
For our last MARGIN workshop on Ovid, I am going to speak of, perhaps, the most familiar aspect of Ovid’s afterlife in medieval and renaissance culture, images of Daphne. Just as I will relocate our conversation away from text, I will also push our conversation beyond Ovid, interpreting images of Daphne’s transformation rather against the texts of the poet and his medieval moralizers. I attempt to transplant Daphne from Ovid into a new herbal, among other human/transplants common to high and late medieval imagery. Thinking with Daphne, the discussion will parse through these uncanny images, where a transformed laurel retains its face.
This workshop will be immediately followed by an Abstract Workshop, where speakers at our end-of-year Ovid Symposium (May 19th) will be invited to share their abstracts with the group. Putting our year of work into practice, we will begin to develop ideas posed by the workshops into research papers. All are welcome to attend either portions of the evening. As usual, wine and light refreshments will be served.