Morphogrammata / The Lettered Art of Optatian: Figuring Cultural Transformations in the Age of Constantine and Beyond

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Morphogrammata / The Lettered Art of Optatian: Figuring Cultural Transformations in the Age of Constantine and Beyond

Organizer
Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Dr. Michael Squire (King's College London), Dr. Johannes Wienand (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Venue
Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Weyertal 59, 50937 Köln
Location
Köln
Country
Germany
From - Until
01.07.2015 - 03.07.2015
Deadline
14.06.2015
Website
http://www.ik-morphomata.uni-koeln.de/
By
Dr. Johannes Wienand

This three-day workshop explores one of the most complex, historic and momentous of all western cultural transformations: the Christianization of the Roman principate in the fourth century AD. It does so, however, through the kaleidoscopic lens of one of antiquity’s most fascinating (and most maligned) artists: Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius. ‘Optatian’ is hardly a household name among classicists and historians. But as the workshop sets out to explore, Optatian’s picture-poems uniquely figure the cultural dynamics of this period. To have any hope of understanding Optatian’s highly lettered artefacts, a whole range of critical perspectives is required. This workshop consequently aims to stimulate a new sort of interdisciplinary dialogue, bringing together historical, literary, philosophical, art historical and theological viewpoints to assess Optatian’s poetics.

The conference is free to attend: because numbers are limited, however, pre-registration (before 14,June 2015) is required. For more information, please visit http://www.ik-morphomata.uni-koeln.de. To register for the conference, please email Thierry Greub (tgreub@uni-koeln.de), copying in michael.squire@kcl.ac.uk

Programm

Wednesday 1st July

13:30-14:15
Dietrich Boschung (Köln): Grußwort
Michael Squire (London): Introduction. Morphogrammata: The Lettered Art of Optatian

14:15-15:15
Johannes Wienand (Düsseldorf): Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius: Die eigenartige Karriere eines Verfassers hirnverbrannter Versspielereien

15:45-16:45
Jan Kwapisz (Warsaw): Optatian Porfyry and the Order of Court Riddlers

16:45-17:45
Anna-Lena Glanz (Gießen): Lector ludens: Spiel und Rätsel in Optatians Panegyrik

18:00-19:00
Ulrich Ernst (Wuppertal): Versus intexti: Optatianus Porfyrius und seine Wirkung auf die mittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche Gitterdichtung.

Thursday 2nd July

9:15-10:15
Irmgard Männlein-Robert (Tübingen): Morphogrammata - Klangbilder? Überlegungen zu Poetik und Medialität bei Optatian

10:15-11:15
Meike Rühl (Osnabrück): Vielschichtige Palimpseste: Optatians Gedichte als Medium kollektiven und individuellen Erinnerns

11:45-12:45
Marie-Odile Bruhat (Lille): Le traitement de l'espace dans la poésie d'Optatianus Porfyrius

14:00-15:00
Martin Bažil (Prag/Rostock): Textus (in)textus: Der Textbegriff bei Optatianus

15:00-16:00
Aaron Pelttari (Edinburgh): A Lexicographical Approach to the Poetry of Optatianus Porfyrius

16:30-17:30
Thomas Habinek (University of Southern California): Optatian Porphyry: Explorations in Ontology?

Friday 3rd July

9:30-10:30
Petra Schierl (Basel)/Cédric Scheidegger Lämmle (Basel): Herrscherbild und Deutungsmuster: Optatian und die Strukturen des Panegyrischen

10:30-11:30
Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (London): Caelestia signa: Optatian’s Use of Christian Signs

12:00-13:00
Jesús Hernández Lobato (Salamanca): Rethinking Optatian from Contemporary Art: Keys to an Intersystemic Dialogue

14:15-15:30
Michael Squire (London) / Johannes Wienand (Düsseldorf): Round-table discussion

Contact (announcement)

To register for the conference, please email Thierry Greub (tgreub@uni-koeln.de), copying in michael.squire@kcl.ac.uk

http://www.ik-morphomata.uni-koeln.de/