13.30-14.00

Registration

14.00-16.00

Introduction

Session 1

Dr Colin Burrow (Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College University of Oxford) Shakespeare and Imitation

Professor Curtis Perry (Professor of English, Urbana-Champaign)
Senecan Influence and the Modernity of Shakespeare

Dr Bart van Es (Lecturer in English, University of Oxford)
Which since Succeeding Ages have Re-edified: Renaissance Histories and the Issue of Influence

16.00-16.30

Coffee

16.30-18.00

Session 2

Dr Stuart Gillespie (Reader of English, University of Glasgow)
Tropes of Translation

Professor Peter Mack (Professor of English, University of Warwick)
Reading Classical Literature in England 1550-1640

Dr Victoria Moul (Research Fellow, The Queen's College, University of Oxford)
Patterns of Classical Verse Translation in English Manuscripts, 1600-1650

18.00-19.00 

Reception at CRASSH 

Friday 20 June

9.30-11.00     

Session Three

Professor Roland Greene (Professor of English, Stanford University)
Untangling Early Modern Classicisms: What we think, what we don't think, and why

Professor Lynn Enterline (Professor of English, Vanderbilt)
Classicism and Character

Professor Tanya Pollard (Associate Professor of English,  Brooklyn College) After Aristotle: Genre Theory and Drama in Early Modern England
 

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break 

11.30-13.00

Session Four

Professor Jane Stevenson (Professor of English, University of Aberdeen)
Women Writers and the Classics

Professor Richard McCabe (Professor of English, University of Oxford)
The Elizabethan Maecenas: Early Modern Patronage and the Augustan Exemplar

Professor Patrick Cheney (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State University)
Classical Career Models in English Renaissance Literature

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-16.00 

Session 5

Professor Maggie Kilgour (Professor of English, McGill University)
Choosing Ovids

Dr Helen Moore (Lecturer in English, University of Oxford)
Dramatising Heliodorus

16.00-16.30 

Tea Break 

16.30-18.00 

Session 6

Professor Helen Cooper (Professor of English, University of Cambridge)
Pastoral and the Limits of the Classical

Professor Philip Hardie (Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College,  University of Cambridge) English Lucans

Professor Jessica Wolfe (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Chapel Hill) Homeric Irony in Renaissance England

9.00-11.00

Session 7

Professor William Fitzgerald (Professor of Latin, King's College London)
A Letter does not Blush: Ancient Topoi and the Renaissance Letter

Professor Elizabeth Jane Bellamy (Professor of English, University of Tennessee)
Classical Gods and Neoplatonic Interpretation

Professor Thomas Luxon (Professor of English, Dartmouth)
Plato, Milton, and True Love

Professor Charles Martindale (Professor of Latin, University of Bristol; general editor of Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature)
Some Research Questions

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-13.00

 Round Table Discussion

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