LATIN CLINIC 13 NOVEMBER 2009, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

Dear Participants and Lecturers

We are looking forward to seeing you in Sydney soon.

Lecturers will be posting their scanned texts on individual pages under this Latin space in the next week. Please browse and download!

Yasmin

Programme as at 15 October

ARC NETWORK FOR EARLY EUROPEAN RESEARCH LATIN CLINIC FOR MEDIEVALISTS AND EARLY MODERNISTS

CCANESA, 4th floor Madsen Building, University of Sydney 2009

November 13

9.15 Registration

9.30-10.15 Use of Italian and European libraries (Maurizio Campanelli, Grantley McDonald, Steven Miller)

10.15-11.15: PARALLEL SESSIONS

1) Round table on editing neo-Latin texts (Maurizio Campanelli and Francesco Borghesi)
2) Round table on editing medieval Latin texts (led by John Scott)

11.15-11.30: coffee break

11.30-1:00: PARALLEL SESSIONS

1) Introduction to medieval Latin (John Scott)
2) Francesco Pipino's Chronicon (ca. 1318) on the first three crusades (Andrea Rizzi)
3) A Renaissance Latin poem (Ursinus Velius' farewell to Rome) (Frances Muecke)

1:00-2:00: lunch

 2.00-3:30: PARALLEL SESSIONS

(1) Hagiographical texts (Bronwen Neil)
(2) Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man (Francesco Borghesi)
(3) Early modern 'psychiatry' - Baglivi on the tarantula/ Malcolm Flemyng's Lucretian poem on hypochondria (Yasmin Haskell)

3:30-3:45: coffee break

3:45-5:00: PARALLEL SESSIONS

 (1) Session on palaeography and codicology (Grantley McDonald)
 (2) Latin texts of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (Juanita Ruys)
 (3) Italian Renaissance Latin school texts (Agata Pincelli)

5:00-6:00: Final discussion/ Show and tell

6:00 pm: Drinks followed by dinner at local restaurant, 'Mustafa'.