UC Classics will host the 2019 Midwest Classical Literature Consortium in the Reading Room of the John Miller Burnam Classics Library on Saturday, March 30th. 

 Please contact Kathryn Gutzwiller (kathryn.gutzwiller@uc.edu) by March 11 if you plan to attend. More information is available on the conference website: https.//midwestclassicalliteratureconsortium.weebly.com/ .  

9:30 AM
Welcome, coffee and pastries

10:00 - 11:45 AM
Rachel Sternberg, Case Western Reserve University
“Oedipus' Interiority in the O.T.”
Dana Munteanu, Ohio State University (Newark) 
“Illuminating Aristotle’s Philosophy of Plot: From the Ethics

11:45 - 1:00 PM
Lunch

1:00 - 2:45 PM
Emilia Barbiero, University of Cincinnati 
“From Phoenicium with Love: Epistolarity, Metatheater, and Metapoiesis in Plautus’ Pseudulus
David Kaufman, Transylvania University
“Lucan’s Cato and Popular (Mis)representations of Stoicism”

2:45 - 3:00 PM
Coffee break

3:00 - 4:45 PM
Lauren Ginsberg, University of Cincinnati 
“Intertextual Comets and Caesarian Bloodshed at Tacitus Ann. 15.47”
Evelyn Adkins, Case Western Reserve University
“The Duplicitous Speech of Women in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses