Dean of the College Presents
Faculty Seminar by Professor Lauren Curtis
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Hegeman 204A
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
"Ovid in Exile and the Poetics of Memory."
This talk investigates the intersection of time, memory, and geographical and cultural deracination in the work composed by the Roman poet Ovid after he was banished by the emperor Augustus to the northeast frontier of the Roman Empire (what is now the Romanian coast of the Black Sea) in 8 CE. How does a poet reconfigure his relationship with his reading public when they are suddenly wrenched apart in time and space? Taking as the case study a fascinating but little-discussed elegy from the fifth book of Ovid’s Tristia (‘Poems of Lamentation’), Professor Curtis explores how Ovid poetry strives to locate his fading presence within his readers’ horizons of time and memory after the cataclysmic and destabilizing event of exile.Please join us for a reception prior to the event beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the Faculty Commons Room.
For more information, call 845-758-7421, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Hegeman 204A