(All times are in U.S. Eastern Standard Time)
10:00am – Opening remarks
10:15am – Keynote speech: Larry Norman (University of Chicago), “The Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, from Renaissance to Romanticism”
Break: 11:15-11:25am
Panel 1: Reception of Ideas
Chair: Jin-Woo Choi (Princeton University, PhD Student, Department of History)
11:25am – Michael Moriarty (Cambridge University), “Defending the Stoics: the Daciers’ Marcus Aurelius”
11:45am – Scott Francis (University of Pennsylvania), “The Stoic Origins of Conciliation: Adiaphora in Erasmus, Marguerite de Navarre, Montaigne, and Castellio”
12:05pm – Daniel Garber (Princeton University), “The Ashes of the Ridiculous Mouse and the Fortunes of Aristotle in Paris”
Respondent: Pierre Force (Columbia University)
Break: 12:45-1:30pm
Panel 2: Reception of Literary Forms
Chair: Whitney Mueller (Princeton University, PhD Student, Department of French & Italian)
1:30pm – Helena Taylor (University of Exeter), “Poetry, Pleasure, and Salon Games in Late Seventeenth-Century France”
1:50pm – Cynthia Nazarian (Northwestern University), “Rabelais’s Unsympathetic Laughter”
2:10pm – David Posner (Loyola University Chicago), “Dead Friends and Tacky Souvenirs: The Fragment and the Sublime in Montaigne’s ‘De la vanité’”
Respondent: Leonard Barkan (Princeton University)
2:50pm – Flora Champy (Princeton University), presentation of Médiations et construction de l’Antiquité dans l’Europe moderne (Littératures classiques, n°101): https://www.cairn.info/revue-litteratures-classiques-2020-1.htm
Break: 3:15-3:30pm
Panel 3: Reception of Media
Chair: Evan Ditter (Princeton University, PhD Student, Department of French & Italian)
3:30pm – Alan M. Stahl (Princeton University), Exhibition of medals relating to the Académie des Inscriptions
3:45pm – Alan M. Stahl (Princeton University), “The Cabinet des Médailles of Louis XIV and the Use of Ancient Coins in the Design and Decoration of Versailles”
4:05pm – Sylvaine Guyot (New York University), “Bedazzling Scenes, Stage Technology, and the Critique of Representation: Ovidian Scopophilia in Early Modern Parisian Machine Plays”
4:25 – Katie Chenoweth (Princeton University), “Plutarch’s Pharmakon, or, the Deadly Art of Quotation in Montaigne’s Essais.”
Respondent: Carolyn Yerkes (Princeton University)
5:05pm – Concluding remarks
Image: Nicolas Poussin, “Landscape with Diogenes,” 1648, oil on canvas (Louvre, Paris, France)
Antiquity in Early Modern France 