The students in the Spring 2016 seminar on Pliny's Natural History will present their papers on Friday, April 29th in two sessions. The papers will be fifteen minutes in length, with ten minutes of discussion for each. Please join us for some or all if you can!
Location: Cohen Hall, Room 237
9:45-10:10
Amelia Bensch-Schaus
The natural order: Structuring man and natura in Pliny
10:10-10:35
Isabella Reinhardt
Pro hominum luxuria
10:35-11:00
Amelia Overd
Knowledge as a commodity in the Historia naturalis
11-11:10 break
11:10-11:35
Bryn Ford
The kingdom of the winds: Meteorology and weather lore in Pliny
11:35-12:00
Brian Credo
Plinius criticus: Why so harsh on Vergil’s Aeneid?
LUNCH 12-1:30
1:35-2:00
Lucy Ayers
The language of Pliny’s Natural History: A technical register in a casual style
2:00-2:25
Madison Briggs
Vanitas in vain?
2:25-2:50
Wes Hanson
The semantic range of sermo in Pliny’s Natural History
2:50-3:00 Break
3:00-3:25
Amy Lewis
L’uccello, l’impero, lo scienziato: Plinian themes in Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomiche, Città Invisibili and Palomar
3:25-3:50
Addie Atkins
The human creator in Pliny the Elder’s Historia naturalis
3:50-4:15
Scheherazade Khan
Natura ludens: The playful rhetoric of the Naturalis historia