Pliny's Natural History: Student Presentations

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