Societas Ovidiana: Past Sessions

Transformation and Reception of Ovid I
              Organizer: Rebecca Gottlieb, Univ. of Wisconsin-Platteville        
              Presider: Rebecca Gottlieb

              Gender-Bending Ovid: Sexual Ambiguities in Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la rose
              Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Presbyterian College
              No Hollywood Ending: Ovidian Satire in Two Medieval Lover's Confessions 
              Lauren Kiefer, SUNY-Plattsburgh
              Shakespeare's Pericles and the Redemption of Ovidian Incest 
              Eric C. Brown, Salem State College

Transformation and Reception of Ovid II
              Organizer: Rebecca Gottlieb, Univ. of Wisconsin-Platteville        
              Presider: Lauren Kiefer, SUNY-Plattsburgh

              The Pearl as Alchemical Transformation 
              Teresa Burns, Univ. of Wisconsin-Platteville
              Ovid and Chaucer: From the Transformations of Everyday Life to the Tropes of Narrative 
              Ellen E. Martin, Fordham Univ.

37th Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo (2002)

Chaucer and the Poets (Inspired by Winthrop Wetherbee)
              Organizer: Rebecca Gottlieb, Univ. of Wisconsin - Platteville
              Presider: Anne Howland Schotter, Wagner College

             Pursuing Ovid: Erotic and Literary Identities in Petrarch and Chaucer
              Holly G. Barbaccia, Univ. of Pennsylvania
             "The remenaunt is no charge for to telle" (LGW 2383): Chaucer's Silent Accusation of the
              "Good Women," Philomela and Progne
              Ann M. Higgins, Univ. of Massachusetts - Amherst
             Reconsidering Ovid and the House of Fame
              Leslie Cahoon, Gettysburg College 

Ovidian Gender Ambiguity
              Organizer: Rebecca Gottlieb, Univ. of Wisconsin - Platteville
              Presider: Patricia A. Renda, Univ. of Illinois - Chicago

             Representing Ovid in Aemelia Lanyer's Salve Deus: Gendered Allusions and Inversions
              Eric C. Brown, Harvard Univ.
             Gender Ambiguity and Mythology in Medieval Latin
              Anne Howland Schotter, Wagner College
             Engendering Empire (or: When To Ignore Motherly Advice)
              Rebecca Gottlieb 

Ovidian Arts of Love
       Organizer: Rebecca Gottlieb, Univ. of Wisconsin — Platteville 
       Presider: Lauren Kiefer, SUNY — Plattsburgh 

       The Art of Dialogue in the French Arts of Love
       Gretchen V. Angelo, California State Univ. — Los Angeles 
       Aristotle, Classical Myth, and Courtly Love: Évrart de Conty (1330?1405) and the Livre des Eschecs
       amoureux moralisés
       Jane Chance, Rice Univ. 
       The Art of Married Love
       Rebecca Gottlieb 
 

Ovidian Rape and Revenge
       Organizer: Rebecca Gottlieb, Univ. of Wisconsin — Platteville 
       Presider: Leslie Cahoon, Gettysburg College 

       Medieval Revisions of Ovid: The Special Case of Philomela 
       Patricia A. Renda, Univ. of Illinois — Chicago 
       Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Man: Manipulating Pygmalion and Making Masculinity in Chaucer's 
       Physician's Tale
       Holly A. Crocker, St. Lawrence Univ. 
       Ovidian Rape Imagery in the Medieval Latin Comedies
       Anne Howland Schotter, Wagner College 
 

Ovid and Gender
        Organizer: Suzanne Hagedorn, College of William and Mary
        Presider: Suzanne Hagedorn

        Ovid and the Problem of Polyphony
        Leslie Cahoon, Gettysburg College
        Latin and the Mother Tongue: A Family Romance?
        Rebecca Gottlieb, Univ. of Wisconsin -- Platteville
        Becoming Male in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Boccaccio's Decameron
        Michael Calabrese, California State Univ. -- Los Angeles

Medieval Comments and Commentaries on Ovid
        Organizer: Suzanne Hagedorn, College of William and Mary
        Presider: Suzanne Hagedorn

        Incipitarium Ovidianum: A Finding Guide for Latin Commentaries on Ovid
        Frank T. Coulson, Ohio State Univ.
        The Oldest Commentary on Ovid's Amores
        Bruno Roy, Univ. of Montreal
        Incest Stories in the Ovide moralisé
        Elizabeth Archibald, Univ. of Victoria

34th Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo (1999)

Ovid Moralized, Immoralized, and Immortalized I
        Organizer: Lauren Kiefer, SUNY -- Plattsburgh
        Presider: Suzanne Hagedorn, College of William and Mary

        Pygmalion's Barbie: Jean de Meun's Reading of Ovid's Orpheus's Pygmalion
        Leslie Cahoon, Gettysburg College
        Ecphrasis of Place and Lost Daughters: Ovid and the Pearl-Poet
        Cynthia Kraman, College of New Rochelle
        Thomas Walsingham, Reader of Ovid's Heroines: The Archana Deorum
        Kathryn McKinley, Campbell Univ.

Ovid Moralized, Immoralized, and Immortalized II: The Ovide Moralisé
         Organizer: Lauren Kiefer, SUNY -- Plattsburgh
         Presider: John Fyler, Tufts Univ.

         Translation, Metamorphosis and Voice in the Ovide Moralisé
         James R. Simpson, Glasgow Univ.
         Fable, Istoire, Alegorie: Transforming Ovid's Heroines
         Jeremy Dimmick, Univ. of Cambridge
         Redeeming Medea: The Ovide Moralisé and Its Influence
         Nicola McDonald, Univ. of York
         Incest Redeemed by Allegory in the Ovide Moralisé
         Elizabeth Archibald, Univ. of Victoria
 

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