A: LITERATURE
Seminars will be at 17:00 on Wednesdays via Zoom. All are welcome.
The Zoom link will be uploaded to the Seminar Moodle page an hour prior to the seminar. If you do not have access to Moodle please contact Renaud Gagné (rg404).
Michaelmas Term 2020
14 October Jane Lightfoot (Oxford), Disastrous: Bad Star Poetry
21 October Tim Whitmarsh (Cambridge), Bad Poetry: Who Cares?
28 October Shaul Tor (KCL), Parmenides the Poet: A Better Craftsman?
4 November Will Winning (Cambridge), How Bad was Homer? An Ancient Quarrel Revisited
Zack Case (Cambridge), To Laugh or Not to Laugh? Bad Jokes and the Politics of (un)Laughter in
Aristophanes
11 November Matthew Fox (Glasgow), Cicero’s Poetry: Is it as Bad as People Think?
18 November Regina Höschele (Toronto), Pessimi Poetae: A “Worst Of”
25 November Marco Formisano (Ghent), Bad Poetry? Not Poetry! Voice and Sound in Ovid and Beyond
2 December Ivana Petrovic (Virginia), Greek Epigram on — and as — Bad Poetry
