In June 2012 (29th-30th), the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies and its partner, the University of Freiburg, co-organized the Conference The Neo-Latin Novel in Its Time.

Please find attached the programme (also available for download), the call for papers and some pictures of the conference.

Conference Programme

Der neulateinische Roman als Medium seiner Zeit

The Neo-Latin Novel in Its Time

Freitag, 29. Juni 2012

08:30–08:45   Eröffnung

Panel 1: Romanhaftes vor und neben Barclay

08:45–09:15  Laurence Pradelle (Limoges): La ‘transfiguratio’ latine d’une nouvelle de Boccace par Leonardo Bruni en 1439

09:15–09:45 Hartmut Wulfram (Bielefeld): Der Bogen der Juno. Vergilparodie und Zeitkritik in Leon Battista Albertis Momus

09:45–10:15 Jacqueline Glomski (London): Science Fiction in the Seventeenth Century: The Neo-Latin somnium and Its Relationship with the Vernacular

10:15–10:30   Kaffeepause

Panel 2: Barclay und Frankreich (I)

10:30–11:00 Lore Benz (Bielefeld): John Barclays Euphormionis Lusinini Satiricon

11:00–11:30 Jochen Schultheiß (Würzburg): Romanform und Herrscherlob in Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon (2, 32)

11:30–12:00 Jennifer Tunberg (Lexington, Kentucky): An Old Wife and the Tale that She Tells in Barclay’s Argenis

12:00–13:30   Mittagspause

Barclay und Frankreich (II)

13:30–14:00 Jürgen Blänsdorf (Mainz): Gaeomemphionis Cantaliensis Satyricon (1628) – der Charakterwandel als Leitthema eines Schlüsselromans aus der Zeit Ludwigs XIII

14:00–14:30 Hermann Wiegand (Mannheim/Heidelberg): Stände- und Gesellschaftssatire im Gyges Gallus des Petrus Firmianus – Zacharie de Lisieux

14:30–15:00   Kaffeepause

Panel 3: Roman und Religion

15:00–15:30 Péter Kasza (Szeged): Parergi philosofici speculum. Henricus Nollius’ hermetisch-rosenkreutzerischer Roman

15:30–16:00 Katharina Kagerer (München): Eine Gratulationsschrift in Romanform: Die Palma Boica des Johannes Bisselius SJ (1636)

16:00–16:30 Thorsten Burkard (Kiel): Im Land der Narren. Jacob Bidermanns satirischer Erzählzyklus Utopia (1640)

16:30–17:00 Thomas Gärtner (Köln): Die Psyche Cretica des Regensburgers Johannes Ludwig Prasch (1685). Eine christliche Apuleius-Adaptation

17:00–17:30   Kaffeepause

Panel 4: Entwicklungen im Habsburgerreich

17:30–18:00 Béla Kiss (Budapest): Aeneas Habspurgus: A Neo-Latin Politico-Allegorical Novel from the Jesuit University of Trnava

18:00–18:30 Florian Schaffenrath (Innsbruck): Schrieb Franz Szekely SJ einen Roman? Zur Charakterisierung und typologischen Einordnung des Aeneas Habspurgus (1695)

18:30–19:00 Stefan Tilg (Innsbruck): The Neo-Latin Novel’s Last Stand: András Dugonics’ Argonautica (1778)

20:30 Gemeinsames Abendessen

Samstag, 30. Juni 2012

Panel 5: Aufklärung

09:00–09:30 Mon Torfs (Löwen): A Man on a Mule or a Cock and a Bull? An Interpretation of Laurence Sterne’s Slawkenbergii fabella

09:30–10:00 Karen Skovgaard-Petersen (Kopenhagen): Ludvig Holberg’s Novel Nicolai Klimii Iter subterraneum (1741)

10:00–10:30 Samuel Galson (Princeton): Inversa Crusta: Ovid, Holberg, and the Critique of Science

10:30–11:00   Kaffeepause

Panel 6: Grundsätzliches und Kurioses

11:00–11:30 Isabella Walser (Innsbruck/Freiburg): Staatsideal und Staatsutopie im neulateinischen Roman

11:30–12:00 Alexander Winkler (München): Legitimationszwänge und -strategien des neulateinischen Romans

12:00–12:30 Ralph Lather (Osnabrück): Latein als Weltsprache im 20. Jahrhundert. Karl Fleschs Ferocia Latina (1942)

12:30–12:45   Schlussworte

Call for Papers

The Neo-Latin novel has been neglected in scholarhip so far. The gap identified in 1998 by Jozef IJsewijn and Dirk Sacé in their Companion to Neo-Latin Studies (II, 256) is still far from being closed: ‘[…] one must say that most Neo-Latin novels have hardly been critically studied so far. Indeed, we do not even have a reliable and more or less complete list of Neo-Latin novels. It is a wide and inviting field awaiting scholars in search for untrodden paths.’ Our conference aims to make that ‘wide and inviting’ field more accessible and to place particular emphasis on the relevance of the Neo-Latin novels for their own time. This approach suggests itself considering that the Neo-Latin novel characterized its own period through satire or allegory ever since the pioneering works of John Barclay (Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon, 1603/7; Argenis 1621). A further question central to our approach is how Neo-Latin and vernacular novels relate to and influence each other. Papers which discuss the place of Neo-Latin novel in contemporaneous society and literature are therefore particularly welcome.
Please send a working title and a short abstract of 150 to 200 words no later than 28 February 2012 to fgrsna.gvyt@arbyngva.yot.np.ng or jbystnat.xbsyre@nygcuvy.hav-servohet.qr. Anyone interested in participating without a paper is asked to register by the same date.
Organizers:  Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien (Innsbruck) / Seminar für Klassische Philologie der Universität Freiburg

Dates: 29–30 June 2012

Place: Haus zur Lieben Hand, Löwenstraße 16, D-79098 Freiburg

Working Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Latin

Length of papers: 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes discussion

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