Call for Papers

Vergil and TragedySponsored by the Vergilian SocietyJames J. O’Hara, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, OrganizerThe Vergilian Society invites submissions for a panel at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in TorontoIn two chapters of Gian Biagio Conte’s The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic (2007), he discusses the influence of…

The Vergilian Society has extended the deadline for proposals for the Third Annual Symposium Campanum, to take place at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma in mid-October, 2018. We will consider proposals on any aspect of the history, archaeology, art and architecture, and geology of Italy and Sicily from the remotest antiquity to the Renaissance. Each proposal…

The Vergilian Society is soliciting proposals for the Twenty-Third Annual Symposium Cumanum, to take place at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma at the end of June, 2018.  We will consider a proposal on any theme pertaining to Virgil and his times, although preference may be given to a subject that has not been treated recently. …

The Vergilian Society is soliciting proposals for the Second Annual Symposium Campanum, to take place at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma in mid-October, 2017.We will consider proposals on any aspect of the history, archaeology, art and architecture, and geology of Italy and Sicily from the remotest antiquity to the Renaissance. Each proposal should be prepared…

The Vergilian Society is soliciting proposals for the Twenty-Third Annual Symposium Cumanum, to take place at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma at the end of June, 2017.  We will consider a proposal on any theme pertaining to Virgil and his times, although preference may be given to a subject that has not been treated recently. …

The Alternative Augustan Age Villa Vergiliana, Cuma, Italy 13-16 October 2016 In his essay on provincial perspectives in the Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, Greg Woolf asked ‘how we might write the history differently if we did not start from Rome and the first emperor’. He proceeds to look at the geopolitical trends…

The Vergilian Society of America is instituting a new symposium, to begin October 13–16 2016. The Symposium will be hosted by the Harry Wilks Study Center at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy. Details of the Villa may be found at: https://www.vergiliansociety.org/villa/ The new symposium series will focus on any aspect of the history, archaeology, art…

Music in the Time of Vergil Symposium Cumanum 2016 June 21-24, 2016 Director: Timothy J. Moore (Washington University in St. Louis) The Vergilian Society invites proposals for papers for the 2016 Symposium Cumanum at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy. The last twenty-five years have seen a marked increase in scholarship dedicated to ancient Greek…

CALL FOR PAPERS – Vergil Week 2015 Symposium at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) “The Fall of Troy in Vergil’s Aeneid” Friday 24 April 2015 The Greek conquest of the city of Troy is one of the most powerful and haunting legends from antiquity. The narratives of the victors’ brutality, the tragic dignity of…

Vergilian Society CFP for SCS 2016 Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! Just about fifty years ago, three seminal works that W. R. Johnson would famously characterize as the “somewhat pessimistic Harvard school” (Darkness Visible [U. of Calif. 1976] 11, 156-57) were published:  Adam Parry’s “The Two Voices of Virgil’s Aeneid” (Arion 2 [1963] 66-80), Wendell Clausen’s “An Interpretation…