5th Trends in Classics International Conference
Department of Classics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Corpus Christi College Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity, University of Oxford
5th Trends in Classics International Conference on Latin Genre
Generic Interfaces: Encounters, Interactions and
Transformations in Latin Literature
Thessaloniki, 27-29 May, 2011
Auditorium
Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept useless for the study of
individual works of literature nor the recent (post-) modern reluctance to subject literary
production to any kind of classification seem to have stilled the discussion on the various
aspects of genre in classical literature. Having moved from more or less essentialist and/or
prescriptive positions towards a more dynamic conception of the generic model, research on
genre is currently considering “pushing beyond the boundaries”, “impurity”, “instability”,
“enrichment” and “genre-bending”.
The aim of the conference is to raise questions of such generic mobility. Particularly
welcome are papers which: explore ways in which works assigned to a particular generic
area play host to formal and substantive elements associated with different or even opposing
genres; assess literary works which seem to challenge perceived generic norms; highlight,
along the literary-historical, the ideological and political backgrounds to “dislocations” of the
generic map.
Organizing committee
Theodore Papanghelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Stephen J. Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Antonios Rengakos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Stavros Frangoulidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
For further information please contact:
Stavros Frangoulids ( frangoulidis@gmail.com )