International Society for Late Antique Literary Studies (ISLALS) Conference Announced
The second annual conference of the International Society for Late Antique Literary Studies (ISLALS) will convene on the campus of Boston University on November 14-15, 2014. The theme of the conference is High and Low Literature in Late Antiquity. Can and should we separate the two categories? What areas of late antique literature confirm or problematize this distinction? How did late antique authors think about the high and the low? How did they use the categories rhetorically? How, historically, have critics brought those categories to bear on the reception of late antique literature?
The conference is free for the general public, and we welcome all to attend (please RSVP for the lectures on the Facebook page). There will be a conference dinner for speakers. Please send queries about conference particulars to James Uden (uden@bu.edu). General queries about ISLALS may be sent to any member of the steering committee: Scott McGill (smcgill@rice.edu), Joseph Pucci (Joseph_Pucci@brown.edu), and David Bright (dbright@emory.edu).