Mens Mutata:
Altered Minds in Antiquity
Conference Date: March 29, 2025
Conference Schedule:
10:00 am Check-in and Coffee
10:30 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:45 am Session 1
Emma Louise Mendez Correa (New York University) “Tales of Reckless Consumption: ‘Fear and Loathing’ in Odyssey Book 9”
Charlotte Rose Mandy (Columbia University) “The Wine in the Well: Ecstasy and Immersion on Roman Figural Wellheads”
Poppy Steel Swayne (New York University) “Sleep Deprivation and Abnormal Sleep Patterns in Aeschylus’ Oresteia”
12:15 pm Lunch
1:45 pm Session 2
Grace DeAngelis (Princeton University) “Magic and Tragedy in Aeneid 4: A Metapoetic Reading of Dido’s Madness”
Andrea Labianca (Sorbonne University) “Blurred Boundaries: Altered Perception and Emotional Fragmentation in Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto”
Christopher Parkinson (University of Melbourne) “The Pharmakon of Fiction: Drugs and the Transformation of the Mind in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses”
3:15 pm Short Break
3:25 pm Keynote Address
Professor Emma Scioli (University of Kansas) “Pallens Imago : The Double Vision of Images and Dreams in Roman Literature and Visual Art”