Upcoming Langford Conferences

Emotions between Greece and Rome

The Spring 2012 Langford conference will be held in the Augustus B. Turnbull Center at Florida State University on February 24 and 25. For the program with the speakers and their topics, click here (pdf 2.86 MB).
Registration is required but free. If you are planning to attend, please e-mail Travis King at  tmk07c@my.fsu.edu indicating whether you will be attending Friday, Saturday or both days.  For information on parking, click here (msword 245.00 kB).

Langford Conference Poster (pdf 2.86 MB)
Langford Conference Program (vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document 177.64 kB)

Top Row, from Left: Prof. Damien Nelis, Prof. Laurel Fulkerson, Prof. Kathryn Gutzwiller, Prof. Ruth Caston
Bottom Row, from Left: Prof. Wolfgang Polleichtner, Prof. David Konstan, Prof. Douglas Cairns, Prof Angelos Chaniotis, Prof Alessandro Schiesaro

Bucolic and Mime

This year’s Fall Langford Seminar will treat the topic of bucolic and mime. Scholars of international standing will present papers during the day-long seminar on November 5. They include Marco Fantuzzi (Columbia University), Costas Panayotakis (University of Glasgow), Regina Höschele (University of Toronto) and Joan Burton (University of Maryland). They will speak on a variety of topics: post-Theocritean pastoral; Hellenistic mime; Virgil’s Eclogues; and the Byzantine novel.

The Seminar, under the direction of Francis Cairns, Professor of Classical Languages at FSU, is an annual event. Many of the papers presented at the Seminar are eventually published in PLLS, the Proceedings of the Langford Latin Seminar. PLLS, which is edited by Francis Cairns, first appeared in 1976 as the Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar, and from 1989-1998 was Papers of the Leeds Latin Seminar. In 2003, when Professor Cairns moved to FSU, it became Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, a title which honors the Langford Family, whose generous benefaction to the department enables it to host conferences and colloquia.

Langford Seminar Poster (pdf 3.20 MB)
Langford Seminar Program (pdf 77.16 kB)

 
Prof. Costas Panayotakis, Prof. Marco Fantuzzi, Prof. Regina Höschele, Prof. Lorenz Rumpf and Prof. Joan Burton