9.00am: HOPE WILLIARD (Lincoln)
The female voice in Merovingian poetry
9.30am: LORENZO LIVORSI (Reading)
The poet and the canon: Venantius Fortunatus’ voice in Vita S. Martini I,1-49
10.00am: DAVID UNGVARY (Harvard)
Announcing renunciation: Sidonius Apollinaris and Horatian disavowal
10.30am: MICHAEL HANAGHAN (Cork)
Roma’s power and authority in Sidonius’ panegyrics (carm. 2, 5 and 7)
11am: Tea/coffee
11.30am: GIULIA SAGLIARDI (Edinburgh)
Alaric’s rabidae voces in Claudian’s Bellum Geticum
12.00: ELIZABETH MCLEOD HEINTGES (Columbia)
Aetna numquam tacitura: eruptive voices in Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae
12.30pm: TAMARA LOBATO-BENEYTO (Salamanca)
Vox nuntiat una: The epic proems of Claudius Claudianus
1.00pm: Lunch
2.00pm: LYNTON BOSHOFF (Oxford)
Voices past and present in the secular poetry of Dracontius
2.30pm: FRANCES FOSTER (Cambridge)
Rethinking identity: Rutilius Namatianus’ De reditu suo
3.00pm: RAFFAELLA COLOMBO (Pavia)
A meta-poetical voice: Nemesianus’ Cynegeticon
3.30pm: Tea/coffee
4.00pm: PHILIP HARDIE (Cambridge)
Mosaics and intertextuality
5.00pm: CONCLUDING DISCUSSION