Sunday 17 April - Friday 22 April 2011
Co-sponsored by The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and the Ohio Humanities Council*
Celebrate the poetry of the ancient Roman poet Vergil during National Poetry Month
Sunday 17 April: Vergilian Footrace
4:00 p.m. Sudek Track, Northside Athletic Facilties
5-kilometer footrace that ranges over the north side of campus
For registration from, see here. For map of the course, see here.
Monday 18 April: Art Contest and Exhibition For rules and registration form, see here.
3:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Art Studio, 2215 Adlebert Road (Room 201)
Exhibition of student and faculty art inspired by Vergil and Greco-Roman civilization
(contest judged by graduate students in Art Education)
Tuesday 19 April: Latin Recitation Contest
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Clark Hall 206
Latin recitation contest for high school and university students. For rules, registration form and text to be declaimed, see here.
Wednesday 20 April: Lecture, Staged Reading, and Concert,
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Cleveland Museum of Art
-5:30 - 6:15 p.m. Lecture in Recital Hall: Timothy Wutrich, "Theatricality in the Cleveland Dido and Aeneas Tapestries."
-6:30 - 6:45 p.m. Staged Reading in the Armor Court: Aeneid Book IV: "The Dido Tragedy."
-7:30 - 8:00 p.m. Concert in the Armor Court: The Early Music Singers conducted by Debra Nagy
Thursday 21 April: Continuous public reading of the Aeneid in Latin and English
Exhibition of Art Inspired by the Aeneid
8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Crawford Hall, SAGES Café:
All are invited to read or recite in Vergil's original Latin or in the English translation
Exhibition of work entered in the Vergil Week Art Contest
Friday 22 April: Symposium: "Tradition: Vergil in Literature and the Arts.",
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Clark Hall 206
-Florin Berindeanu, CWRU "Ars as eros in Dante and Vergil"
-Ricardo Apostol, CWRU "Epic Interruptions: Vergilian Allusion in Petrarch's Bucolicum Carmen"
-Timothy Wutrich, CWRU "Arms and Men: Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage"
-Susan Shimp, Independent Scholar, "Excavating Vergil in Cournter-Reformation Rome: Domenico Mazzocchi's Aeneid Dialoghi (1638)"
-Edith Foster, Ashland University, "Vergilian Themes in Will Cather's Shadows on the Rock"
5:30 p.m. Clark 309
Keynote Address: Jan Ziolkowski, Chair, Department of Classics, Harvard University
"Annotated Manuscripts of Vergil in the Middle Ages"
Contact Professor Timothy Wutrich for further information:
Telephone 216-368-6026 / E-mail to timothy.wutrich@case.edu
*Funding for this program was made possible in part by the Ohio
Humanities Council with support by the National Endowment for the
Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations
expressed in the program do not necessarily reflect those of the
National Endowment for the Humanities, or of the Ohio Humanities
Council.
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