Colloquium Balticum
Programme
Colloquium Balticum XIX Tartuense
Philologia magistra vitae
12-15 October 2022
Venue:
University of Tartu
College of Foreign Languages and Cultures
Lossi 3 (Conference Area in the Lobby)
Wednesday, 12 October
16:00–16:30 Registration
16:30–17:00 Conference opening ceremony
Opening: director of the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Terje Loogus
Introduction: Neo-Humanist studies and Classical philology in Tartu, Janika Päll
I session. Neohumanist studies and classics
Chair Janika Päll
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17:00–17:30 |
Kadi Kähär-Peterson (Tartu) Karl Morgenstern vs Garlieb Merkel: Ancients and Moderns |
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17:30–18:00 |
Anni Polding (Tartu) Neo-humanism in Estonia at the beginning of the 19th century based on Karl Morgenstern’s inauguration speech and seminar works of his students |
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18:00–18:30 |
Asta Vaškelienė (Vilnius) Latin in Lithuanian Piarists education in the second half of the 18th century (Zoom) |
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19:00 |
Reception at the Cafeteria of the University (Ülikooli 20) |
Thursday, 13 October
II session. Humanist poetry and philology in Sweden
Chair Ivo Volt
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9:30–10:00 |
Arsenij Vetushko-Kalevich (Lund) Swedish latinists before modern philology: Samuel Älf and his Carmina Suecorum Poetarum Latina |
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10:00–10:30 |
Johanna Svensson (Lund) Occasional Poetry in Alba Amicorum |
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10:30–11:00 |
Johanna Akujärvi (Lund) The drama of translating Greek tragedy. Issues and debates in 19th century Sweden |
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11:00–11:30 |
Coffee break |
III session. Humanist poetry in Latvia and Lithuania
Chair Nijolė Juchnevičienė
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11:30–12:00 |
Toms Herings, Ojārs Lāms (Riga) Tangible Realities of Neo-Latin Literature in the Collection of National Library of Latvia |
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12:00–12:30 |
Gita Bērziņa, Ilona Gorņeva (Riga) Dicite luctus: Characteristics of Epicedion Tradition in Poetic Texts of the 16th–17th Century Riga |
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13:00–15:00 |
Lunch break |
IV session. Modern approaches to antiquity
Chair Cajsa Sjöberg
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15:00–15:30 |
Lars Nyberg (Lund) The Classicism and Latin Poetry of Charles Baudelaire |
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15:30–16:00 |
Dina Eiduka (Riga) Penelope in the Poetry of Modernist Poets: Female Modernism |
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16:00–16:30 |
Ramunė Markevičiūtė (Berlin) Salt of the Earth. Following the traces of non-human actors in early modern didactic poetry |
Friday, 14 October
V session. Establishing canons
Chair Gita Bērziņa
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9:30–10:00 |
Vytautas Ališauskas (Vilnius) Deconstructing Platonian Canon: Deutero-Platonica vs. Bastard Dialogues |
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10:00–10:30 |
Mantas Tamošaitis (Vilnius) In Search of Canonical Text: The Fluidity and Stability of Biblical Manuscripts as a Hermeneutical Problem in St. Augustine |
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10:30–11:00 |
Tomas Riklius (Vilnius) The canon of Classical authors and the Early Modern aesthetic theory |
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11:00–11:30 |
Coffee break |
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VI session. Ancient Greek authors
Chair Kadri Novikov
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11:30–12:00 |
Lars-Ove Farnebo (Lund) Praxagoras – a Greek physician |
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12:00–12:30 |
Neeme Näripä (Tartu) The disease in Aeschylus’ Oresteia |
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12:30–13:00 |
Nijolė Juchnevičienė (Vilnius) Good mothers and bad mothers in Plutarch |
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13:00–15:00 |
Lunch break |
VII session. Different faces of philology
Chair Kaarina Rein
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15:00–15:30 |
Elena Ermolaeva (St Petersburg) Humanist Greek poetry by the Leichoudes brothers and their students (late 17th–beginning of 18th cc.) (Zoom) |
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15:30–16:00 |
Ilze Rūmniece, Katrīna Narbute (Riga) καλός and τετράγωνος: insight into the contextual life of lexemes |
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16:00–16:30 |
Marten Teemant (Tartu) Correspondence of Johannes Vorstius |
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16:30 –17:00 |
Business meeting |
Saturday, 15 October
VIII session: Teaching ancient poetry
Chair Neeme Näripä
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9:30–10:00 |
Fatima Eloeva (Vilnius) One forgotten Рhilhellene or how to improve in ancient Greek |
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10:00–10:30 |
Gintė Medzvieckaitė (Vilnius) Between the search for authenticity and didactics: Early printed examples of the Humanistenode |
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10:30–11:00 |
Antanas Keturakis, Dalia Andziulytė (Vilnius) Teaching and learning Latin in the digital age |
Optional visit to the Estonian National Museum (ERM)
