An International Conference in Commemoration of the Bimillennium of Ovid’s Death

May 31–June 2, 2017

Jointly sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China,

Shanghai Normal University and Dickinson College


The conference is part of the National Social Science Fund of China Major Grant Project (No. 15ZDB087) entitled “Translating the Complete Corpus of Ovid into Chinese with Commentaries”. The conference intends to bring together scholars and translators to explore the dynamic processes of selection, tension, and negotiation that have been integral to the making and interpreting of Classical canon with a special focus on Ovid. The challenges of translating Ovid into Chinese will be discussed against this general background. As such, it serves as an opportunity not only to pay tribute to Ovid but also to promote cross-cultural conversations about the globalization of the Greco-Roman Classics. The conference will take place on the campus of Shanghai Normal University (Guilin Road #100, Xuhui District, Shanghai).

本次会议于2017年5月31日-6月2日在上海师范大学召开,为中国国家社会科学基金重大投标项目“古罗马诗人奥维德全集译注”的重要组成部分,其主题包括奥维德在世界各地的接受史、奥维德在各种媒介(抄本、视觉艺术、石碑,等等)中的构建、二十一世纪如何解构及教授奥维德的作品、奥维德汉译所面临的挑战等。通过对这些问题的梳理、反思和推进,本次会议旨在加强中文学界及翻译界对奥维德国际研究的贡献,并探索古典学国际化的新方向。本次会议是在中国大陆举办的第一次大规模的有关古典拉丁语文学的会议,在纪念奥维德这位影响深远的古罗马诗人的同时,也为古希腊罗马古典学的跨文化对话提供了契机。

Conference materials including handouts and pictures can be accessed here.


Keynote addresses 主题发言:

Frank Coulson (Ohio State University)

The Reception of Ovid in the High Middle Ages and Renaissance: New Manuscript Discoveries

中世纪中期及文艺复兴时期对奥维德的接受:新抄本的发现

Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)

Why Ovid? Translation and Globalization in the 21st Century 为什么研究奥维德?二十一世纪的翻译与全球化

John Miller (University of Virginia)

A Globalized Reading of Ovid’s Creation 奥维德创世叙述的全球化解读

Alison Sharrock (University of Manchester)

Identity Politics: Women and Men, Reading and Texts 身份政治:女性与男性、阅读与文本

Gareth Williams (Columbia University)

Secondary Exile and Ovid’s Retreat from Language in his Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto

次流放以及奥维德在《哀怨集》及《黑海书简》中的语言避退

Zhi Zhang 张治 (Xiamen University)

Ovid and Qian Zhongshu 奥维德与钱钟书

Welcome address 欢迎致辞:

Fritz-Heiner Mutschler (Universität Dresden/Peking University)

Graeco-Roman Classics in China: From Khanbalik to Shanghai 希腊罗马古典学在中国: 从元大都到上海

Concluding address 总结致辞:

Christopher Francese (Dickinson College)

New Directions in Global Classicism 全球古典学之新方向

Image cr. Houghton Library, Harvard University. MS Typ 008. Heroides. f. 49v, Ep. XII: Death of the sons of Medea.