Organisers: Anita Traninger and Paolo Brusa (Research Group "Discursivizations of the New. Tradition and Innovation in Medieval and Early Modern Texts")

Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, Room L 116 (Seminarzentrum, Entrance: Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26)

Programme

Monday, February 18

10:00 - 10:30	Welcome and introduction Anita Traninger - Paolo Brusa
Panel 1: Crossroads of Reception I
10:30 - 11:15	Laurence Plazenet (Université Clermont-Auvergne) What Did Jacques Amyot Do to the Greek Novel?
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:15	Stefan Seeber (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) 'The Older, the Better': Wolckenstern's Ismenius (1573) and the Sixteenth Century Poetics of the Novel
12:15 - 13:00	Massimo Fusillo (Università degli Studi dell'Aquila) Heliodorus on the Baroque Stage: Strategies of Dramatization
13:00 - 15:00	Lunch Break
Panel 2: How to Deal with Adversity
15:00 - 15:45	Susanne Gödde (Freie Universität Berlin) Divine Plotting: Suffering and Salvation in the Ancient Greek Novel
15:45 - 16:30	Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin) The Archeology of Melancholy: Alonso Núñez de Reinoso and the Reimagination of the Greek Novel

Tuesday, February 19

Panel 3: Crossroads of Reception II
10:00 - 10:45	Jutta Eming (Freie Universität Berlin) Beyond Incest? Extensive Adventures in Heinrich von Neustadt's Version of Apollonius
10:45 - 11:30	Christian Rivoletti (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) Geography, History and Genre: The Reception of Heliodorus in Early Modern Italy (and in a European Context)
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee break
Panel 4: Precarious Routes
12:00 - 12:45	Nathalie Schuler (Freie Universität Berlin / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Navigating Uncertainty: Sea Voyage and Storytelling in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius
12:45 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45	Paolo Brusa (Freie Universität Berlin) To Heliodorus and 'Beyond': Lope de Vega's Iberian aemulatio of the Ethiopian Tale
Panel 5: Ancient Models, Modern Novel?
14:45 - 15:30	Ingrid Simson (Freie Universität Berlin) Cervantes' Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda: From imitatio of Ancient Role Models to a Critical Survey of Contemporary Spanish Imperial Politics
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 16:45	Isabel Lozano-Renieblas (Dartmouth College) Cervantes and the Prüfungsroman in First Modernity
16:45 - 17:00	Conclusion(s)