The Reception of Cupid and Psyche 1600 to Today Conference in Leeds (13th to 15th July 2016) now has a website with further information, including the programme and information on accommodation and travelling: cupidandpsyche.leeds.ac.uk
Booking will open shortly. Please direct all enquiries to the conference email address: cupidandpsyche@leeds.ac.uk
Twitter: @Apuleius16, #Apuleius16
We are looking forward to welcoming you to Leeds,
best wishes, Regine May
List of Speakers:
Andreadakis, Zacharias (Michigan): Kierkegaard as a Reader of Apuleius
Benson, Geoffrey (Colgate University): Psyche the Psychotic: Cupid and Psyche in Franz Riklin’s Wunscherfüllung und Symbolik im Märchen
Carver, Robert (Durham): The Platonic Ass: Thomas Taylor’s Cupid and Psyche in Context (1795-1822)
Cueva, Edmund (University of Houston-Downtown): Apuleius’ Graphic Novel: the Comics and Cupid and Psyche
Drews, Friedemann (Muenster): Cupid & Psyche in C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces: a Christian-Platonic metamorphosis
Gaisser, Julia Haig (Bryn Mawr): Eudora Welty’s The Robber Bridegroom: Cupid and Psyche on the Natchez Trace
Harrison, Stephen (Corpus Christi College, Oxford): Apuleius at the court of Louis XIV: Lully and Molière
James, Paula (Open University): Looking back and forward with Apuleius: Why Cupid and Psyche keep moving from the simple to the complex.
Kirkman, C.R. (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa): Venus reimagined: the reception of Apuleius’ Venus from Cupid and Psyche as C.S. Lewis’ Orual in Till We Have Faces
Leidl, Christoph (Heidelberg): Between Symbolism and Popular Culture: Cupid and Psyche in Fin de Siècle Book Illustration
Maurice, Lisa (Bar-Ilan University): Cupid and Psyche for Children
May, Regine (Leeds): Keats’s Ode to Psyche: Poetry and Inspiration
Müller, Hendrik (independent scholar): Cupid and Psyche on stage in the 21st century
O’Brien, Maeve (Maynooth): Classical Themes in Irish Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
Panayotakis, Stelios (Crete): Operatic adaptations of Cupid and Psyche
Paschalis, Michael (Crete): Walter Scott’s Kenilworth and the story of Cupid and Psyche
Pasetti, Lucia (Bologna): “In the calm whirlpool of the void”. Psyche in Italian literature between XIX and XX centuries.
Prettejohn, Elizabeth (York) and Charles Martindale (York & Bristol): Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche: Narrative, Reception, Aestheticism in 19th-Century Britain (Pater, Morris, Burne-Jones
Provencal, Vernon (Beveridge Arts Centre, Wolfville, Canada): ‘The heart in conflict with itself’: Faulkner’s humanistic reception of Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche in The Reivers
Ragno, Tiziana (University of Foggia): Del soffrir degli affanni è dolce il fine: Ancient Myth and Comic Drama in G.F. Fusconi (with G.F. Loredano and P. Michiel) for F. Cavalli, Amore innamorato (1642)
Ranger, Holly (Birmingham): ‘I have tried to be blind in love’: Sylvia Plath’s House of Eros
Reitz, Christiane (Rostock): Apuleius and Interior Decoration: Cupid and Psyche on a French Wallpaper
Ruggeri, Luca (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Robert Bridge’s Eros & Psyche and Its Models
Schultze, Clemence (Durham): Gothic allegory and feminist critique: Cupid and Psyche in the novels of Charlotte M. Yonge and Sylvia Townsend Warner
Scippacercola, Nadia (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy) & Rosanna Scippacercola (Art Scholar and Tour Guide, Rome): Psyche and Beauty in Paintings from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
Siegel, Janice (Hampden-Sydney, Virginia USA): Undertones of Cupid and Psyche in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth.
Simard, Jared (CUNY): Psyche in the Salon: French Interior Decoration in the 18th Century
Trzcionkowski, Lech (Jagiellonian University, Cracow): The Background Radiation of the Tale. Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche in the Gardzienice performance Metamorphosis, or The Golden Ass.