Location: Luskin Conference Center, UCLA
Date: October 5-6, 2018
Organized by: Francesca Martelli (UCLA) and Sean Gurd (University of Missouri, Columbia)
PROGRAM
Friday, October 5
9:15-9:30
Welcome
9:30-11:30
Nandini Pandey, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Anxieties of Distributed Authorship in the Vergilian Vita Tradition
Joseph Howley, Columbia University
Not evenly distributed: pursuing “the author” in Roman book slavery
1:00-3:00
Scott McGill, Rice University
Mega-Intertextuality: Writing and Reading Virgilian Centos
Alexis Crawshaw and Marcos Novak, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bridging the ancient to the digital contemporary through algorithmic intertextuality
3:15-5:15
Pia Carolla, Università Roma Tre
Distributed authorship & authoritative texts; an imperial collection
Sandeep Bhagwati, Concordia University Montréal
Notwithstanding Unique. Intertwined Authorship in Musical Comprovisation.
Saturday, October 6
9:30-11:30
Dorota Dutsch, University of California, Santa Barbara
Novelty and Meaning in a Pseudo-Pythagorean Network
Mario Biagioli, University of California, Davis
Ghostly Collaborations: Making up Co-authors in the Age of Big Science
1:00-3:00
Daniel Selden, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Worlding of the Life of Aḥiqar
Sergio Basso, Università Roma Tre
The Barlaam and Joasaph – a new paradigm theory for its formation
3:15-5:15
Francesca Martelli, UCLA
“Cicero’s” Letters and the Selfie
KEYNOTE:
Simon Biggs, University of South Australia
Distributed authorship, Machine learning And the heterogeneous Posthuman (dancing) subject.
