Conference papers
Invited talks / Other talks / Poster presentation / Panel organization
- 64. 'For the Love of God. Less Than Ideal Heroines in Greek Late Antique Martyr Acts'
University of Valencia, Imitationes Christi and Women Martyrs. Second International Conference on Early Christian Literature, Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography, 5-7/9/2023. - 63. 'Chariton's Callirhoe: A Migrating Novel Heroine'
University of Bonn, Characters in Mind. The Migration of Characters in Ancient Jewish, Ancient Christian & Greco-Roman Literature and Art, 8-10/2/2023. - 62. 'The Miracle of Euphemia of Edessa and the Goth and Chariton's Callirhoe'
University of Heidelberg, Fictional and Factual Narratives in Antiquity, 5/11/2022. - 61. 'Migrating hero(in)es. Recognizing Characters from Ancient Greek Fiction in Late Antique Christian Hagiography'
Society of Biblical Literature 2022 International Meeting, Salzburg, 17-21/7/2022. - 60. 'Jerome's Life of Malchus: family relations in early Christian romance'
University of California at Santa Barbara, Centre for the Study of Ancient Fiction workshop, 29-30/4/2022. - 59. 'Thecla and Callirhoe: two overlooked models of femininity in the Greek late antique miracle story of Euphemia and the Goth (BHG 738, 739-39k)'
University of Valencia, Literary connections between the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and the Saints’ Lives – Portraits of Holy (Wo)men, 1-3/9/2021. - 58. 'A Life (not) to Die for: Eremitic Monasticism in Pseudo-Nilus' Narrations'
University of St Andrews, Classics Research Seminars, 19/03/2021. - 57. 'The Greek versions of the Miracle of Euphemia and the Goth: tragic and novelistic resonances'
University of California at Santa Barbara, Centre for the Study of Ancient Fiction workshop, 6-7/3/2021. - 56. 'Novel Echoes: Receptions of the Ancient Novel in Postclassical Traditions' (Claire Jackson and Koen De Temmerman)
Ghent University, Literary Studies Workshop, 17/12/2020. - 55. 'Evaluating MSCA Individual Fellowship proposals' (webinar)
FWO-Vlaanderen and NCP-Flanders of the European Commission, 4/5/2020. - 54. 'Stories of Erotic Desire in Late Antique Hagiography: the Curious Case of Euphemia and the Goth (and Callirhoe)'
Swansea University, Kyknos Research Colloquium, 25/10/2019. - 53. 'Too good to be true. Life-writing, love and desire in Greek Martyr Acts of Late Antiquity'
Universidade de Coimbra, Celtic Classics Conference, panel Based on a True Story? Fictionalizing Imperial and Late Antique Biographies, 28/6/2019. - 52.'Personal experiences with ERC applications and projects'
Ghent Centre for Early Modern Studies Research Day, UGent, 29/5/2019. - 51. 'Weapon of mass seduction. Retorica in de antieke klas'
Griekenlandcentrum UGent, Lezingenreeks 2018-19: De slimste van de klas: Grieks en onderwijs door de eeuwen heen, 27/2/2019. - 50. 'Narratives of Love and Desire in Greek Martyr Acts of Late Antiquity'
Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, Byzantine Studies Program, 7/2/2019. - 49. 'Erotic Encounters in Greek Martyr Acts of Late Antiquity'
Text und Kontext in der spätantiken hagiographischen Literatur, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 26/10/2018. - 48. 'Where the Truth Lies. Loves and Lives in Greek Martyr Acts of Late Antiquity'
Ut fidem dictis adhibeant. Faith and Credibility in (Auto)Biographies form Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (200-900), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 4/10/2018. - 47. 'Rhetoric and Aesthetics: presentation of a new research group'
OIKOS Onderzoeksdag, University of Utrecht, 30/05/2018. - 46. 'Response to Eva von Contzen's Lists of Names: the Epic Catalogue and the Blueprint of Narrative'
Lists in Literature, University of Antwerp, 07/05/2018. - 45. 'Toen Anthia Habrocomes ontmoette. Lotgevallen van de roman in de oudheid en daarna'
Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (Brussels), Klasse Menswetenschappen, 20/1/2018. - 44. 'Beyond novelistic heroism. The rhetorics of eugeneia, slavery and chastity in the ancient Greek novel and early-Christian narrative'
God, the Saint and the text: Hagiographical studies as an interdisciplinary field - different perspectives, other questions, new answers?, Oslo University, 24-25/11/2017. - 43. 'Novelistic Nights'
64e Entretiens sur l'Antiquité classique: Après le coucher du soleil: perceptions et histoires de la nuit dans le monde gréco-romain - After Sunset: Perceptions and Histories of the Night in the Graeco-Roman World, Fondation Hardt (Geneva), 21-25/08/2017. - 42. 'Weapon of mass seduction. Antieke retoriek vandaag'
Dag van klassieke talen. Rome, razend actueel, KU Leuven Kulak, 15/10/2016. - 41. 'Characterisation in Achilles Tatius'
Celtic Conference in Classics, University College Dublin, 24/06/2016. - 40. Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala) and Koen De Temmerman, 'From Greek novels to Byzantine storytelling'
Greek and Byzantine Storytelling - at the crossroad of two research projects, Collège de France, 12/05/2016. - 39. 'Novel Saints: de ongeschreven geschiedenis van de roman'
Universiteit Gent, Terugkomdag Taal- & Letterkunde, 30/04/2016. - 38. 'Beyond Novelistic Heroism: The Rhetorics of eugeneia, Slavery and Chastity in the Ancient Greek Novel and Early-Christian Narrative'
Universiteit Leiden, Forum Antiquum, 4/2/2016. - 37. 'The slaughtered monks of late antique Sinai: cult and literary representation'
Culte des saints et littérature hagiographique : accords et désaccords, Collège de France, Centre d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, Paris, 25-26/9/2015. - 36. 'Experiencing characters in the ancient novel and early Christian family romance'
Narrative and Experience in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Universität Heidelberg, 16-18/7/2015. - 35. 'Imitation and portraiture in the hagiography from the late antique Sinai'
Imitatio Christi, Universität zu Köln, 11-13/6/2015. - 34. 'Novel Saints. Ancient novelistic heroism in the hagiography of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages'
Quo vadis, patrologia? Doctoral Colloquium Christian Antiquity, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 27/3/2015. - 33. 'Tussen Heliodoros en Prodromos. Doorwerking van de antieke roman in de hagiografie van de late oudheid en vroege middeleeuwen'
Hellenistendag, Universiteit Leiden, 30/1/2015. - 32. 'Beyond novelistic heroism. The untold story of the ancient novel'
Festive Colloquium of the University of Malta, Msida, 12/12/2014. - 31. 'Novel Saints and/in open access policy'
Challenges in publishing for long-text formats in the digital environment, European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA), Brussels, 15/10/2014. - 30. 'Poetic concepts of divine self-fashioning in the ancient novel'
Poetry and religion in the Mediterranean region in pre-modern times. A centuries-long relationship between superposition, competition, alliance and division of tasks, Ghent University, 04/04/2014. - 29. 'Topoi romanesques et la narratologie dans le roman de Chariton: un mariage avec une fin heureuse?'
Seminar on Chariton, Université Lille 3, 26/03/2014. - 28. 'Novel Saints. Ancient novelistic heroism in the hagiography of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages: presentation of ERC-project'
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, research group of European literary history, 22/01/2014. - 27. (Co-authored and co-presented by A. Roose) 'Un authentique roman
grec de la Renaissance: "Le vrai et parfait amour" de Martin Fumée'
Roman VII. La réception de l'Ancien Roman de la fin du Moyen-Âge au début de l'âge classique, Université François Rabelais, Tours, 10-11/10/2013. - 26. (Co-authored and co-presented by E. van Emde Boas) 'Characterization in ancient Greek literature'
Hellenistenclub, Amsterdam, 24/6/2013. - 25. 'Les vicissitudes des héros romanesques au-delà de leur genre. Premiers pas dans un territoire inconnu'
Lille-Gand International Seminar: Réécrire, traduire et échanger: la création et la transmission d'un canon litéraire, Université Lille 3, 12-13/06/2013. - 24. 'Enslaved Heroes and their Masters: Rhetorical Control in the Ancient Greek Novel and Beyond'
Rethymnon International Conferences on the Ancient Novel VII, University of Crete (Rethymno), 27-28/05/2013. - 23. 'Novel ways to be(come) a heroine. The curious case of Heliodorus' Chariclea'
Hobart, University of Tasmania, School of Humanities, 22/01/2013. - 22. 'Novel simplicity. Apheleia, character and narrative technique in Xenophon of Ephesus'
Kyknos conference on The literary ambitions of the pre-sophistic novels, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 29/06/2012. - 21. 'Novel ways to be(come) a heroine. The curious case of Heliodorus' Chariclea'
Princeton University, Department of Classics, 6/12/2011. - 20. (Co-authored and presented by A. Roose) 'Présences et fonctions de l'Ancien Roman dans Alector ou le Coq de Barthélémy Aneau'
Roman VI. La réception de l'Ancien Roman à la Renaissance et au début de l'âge classique, Université François Rabelais, Tours, 20-21/10/2011. - 19. 'How to become a novel heroine? The curious case of Heliodorus' Chariclea'
Opening lecture at the Lampeter Summer Workshop in Greek and Latin, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 8/8/2011. - 18. 'La sagesse de Clitophon. Les digressions et l'élaboration rhétorique des maximes dans Achille Tatius'
Un après-midi pour Achille. Table ronde consacrée au romancier grec Achille Tatius, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III, 13/5/2011. - 17. 'Dieux humains et hommes divins dans le roman grec'
Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III, 12/5/2011. - 16. 'Highbrow and lowbrow in ancient novelistic fiction'
Symposium on Highs and Lows - Elites and masses in Classical Studies by Gents Instituut voor Klassieke Studies, 9/2/2011. - 15. 'Waar Obama de mosterd haalde. Antieke retoriek in moderne speeches'
Jongerendag Nederlands Klassiek Verbond, 8/2/2011. - 14. 'Narratological response'
Narratologists and Linguists Joining Forces IV: Deixis & Perspective - Teichoskopia, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 20-21/1/2011. - 13. 'Acta, facta en ficta. Apostels en antieke romanhelden in de Apocriefe Acten'
Centrum voor de Studie van Christelijke Tradities, Universiteit Gent, 7/12/2010. - 12. 'The Big Five: not-so-ideal ancient Greek novels?'
Quattuor Lustra, Department of Classical Philology of the University of Tartu, 3-4/12/2010. - 11. 'Dieux humains et hommes divins'
Roman V. Les hommes et les dieux dans l'Ancien Roman, Université François Rabelais, Tours, 22-24/10/2009. - 10. 'Space in Chariton'
Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative workshop on space in Greek literature, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 5/9/2009. - 9. 'Less than ideal paradigms in the ancient Greek novel'
Department of Classics of the University of Wales Lampeter, 4/6/2009. - 8. 'Over helden, schurken en mooie vrouwen. James Bond in de oudheid?'
Griekenlandcentrum of Universiteit Gent, 7/11/2007. - 7. 'Where philosophy and rhetoric meet. Character typification in the ancient Greek novel'
Kyknos Conference The Ancient Novel and its Reception of Earlier Literature, University College Cork, 29-31/8/2007. - 6. 'Blushing Beauty. The Craft of Character in the Ancient Greek novel'
Department of Classics of Stanford University, CA, 13/2/2007. - 5. 'Characterizing characters: character and interpretation in Achilles Tatius'
Annual Gregynog Colloquium, Newtown (Powys), 5/2005. - 4. 'Constructing men. Physiognomy as a tool for the characterization of male characters in the
ancient Greek novel'
Conference on Masculinity as Masquerade: Men and the Performance of Gender, Gregynog, Newtown (Powys), 25-26/4/2005. - 3. 'A Woman's Blush. A Physiognomical Tool for the Characterization of
Chariton's Callirhoe'
Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology of Swansea University, 25/2/2005. - 2. 'Blozen en doen blozen. Fysiognomie en karakterisering in Charitoon van Afrodisias'
Hellenistendag, Universiteit Gent, 21/1/2005. - 1. 'From Asia with Love. Bakhtins chronotoopmodel en de differentia generica van de
Griekse roman'
Koninklijke Zuidnederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal-, Letterkunde en Geschiedenis, Ghent, 18/10/2003.
Peer-reviewed talks
- 24. 'Procopius of Gaza on Fiction'
Twenty-Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Vancouver, 23-26 July 2024. - 23. 'Introducing the Novel Echoes Database of References to the Ancient Novels, 200-1200' (co-presentation with Nicolò D’Alconzo)
International Medieval Conference, Leeds, 3-6/7/2023. - 22. 'Novel Ways to Love. Rhetorical Constructions of Chastity in the Ancient Greek Novel and Early Christian Narrative'
Twenty-Second Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, New Orleans, Louisiana, 23-27/7/2019. - 21. 'Beyond Novelistic Heroism: The Rhetorics of eugeneia, Slavery and Chastity in the Ancient Greek Novel and Early-Christian Narrative'
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo), International Congress on Medieval Studies, 11-14 May 2017. - 20. 'Beyond Novelistic Heroism: The Rhetorics of eugeneia, Slavery and Chastity in the Ancient Greek Novel and Early-Christian Narrative'
International Conference on the Ancient Novel V, Houston, 30/9-4/10/2015. - 19. 'Crafting Characters: Heroism in the Ancient Greek Novel and Beyond'
The Australasian Society for Classical Studies 34th Conference, Sydney, 18-20/1/2013. - 18. 'Heroes and heroines in control. The cultural dynamics of characterization in the ancient Greek novel'
American Philological Association Annual Conference (Panel on The Worlds of the Greek Novels), Philadelphia, 5-8/1/2012. - 17. 'Things left unsaid. Apheleia in Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesiaca'
Celtic Classics Conference, University of Edinburgh, 28-31/7/2010. - 16. 'Digressing by the book. The rhetorical elaboration of maxims in Achilles Tatius' ancient Greek novel Leucippe and Clitophon'
Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric Conference, McGill University, Montreal, 21-22/7/2009. - 15. 'Digressing by the book. Amatory digressions and the elaboration of maxims in Achilles Tatius'
Classical Association/Classical Association of Scotland Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, 3-6/4/2009. - 14. 'Words of a wise man. Gnomai in Achilles Tatius'
International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Universidade de Lisboa, 26/7/2008. - 13. (Co-authored and co-presented by
P. Borghart) 'The Greek adventure novel of ordeal as a transhistorical genre'
Conference on Bakhtin's theory of the literary chronotope: reflections, applications, perspectives, Brussels, 28/6/2008. - 12. 'The Rhetoric of Name-Giving. Names and Tropes in the Greek Novel'
Classical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Université de Montréal, 13/5/2008. - 11. 'The Rhetoric of Name-Giving. Names and Tropicality in the Greek Novel'
Classical Association Annual Conference, University of Liverpool, 28/3/2008. - 10. (Co-authored and co-presented by
P. Borghart) 'From novelistic romance to romantic novel. The revival of the ancient adventure chronotope
in Modern Greek literature'
Modern Greek Studies Association Annual Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT, October 19-21, 2007. - 9. (Co-authored and co-presented by P. Borghart) 'The Greek adventure novel of ordeal as a transhistorical genre'
Deuxième Congrès du Réseau européen d'études littéraires comparées, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, 6-8/9/2007. - 8. 'Using an ancient toolkit? Techniques of characterization in modern literary theory and
ancient rhetoric'
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, 1-4/3/2007. - 7. 'Typification and characterization. Ancient concepts of character and the ancient Greek novel'
Celtic Classics Conference, University of Wales Lampeter, 30/8-2/9/2006. - 6. 'The rhetorical construction of character in the ancient Greek novel'
International Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 13-16/7/2005. - 5. 'The rhetorical and physiognomical construction of character in Achilles Tatius'
Classical Association Annual Conference, University of Reading, 1-4/4/2005. - 4. 'Karaktertekening in de Oudgriekse roman van de late oudheid'
Annual VAL Conference (Vereniging voor Algemene Literatuurwetenschap), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 26/11/2004. - 3. 'La caractérisation des personnages dans le roman grec à travers leur
discours'
Conference on Discours et débats de l'ancien roman des origines à Byzance, Université François Rabelais, Tours, 22/10/2004. - 2. 'Heroines and other women. Physiognomical techniques in the representation of women in
the ancient Greek novel'
Classical Association of the Atlantic States Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 8/10/2004. - 1. 'The erotic in rhetoric. The erotic and the ancient Greek novel'
Conference on The Erotic: Exploring Critical Issues, Budapest, 13/5/2004.
Poster presentation
- 1. 'Karaktertekening in de Griekse roman van de late Oudheid. Literaire en thematische analyse'
Doctorandicolloquium of the Faculty of Arts & Philosophy, Universiteit Gent, 8/12/2004.
Panel organization
- 2. 'Romancing Saints: Christian Narrative Receptions of Ancient Novels in Greek, Latin and Syriac Traditions'
International Conference on the Ancient Novel V, Houston, 30/9-4/10/2015. - 1. 'For the Love of God: Exploring Biblical and Novelistic Textures in Late Antique Narrative' (KYKNOS - The Swansea, Exeter and
Lampeter Centre for Research on the Narrative Literatures of the Ancient World & Ghent University) (co-organizers J. Morgan and M. Formisano)
Classical Association Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, 13-16/04/2014.
