Understanding Ovidian Violence and Beyond. International Conference: Ghent, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, 15th and 16th May 2025.

The report examines the conference “Understanding Ovidian Violence and Beyond” (Ghent, 2025), summarizing selected papers on violence, metamorphosis, consolation, reception, and translation in Ovid. It highlights how contributors rethink Ovidianism through feminist, medical, theological, and political lenses, showing Ovid’s poetry as a laboratory for interrogating power, voice, trauma, and the contemporary responsibilities of classical studies.