We’re pleased to offer access to recordings of all nine sessions and three keynotes until 30 June. In addition, we’ve reduced registration to just $10!
Our 2026 conference Fame and Fortune has concluded and we’re pleased to offer access to recordings of all nine sessions and three keynotes until 30 June. In addition, we’ve reduced registration to just $10!
Highlights of this year’s conference included keynotes from Lisa Bailey (University of Auckland) on ‘The Fama and Fortuna of Balthild, Slave-Queen,’ Jane Hwang Degenhardt (University of Massachusetts Amherst) on ‘Fortune’s Empire: The Global Rise of Fortune on the Early Modern English Stage’, and Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University) on ‘Bees, Yahoos, and Houyhnhnms: Mandeville and Swift on the Morality of Capitalism’. Ceræ would like to thank these scholars for their wonderful contributions to this year’s event.
In addition to the aforementioned keynotes, papers at this year’s conference tackled the theme of Fame and Fortune from a variety of angles and disciplines such as manuscript use and transmission, the language of destiny, the literary lives of female pilgrims and Saints, and the legacies of Boethius’ Wheel of Fortune to name a few. A full list of papers can be found here.
Over two days across multiple time zones scholars from more than 15 different countries across five continents, many of them graduate students and early career, presented papers to address themes including The Language of Fame and Fortune, Classical Literary Echoes—Fortune Across the Centuries, Divine Fortune and Destiny in Literary Sources and Fortune in the Realm of Law.
Register now to access the recordings! Upon payment access to the recordings online will be provided.
A warm thanks to all scholars who participated in this year’s event, and our attendees. We look forward to sharing our Volume 13 with the same theme in the coming months!