“My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book of changes: may the song I sing be seamless as its way weaves from the world’s beginning to our day.”
— Ovid, Metamorphosis (Allen Mandelbaum trans. 1995)
Artworks, families, markets, states, gods — all the natural, social, and abstract things — convert, transform, reconfigure, and mediate between one another. Nothing stands alone.
In 2025-26, the OIKOS working group on kinship economy celebrates ten years of programming through a series of themed programs exploring METAMORPHOSIS.
Join us for readings, convening, movie night, book talks, research workshops, and salons about conversions that turn people into things and things into people. This year, society reassembles and bodies change forms even as institutions seem to fall apart.
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“If you saw me, perhaps you would fear me, perhaps adore me, but all I ask of you is to love me. I would rather you would love me as an equal than adore me as a god.”
— Cupid to Psyche from Apuleius, Metamorphoses |