3rdTrends in Classics Conference on Greek Drama
Crisis on Stage:
Tragedy and Comedy in Late Fifth-Century Athens
Thessaloniki, December 3-6, 2009 (Auditorium of the Archaeological Museum)
December 3, 2009
17.30-18.30: Reception – Registration
18.30-19.00: Opening Ceremony
Opening Keynote Address
19.00-19.30: Bernhard Zimmermann (University of Freiburg)
19.30-20.00: Ruth Scodel (University of Michigan), Philoctetes and Political Nostalgia
20.00-20.30: Guido Avezzu (University of Verona), The Crisis of Political Representation: Sophocles’ Philoctetes
20.30-21.00: Poulcheria Kyriakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Kairos and Kratos: The Chorus of Philoctetes and Present Opportunity
December 4, 2009
10.00-10.30: Suzanne Said (Columbia University), Athens and Athenian Space in Oedipus at Colonus
10.30-11.00: Andrea Rodighiero (University of Verona), The Sense of Place: Oedipus at Colonus, ‘Political’ Geography and the Defense of a Way of Life
11.00-11.30: Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge), Euripides’ Ion: Nothing to Do with Nietzsche?
11.30-12.00: Claude Calame (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Myth and Performance on the Attic Stage: Praxithea, Erechtheus, their Daughters and the Aetiology of Athenian Authochthony
12.30-13.00: Marco Fantuzzi (University of Macerata), The Dream of the Charioteer (728-803) in the Rhesus Ascribed to Euripides
13.00-13.30: Konstantina Gakopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Euripides’ Bakchen: Ende einer Epoche oder Beginn einer neuen?
13.30-14.00: Horst-Dieter Blume (University of Munster), Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis
14.00-14.30: Andreas Markantonatos (University of Peloponnese), Leadership in Action: Wise Policy and Firm Resolve in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis
December 5, 2009
10.30-11.00: Alan Sommerstein (University of Nottingham), Problem Kids: Young Males and Society from Electra to Bacchae
11.00-11.30: Georgia Xanthakis-Karamanos (University of Peloponnese), The ‘Dionysiac’ Plays of Aeschylus and Euripides’ Bacchae: Re-Affirming Traditional Religion and Cult in Late Fifth-Century BC
11.30-12.00: Daniel Iakov (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Fragmenting the Self: Society and Psychology in Euripides’ Electra and Ion
12.30-13.00: Francis Dunn (University of California, Santa Barbara), Transcending Crisis: Metadrama and Metaphysics in Bacchant Women and Oedipus at Colonus
13.00-13.30: Anna Lamari (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), The Return of the Father:Euripides’ Antiope, Hypsipyle and Phoenissae
15.30-16.00: Patrick Finglass (University of Nottingham), Sophocles’ Theseus
16.00-16.30: Sophie Mills (University of North Carolina at Asheville), Genos, Gennaios and Athens in the Later Tragedies of Sophocles
16.30-17.00: Ioanna Karamanou (University of Peloponnese), Euripides’ ‘Family Reunion Plays’ and their Possible Socio-Political Affiliations
17.30-18.00: Roberto Nicolai (University of Rome, La Sapienza), Paradigmi Mitici in Euripide: La Crisi del Mito
18.00-18.30: Thalia Papadopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Altruism, Sovereignty, and the Degeneration of Imperial Hegemony in Greek Tragedy and Thucydides
December 6, 2009
10.30-11.00: Anton Bierl (University of Basel), Women on the Acropolis: Comic Body-Politics, Ritual and Metaphor in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
11.00-11.30: Antonis Tsakmakis (University of Cyprus), Persians, Oligarchs and Festivals: The Date of Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae
11.30-12.00: Ian Storey (Trent University), Comedy and Crises
Closing Keynote Speech
12.30-13.00: David Rosenbloom (Victoria University of Wellington), The Subversive Stage: Democracy and its Discontents in Late Fifth-Century Drama
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