‘Challenging Traditions and Traditions of Challenge’
Monday 28 June (all times BST / UTC+1)
11:30 Welcome
12:00 – 13:00 Madness and irreverence (Chair: Claire Barnes, Oxford)
Ruth McKimmie (University of Newcastle, Australia): ‘Same-same yet different: madness ancient and modern’
Marit Meinhold (Konstanz): ‘Oedipus meets Medusa - Pan Pan’s Oedipus Loves You’
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:30 Challenge and the body (Chair: Marcus Bell, Oxford)
Malina Buturovic (Princeton): ‘The Survival of the Body: Hedva Performs Euripides’
Eri Georgakaki (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens): ‘The challenging reception of Euripides in nineteenth-century Greece, or, how to restore an ancient poet’s fame out of the blame’
Zoe Harris-Wallis (UCL): ‘Within and against the fold: the challenge of the body in the costume and dance of Eva Palmer-Sikelianos’
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 Guest lecture: Professor Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths)
‘Ghosts: From Aeschylus’s The Persians to Wajdi Mouawad’s The Blood of Promises’
17:00 – 18:00 Break
KCL Greek Play premiere - From The Machine (livestreamed on YouTube)
18:00 Pre-show talk: Professor Gonda Van Steen and Dr Oliver Baldwin in discussion about Sophocles’ Philoctetes (pre-recorded)
19:00 Performance
The pre-show talk and performance are free of charge but booking is essential. Please book for both via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-the-machine-kcl-greek-play-2021-tickets-156113007207
Tuesday 29 June (all times BST / UTC+1)
10:30 Welcome
10:45 Day 1 Guest Respondent: Dr Marchella Ward (Oxford)
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:45 Tradition and (re)mediation (Chair: Giovanna Di Martino, UCL)
Zoë Jennings (Oxford): ‘Intermedial challenge in Daria Martin’s Minotaur with Anna Halprin (2008)’
Sophia Elzie (Oxford): ‘Against Fossilization: Reading Brian Friel’s Translations and the Odyssey’
Menelaos Karantzas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): ‘Fragments on stage: how ancient dramatic fragments have been used in contemporary performances’
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Transformation and subversion (Chair: Alison Middleton, Oxford)
Naser Albreeky (KCL): ‘Strategies of Undoing Colonialism in the New World: Parody and Classical Reception in Anglophone Caribbean Literature’
Julia Jennifer Beine (Ruhr-University Bochum): ‘Challenging an Ancient Comic Tradition (Un-)Intentionally: Molière’s L’Étourdi ou les contretemps’
15:00 – 15:15 Break
15:15 In conversation: Dr Benjamin Poore (York) with Dr Henry Stead (St Andrews) and Dr Helen Eastman (theatre director; APGRD)
‘Challenging Traditions and Traditions of Challenge: The History Play in Modern Times’
16:00 – 16:15 Break
16:15 Day 2 Guest Respondent: Dr Lucy Jackson (Durham)
16:45 Plenary
Those wishing to sign up should contact the Symposium Team at: postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk
