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Journeys/Journeying in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama

Venue
66 St Giles, Oxford; Noh Theatre, Royal Holloway College
Date
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Programme


Monday 27 June 2011 at the Classics Centre, Oxford


Public Engagement Training for Classicists Sponsored by the AHRC
11.00 Research 2.0: How to use social media and the internet to engage with the rest of the world: CAGR session 5 led by Dr. Tom Wrobel (APGRD, University of Oxford). 

Terence in Late Antiquity
2.00    Chrysanthi Demetriou (Leeds):  Donatus' Commentary and Terence's Journey through Time and Space.
2.30    Beatrice de la Vela (UCL): The theatrical journey: movement from and to the stage in Donatus' Commentary on Terence.

Big Love/Forbidden Love
3.00    Katie Billotte (RHUL): Journey of Faith, Journey of Self:  Greek tragedy and HBO’s Big Love.
3.30    Jarrid Looney (RHUL): Relationships Reborn: Characterisation of Hippolytos in Universal Studio’s The Graduate.

Here and there: Iphigenia among the Taurians
4.30    Sophie Bocksberger (Université de Lausanne / Oxford ): “L'ici et l'ailleurs” in Iphigenia  among the Taurians.

Performance
5.00    Helen Slaney (Oxford): A voyage too daring? Seneca’s Medea as performance text.
6.30    OUP Book Launch: Erin B. Mee and Helene P. Foley (eds.) Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage.
 

Tuesday  28 June 2011 at the Noh Theatre, Royal Holloway College


Aristophanes' Frogs 
11.00   Kate Thompson (Oxford):  The katabasis of Aristophanes’ Frogs.

Shaw's Major Barbara
11.30   Aryn Penn (UCD):   Major Barbara & Andrew Undershaft: the Figure of Dionysus in Shaw’s Major Barbara.

Women in Combat
12.00   Peggy Shannon  (RHUL): As Women Journey Into War: Do the Ancient Greek Archetypes Offer 21st Century Insight?
12.30   Sanna-Ilaria Kittelä (Helsinki):  From Troy to Tampere:  The Long Journey of Euripides’ Trojan Women.

Fragmented Journeys
2.00      Lottie Parkyn (RHUL ): Fragmented Journeys.

What have the Romans ever done for us? Caesar and Spartacus!
2.30      Miryana Dimitrova (RHUL): A journey into the unknown: a glimpse at the dramaturgical efforts of L. Cornelius Balbus.
3.00      Benjamin Howland (Indiana):  Spartacus:  The Man and the Myth.

Response
4.00      Respondent: Professor Helene P. Foley (Columbia).

Performance
4.30      Rachel Kirk (Queen’s University, Belfast): A rehearsed reading of Plautus’ Casina.
5.00      Discussion.
 

Organisers

  • Helen Slaney (University of Oxford)
  • Lucy Jackson (University of Oxford)
  • Katie Billotte (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  • Charlotte Parkyn (Royal Holloway, University of London)  
  • Jarrid Looney (Royal Holloway, University of London)