Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 9:00am to Friday, October 18, 2024 - 11:30am
Online
Online Conference
The APGRD are proud to support the online conference on Euripides’ Phoenician Women, convened by Edith Hall (Durham University), Vayos Liapis (Open University of Cyprus) and Rosie Wyles (Durham University) on the 17 and 18 of October.
The conference was prompted by the summer 2024 production of Phoenissae by the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, directed by Magdalena Zira, timed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
Registration
Details of how to register will be published here shortly.
Programme
Thursday 17th October
0900 (UK TIME) Welcome
- 0940 Andrea Gianotti (Durham): The Solitude of Polynices: Language and Space in Euripides’ Phoenician Women
- 1010 Vasia Kousoulini (Patras): The Toxic Positivity of the Maiden Chorus, Post-Memory, and the Transgenerational Trauma of Rape in Euripides’ Phoenician Women
1040 Coffee break
- 1100 Natasha Ferreira (Potchefstroom Campus South Africa): Victims of Injustice and Victims of Misfortune in Euripides’ Phoenician Women.
- 1130 Cassandre Martigny (Sorbonne): Political Issues in the Reception of Euripides’ Phoenician Women in the 16th century: Humanist Ideas versus Tyrannical Passions
- 1200 Anactoria Clarke (Open University UK): title TBC
12.30 LUNCH BREAK
- 1400 Nebojša Todorović (Harvard): Foreboding Phoenician Women: Paolo Magelli, Euripides, and the Breakup of Yugoslavia.
- 1430 Paul Eberwein (Princeton): Sacrificial Suicide: Choosing Death in Euripides’ Phoenician Women
1500 Tea break
- 1530 Amelia Bensch-Haus (Davidson College): Enslavement and the Literary Tradition in the Phoenician Women
- 1600 Angharad Darden (Chicago): Solving the Riddle of the Sphinx: Iconography and Performance in Euripides’ Phoenician Women
Friday 18th October
- 9am Oliver Baldwin (Madrid): title TBC
- 9.30 Lottie Parkyn (London): Here Come the Girls: Female Choral Representation in Martin Crimp’s The Rest Will be Familiar to You from Cinema
- 10am Antonis Petrides (Cyprus): The Phoenissae of Nikos Charalambous (Cyprus Theatre Organisation, 2002).
- 1100 Roundtable
- 1130 Close