Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 9:00am to Friday, October 18, 2024 - 11:30am
Online
Online Conference
The APGRD is 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
To register, please email Dr Rosie Wyles for the Zoom link: .
Programme
Thursday 17th October
0900 (UK TIME) Welcome
- 0940 Magdalena Zira (Fantastiko Theatro): Euripides has already done it: what the Phoenician Women can teach us about theatre-making in the 21st century.
- 10.10 Andrea Gianotti (Durham): The Solitude of Polynices: Language and Space in Euripides’ Phoenician Women.
1040 Coffee break
- 1100 Vasia Kousoulini (Patras): The Toxic Positivity of the Maiden Chorus, Post-Memory, and the Transgenerational Trauma of Rape in Euripides’ Phoenician Women.
- 1130 Natasha Ferreira (Potchefstroom Campus South Africa): Victims of Injustice and Victims of Misfortune in Euripides’ Phoenician Women.
- 1200 Cassandre Martigny (Sorbonne): Political Issues in the Reception of Euripides’ Phoenician Women in the 16th century: Humanist Ideas versus Tyrannical Passions.
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-Schaus (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
- 9.00 Oliver Baldwin (Madrid): Spectral Paternities and Filial (Im)pietas in Seneca's Phoenissae.
- 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.
- 10.00 Antonis Petrides (Cyprus): The Phoenissae of Nikos Charalambous (Cyprus Theatre Organisation, 2002).
- 1030 Anactoria Clarke (Open University UK): Here comes Tiresias again: the Theban Prophet's Recurrence in Athenian Tragedy.
1100 Roundtable
1130 Close