The APGRD is proud to support the annual colloquium by CHORUS, ancient drama receptions, which this year is on the theme of: Subversion and Entertainment. Organised by: Sofia Frade, Vanessa Fernandes, and Cécile Dudouyt.
Location: Room C.251 B, School of Arts and Humanities, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Programme
A PDF version of the programme is available here.
Day One: Thursday 13 April
9.30-11.00: ORALITY AND MUSIC
- Lucy Jackson (Durham University): Subverting Chorality. The chorus of Rhesus.
- Alex Silverman (University of Oxford): Subversion as entertainment (Or, the musical legacy of a very old tweet).
- Claire Barnes (APGRD, University of Oxford): "The gods are in us" - translation as embodied cognition in Christopher Logue and Kae Tempest.
Coffee Break
11.30-12.30: SUBVERSIVE ENTERTAINMENT
- Romain Piana (Sorbonne Nouvelle University): "Aristophanic theatre" as a subversive category in 19th-century France.
- Małgorzata Budzowska (University of Lodz): The Odyssey subverted by fun: transmedial storytelling as a future of edutainment.
12.30-13.35: FEMALE VOICES
- Charitini Tsikoura (University Paris Nanterre, PhD): Subversion and entertainment in Tony Harrison’s Medea: A Sex-War Opera.
- Lucie Thévenet | Anne Morvan (University of Nantes): Quelques réflexions à propos de Cassandre sur la scène contemporaine.
Lunch
15.00-16.30: POLITICAL RECEPTIONS
- Magdalena Bournot (University of Lille): Entertainment and subversion in Abdias do Nascimento.
- Philippos Karaferias (University Grenoble-Alpes): What have the Suppliant Women subverted? - The political power of mourning during the Peloponnesian War and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
- Leo Kershaw (University of Oxford): Subversive anti-apartheid politics in Barney
Simon’s Medea, a South African adaptation of Euripides’ Medea and Franz Grillparzer’s Das goldene Vließ.
Coffee Break
WORK IN PROGRESS
17.00-17.40: ANCIENT RECEPTION
- Sofia Frade (University of Lisbon | CEC): Reception and other Theories: How to read an ancient play? - The case of Medea.
- Vanessa Fernandes (University of Lisbon | CEC): School of Mock: catharsis in the declamatory genre.
18.00-19.00 WORKSHOP
Matteo Capponi (University of Lausanne Anf. I).
Day Two: Friday 14 April
9.30-10.10: POETRY
- Tatiana Faia (Independent Scholar): “I prefer roses, my love, to the homeland”: Fernando Pessoa (Ricardo Reis), Wilfred Owen and Horace.
- Vasiliki Avramidi (University of Bologna): A Homeric heroine of modern monologues.
Coffee Break
10.30-11.10: TRANSLATIONS
- Duarte Anjos (University of Lisbon | CEC): The Idyllic Sound of Waves: Yukio Mishima’s idyllic reception of Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe
- Cécile Dudouyt (University of Sorbonne Paris-Nord | Pléiade): Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe.
Coffee Break
11.30-12.10 TRANSMEDIAL RECEPTION
- Déborah Bucchi (Université Paris Nanterre| centre ANHIMA): "Êtres de sons"
- Zoë Jennings (University of Oxford): Excavating Ovidian women in contemporary dance: old essentialisms or new identities?
12.10-13.00 FINAL DISCUSSION