The APGRD is proud to support the annual colloquium by CHORUS, ancient drama receptions, which this year is on the theme of: Entertainment and Popular Culture | Divertissement et culture populaire. Organised by Lucie Thévenet, Anne Morvan, and Cécile Dudouyt.
Location: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Ange Guépin, Université de Nantes, France.
Programme
A PDF version of the programme is available here.
JEUDI 4 AVRIL - après-midi
13.00: Accueil
13.15-14.15: Political Subversions / Subversions politiques
- Leo Kershaw (University of Oxford): Fracturing the ‘tragic’ through pop culture: Dood Paard and Third World Bunfight’s medEia.
- Matteo Capponi (Université de Lausanne): Aristophane était-il subversif, et si oui l’est-il encore?
14.30-15.30: Popular Media / Médias populaires
- WIP Duarte Anjos : (Universidade de Lisboa): The concept of Translatio Imperii in the video game 'The Forgotten City'
- WIP Lucy Jackson (Durham University): "Producers". The Chorus, Greek Tragedy, and Constructed Reality.
- WIP Marcus Bell (University of Oxford): Eat the Rich: Choreographing Tragedy in Popular Reality TV and Drama.
15.45-16.45: New Forms / Formes nouvelles
- Gosia Budzowska (University of Łódź): Edutainment approach to mythical reception in participatory theatre.
- WIP Charitini Tsikoura: Mytho-parodies and para-tragedies as large audience entertainment in 21st C. Greece.
- WIP Justine McConnell (King’s College London): Reimaginings: Classical Reception and the Reshaping of the Present and the Past.
17.00-18.00: Music and Oral Poetry / Musique et poésie orale
- Vassilina Avramidi & David Mesquita (Universidade de Lisboa): Penelope from fado-singer to the scene of San Remo.
- Claire Barnes (University of Oxford): "We are all written in the holiest scripture" - entertainment as global intimacy in the poetry of Kae Tempest.
19.00 Dîner
VENDREDI 5 AVRIL
9.15-10.15 Gender / Genre
- Ana Vanessa Fernandes & Sofia Frade (Universidade de Lisboa): Exploring the Canonical Viability of the Female Gaze: Barbie (2023) and Fleabag (2016) as re-scripts of classical epic and tragedy.
- WIP Anaïs Tillier (Université Grenoble Alpes): From Helen to Barbie, from Penthesilea to Wonder-Woman.
- WIP Sylvie Humbert-Mougin (Université de Tours): Réappropriations féministes des figures mythiques féminines dans la fiction contemporaine, avant et depuis #MeToo.
10.30-11.30 Comedy I / Comédie
- Romain Piana (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3): L'usage du music-hall dans les mises en scène d'Aristophane en France au XXe siècle.
- Eliška Kubartová (Palacký University, Olomouc) & Alena Sarkissian (Czech Academy of Sciences): Aristophanes on the Czech Page and Stage.
11.45-12.45 Comedy II / Comédie II
- Maria Constantinou (Université Paris Nanterre): Revendication et étrangeté d’un mythe local : Les Limiers de Sophocle au « Ziria music festival » (2021).
- Filippos Karaferias (Université Grenoble Alpes): Drawing a comic conflict: Aristophanes and the language of comics.
14.00-15.00 Work in Progress I / Travaux en cours I
- WIP Tiphaine Karsenti (Université Paris Nanterre) Claire Lechevalier (Université de Caen Normandie) & Lucie Thévenet (Nantes Université): À quoi sert la tragédie grecque aujourd'hui ? synthèse colloque et publication.
- WIP Cécile Dudouyt (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord): The why and when of fragmented translations: a reflexion on text functions.
- WIP Déborah Bucchi (Collège de France): Retour sur la phusis dans la Poétique d’Aristote.
15.15-16h.15 Work in Progress II / Travaux en cours II
- WIP Marie-Claire Adamo & Francesca Bortoletti (Universita di Parma): FRIDA, a digital Atlas on Festivals in Renaissance Italy.
- WIP Alexia Dedieu (Université Grenoble Alpes): Alceste à Wittenberg: traduction d'Euripide et culture populaire dans l'édition imprimée d'Alceste de 1581.
- WIP Sandra Vinagre (Universidade de Lisboa): Oedipus in Brazil: the relationship between popular culture and social change.
16.30-17.30 Plenary / Plénière