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CHORUS 2025: Refiguring the Tragic

Venue
Uniwersytet Łódzki, Centrum Szkoleniowo-Konferencyjne
Date
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The APGRD is proud to support the annual colloquium by CHORUS, ancient drama receptions, which this year is on the theme of: Refiguring the Tragic. Organised by: Małgorzata Budzowska and Cécile Dudouyt.

Location: Centrum Szkoleniowo-Konferencyjne, Uniwersytet Łódzki, Poland.

Programme

A PDF version of the programme is available here.

Thursday 10th April


9.00-9.15: Welcome

9.15-10.30: Introduction and Work-in-Progress presentations

  • Małgorzata Budzowska, (Uniwerystet Łódzki): Critical Disillusions. Refiguring the Tragic in Polish Postdramatic Theatre – project presentation.
  • Lucie Thévenet (Nantes Université, 10 mn., WIP): The Ekkuklema refigured in Francis Bacon's paintings: an autopsy of the tragic skene.
  • Alexia Dedieu (Aix-Marseille Université, 10 mn, WIP) Ajax on the Strasbourg’s stage: refiguring Sophocles for the stage.

10.30-10.45 Coffee Break

10.45-12.15:  Configuring and Refiguring the Tragic I 

  • Matteo Capponi (Université de Lausanne): Configurer le tragique (avant de le reconfigurer).
  • Anne Morvan (Nantes Université): Rephrasing Euripides, reshaping the tragic. Euripides’ Trojan Women from Stiblin’s Troades to Garnier’s Troade.
  • Léonore Finck (Université de Tours): The spark hidden in the stone: pain in German neoclassic definitions of the tragic.

12.15-13.30: Lunch

13.30-15.00: Configuring and Refiguring the Tragic II

  • Laura Monrós-Gaspar (Universitat de València): Re-assembling tragedy: Movement and words in nineteenth-century theatrical ballet.
  • Alexander Hammar (Syddansk Universitet): Meïr Goldschmidt’s Critique of Constantin Hansen’s Prometheus: Tragic Idealism versus Realistic Classicism.
  • Sylvie Humbert-Mougin (Université de Tours): Seneca’s rediscoveries and refiguring the Tragic in Europe in the 1930’s.

15.00-15.15 Coffee Break

15.15-16.45: Re-contextualising the Tragic

  • Daniel Whittle (University of Oxford): Mama’s Maybe: Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative and Medea.
  • Hugo Martín Isabel (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Remaking the Women's Tragedy in the Aftermath of World War II. María Zambrano and Elsa Morante rewrite Antigone.
  • Giovanna Di Martino (University College London) and Caterina Paoli (Independent): Bemporad and the Poet-Translators: Refiguring the Tragic in Fascist Italy.

16.45-17.00 Coffee Break

17.00-18.30 Globalising the Tragic

  • Eleftheria Ioannidou (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen): The Radical Charm of the Underclass: Reimagining Tragedy in the Era of Global Neoliberalism.
  • Leo Kershaw (University of Warwick): Reimagining the Tragic in Oedipus at Colonus #aftersophocles.
  • Déborah Bucchi (Université de Lorraine): Le théâtre, l’Invisible et la Terre.

19.00: Workshop: Struan Leslie (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), Collectively Kinetic.

FRIDAY 11th APRIL


9.15-9.30: Welcome

9.30-11.00: Subverting the Tragic

  • Davide Iengo (Università di Pisa): Iwona and Ifigonia, the ridiculously unlucky. Tragedy as a source of laughter in Gombrowicz’s and De Benedetti’s plays.
  • Alena Sarkissian (Univerzita Karlova) and Eliška Kubartová (Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci): Blending the tragic and comic in Czech stage adaptations of Classical Drama.
  • Anaïs Tillier (Université Grenoble Alpes): The Dark Humour of Contemporary Tragedy: Helen in dance and theatre.

11.00-11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-12.45 Queering the Tragic

  • Marcus Bell (Goldsmiths, University of London): Choreotragedy: Dance and the Queer Tragic Turn.
  • Oliver Baldwin (Universidade de Lisboa): Trans(iting) Tragedy: Blanco’s Kassandra
  • Ezra Baudou (University of Lincoln): Tragic material and aesthetics of survival.

12.45-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Resistance and / to the Tragic

  • Philippos Karaferias (Université Grenoble Alpes): Tragedy Reframed: Hecuba not Hecuba
    and the Necropolitical Narrative.
  • Sofia Frade (Universidade de Lisboa): Tragedy Now: Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists.
  • Sandra Vinagre (Universidade de Lisboa): Tiago Rodrigues and the Classics.

15.30-15.45 Coffee Break

15.45-17.00 Tragic Figures

  • Charitini Tsikoura (Université Paris Nanterre): Rerouting the tragic: Ben Duke’s Ruination as an alternative telling of Euripides’s Medea.
  • Cécile Dudouyt (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord): “This experiment is over”: resisting the Tragic in Carr’s Hecuba.
  • Stephe Harrop (Liverpool Hope University): Sisters Refigured: The Danaids in Albion.

17.15-18.15: Plenary