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CHORUS 2023: Subversion and Entertainment

Venue
Universidade de Lisboa, School of Arts and Humanities
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: 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