Aristophanes and politics - 30/09-01/10/2016, New York (USA)
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 29/09-01/10/2016
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Columbia University (New York, USA)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean (Columbia University) ; co-presented by the Onassis Foundation, with additional sponsorship from Columbia University's Graduate Program in Classical Studies ; Elizabeth Heintges
INFO: web - emh2130@columbia.edu
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FRIDAY September 30
9:30am: Introductory remarks: William Harris (Columbia)
9:40-10:10am: Ralph Rosen (University of Pennsylvania), “Accessing and Understanding Aristophanic Politics”
10:25-10:55am: Elizabeth Scharffenberger (Columbia), “The Multiple Audiences of Aristophanes”
11:10-11:30am: coffee break
11:30am-12:00pm: Stephen Halliwell (St Andrews), “Politics in the Street: some Citizen Encounters in Aristophanes”
12:15-12:45pm: Mario Tel (Berkeley), “The Politics of Dissensus in Aristophanes’ Birds”
1:00-2:15pm: lunch break
2:15-2:45pm: Deborah Steiner (Columbia), “Inscribing Athenians: the alphabetic chorus in Aristophanes' Babylonians and the epigraphic habit in the late fifth-century polis”
3:00-3:30pm: Donald Sells (Michigan), “Politics in Comic Lyric”
3:45-4:15pm: break for refreshments
4:15-4:45pm: Olimpia Imperio (Bari), “Aristophanes' political comedies and (bad?) imitations”
SATURDAY October 1
9:30-10:00am: Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University), “Patterns of avoidance and indirection in Athenian political satire”
10:15-10:45am: Carina de Klerk (Columbia), “Speaking Like a Slave in Aristophanes”
11-11:30am: coffee break
11:30am-12:00pm: S. Sara Monoson (Northwestern), “Clouds and the Battle of Delium”
12:15-12:45pm: Ian Ruffell (Glasgow), “Conservative and radical: Aristophanic comedy and populist debate in democratic Athens”
1:00-2:15pm: lunch break
2:15-2:45pm: Robin Osborne (Cambridge), “Antiquarian abuses and historical uses of Aristophanes’ Knights”
3:00-3:30pm: Nina Papathanasopoulou (Connecticut College), “Visions of the oikos in Aristophanes’ Wasps”
3:45-4:05pm: break for refreshments
4:05-4:35pm: Suzanne Saïd (Columbia), “The Allegory of Demos in the Knights and the Portrait of the People in the Comedies of Aristophanes”
4:50-5:30pm: Commentary and debate.