From Antiquity to Modernity. Performing Greek and Roman Drama in Modern Europe - 22-23-24-25-26/05/2

FECHA /DATE/DATA: 22-23-24-25-26/05/2019

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czech Republic)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Alena Sarkissian ; Eliška Poláčková

INFO: web - sarkissian@ics.cas.cz polackova@ics.cas.cz

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May 22, 2019

17.30 Registration 18.00 Welcome drink

May 23, 2019

8.30 Registration 9.00 Institutional greetings

Panel 1: Modes of Performing Classical Drama Around Europe and Beyond 9.20 KEYNOTE: Edith Hall, King’s College, London ‒ Performing Euripides and Ezra Pound’s Metrical Modernism 10.00 C. W. Marshall, University of British Columbia ‒ Performing Tragedy in The Brazen Age 10.30 Peter Swallow, King’s College, London ‒ Aristophanes in the Phrontisterion: Staging Old Comedy in Oxford and Cambridge 1883‒1914 COFFEE BREAK 11.15 Jakub Čechvala, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha ‒ Appropriation through Gaps. Czech Reception of Greek Tragedy in the 19th and at the Beginning of the 20th Century 11.45 Dmitry Trubochkin, Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS), Moscow ‒ Ancient Drama and the Russian Psychological Theatre LUNCH BREAK (own arrangements) 12.15‒14.15 Panel 2: Theorizing Discourse: Bridging and Exploiting the Gaps 15.15 KEYNOTE: Henri Schoenmakers, Universiteit Utrecht & Friedrich–Alexander Universität Erlangen, Nürnberg ‒ Re-contextualization as a dramaturgical strategy 14.55 Athina Kavoulaki, University of Crete, Rethymno ‒ The challenge of ritual: exploring ritual dynamics in 5th-century drama COFFEE BREAK 15.30 Hallie Marshall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver ‒ Ruins and Fragments: The impact of material culture on the plays of Tony Harrison 16.00 Martin Pšenička, Charles University, Praha ‒ Aesthetics of Uncanny (Unheimliche) in Ancient Tragedy 16.30 Dana LaCourse Munteanu, Ohio State University, Newark, Ohio ‒ Woody Allen on Aristotle on Greek Tragedy: the ‘Poetics’ Meets Hollywood

May 24, 2019

Panel 3: Staging Classical Drama After 2000 9.15 KEYNOTE: Freddy Decreus, Universiteit Gent ‒ The ritual theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos, or how to stage a ‘bodymind’ as a special form of everyday life? 9.55 Özlem Hemiş, Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Istanbul ‒ The Historical Encounter of East and West in Aeschylus’ The Persians 10.25 Martina Treu, Università IULM (Milan, Italy) and CRIMTA (Centro Interdipartimentale Multimediale Teatro Antico), Università di Pavia, Italy ‒ Aeschylus’s heritage: Greek tragedy in Sicily COFFEE BREAK 11.15 Nurit Yaari, Tel Aviv University ‒ Theatre space and spectators experience: Seneca’s Thyestes at Carmel Market, Tel Aviv 11.45 Maddalena Giovanelli, Università degli Studi di Milano ‒ Onomastikomodein? Political Aristophanes in Italian productions LUNCH BREAK (own arrangements) 12.15‒14.00 14.00 Anastasia Bakogianni, Massey University, New Zealand ‒ Antipodean Antigones: Performing Sophocles’ Tragedy Down Under 14.30 Malika Bastin-Hammou, Université Grenoble-Alpes ‒ Staging Menander in the Francophone world 15.00 Dáša Čiripová, Theatre Institute, Bratislava ‒ The pressure of exclusivity: stage productions of Classical Drama in Slovakia at the beginning of the 21st century COFFEE BREAK 15.50 Eva Stehlíková, Masaryk University, Brno ‒ Medea for Ever. Dramaturgical transformations in staging Classical Drama in the Czech Republic (1925‒2018) 16.20 Cleo Protokhristova, Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski ‒ Bulgarian stage productions of Medea in the twenty-first century 16.50 Romain Piana, Université de Paris III, Sorbonne nouvelle ‒ Greek and Roman drama on French stage in the database Théâtre antique en France

May 25, 2019

Panel 4: War, Peace, and Politics: Enacting the Distressed Self & Other 9.00 KEYNOTE: George Harrison, Carleton University, Ottawa ‒ Choral Reconciliation in the Octavia and Hercules Oetaeus: modern sex scandals for the ancient stage 9.40 Monica Centanni, Università IUAV di Venezia ‒ Did Osama Bin Laden’s mother read The Persians by Aeschylus? 10.10 Évelyne Ertel, Université de Paris III, Sorbonne nouvelle ‒ The Persians in the Gulf War COFFEE BREAK 11.00 Eliška Poláčková, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague ‒ Masaryk University, Brno ‒ A Glimmer of Hope With Plautus. Frejka’s Pseudolus in the National Theatre, Prague, 1942 11.30 Alena Sarkissian, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague – Charles University, Praha ‒ Greek Tragedy at the National Theatre during the Nazi occupation 12.00 Efthymios Kaltsounas, Tonia Karaoglou, Natalia Minioti and Eleni Papazoglou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ‒ Imaginings of Antiquity and Ancient Drama Performances in Greece (1975‒1995): Between Ideology and Style NETWORKING LUNCH 12.30‒14.30 14.30 Annual Meeting of the Network of Research and Documentation of Ancient Greek Drama

May 26, 2019

9.30 Annual Meeting of the Network of Research and Documentation of Ancient Greek Drama 12.00 Conclusions