CLASSICS IN THE MODERN WORLD - A DEMOCRATIC TURN?
An International Collaborative Research Conference
Milton Keynes 18–20 June 2010
Provisional Programme (as at 1st June 2010)
Friday 18th June
[1000–1300
Workshop for research students organised by Anastasia Bakogianni and Kate Nichols]
1300–14.00
Lunch
1400–1530
Key Issues Opening Panel (Chair: Stephen Harrison, Oxford):
We are all democrats today
Katherine Harloe (Reading)
‘Against the Democratic Turn': Counter-texts; Counter-contexts; Counter arguments’
Lorna Hardwick (The Open University)
Investigating American women’s engagements with Greco-Roman antiquity, and
expanding the circle of ‘classicists’
Judith Hallett (Maryland)
1530–1600
Break
1600–1800
Panel: Classical Receptions, Political Cultures, and Notions of Democracy
Panel Chair: Edith Hall
The Reception of the Roman-Dutch Law of Treason in South Africa
John Hilton (UKZN)
Nietzsche as Educator, Bracht Branham (Emory)
Appropriations of Cicero and Cato in colonial America and the Early Republic
Barbara Lawatsch Melton (Emory)
Labour and the Classics: Plato and Crossman in Dialogue,
Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths)
1800–1915
Supper
1915–2100
Practitioners’ Voices
Panel Chair: Lorna Hardwick
Maureen Almond (Poet)
Helen Eastman (Theatre Director)
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Saturday 19th June
0900–1100
Session Chair: Nurith Yaari (Tel Aviv)
Key Issue: Can ‘Democratic’ Stagings of Modern Greek Drama be Authentic?
Mary-Kay Gamel (UCSD)
Panel: Demotic Power to the People: the spread of demotike in Modern Greek
Productions of Ancient Greek Drama:
The use of language in the reception of ancient Greek drama in Modern Greece
from the liberation of the nation to the first quarter of the 20th century,
Hara Thliveri, Paedagogical Institute, Ministry of Education, Athens
The triumph of demotike: the triumph of Medea
Anastasia Bakogianni (The Open University)
1100–1130
A case study
Panel Chair: Laura Monros Gaspar, Alicante
‘Aristophanes in Performance as an all-inclusive event’: audience participation and
celebration in the modern staging of Aristophanic comedy.
Angeliki Varakis (University of Kent)
1130–1300
Panel: Contemporary Performance and Ancient Greek Texts
Panel Chair: Freddy Decreus (Gent)
Aristophanes and the Skills of the Comic Actor
Graham Ley (Exeter)
The Silence of Eurydice: towards a new aesthetic for creating theatre in a conflict
zone
Dorinda Hulton (Exeter)
Re-animating Antiquity: Gardzienice Theatre's process into contemporary
performance
Yana Sistovari (also known as Yana Zarifi ) (Artistic Director of Thiasos Theatre
Company. Thiasos )
1300–1400
Lunch
1400–1600
Session Chair: Paula James (The Open University)
1400–1430
A Case Study: Classical Studies and People of African Descent
Michele Valerie Ronnick (Wayne State University)
1430–1600
Panel: African Americans and the Classics
The Weapon of Oratory
Margaret Malamud (New Mexico)
African-American Rhetoric, Christian Political Theology, and Classical Culture,
Steven Mailloux (Loyola Marymount)
The Classical Curricula at Black Colleges and Universities: Subtext for
Self- and Group-Affirmation
Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O’Connor (Ohio State)
1600–1615
Refreshments
1615–17.45
Panel: Democracy and popular media
Panel Chair: Sara Monoson (Northwestern)
Democracy and popular media: classical receptions in 19th and 20th centuries political
cartoons: statesmen, mythological figures and celebrated artworks,
Alexandre G. Mitchell (Oxford)
In search of ancient myth: documentaries and the quest for the Homeric world,
Antony Makrinos (UCL)
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Truth, Justice, and the Spartan Way: Affectations of Democracy in Frank Miller’s
300
George A. Kovacs, Trent University (Canada)
17.45-18.30
International Round Table Review of the conference so far (1):
Panel Chair: Lorna Hardwick
Freddy Decreus (Gent) Epistemological questions
Nurith Yaari (Tel Aviv) Questions of Practice
1830–2030
Conference Dinner
Sunday 20th June
0900–1100
Parallel Panels:
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Panel 1:
Classical Reception in late 20th/early 21st century women’s writing:
A Democratic Turn
Panel Chair: Anastasia Bakogianni (The Open University)
Colonising the ‘provinces of masculine knowledge’: women’s writing and
classical reception today
Fiona Cox (UCC) and Elena Theodorakopoulos (Birmingham)
Ovidian Metamorphoses in the Fiction of A.S. Byatt
Fiona Cox (UCC)
Three Novels about Catullus and Lesbia,
Elena Theodorakopoulos (Birmingham)
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Panel 2:
Education
Chair: Kate Nichols (Bristol)
Crossing Boundaries through Digital Humanities: HESTIA and US Schools,
Elton Barker (OU) and Chris Ann Matteo (Stone Bridge High School, Virginia)
Classics in African Education, Barbara Goff (Reading)
The Democratic Turn in (and through) pedagogy: a case study of the Cambridge
Latin Course
Jo Paul (Liverpool)
Back to the demos. An ‘anti-classical’ approach to Classics?
Martina Treu (IULM, Milan)
1100–1130
Key Issue Chair: Katherine Harloe (Reading)
Conflicts of democracy and citizenship: Between the Greek and the
Roman Political Legacies,
Aleka Lianeri (Thessaloniki)
1130–1300
APA Panel: Democracy as Popular and Political
Panel Chair: Alastair Blanshard (Sydney)
Projecting Lysistrata: Classical Drama and Political Activism
Dorota Dutsch (UCSB)
Expansion of Tragedy as Critique
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)
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Venus orta mari and Other Fantastic Advice
Kate Bosher and Jordana Cox (Northwestern)
1300–1400
Lunch
1400–1600
Panel: Public Experience and popular classics
Panel Chair: Elton Barker (The Open University)
Penguin(’s) Classics
Robert Crowe (Bristol)
Civilization versus Savagery at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition
Robert Davis (CUNY)
Pompeii in the Crystal Palace: Comparing Victorian and Modern Virtual Immersive
Environments
Shelley Hales (Bristol)
Broadcasting the ‘Nation’s Cultural Wealth’: Ancient Greece on BBC Radio in the
Two Post-World War Periods
Amanda Wrigley (Northwestern)
1600–1730
Round Table Review
Chair: Lorna Hardwick (The Open University)
International Round Table Review (2)
Ahmed Etman (Cairo), Classics in Egypt
Alastair Blanshard (Sydney), Classical and Popular Cultures
Discussion on future research questions and collaborations
1800
Close
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