[Antiquitas] Colloquium "Life is a (Greek) Tragedy II", FIA 9-10 February 2009

[Sanna-Ilaria Kittelä]

Welcome!


Life is a (Greek) Tragedy II
Colloquium 9-10 February 2009
Finnish Institute at Athens
Zitrou 16, 11742 Athens

Those who wish to attend the colloquium are kindly asked to confirm  
their attendance by Thursday 5 February 2009 to Sanna-Ilaria Kittelä  
via e-mail: sanna.kittela(at)helsinki.fi



PROGRAMME:

MONDAY, 9 February 2009

9:00 Registration

10:00
- Martti Leiwo: Opening words

Session 1: Reception of Greek tragedy in Antiquity
- 10:15 Michalopoulos, Haris: Teiresias between texts and sex
- 11:00 Mussarra Roca, Joan-Josep: Hercules and Phaethon in Seneca:  
Allusion and Meaning

11:45 Coffee

12:00 Session 2: Translating and interpreting Greek tragedy
- 12:00 Kuisma, Oiva: On the Cognitive Value of Tragedy
- 12:45 Zatta, Claudia: Beyond Aristotle: Webs of Emotions in  
Aeschylus' Suppliants
- 13:30 McCallum-Barry, Carmel: Early versions of Greek Tragedy:  
translation versus interpretation

14:15-15:45 Lunch

15:45
Session 3: Greek tragedy in the field of Theatre Research
- 15:45 Skouroumouni, Aspasia: Women in Space: A study on Euripides' Helen
- 16:30 De Pourcq, Maarten: Roland Barthes's tragedy model: towards a  
tragic popular theatre





TUESDAY, 10 February 2009: THE ART AND POLITICS OF TRAGEDY IN MODERN WORLD

10:00
Session 1: Examining Greek tragedy in different art forms
- 10:00 Gilabert Barberà, Pau: W. Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream.  
Contemporary life as a good instance of the Greek tragic irony
- 10:45 Sinha, Bijon: From the Sanskritic Natyasastra to Chhau  
Dancers: Ancient and Modern IndianTheatrical Forms as insights into  
vanished modes of (Greek) performance

11:30 Coffee

11:45
Session 2: Dramatic responses to war and victory
- 11:45 Kittelä, Sanna-Ilaria: Euripides' Trojan Women on Finnish Stage
- 12:30 Wilmer, Stephen: Antigone and Counter-Terrorism
- 13:15 Remoundou-Howley, Anastasia: Towards a Redress of (Greek)  
Tragedy: Irish Antigones of the New Millenium

14:00-15:30 Lunch

15:30
Session 3: Modern reception of Greek tragedy
- 15:30 Merkouri, Anastasia: Can we recognize it? Langhoff’s Bacchae &  
Vassiliev’s Medea
- 16:15 Ioannidou, Eleftheria: Tragedy, the medium and the media:  
Greek tragedy in response to the living
tragedies of the contemporary world
- 17:00 Alexopoulou, Marigo: Aeschylus’ Persae: from the original  
performance to Koun’s production in 1965

17:45 Closing discussion

Conference dinner






-- 
Sanna-Ilaria Kittelä, MA, postgraduate student
Department of Classical Philology
University of Helsinki