NB: Registration is no longer possible. The conference is fully booked.
Poetry and Performance: A Conference in honour of Oliver Taplin
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
Oxford
Friday 26th – Saturday 27th September, 2008
Friday 26th September
8.30-9.00am: Arrival and registration
TRAGEDY I – Chair: Bill Allan
9.00 Pat Easterling (Cambridge) 'Naming and not naming in Sophocles'
9.30 Adrian Kelly (Oxford) 'Aias in Athens'
10.00 Laura Swift (Oxford) 'Epinician and tragic worlds in Sophocles'
Trachiniae'
10.30-11.00 Questions and discussion
11.00-11.30 Coffee
TRAGEDY II – Chair: Adrian Kelly
11.30 Scott Scullion (Oxford) 'The Archaeology of the Fifth-Century Theatre
in Athens Revisited'
12.00 Ian Ruffell (Glasgow) 'Imperialism, Hegemony and "Universals": the
Ideology of Form in Athenian Tragedy'
12.30 Edith Hall (RHUL) 'The politics of poikilia: metre and society in
Athenian theatre'
1-1.30 Questions and discussion
1.30-2.30 Lunch
COMEDY I – Chair: Al Moreno
2.30 Athena Kavoulaki (Crete) 'Dionysiac festival and comic charis'
3.00 Martin Revermann (Toronto) 'Comic chorality'
3.30 Robin Osborne (Cambridge) 'The Comic Body'
4.00 Eric Csapo (Sydney) 'Iconographic Evidence for Phallic Performers at
the Athenian Dionysia in the time of the Introduction of Comedy to the
Festival Program'
4.30-5.00 Questions and discussion
6.15-7.15 Reception in Classics Centre
7.30pm CONFERENCE DINNER [at a local restaurant]
Saturday 27th September
RECEPTION: HOMER – Chair: Chris Carey
9.00 Richard Rutherford (Oxford) 'A Homerist reads the Ilias Latina'
9.30 Katherine Harloe (Reading) 'Homeric soundings since the eighteenth century'
10.00 Amanda Wrigley (Oxford) 'Homer on the Radio'
10.30-11 Questions and discussion
11-11.30 Coffee
COMEDY II – Chair: Pat Easterling
11.30 Michael Anderson (Trinity College, Connecticut) 'Lysistrata, Laughter,
and Comic Seriousness'
12.00 Gregory Hutchinson (Oxford) 'House politics and city politics in
Aristophanes'
12.30 Peter Brown (Oxford) 'Slaves, ex-slaves and Aristophanes' Frogs'
1-1.30 Questions and discussion
1.30-2.30 Lunch
RECEPTION: DRAMA – Chair: Lydia Prior
2.30 David Wiles (RHUL) 'Theatre and citizenship: the reception of classical
thinking in the French Enlightenment'
3.00 Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) 'Aeschylus and the Enlightenment'
3.30 Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol) 'Tragedy from the machine: technology,
media, performance'
4.00-4.30 Questions and discussion
4.30pm Tea and departure
Poetry and Performance: A Conference in honour of Oliver Taplin
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
Oxford
Friday 26th – Saturday 27th September, 2008
Friday 26th September
8.30-9.00am: Arrival and registration
TRAGEDY I – Chair: Bill Allan
9.00 Pat Easterling (Cambridge) 'Naming and not naming in Sophocles'
9.30 Adrian Kelly (Oxford) 'Aias in Athens'
10.00 Laura Swift (Oxford) 'Epinician and tragic worlds in Sophocles'
Trachiniae'
10.30-11.00 Questions and discussion
11.00-11.30 Coffee
TRAGEDY II – Chair: Adrian Kelly
11.30 Scott Scullion (Oxford) 'The Archaeology of the Fifth-Century Theatre
in Athens Revisited'
12.00 Ian Ruffell (Glasgow) 'Imperialism, Hegemony and "Universals": the
Ideology of Form in Athenian Tragedy'
12.30 Edith Hall (RHUL) 'The politics of poikilia: metre and society in
Athenian theatre'
1-1.30 Questions and discussion
1.30-2.30 Lunch
COMEDY I – Chair: Al Moreno
2.30 Athena Kavoulaki (Crete) 'Dionysiac festival and comic charis'
3.00 Martin Revermann (Toronto) 'Comic chorality'
3.30 Robin Osborne (Cambridge) 'The Comic Body'
4.00 Eric Csapo (Sydney) 'Iconographic Evidence for Phallic Performers at
the Athenian Dionysia in the time of the Introduction of Comedy to the
Festival Program'
4.30-5.00 Questions and discussion
6.15-7.15 Reception in Classics Centre
7.30pm CONFERENCE DINNER [at a local restaurant]
Saturday 27th September
RECEPTION: HOMER – Chair: Chris Carey
9.00 Richard Rutherford (Oxford) 'A Homerist reads the Ilias Latina'
9.30 Katherine Harloe (Reading) 'Homeric soundings since the eighteenth century'
10.00 Amanda Wrigley (Oxford) 'Homer on the Radio'
10.30-11 Questions and discussion
11-11.30 Coffee
COMEDY II – Chair: Pat Easterling
11.30 Michael Anderson (Trinity College, Connecticut) 'Lysistrata, Laughter,
and Comic Seriousness'
12.00 Gregory Hutchinson (Oxford) 'House politics and city politics in
Aristophanes'
12.30 Peter Brown (Oxford) 'Slaves, ex-slaves and Aristophanes' Frogs'
1-1.30 Questions and discussion
1.30-2.30 Lunch
RECEPTION: DRAMA – Chair: Lydia Prior
2.30 David Wiles (RHUL) 'Theatre and citizenship: the reception of classical
thinking in the French Enlightenment'
3.00 Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) 'Aeschylus and the Enlightenment'
3.30 Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol) 'Tragedy from the machine: technology,
media, performance'
4.00-4.30 Questions and discussion
4.30pm Tea and departure