[MGSA-L] When in Athens ... starting today

[John Maas]

And if not in Athens, some of it will be live streamed. http://kleos.chs.harvard.edu/?p=1298


On Jul 5, 2013, at 2:46 PM, "Van Steen, Gonda" <gonda at UFL.EDU> wrote:

Literature as Performance  
5-7 July 2013
Word and Art Auditorium, Books’ Arcade
Athens, Greece
 
Programme
Friday, JULY 5
9:00 Registration
9:30 Welcome address

9:45 Keynote address: Margaret Alexiou, George Seferis Professor Emerita of Modern Greek and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
‘Greek laments: Fifty years on’
10:30 Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and
Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, Director of the
Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., Harvard University ‘Genre and occasion: Examples of shifting forms in Performance’

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Gail Holst-Warhaft, Professor of Comparative Literature and Biological & Environmental Engineering, Director, Mediterranean Studies Initiative, Cornell Institute for European Studies ‘‘The Orient emerges’: Laments that stir the Greek soul’
12:00 Grigoris Sifakis, Professor Emeritus of Classics, New York University and President of the Governing Board, The University of Crete ‘Poetry or script for actors? The opsis misunderstanding that keeps overshadowing Aristotle’s treatise on the Art of Poetry’
12:30 Catia Galatariotou, Byzantine Cultural Historian and Psychoanalyst, British Institute of Psychoanalysis ‘On the cultural context of the ritual lament’
13:00 Discussion

14:00 Lunch

15:30 Peter Meineck, Clinical Professor of Classics, New York University,
Hon. Professor of Classics, University of Nottingham ‘Threnody, masked performance and depictions of grief’
16:00 Aglae Pizzone, Researcher at the Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences
Affectives, University of Geneva ‘How to stage a good reading: Laments as extra-textual directions’
 
16:30 Coffee Break
 
17:00 Leonard Muellner, Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University,
Director of IT and Publications, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C.,
Harvard University ‘Performance of gender, performance of poetry’
17:30 Maria Prevelaki, Philologist, Special Researcher, Sorbonne ‘Maternal suffering as a sacred drama’
18:00 Neni Panourgia, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research, New York ‘Oedipus Bound: Performing Oedipus Tyrannus in a maximum security prison’
18:30 Discussion
 
21:00 The Cycle of Life. A Theatrical and Musical Performance by the
Arsakeia Schools (Society for the Promotion of Education and Learning)
 
Saturday, JULY 6
9:30 Ioanna Papadopoulou, Université Libre de Brussels, EU Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., Harvard University ‘Dangerous emotions: Philosophical views on performance and lament’
10:00 Silvia Milanezi, Professor of Ancient History, Université Paris-Est
Créteil-CRHEC ‘‘I cry over my shield, over my cockerel, over my city’: Greek comedy and ritual lament’
10:30 Jan Parker, Senior Member, The University of Cambridge Classics Faculty and Chair, The Humanities Higher Education International Research Group
‘Does mourning become Electra? Performative utterance and the transference of pain’
 
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Ann Suter, Professor Emerita of Classical Studies, University of Rhode Island
‘Incorporating ritual lament into tragic drama: Aeschylos' Persians and Euripides' Trojan Women’
12:00 Masa Culumovič, Mahindra Humanities Fellow at Harvard University,
Post-doc Researcher at FHW ‘Death in life and life in death: Lament in Pindar's epinikia and threnoi’
12:30 Yiannis Petropoulos, Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, Democritean
University of Thrace, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies (Greece),
Harvard University ‘The paraklausithuron (love-lament) as a performance genre: The instances of Theocritus Idyll 11 and pseudo-Theocritus 23’
13:00 Discussion
 
13:30 Lunch
 
15:00 Charles Pazdernik, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Classics, Grand Valley State University ‘Epistolary lamentation: Nicias' letter to the Athenians and Belisarius' letter to Justinian’
 
15:30 George T. Calofonos, Research Associate, Institute of Historical
Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation ‘Alleviating tragedy through performance in dreams: A case study from the miracles of St Demetrius’
 
16:00 Coffee Break
 
16:30 Stratis Papaioannou, Associate Professor of Classics, Director of
Modern Greek Studies Program, Brown University ‘Lament and emotion in the Metaphrastic Menologion’
17:00 Foteini Spingou, Research Assistant, Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research ‘Commissioning the sorrow: Epitaphs and their performance’
17:30 Beatrice Daskas, Junior Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks/ Università degli
Studi, Milano ‘From personal grief to a universal state of despair: Nicolaos Mesarites,
on the death of his brother John and the fall of Constantinople to the Latins’
18:00 Discussion
 
Sunday, JULY 7
9:30 Eirini Panou, Byzantine Historian, Independent Scholar ‘Nikephoros Gregoras’ homily on the lament of Mary’s parents’
10:00 Niki Tsironis, Researcher, Institute of Historical Research,
National Hellenic Research Foundation and Associate in Byzantine
Studies, CHS-Harvard University ‘Coming to terms with the death of God: Ritual lament and dogmatic perceptions in Byzantium’
10:30 Liz James, Professor of Art History, University of Sussex ‘Constantine of Rhodes’ lament of the Mother of God’
 
11:00 Coffee Break
 
11:30 Kallistos Ware, Metropolitan of Diokleia, Oxford ‘A liturgical lament for the dead Christ: The encomia of Holy Friday’
12:00 Margaret Mullett, Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks,
Harvard University ‘Performability and the Christos Paschon’
12:30 Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art History,
Harvard University ‘Expressions of drama in the scene of the Koimesis of the Theotokos’
13:00 Discussion
 
13:30 Lunch

15:00 Rebecca White, Theologian, Independent Scholar, Oxford ‘Seeing grief in St Gregory Palamas’
15:30 Iossif Vivilakis, Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Athens ‘The book as stage: The case of Konstantinos Kaisareios Dapontes’
16:00 Anastasia Bakogianni, Lecturer in Classical Studies, The Open University UK ‘Performing Greek tragedy for the camera: Michael Cacoyannis’ Euripidean trilogy’
 
16:30 Coffee Break
 
17:00 Laure Petit, Teaching Fellow in Greek Language and Theater Studies, Paris IV Sorbonne, École Normale Supérieure and Stage Director, Theatre Company Allez Bacchantes ‘Staging tragic lamentation today: Euripides' kommoi’
17:30 Anna Stavrakopoulou, Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Thessaloniki and Associate Director, Center for Hellenic Studies (Greece), Harvard University ‘Separation, musical performance as lament and the healing power of love in the Mute Violinist’
18:00 Lambros Liavas, Professor of Musicology, University of Athens ‘From the human voices to the musical instruments’
18:30 Discussion
 
21:00 Lambros Liavas presents a performance of Epirot Moirologia: From the Human Voices to the Musical Instruments

 
 
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