The International Conference: From Homer to Hatzi-Yavrouda – Aspects of oral narration in the Greek tradition will take place in the Danish Insitute at Athens.
PROGRAMME
Saturday
9.00 Welcome by The Danish Institute and The University of Athens
Panel 1 Ancient Greece
9.30-10.15 Keynote: Minna Skafte Jensen, Professor Emerita University of Southern Denmark Homer the storyteller: stories within the story
10.15-10.30: Discussion Chair: John Bennet, Director of The British School at Athens
10.30-10.50: Ioannis M. Konstantakos, University of Athens Homeric epic and the Archaic Ionian novella
10.50-11.10: Christos Zafiropoulos, University of Patra, “ἐκ ταυτησὶ τῆς ἐξετάσεως πολλαὶ ἀπέχθειαί μοι γεγόνασι”: Performing philosophy in fifth century Athens
11.10-11.25: Discussion
11.25-12.00: Coffee break
12.00-12.20: Sophia Papaioannou, Professor University of Athens Greek oral narrations and Roman imperial history
12.20-12.40: Liqiong Yang, Sorbonne Université (UMR 8167& UMR 7219)
The interrelationship between the written treatises and oral delivery in the Hippocratic Corpus
From Homer to Hatzi-Yavrouda – Aspects of oral narration in the Greek tradition
12.40-13.00: Evy Johanne Håland, Independent researcher, Bergen/Alumna, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, University of Athens Fieldwork and Ancient Sources: A Comparative Method
13.00-13.20: Discussion Chair: Kristina Winther-Jacobsen, Director of The Danish Institute at Athens
13.20-15.00: Lunch break
Panel 2 After Antiquity – Byzantium and post-Byzantium
15.00-15.45: Keynote: Tina Lendari, University of Athens Medieval and Early Modern Greek vernacular literature: questions of genre, transmission, textuality and orality
15.45-16.00: Discussion Chair: George C. Katsadoros, University of the Aegean
16.00-16.20: Stratis Papaioannou, Professor of Byzantine Philology, University of Crete Orality and Textuality in the Byzantine Literary Tradition
16.20-16.40: Markéta Kulhánková, Masaryk University, Brno Byzantine Edifying Stories between Orality and Literacy
16.40-16.55: Discussion
16.55-17.30: Coffee break
17.30-17.50: Nicolette S. Trahoulia, Associate Professor, Deree College – The American College of Greece Looking for Traces of Orality in Byzantine Illustrated Manuscripts
17.50-18.10: Andrew Walker White, George Mason University Post-Classical ‘Oraliture’: Thoughts on the dramatic scholia as Regiebuch
18.10-18.25: Discussion Chair: Nicolai Mariegaard, The Danish Institute at Athens
20.00: Live storytelling performance of The Odyssey by Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden In collaboration with The British School at Athens and taking place at The British School
Sunday
9.30-10.15 General keynote: Michalis Meraklis, Professor Emeritus University of Athens What is orality?
10.15-10.30: Discussion
Chair: Christos Zafiropoulos, University of Patra
Panel 3 Modern Greek tales, etc.
10.30-11.15 Keynote: Carl Lindahl, University of Houston Trading Selves in Story
Chair: Marianthi Kaplanoglou, University of Athens
11.15-11.30: Discussion
11.30-12.00: Coffee break 12.00-12.20: Dimitrios V. Prousalis, Teacher, storyteller, Phd Candidate, University of Athens Once upon a time there was a storyteller: Past and present of orality and transmission under the identity of the human element 12.20-12.40: Birgit Olsen, The Danish Institute at Athens Hatzi-Yavrouda and the craft of storytelling
12.40-13.00: Marianthi Kaplanoglou, University of Athens Storytelling and the organization of village life in certain Greek insular communities
13.00-13.20: Argyro E. Mountaki, PhD Candidate, University of Athens Intermediators, collectors and the unknown sources in the 19th century
13.20-13.50: Discussion
Chair: Mogens Pelt, University of Copenhagen/Danish Institute at Athens
13.50-15.30: Lunch break
15.30-15.50: Stamatis Zochios, Postdoctoral researcher at École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) The legend as fact in Greek and European traditions: structures and functions of the supernatural folk beliefs
15.50-16.10: Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou, University of Athens Personal Narratives of Traumatic Experiences: From Oral Narratives to Websites
16.10-16.30: George C. Katsadoros and Ioanna Kafetzidaki, University of the Aegean The Mantinades (Couplets) of Karpathos Island on the Internet: Local Students’ Views
From Homer to Hatzi-Yavrouda – Aspects of oral narration in the Greek tradition
16.30-16.50: Manolis Varvounis, University of Thrace and Georgios Kouzas, University of Peloponnese Orality and Contemporary Society: Analyzing the Form and the Structure of Social Commentations (Gossips) in a Modern Greek Community
16.50-17.20: Discussion
Chair: Birgit Olsen, The Danish Institute at Athens
17.20-17.50: Coffee break
17.50-18.50: Final remarks/concluding discussion
19.15-20.00: Performance of Shadow Theatre (Karagiozis) by shadow player Tasos Konstas