The Sixth Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW) will be held on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th of December – in the Ioannou Centre.
Registration is free: https://amprawoxford.wordpress.com/register/
Programme
Day 1: Monday 12 Dec 2016
Guest Respondent: Constanze Güthenke
09:30-10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00-11:30: Contemporary Reworkings of the Classics
Hippolytus’ Neglect of Eros: A Dialogue between Euripides and Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love. Anastasia-Stavroula Valtadorou,University of Edinburgh
The Modern Greek Sons of Odysseus: A Contemporary Displacement. Emmanuela Schoinoplokaki, University of Heidelberg
‘Faithful Traitors’ and ‘Abusive Fidelity’: The Contribution of Contemporary Poetics to Horace Odes 1. Alice Ahearn, Durham University
How to Translate Plautus for a Twenty-First Century Audience (And Still Make Them Laugh). Clara Daniel, Aix-Marseille University
11:30-11:40 Coffee Break
11:40-12:55 Classical Reception in the Long Nineteenth Century
Between Aeschylus and Milton: Shelley’s Displacement of the Promethean Myth. Mary Alexandra Dodd, University of Edinburgh
‘There Blazed the Glory, There Shot Black the Shame’: Poetic Scholarship in Robert Browning’s Aristophanes’ Apology. Peter Swallow, King’s College London
Kipling’s Mithras: ‘Oriental’ God in Victorian Guise. Nirvana Silnović, Central European University
12:55-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:15 Classical Reception Studies Network Panel with Joanna Paul, Amanda Wrigley and Debbie Challis
14:15-15:30 Adapting the Classics in Early Modern Europe
A Petite Pallace of Pettie his Pleasure: Translations from the Classics or Italianate Tales? Flavia Palma, University of Verona
Displacement in the Neo-Latin Horatian Parodiae of Mildmay Fane, 1645-1660. Jill Woodberry, King’s College London
The Linguistic Effects of Displacement in James Thomson’s Agamemnon. Angelica Vedelago, University of Padua
15:30-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-16:55 Medieval Readings of Classical Authors
Classical Influences in the Medieval Spanish Romance El Libro de Alexandre. Cristina García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
The Textual Reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses During the Middle Ages: The Case of Germany. Cristiana Roffi, Universität zu Köln
Authority Displaced: Petrarch’s Readaptation of Lucan’s Ethics. Bianca Facchini, University of California Berkeley
16:55-17:05 Coffee Break
17:05-17:55 Displacing Plato from Late Antiquity to the Present
Plato’s Republic and its Reception by Feminist Studies. Vânia Silva, University of Coimbra
Classical, Therefore Universal: A.B. Yehoshua’s A Woman in Jerusalem and Plato’s Symposion. Giacomo Loi, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan
18:00-18:30 Guest Response from Constanze Güthenke
19:30 Conference Dinner at St Hilda’s College, Cowley Place, Oxford, OX4 1DY [SOLD OUT]
21:00-21:30 Performance and Drinks
This performance piece tells the story of an alternative Antigone—that of Euripides—alongside fragments of Sappho’s poetry in Greek, Latin, and contemporary English translation. As such, it explores the concept of fragments, both ancient and modern, both textual and physical.
Drinks will be accompanied by an exhibition of material from the St Hilda’s archives relating to the study of classics over the course of the college’s history, including photographs of student theatre productions. As a former women’s college, St Hilda’s offers a unique insight into the history of female scholarship.
Day 2: Tuesday 13th December 2016
Guest Respondent: Fiona Macintosh
09:30-10:45 Classics, Colonialism and Revolution
Arthur Mee’s Appropriation of the Ancient World In Support of the British Empire. Phyllis Brighouse, University of Liverpool
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire? Displacing Late Antiquity in the early United States. Francesco Morosi,
Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa
A Twentieth Century Reworking of Sophocles’ Antigone: Between Displacement and Continuity. Rossana Zetti,
University of Edinburgh
10:45-10:55 Coffee Break
10:55-12:10 The Classics in Popular Culture
‘No Good Deed Goes Unpunished’: The Wire’s Clay Davis and Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound. Stephan S. Renker,
University of Hamburg
The Displacement of Spartacus: Crixus as Metaphor for Slavery in Starz’s Spartacus. Claire Greenhalgh,
Open University
Homer’s Odyssey in Comics: Translating the Narrative. Dimitris Kanellakis, University of Oxford
12:10-12:20 Coffee Break
12:20-13:35 Iconography and Art in Classical Reception
Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Classical Antiquity. Victoria Zicos, The Warburg Institute
Displacement in Recent Sculptural Representations of the Trojan Horse. Ronald Forero Álvarez, University of La Sabana and University of Salamanca
The Displacement of Ancient Jewish Symbols on Modern Israeli Currency. Joshua Goldman, University of Oxford
13:35-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:10 Gender Displacements
Ritual, Satire, or Suffrage Drama? The Bacchae of 1908. David Bullen, Royal Holloway
From Sekhmet to Suffrage: Displacement of Ancient Egypt and the Near East in Early Twentieth Century Women’s Culture. Mara Gold, University of Oxford
15:10-16:25 Classics in Music and Dance
Ariadne in Catullus and Strauss. Stephanie Oade, University of Oxford
‘Che Farò Senza Euridice?’ The Myth of Orpheus and its Reception in Classical Music. Julia Winnacker,
University of Hamburg
Myrrha: Displaced, Misplaced, Replaced? Marie-Louise Crawley, Coventry University
16:25-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-17:15 Guest Response from Fiona Macintosh
17:15-17:45 Plenary and Drinks
The conference website is: https://amprawoxford.wordpress.com/
and the organisers can be emailed with any queries at: [email protected]