Life is a (Greek) Tragedy II

Life is a (Greek) Tragedy II
Colloquium 9-10 February 2009
Finnish Institute at Athens
Programme

Monday, 9 February 2009
Session 1: Reception of Greek tragedy in Antiquity
 Michalopoulos, Haris: Teiresias between texts and sex
 Mussarra Roca, Joan-Josep: Hercules and Phaethon in Seneca: Allusion and Meaning
Session 2: Translating and interpreting Greek tragedy
 Kuisma, Oiva: On the Cognitive Value of Tragedy
 Zatta, Claudia: Beyond Aristotle: Webs of Emotions in Aeschylus' Suppliants
 McCallum-Barry, Carmel: Early versions of Greek Tragedy: translation versus interpretation
 Simonsuuri, Kirsti: Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Poem, Action, Translation
Session 3: Greek tragedy in the field of Theatre Research
 Skouroumouni, Aspasia: Women in Space: A study on Euripides' Helen
 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
Session 1: Examining Greek tragedy in different art forms
 Gilabert Barberà, Pau: W. Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream. Contemporary life as a good instance of the Greek tragic
irony
 Sinha, Bijon: From the Sanskritic Natyasastra to Chhau Dancers: Ancient and Modern Indian Theatrical
Forms as insights into vanished modes of (Greek) performance
Session 2: Modern reception of Greek tragedy
 Merkouri, Anastasia: Can we recognize it? Langhoff’s Bacchae & Vassiliev’s Medea
 Koski, Pirkko: Elektra in Today's Finland
Session 3: Dramatic responses to war and victory
 Kittelä, Sanna-Ilaria: Euripides' Trojan Women on Finnish Stage
 Wilmer, Stephen: Antigone and Counter-Terrorism
 Remoundou-Howley, Anastasia: Towards a Redress of (Greek) Tragedy: Irish Antigones of the New
Millenium
 Alexopoulou, Marigo: Aeschylus’ Persae: from the original performance to Koun’s production in 1965

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