Classics

Performance

and in

Friday, October 30, 2015All presentations are in McKenna Hall, Room 202, unless noted otherwise.

8:00 a.m. Breakfast and Coffee

Welcome and Opening RemarksAnthony Monta, Associate Director, Nanovic Institute for European Studies Isabelle Torrance, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame

8:30 a.m.

First PanelElectric Narratives: Elektra and Medea on the Edwardian StageJonathon Campbell, Georgia State University

Medea in Brazil: Chico Buarque and Paulo Pontes’ Gota d’Água as Politics against OppressionCesar Gemelli, University of Notre Dame

A Dream of Passion: Creating a Modern MedeaFlorencia Foxley, University of Colorado, Boulder

Chair: Julie Pakstis, University of Notre Dame

8:45 – 10:15 a.m.

10:15 – 10:45 a.m. Break

Keynote Address

Greek Drama: A Musical Theater Mary Kay Gamel, Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz

Moderator: Christopher Baron, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Lunch for ParticipantsLocation: Morris Inn, Private Dining Room

12:30 – 2:30 p.m.

Second PanelCicero at the Pulpit: Repurposing Roman Rhetoric in Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana Caitlin Diddams, SUNY Buffalo

Pericles in Presidential Policies: Political Performance & Popular PersuasionTom Pappas, Indiana University, Bloomington

“You Only Live Once”: YOLO and the Reception of Carpe DiemJohn Haberstroh, University of California, Riverside

Chair: John Izzo, University of Notre Dame

2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Adjourn4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Film Screening

Appunti per un’ africana Orestiade (Notes for an African Oresteia)Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Courtesy of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna Italian with English subtitles, 73 minutes, Not Rated

8:00 p.m.

Post - Screening GatheringLocation: Rohr’s at the Morris Inn

Welcome and Opening RemarksAnthony Monta, Associate Director, Nanovic Institute for European Studies Isabelle Torrance, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, October 31, 2015 All presentations are in McKenna Hall, Room 202, unless noted otherwise.

Breakfast and Coffee8:30 a.m.

Keynote AddressThe telos of two African Oresteias: What Adaptations Ask Sarah Nooter, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Chicago

Moderator: Alex Vawter, University of Notre Dame

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break

Third Panel“The Ghost, Boys”: Seneca’s Shadow on the Elizabethan Stage Lizzy Ten-Hove, Stanford University

Jean-Luc Godard’s Version of the Odyssey in Le Mépris Matthew Horrell, University of Iowa

Strauss, Hofmannsthal, Sophocles, and the Chorus: Frameworks for Negotiating Cultural Influence Sean Kelly, University of Notre Dame

Chair: Aubrey Crum, University of Notre Dame

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

12:15 – 12:30 p.m.

Lunch for Speakers and PanelistsLocation: Morris Inn, Private Dining Room

12:30 p.m.

Greek and Roman mythology, ideas, and literature pervade Western culture and are inextricably tied to the intellectual history of our music, dance, theater, film, and all other performance genres. Classics and/in Performance brings together both the Notre Dame intellectual community and graduate students from across the country to explore, via panels of graduate student speakers, specific issues of classical reception in the context of performance genres. Additionally, the conference aims to foster discussion about large-scale theoretical questions about the nature of reception and the ways in which we study it.

Closing RemarksSean Kelly, University of Notre Dame

Photo by nicoleleec/flickr.com (Creative Commons with Modification)

Acknowledgments

Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs University of Notre Dame

Lauri Roberts, Assistant Director, Academic Conferences Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts

University of Notre Dame

The Notre Dame Conference Center, McKenna Hall

The Department of Classics, College of Arts and Letters University of Notre Dame

Christopher Baron, Associate Professor of Classics and History Alexandria Vawter, M.A. Candidate, Department of Classics

Cesar Gemelli, Candidate, Ph.D. in Literature

Organized by Sean Kelly, M.A. Candidate, Department of Classics, University of Notre Dame

Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies nanovic.nd.edu