We are happy to announce that registration is now open for the second stage of the conference, in London on 23-24 February. Please register here. For more information, please visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/events/2023/feb/hybrid-memory-and-performance-classical-reception-early-modern-festivals-15th-18th
For any questions, please contact g.martino@ucl.ac.uk.
Key Dates:
13-14 October 2022, University of Parma
23-24 February 2023, University College London
Abstracts submission: 13th April 2022
Organisers:
Francesca Bortoletti (UNIPR), Giovanna Di Martino (UCL & APGRD)
Scientific Committee:
Mariella Bonvicini (UNIPR), Francesca Bortoletti (UNIPR), Nicola Catelli (UNIPR), Giovanna Di Martino (UCL & APGRD), Giorgio Ieranò (UNITN), Fiona Macintosh (OXFORD), Massimo Magnani (UNIPR), Eckart Marchand (WARBURG), Lucy Jackson (DURHAM), Eugenio Refini (NYU); Paolo Russo (UNIPR), Carlo Varotti (UNIPR), Erika Valdivieso (YALE), Federica Veratelli (UNIPR).
Sponsors and Partners:
Supported by the University of Parma, the Centro per le Attività e le Professioni delle Arti e dello Spettacolo (CAPAS, UNIPR), UCL, the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges (UCL), the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (Oxford), and the Leventis Foundation; in collaboration with the Centro Interateneo sulla Memoria delle Arti Performative (MAP – Roma, Parma, Genova), the Centro Interuniversitario di ricerca di ‘Studi sulla Tradizione’ (Bari, San Marino, Padova, Trento), the Laboratorio Dionysos (Trento), and The Warburg Institute (London).
Thursday 23rd February
Time: 10.00am-7pm GMT
Place: St George's Church Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2SA
10.15-10.45 Registration and Coffee
10.45-11.00 Welcome from Gesine Manuwald (UCL), and the conference organisers, Giovanna Di Martino (UCL) and Francesca Bortoletti (Parma)
11.00-12.20: Politics and Performance I - Chair: Lucy Jackson (Durham)
Kristen Vitale (Connecticut, ONLINE): Anne Boleyn as England’s Triumphator: The Transformation of Early Henrician Civic Triumph Pageantry
Francesco Dall’Olio (Verona): Orestes at Elizabeth's court: a possible court representation of John Pikeryng’s Horestes
12.20-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-3.00pm Politics and Performance II - Chair: Francesca Bortoletti (Parma)
Jan Bažant (Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy, Prague - ONLINE): Pompa in honorem Ferdinandi, 1558
Lindsay Reid (University of Galway): Planting English Daughters in the Ovidian Landscape: The Entertainments at Bisham Abbey and Sudeley Castle (1592)
Carlo Varotti (Parma): Tieste: The Words and Actions of a Degenerate Power
3.00-3.15pm Coffee/Tea Break
3.15-4.45pm Religion and Performance - Chair: Carlo Varotti (Parma)
Maria Czepiel (Oxford): Christian and Classical sources in Calderón’s El divino Orfeo (1634)
Maria Maciejewska (Innsbruck): 17th-Century Opening of the Jesuit Church in Lucerne from the Perspective of the Play Written for this Occasion
Beatriz Catão Cruz Santos (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - ONLINE): The meanings of Awnings and Columns at the Lisbon Corpus Christi Procession (1717-1777)
4.45-5.15 Coffee/Tea Break
Demonstration-Performance: Performing Aristophanes' Wealth in Early Modern Translations
Time: 6.00-7.00pm
Place: St George's Church Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2SA
Introduction to the demonstration-performance: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford, APGRD), Francesca Bortoletti (UNIPR), Giovanna Di Martino (UCL), Marco Martinelli (Playwright/Theatre Director)
*The conference will be preceded by three days of theatre workshops, supported by the Widening International Didactics and Education Programme (w.i.d.e; 2022, Parma), the Classical Association, the Institute of Classical Studies, the Gilbert Murray Trust Fund, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, and the Leventis Foundation and organised by Francesca Bortoletti (Parma) and Giovanna Di Martino (UCL). These will be directed by playwright/director Marco Martinelli (Teatro delle Albe) and academic/dramaturg Giovanna Di Martino. Participants will be 10 university students from the University of Parma and UCL, and 14 school students from the following state schools: Jewish Community Secondary School, St Olave’s Grammar School, Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Highgate Wood Sixth Form, Mossbourne Community Academy Sixth Form, and Enfield County School for Girls. The group will work on the performance of a number of scenes from a selection of early modern performance scripts based on Aristophanes’ Wealth, and will investigate the performability and intricate web of citations embedded within early modern dramatic scripts*
Friday 24th February
Time: 10.30am-5.15pm GMT
Place: IAS Common Ground, G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
10.30-11.30pm: Performance in the Academies I - Chair: Lucy Nicholas (Warburg)
George Brocklehurst (Warburg): Humanism and the Afterlife of Classical Conviviality: The Case of the Accademia Pontaniana
Angelica Vedelago (Padua): ‘Nature did wrong to give us memory / A nest wherein builds naught but misery’: ‘Tragic’ Memories in Pelopidarum Secunda (ca. 1590)
11.30-11.45 Coffee/Tea Break
11.45-12.45pm: Performance in the Academies II - Chair: Eckart Marchand (Warburg-Bilderfahrzeuge)
Anouska Lester (Roehampton): “Strange snow”: Representing and Remembering Weather in The Masque of Janus and Dido
Martina Treu (IULM): The Italian ‘Original sin’: The First Oedipus at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza (1585)
12.45-2.00pm Lunch
2.00-3.30pm Performance on the Popular Stage - Chair: Ottavia Mazzon (Padua)
Evgeniia Ganberg (Cambridge): ‘Cives Trojani in Suspicionem Aguntur & Prope Seditionem’: Being a Low-Born Trojan on the Early Modern Stage
Raf Van Rooy (KU Leuven): Greek as the Language of Performance in the Early Modern Low Countries
Christopher Jotischky (Brown): Terence in Greek: The Transformation of Roman Comedy in Early Modern Greek Theatre
3.30-3.45pm Coffee/Tea Break
3.45-4.45pm Performance and Archives - Roundtable Discussion: Margaret Shewring (Warwick)
APGRD: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford, APGRD); FRIDAtlas: Francesca Bortoletti (Parma); MNEMOSYNE: Steffen Haug (Warburg/Bilderfahrzeuge); DSPace-MuTheA: Paolo Russo (Parma); Laboratorio Dionysos: Giorgio Ieranò (Trento) and Gaia Benamati (Bari); University of Warwick-British Library Festival Books Digitisation: Alexander Samson (UCL); The Renaissance Cultural Crossroads Catalogue: Brenda Hosington (Warwick-Montreal)
4.45-5.15pm Response by Eugenio Refini (NYU) and Plenary