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CHORUS 2025: Refiguring the Tragic

Venue
Uniwersytet Łódzki, Centrum Szkoleniowo-Konferencyjne
Date
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CHORUS network: 3rd annual colloquium on ancient drama receptions
The APGRD is proud to support, alongside Pléiade and the Uniwersytet Łódzki, this year's annual colloquium by CHORUS, ancient drama receptions, which is on the theme of: Refiguring the Tragic. Organised by: Małgorzata Budzowska and Cécile Dudouyt.

Location

Centrum Szkoleniowo-Konferencyjne, Uniwersytet Łódzki, Poland.

Programme

A PDF version of the programme is available here.

Thursday 10th April

9.00-9.15: Welcome

9.15-10.30: Introduction and Work-in-Progress presentations

  • Małgorzata Budzowska, (Uniwerystet Łódzki): Critical Disillusions. Refiguring the Tragic in Polish Postdramatic Theatre – project presentation.
  • Lucie Thévenet (Nantes Université, 10 mn., WIP): The Ekkuklema refigured in Francis Bacon's paintings: an autopsy of the tragic skene.
  • Alexia Dedieu (Aix-Marseille Université, 10 mn, WIP) Ajax on the Strasbourg’s stage: refiguring Sophocles for the stage.

10.30-10.45 Coffee Break

10.45-12.15:  Configuring and Refiguring the Tragic I 

  • Matteo Capponi (Université de Lausanne): Configurer le tragique (avant de le reconfigurer).
  • Anne Morvan (Nantes Université): Rephrasing Euripides, reshaping the tragic. Euripides’ Trojan Women from Stiblin’s Troades to Garnier’s Troade.
  • Léonore Finck (Université de Tours): The spark hidden in the stone: pain in German neoclassic definitions of the tragic.

12.15-13.30: Lunch

13.30-15.00: Configuring and Refiguring the Tragic II

  • Laura Monrós-Gaspar (Universitat de València): Re-assembling tragedy: Movement and words in nineteenth-century theatrical ballet.
  • Alexander Hammar (Syddansk Universitet): Meïr Goldschmidt’s Critique of Constantin Hansen’s Prometheus: Tragic Idealism versus Realistic Classicism.
  • Sylvie Humbert-Mougin (Université de Tours): Seneca’s rediscoveries and refiguring the Tragic in Europe in the 1930’s.

15.00-15.15 Coffee Break

15.15-16.45: Re-contextualising the Tragic

  • Daniel Whittle (University of Oxford): Mama’s Maybe: Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative and Medea.
  • Hugo Martín Isabel (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Remaking the Women's Tragedy in the Aftermath of World War II. María Zambrano and Elsa Morante rewrite Antigone.
  • Giovanna Di Martino (University College London) and Caterina Paoli (Independent): Bemporad and the Poet-Translators: Refiguring the Tragic in Fascist Italy.

16.45-17.00 Coffee Break

17.00-18.30 Globalising the Tragic

  • Eleftheria Ioannidou (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen): The Radical Charm of the Underclass: Reimagining Tragedy in the Era of Global Neoliberalism.
  • Leo Kershaw (University of Warwick): Reimagining the Tragic in Oedipus at Colonus #aftersophocles.
  • Déborah Bucchi (Université de Lorraine): Le théâtre, l’Invisible et la Terre.

19.00: Workshop: Struan Leslie (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), Collectively Kinetic.

FRIDAY 11th APRIL


9.15-9.30: Welcome

9.30-11.00: Subverting the Tragic

  • Davide Iengo (Università di Pisa): Iwona and Ifigonia, the ridiculously unlucky. Tragedy as a source of laughter in Gombrowicz’s and De Benedetti’s plays.
  • Alena Sarkissian (Univerzita Karlova) and Eliška Kubartová (Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci): Blending the tragic and comic in Czech stage adaptations of Classical Drama.
  • Anaïs Tillier (Université Grenoble Alpes): The Dark Humour of Contemporary Tragedy: Helen in dance and theatre.

11.00-11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-12.45 Queering the Tragic

  • Marcus Bell (Goldsmiths, University of London): Choreotragedy: Dance and the Queer Tragic Turn.
  • Oliver Baldwin (Universidade de Lisboa): Trans(iting) Tragedy: Blanco’s Kassandra
  • Ezra Baudou (University of Lincoln): Tragic material and aesthetics of survival.

12.45-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Resistance and / to the Tragic

  • Philippos Karaferias (Université Grenoble Alpes): Tragedy Reframed: Hecuba not Hecuba
    and the Necropolitical Narrative.
  • Sofia Frade (Universidade de Lisboa): Tragedy Now: Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists.
  • Sandra Vinagre (Universidade de Lisboa): Tiago Rodrigues and the Classics.

15.30-15.45 Coffee Break

15.45-17.00 Tragic Figures

  • Charitini Tsikoura (Université Paris Nanterre): Rerouting the tragic: Ben Duke’s Ruination as an alternative telling of Euripides’s Medea.
  • Cécile Dudouyt (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord): “This experiment is over”: resisting the Tragic in Carr’s Hecuba.
  • Stephe Harrop (Liverpool Hope University): Sisters Refigured: The Danaids in Albion.

17.15-18.15: Plenary