The APGRD is proud to support, alongside the Université Grenoble Alpes, this year's annual colloquium by CHORUS, ancient drama receptions, which will be on the theme of the transmediality of receptions of Ancient Drama across arts and media. Organised by: Malika Bastin Hammou and Cécile Dudouyt.
Location: Université Grenoble Alpes, MaCI (Maison de la Création et de l’Innovation), France.
Contact: Please email any queries to the CHORUS organisation committee at receptionchorus@gmail.com
Programme
Please note: Times are given in Central European Time (GMT+1).
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Thursday 26 March
9.30: Welcome
10.00: Transmedial Ripples of the Classical Past
- Chella Ward (Open University) Towers and Transmediality: Meeting the Persians in the 9/11 Museum
- Hossein Tavazonizadeh (University of Groningen) The Reception of Ancient Sources from a Cultural Memory Perspective: the Case of Modern Iran and Ancient Persia
- Tommaso Suaria (University of Lisbon) Greek Dramatic Festivals and Brazilian Samba Contests: polysemy and politics
11.00-11.30 – discussion
Coffee break
11.45 Medial Transposition and Resistance
- Oliver Baldwin (University of Madrid) A kiss out-on stage: Rau’s Orestes in Mosul
- Clara Daniel (AMU) “No Peace, No Pussy!”: Theatricality and Political Engagement in Chi-Raq by Spike Lee.
- Nassim Mandhouj (UGA) Aristophanes against Pwofitasyon: Transmediality and Class War in Daniel Boukman's Liwa Lajan
12.45-13.15 – discussion
Lunch
14.30 Intermedial Choruses
- Małgorzata Budzowska (University of Łódź) Impossible Mourning Becomes Antigone. Sounding The Tragic in Antigone in Molenbeek
- Maria Constantinou (University of Paris Nanterre) Contemporary Dance and Classical Reception: Intergenerational Dialogue Between Zouzou Nikoloudi and Dimitris Papaïoannou
- Maria Konomi (University of Athens) Challenges and Transformations of the Chorus in New Digital Media
15.30-16.00 – discussion
Coffee break
16.15 Work in Progress I : Ancient Characters in New Contexts
- Arsène Cazé (Paris Nanterre) Menelaus as a problematic protagonist on the contemporary stage
- Anaïs Tillier (UGA) From tragedy to “pop cultural activism”: the face of ancient heroines
- Eliška Kurbatova (University of Olomouc) Virtual AGONy: Why Are The Heroines So Angry?
16.45-17.15 – discussion
Coffee break
17.30 Transmediation (Auditorium)
- Cécile Dudouyt (USPN) Channeling the Past : Language Functions and Intermediality
- Magdalena Bournot (UGA / GATES) - Étrangère chez soi. Les réécritures de Médée en Amérique latine (1950-2016)
- Marie-Louise Crawley (Coventry University) The Isadora Project: Reinscribing Dance History
18.30-19h30 – discussion / PERFORMANCE
Friday 27 March
9.00 – Welcome
9.15 Transmedial Networks
- Laura Monros Gaspar (University of Valencia) Transmediality, classical receptions and the concept of ‘multiple geographies’ in Victorian London
- Cassandre Martigny (Sorbonne Université) Reinterpretations of Medea in contemporary visual arts:
- war, motherhood and female resistance
- Alena Sarkissian (Univerzita Karlova) A Playwright of the Crossroads: Aristophanes in the post-war Czechoslovakia 1945–48
10.15-10.45 – discussion
Coffee break
11.00 Work in Progress II : Transmedial Tragedy
- Marcus Bell (KCL) Dan Lie rotting, intermediality and the tragic
- Charitini Tsikoura (University of Paris Nanterre) Rewriting, Rerouting, Re-identifying. Afterlives of Mythic Women Choreographed Today.
- Daniel Whittle (University of Oxford) Possibility from Dispossession: The Use of Graeco-Roman Imagery in Narratives of Enslavement, 1773–1865
11.30-12.00 – discussion
Lunch
13.30 Work in Progress III : Greek Tragedy in Early Modern Strasbourg
- Giovanna Di Martino (APGRD) / Anne Morvan (University of Nantes) /Alexia Dedieu (Aix Marseille University) Greek Tragedy in Strasbourg (1540-1609): Performance, Pedagogy, and Translation
14.00-14.30 – discussion
Coffee break
14.45 Work in Progress IV : Greek Tragedy in Lisbon Today
- Sofia Frade (University of Lisbon) / Maria Carneiro (Teatromosca) / Sara de Castro (actor and director) Uses of Ancient Drama in contemporary Portuguese theatre
15.15-15.45 – discussion
16.00 – PLENARY