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Greek Drama in America, 1900-1970
January 22nd and 23rd, 2010
Evans Alumni Center, Northwestern University
Conference Schedule
Friday, January 22, 2010
9- 10:20 am: Keynote Lecture
Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London
Greek Drama and the Modernist Self
11am - 1:30pm: Dancing Greek Tragedies
Artemis Leontis, University of Michigan
Greek Drama and Modern Dance in the 1930s
Susan Manning, Northwestern University
Dancing Modern Desires
3 - 5:30pm: Intellectual Tragedy
Niall Slater, Emory University
Iphigenia Amongst the Ivies, 1915
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park
Moving and Dramatic Athenian Citizenship:
Edith Hamilton’s Americanization of Greek Tragedy
5:30 - 7pm: Dinner Reception
7 - 9:30 pm:
Showing of Brian de Palma’s Dionysus in 69
(Screening will be in the Forum Room, Multimedia Center 2nd Floor, Northwestern Library)
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
10am - 12:30pm: Professional Tragedy
Karelisa Hartigan, University of Florida
America Rediscovers Greek Tragedy
Ancient Plays on the Commercial Stage: 1900-197
Vassilis Lambropoulos, University of Michigan
Eugene O’Neill’s Quest for Greek Tragedy
1:30 - 4pm: Euripides in the 1960s
Thomas Jenkins, Trinity University
Metaphor and Modernity:
Mid-Century Versions of Euripides
Shawn Sides, Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, Austin, TX
Dionysus in 69 in 09
Response by Linda Gates, Northwestern University
Sponsored by: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
Northwestern Department of Classics, and the Classical Traditions Initiative.