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Theatre Outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy
Conference Schedule:
Friday, November 7th
Morning Conference and Lunch at The John Evans Alumni Center, Northwestern University
Evanston Campus
8:45 am: Breakfast and coffee
9:00 Welcome and introductions
Welcome address by Craig Bina
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Wayne V. Jones II Professor of Geological Sciences
Session I: Epicharmus and 5th century Sicilian Comedy
9:30– 10:45 ‘Challenging authority: Epicharmus between epic and rhetoric’
Andreas Willi, Oxford University
respondent: Jonathan Hall, University of Chicago
10:45- 12:00 ‘On Epicharmus' literary and philosophic background’
Lucia Rodriguez-Noriega Guillen, University of Oviedo
respondent: John Wynne, Northwestern University
12:00-1:00 Lunch
Dessert and Afternoon Conference at The Ripton Room, Scott Hall, Northwestern University,
Evanston Campus
1:30-2:00 Coffee and Dessert
Session II: Plays at Court
2:00-3:15 ‘A Theseus Outside Athens: Dionysius I of Syracuse and Tragic Self-Presentation’
Anne Duncan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
respondent: Sara Monoson, Northwestern University
3:15-4:30 ‘ “Nor When A Man Goes to Dionysus’ Holy Contests” (Theoc. 17.112)
Outlines of Theatrical Performance in Theocritus’
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, University of Michigan
respondent: Mark Payne, University of Chicago
4:30-5:00 Coffee Break
Session III: Conference Keynote Address
5:00 – 6:15‘Following through some leads from Pots and Plays’
Oliver Taplin, Oxford University
respondent: Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan
*a note about the lecture
6:30 pm Dinner in The Guild Lounge, Scott Hall
(for conference speakers, respondents, chairs, and by prior
arrangement with k-bosher@northwestern.edu)
Saturday November 8
All Saturday Events room 175, Rubloff Building (Law School), Northwestern University,
downtown Chicago Campus
9:30 Breakfast and Coffee
Session IV: Theatrical Claims to Life and Afterlife
10:00-11:15: ‘Aeschylus' Aetnaeae and the Identity of Xouthus: Poetic Appropriation of
Sicily from Stesichorus to Euripides’
David Smith, San Francisco State University
respondent: Marianne Hopman, Northwestern University
11:15-12:30: ‘The Grave's a Fine and Funny Place: Chthonic Rituals and Comic Theatre in
the Greek West’
Bonnie MacLachlan, Western Ontario University
respondent: Laura Gawlinski, Loyola University
12:30-1:30 lunch
Session V: Greek Theatres in Sicily and Italy
1:30-2:45: ‘Montagna dei Cavalli: a new Greek theatre in early hellenistic Sicily’
Stefano Vassallo, Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali, Palermo
respondent: Clemente Marconi, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
2:45-4:00: ‘Theatre and cult in ancient Italy’
Inge Nielsen, Hamburg University
respondent: Clemente Marconi, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Sponsored by: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
Northwestern Dept. of Classics, Classical Traditions Initiative,
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities,
The Graduate School,
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.