- 22 maggio 2018 – Aula SMT6, Santa Marta
15.00 – Benvenuto
15.15 – Apertura convegno: Guido Avezzù e Silvia Bigliazzi
– Early Modern and Classical Intersections
Moderatore: Silvia Bigliazzi
15.30 – Keynote: Stephen Orgel (Stanford), “How to Be Classical”
16.30 – Pausa
– Oedipus at Colonus
Moderatore: Guido Avezzù
17.00 – Laura Slatkin (NYU), “Revisiting Oedipus at Colonus”
17.30 – Alessandro Grilli (Pisa), “The Passion According to Sophocles: Regality and Redemption in Oedipus at Colonus”
18.00 – Francesco Lupi (Verona), “Liminality (In)accessibility, and Negative Characterization in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus”
18.30 – Domande
23 maggio 2018 – Aula SPC, Silos di Ponente
– Oedipus at Colonus
Moderatore: Susanne Wofford
9.00 – Anton Bierl (Basel), “Oedipus at Colonus as a Reflection of the Oresteia: The Abomination from Thebes as an Athenian Hero in the Making”
9.30 – Vayos Liapis (Open University, Cyprus), “Oedipus in Athens: Integration and Its Discontents in Oedipus at Colonus”
10.00 – Gherardo Ugolini (Verona), “A Wise and Irascible Hero, Oedipus from Thebes to Colonus”
10.30 – Pausa
– Early Modern and Classical Intersections
Moderatore: Anton Bierl
11.00 – Carlo M. Bajetta (Aosta), “Elizabeth’s and Ralegh’s ‘Classics’”
11.30 – Robert S. Miola (Loyola University, Maryland), “Lost and Found in Translation: Early Modern Receptions of Oedipus at Colonus”
12.00 – Sarah Knight (Leicester), “Oedipus in the Academy”
12.30 – Domande
13.00 – Pranzo
– Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear
Moderatore: Gherardo Ugolini – Francesco Lupi
15.00 – Marco Duranti (Verona), “Orestes in European Renaissance Drama: a Deviant, an Ordinary Man, or a Hero?”
15.30 – Francesco Dall’Olio (Verona), “A Voice from the Present in Ancient Stories: The Vice’s Role in Pickering’s Horestes and Preston’s Cambises”
16.00 – Pausa
– Panels
Moderatore: Silvia Bigliazzi
16.30 – “Oedipus: Vanity, Blindness, and the King”: Discussion with Ellen McLaughlin and Rinde Eckert on their two different approaches to the figure of Oedipus: Oedipus and Eye Piece
17.30 – Eric Nicholson (NYU, Firenze) and Avra Sidiropoulou (Open University, Cyprus), “Promised Endings”
18.00 – Domande
21.00 – Cena
24 maggio 2018 – Aula SMT6, Santa Marta
– Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear
Moderatore: Carlo Bajetta
9.00 – Guido Avezzù (Verona), “Man in Time: Oedipus at Colonus”
9.30 – Silvia Bigliazzi (Verona), “Time and Nothingness: King Lear”
10.00 – Sheila Murnaghan (University of Pennsylvania), “‘More Sinned Against than Sinning’: Acting and Suffering in Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear”
10.30 – Pausa
Moderatore: Vayos Liapis
11.00 – Seth L. Schein (UC Davis), “Fathers Cursing Children: Anger and Justice in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and Shakespeare’s King Lear”
11.30 – Anna Beltrametti (Pavia), “Dramaturgies of Kingship, Deception, and Pity: The Children’s Struggles Rouse the Old Fathers’ Ghosts”
12.00 – Domande
13.00 – Pranzo
– Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear
Moderatore: Gherardo Ugolini – Francesco Lupi
15.00 – Susanne Wofford (NYU), “Pity, Pollution and Blessing in King Lear and Oedipus at Colonus”
15.30 – David Lucking (Salento), “Seeing Better: The Eyesight Motif in King Lear and the Theban Plays”
16.00 – Pausa
– Modern and Contemporary Oedipuses and Lears
Moderatore: Silvia Bigliazzi
16.30 – Nicola Pasqualicchio (Verona), “Happy Ending for Old Kings: Jean-François Ducis’ Œdipe and Lear”
17.00 – Tamas Dobozy (Wilfrid Laurier University), “Sam Shepard’s ‘Body’ of Tragedy: A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)”
17.30 – Barry A. Spence (Amherst), “Shades of King Lear on Beckett’s Stage”
18.00 – Domande
25 maggio 2018 – Teatro Laboratorio, Arsenale
– King Lear
Moderatore: Nicola Pasqualicchio
9.00 – David Schalkwyk (Queen Mary University, London) and Elena Pellone (Shakespeare Institute), “‘Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?’ or Something Comes of Nothing in King Lear”
9.30 – David Schalkwyk (Queen Mary University, London) and Elena Pellone (Shakespeare Institute), Language workshop
10.30 – Pausa
Moderatore: Nicola Pasqualicchio
11.00 – Jaq Bessell (Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey) and Silvia Bigliazzi (Verona), Introduction to King Lear Open Rehearsal
11.30 – Jaq Bessell and NOMA Physical Theatre, King Lear Open Rehearsal
12.30 – Discussione
