22 May 2018 – Room SMT6, Santa Marta
3.00 pm – Greetings
3.15 pm – Opening Remarks: Guido Avezzù and Silvia Bigliazzi
– Early Modern and Classical Intersections
Chair: Silvia Bigliazzi
3.30 pm – Keynote: Stephen Orgel (Stanford), “How to Be Classical”
4.30 pm – Coffee break
– Oedipus at Colonus
Chair: Guido Avezzù
5.00 pm – Laura Slatkin (NYU), “Revisiting Oedipus at Colonus”
5.30 pm – Alessandro Grilli (Pisa), “The Passion According to Sophocles: Regality and Redemption in Oedipus at Colonus”
6.00 pm – Francesco Lupi (Verona), “Liminality (In)accessibility, and Negative Characterization in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus”
6.30 pm – Question time
23 May 2018 – Room SPC, Silos di Ponente
– Oedipus at Colonus
Chair: Susanne Wofford
9.00 am – 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 am – Vayos Liapis (Open University, Cyprus), “Oedipus in Athens: Integration and Its Discontents in Oedipus at Colonus”
10.00 am – Gherardo Ugolini (Verona), “A Wise and Irascible Hero, Oedipus from Thebes to Colonus”
10.30 am – Coffee break
– Early Modern and Classical Intersections
Chair: Anton Bierl
11.00 am – Carlo M. Bajetta (Aosta), “Elizabeth’s and Ralegh’s ‘Classics’”
11.30 am – Robert S. Miola (Loyola University, Maryland), “Lost and Found in Translation: Early Modern Receptions of Oedipus at Colonus”
12.00 pm – Sarah Knight (Leicester), “Oedipus in the Academy”
12.30 pm – Question time
1.00 pm – Lunch
– Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear
Chair: Gherardo Ugolini – Francesco Lupi
3.00 pm – Marco Duranti (Verona), “Orestes in European Renaissance Drama: a Deviant, an Ordinary Man, or a Hero?”
3.30 pm – Francesco Dall’Olio (Verona), “A Voice from the Present in Ancient Stories: The Vice’s Role in Pickering’s Horestes and Preston’s Cambises”
4.00 pm – Coffee break
– Panels
Chair: Silvia Bigliazzi
4.30 pm – “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
5.30 pm – Eric Nicholson (NYU, Firenze) and Avra Sidiropoulou (Open University, Cyprus), “Promised Endings”
6.00 pm – Question time
9.00 pm – Dinner
24 May 2018 – Room SMT6, Santa Marta
– Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear
Chair: Carlo Bajetta
9.00 am – Guido Avezzù (Verona), “Man in Time: Oedipus at Colonus”
9.30 am – Silvia Bigliazzi (Verona), “Time and Nothingness: King Lear”
10.00 am – Sheila Murnaghan (University of Pennsylvania), “‘More Sinned Against than Sinning’: Acting and Suffering in Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear”
10.30 am – Coffee break
Chair: Vayos Liapis
11.00 am – Seth L. Schein (UC Davis), “Fathers Cursing Children: Anger and Justice in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and Shakespeare’s King Lear”
11.30 am – Anna Beltrametti (Pavia), “Dramaturgies of Kingship, Deception, and Pity: The Children’s Struggles Rouse the Old Fathers’ Ghosts”
12.00 pm – Question time
1.00 pm – Lunch
– Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear
Chair: Gherardo Ugolini – Francesco Lupi
3.00 pm – Susanne Wofford (NYU), “Pity, Pollution and Blessing in King Lear and Oedipus at Colonus”
3.30 pm – David Lucking (Salento), “Seeing Better: The Eyesight Motif in King Lear and the Theban Plays”
4.00 pm – Coffee break
– Modern and Contemporary Oedipuses and Lears
Chair: Silvia Bigliazzi
4.30 pm – Nicola Pasqualicchio (Verona), “Happy Ending for Old Kings: Jean-François Ducis’ Œdipe and Lear”
5.00 pm – Tamas Dobozy (Wilfrid Laurier University), “Sam Shepard’s ‘Body’ of Tragedy: A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)”
5.30 pm – Barry A. Spence (Amherst), “Shades of King Lear on Beckett’s Stage”
6.00 pm– Question time
25 May 2018 – Teatro Laboratorio, Arsenale
– King Lear
Chair: Nicola Pasqualicchio
9.00 am – 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 am – David Schalkwyk (Queen Mary University, London) and Elena Pellone (Shakespeare Institute), Language workshop
10.30 am – Coffee break
Chair: Nicola Pasqualicchio
11.00 am – Jaq Bessell (Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey) and Silvia Bigliazzi (Verona), Introduction to King Lear Open Rehearsal
11.30 am – Jaq Bessell and NOMA Physical Theatre, King Lear Open Rehearsal
12.30 pm – Discussion
