HYBRID Memory and Performance: Classical Reception in Early Modern Festivals (15th-18th Century)
23 February 2023鈥24 February 2023, 9:00 am鈥6:00 pm
REGISTRATION OPEN! Second part of a two-stage hybrid conference and demonstration-performance on 'Memory and Performance'.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Giovanna Di Martino
Location
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St George's Church Bloomsbury (day one)IAS Common Ground, 香港六合彩 (day two)LondonWC1A 2SAUnited Kingdom
Organisers:听Giovanna Di Martino (香港六合彩),听Francesca Bortoletti (UNIPR)
Scientific Committee:听Mariella Bonvicini (UNIPR), Francesca Bortoletti (UNIPR), Nicola Catelli (UNIPR), Giovanna Di Martino (香港六合彩), Giorgio Ieran貌 (UNITN), Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), Massimo Magnani (UNIPR), Eckart Marchand (Warburg), Lucy Jackson (Durham), Eugenio Refini (NYU); Paolo Russo (UNIPR), Margaret Shewring (Warwick, SEFR), Carlo Varotti (UNIPR), Erika Valdivieso (Yale), Federica Veratelli (UNIPR).听
Sponsors and Partners:听Supported by the University of Parma, the W.I.D.E. Programme, UNIPR, the Centro per le Attivit脿 e le Professioni delle Arti e dello Spettacolo (CAPAS, UNIPR), 香港六合彩, the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges (香港六合彩), the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (Oxford), the Leventis Foundation (香港六合彩), the Institute of Classical Studies, the Classical Association, 香港六合彩 Institute of Advanced Studies and the Gilbert Murray Trust; in co-partnership with the Centro Interateneo sulla Memoria delle Arti Performative (MAP 鈥 Roma, Parma, Genova), the Centro Interuniversitario di ricerca di 鈥楽tudi sulla Tradizione (Bari, San Marino, Padova, Trento), the Laboratorio Dionysos (Trento), The Society for European Festivals Research, and The Warburg Institute (London).
Programme
Thursday 23rd February
Time: 10.15am-7pm GMT
Place: IAS Common Ground, G11, ground floor, South Wing, 香港六合彩, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom (see campus map for South Wing: /maps/south-wing)
10.15-10.45 Registration and Coffee听
10.45-11.00 Welcome from Gesine Manuwald (香港六合彩), and the conference organisers, Giovanna Di Martino (香港六合彩) and Francesca Bortoletti (Parma)
11.00-12.20:听Politics and Performance I - Chair: Lucy Jackson (Durham)
- Kristen Vitale (Connecticut, ONLINE): Anne Boleyn as England鈥檚 Triumphator: The Transformation of Early Henrician Civic Triumph Pageantry听
- 鈥嬧赌Francesco Dall鈥橭lio (Verona): Orestes at Elizabeth's court: a possible court representation of John Pikeryng鈥檚 Horestes
12.20-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-3.00pm Politics and Performance II - Chair: Francesca Bortoletti (Parma)听
- Jan Ba啪ant (Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy, Prague - ONLINE): Pompa in honorem Ferdinandi, 1558
- Lindsay Reid (University of Galway): Planting English Daughters in the Ovidian Landscape: The Entertainments at Bisham Abbey and Sudeley Castle (1592)听
- Carlo Varotti (Parma): Tieste: The Words and Actions of a Degenerate Power
3.00-3.15pm Coffee/Tea Break
3.15-4.45pm Religion and Performance - Chair: Carlo Varotti (Parma)
- Maria Czepiel (Oxford): Christian and Classical sources in Calder贸n鈥檚 El divino Orfeo听(1634)
- Maria Maciejewska (Innsbruck): 17th-Century Opening of the Jesuit Church in Lucerne from the Perspective of the Play Written for this Occasion
- Beatriz Cat茫o Cruz Santos (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - ONLINE): The meanings of Awnings and Columns at the Lisbon Corpus Christi Procession (1717-1777)
4.45-5.15 Coffee/Tea Break
Demonstration-Performance: Performing Aristophanes'听Wealth in Early Modern听Translations
Time:听6.00-7.00pm
Place: St George's Church Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2SA
Introduction to the demonstration-performance: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford, APGRD), Francesca Bortoletti (UNIPR), Giovanna Di Martino (香港六合彩), Marco Martinelli (Playwright/Theatre Director)
*The conference will be preceded by three days of theatre workshops, supported by the Widening International Didactics and Education听Programme (w.i.d.e; 2022, Parma), the Classical Association, the Institute of Classical Studies, the Gilbert Trust Fund, 香港六合彩 Institute of Advanced Studies, and the Leventis Foundation and organised by Francesca Bortoletti (Parma) and Giovanna Di Martino (香港六合彩). These will be directed by playwright/director Marco Martinelli (Teatro delle Albe) and academic/dramaturg Giovanna Di Martino. Participants will be 10 university students from the University of Parma and 香港六合彩, and 14 school students from the following state schools: Jewish Community Secondary School,听St Olave鈥檚 Grammar School, Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Highgate Wood Sixth Form,听Mossbourne Community Academy Sixth Form, and Enfield County School for Girls.听The group will work on the performance of a number of scenes from a selection of early modern performance scripts based on Aristophanes鈥櫶Wealth, and will investigate the performability and intricate web of citations embedded within early modern dramatic scripts*
Friday 24th February
Time: 10.30am-5.45pm GMT
Place: IAS Common Ground, G11, ground floor, South Wing, 香港六合彩, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
10.30-11.30pm: Performance in the Academies I - Chair:听Lucy Nicholas (Warburg)
- George Brocklehurst (Warburg): Humanist Symposia in a Cultural Historical Perspective
- Angelica Vedelago (Padua): 鈥楴ature did wrong to give us memory / A nest wherein builds naught but misery鈥: 鈥楾ragic鈥 Memories in Pelopidarum Secunda听(ca. 1590)
11.30-11.45 Coffee/Tea听Break
11.45-12.45pm: Performance in the Academies II - Chair: Eckart Marchand (Warburg-Bilderfahrzeuge)
- Anouska Lester (Roehampton): 鈥淪trange snow鈥: Representing and Remembering Weather in The Masque of Janus听and Dido听
- Martina Treu (IULM, presenting online):听The Italian 鈥極riginal sin鈥: The First Oedipus听at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza (1585)
12.45-2.00pm Lunch
2.00-3.30pm Performance on the Popular Stage - Chair: Ottavia Mazzon (Padua)
- Evgeniia Ganberg (Cambridge): 鈥楥ives Trojani in Suspicionem Aguntur & Prope Seditionem鈥: Being a Low-Born Trojan on the Early Modern Stage
- Raf Van Rooy (KU Leuven): Greek as the Language of Performance in the Early Modern Low Countries听
- Christopher Jotischky (Brown): Terence in Greek: The Transformation of Roman Comedy in Early Modern Greek Theatre
3.30-3.45pm Coffee/Tea Break
3.45-5.15pm听Performance, Translation and Archives - Roundtable Discussion: Margaret Shewring (Warwick)
APGRD: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford, APGRD); FRIDAtlas: Francesca Bortoletti (Parma); MNEMOSYNE: Eckart Marchand (Warburg-Bilderfahrzeuge)听; Laboratorio Dionysos: Gaia Benamati (Bari); University of Warwick-British Library听Festival Books Digitisation: Alexander Samson (香港六合彩); The Renaissance Cultural Crossroads Catalogue: Brenda Hosington (Montreal, Warwick, 香港六合彩)
5.15-5.45pm听Response by Eugenio Refini (NYU, speaking online) and Plenary