Staging Ajax’s suicide
Italy
Staging Ajax’s suicide
A three-day conference at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Sala degli StemmiThursday 07.11.2013 – Saturday 09.11.2013
Thursday 7
10:00-10:45 Opening10:00-10:15 Glenn W. Most, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Welcome10:15-10:45 Glenn W. Most Introduction 10:45-11:00 Coffee Pause
11:00-12:30 1st Session: Entering the Text (Chair: Glenn W. Most)11:00-12:30 1st Joint Translation of Sophocles Ajax 815-974
13:00 Lunch
15:00-16:30 2nd Session: Some Premises (Chair: Luigi Battezzato)15:00-15:45 Maria Luisa Catoni, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca The Iconographic Tradition of the Suicide of Ajax: Some Questions15:45-16:30 Pat Easterling, University of Cambridge Space in the Tragic Scholia
16:30-16:45 Coffee pause
16:45-18:15 3rd Session: General Considerations (Chair: Franco Ferrari),16:45-17:30 Alex Garvie, University of Glasgow The Death of Ajax17:30-18:15 Christine Mauduit, École Normale Supérieure, Paris Scénario pour un suicide
19:30 Dinner
Friday 8
9:15-10:45 4th Session: Space and Skênê I (Chair: Vayos Liapis)9:15-10:00 Franco Ferrari, Università dell’Aquila Ajax: Seven Ways to Get Rid of Himself10:00-10:45 Graham Ley, University of Exeter The Monster in the Bin: The Scene Building and Ajax
10:45-11:00 Coffee pause
11:00-13:15 5th Session: Space and Skênê II (Chair: Maria Chiara Martinelli)11:00-11:45 Vayos Liapis, Open University of Cyprus Genre and Stagecraft in Ajax11:45-12:30 Enrico Medda, Università di Pisa Uno spazio per morire: riflessioni sul suicidio di Aiace12:30-13:15 Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford Stage Space and the Location of Aias' Tomb
13:30 Lunch
15:00-16:30 6th Session: The Sword (Chair: Giuseppe Zanetto)15:00-15:45 Patrick Finglass, University of Nottingham Second Thoughts on the Sword15:45-16:30 Maria Chiara, Martinelli Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Aiace e la spada
16:30-16:45 Coffee pause
16:45-18:15 7th Session: The Corpse (Chair: Leyla Ozbek)16:45-17:30 Luigi Battezzato, Università del Piemonte Orientale Ajax on the ground17:30-18:15 Alan Sommerstein, University of Nottingham Corpses as Tragic Heroes
19:30 Dinner
Saturday 9
9:00-10:30 8th Session: Other Cases (Chair: Enrico Medda)9:00-9:45 Leyla Ozbek, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Sofocle e la rappresentazione della morte: il 'caso limite' della Niobe9:45-10:30 Giuseppe Zanetto, Università di Milano Killing Oneself, like an Ajax
10:30-10:45 Coffee pause
10:45-13:30 9th Session: Exiting the Text (Chair: Glenn W. Most)10:45-11:30 Scott Scullion, University of Oxford Assessing Arguments about Staging
11:30-12:45 2nd Joint Translation of Sophocles Ajax 815-97412:45-13:30 Concluding Discussion
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