Staging Ajax’s suicide

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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