The School of Historical and Philosophcial Studies Classics and Archaeology Conference

Conference Programme


Draft Conference Programme (15/6/2011)

NB. Some times and titles are still subject to confirmation. We expect a final programme to be finalized by the start of July. Programme abstracts can be found on the abstracts web page.

 

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

4.30 – 6.30 pm

Registrations and afternoon tea, The University of Melbourne

6.30 - 8.30 pm

Opening reception at the Museo Italiano, Carlton

Thursday, 14 July 2011

9.30 - 10.00 am

Registrations and morning tea

10 am – 12.00 pm

Session One: Style and Diction

Robert Maltby (Leeds University): Donatus on 'appropriate style' in the plays of Terence

Beatrice da Vela (University College, London): From the stage to the courtroom: gestures and pronunciation as educative tools in Donatus' commentary on Terence

1.30 – 5.00 pm

Session Two: Terence's Comedies: Composition, Transmission and Transformation

Joint presentation: Bernard Muir, Andrew Turner and K.O. Chong-Gossard (The University of Melbourne): The Transformations of Terence

Andrew Turner: Problems with the Terence Commenatry Traditions: The Sphinx and the Brown-Ink Scholiast

K.O. Chong-Gossard: Sex and comedy in Neithart's 1486 German translation of Terence's Eunuch

6.30 - 7.30 pm

Sesssion Three: Free Public Lecture

Dorota Dutsch (University of California, Santa Barbara): Staging the Andria; the Parisian Terence as palimpsest theater

Friday, 15 July 2011

9.30 am – 12.30 pm

Session Four: Ancient Drama in the Middle Ages

Chrysanthi Demetriou (Leeds University): The scholia on performance in Donatus' Commentum Terenti

Robin Dixon (University of Sydney): Querolus and theatrical performance in late antiquity

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Monash University): Boccaccio, Euripides and female virtue in the Middle Ages

2.00 – 4.00 pm

Session Five: Text and Performance

Gianni Guastella, University of Siena: Ornatu prologi: Terence's prologues on the stage/on the page

Giulia Torello Hill (University of Queensland): Terence's Eunuch in Renaissance Ferrara: from the scriptorium to the stage

8.00 pm

Conference Dinner

 

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