Classics and the Spectacular under Fascism: Classical Performance in the ‘Ventennio Fascista’

10.15-10.45 Registration and Coffee

10.45-11.00 Welcome from Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
Giovanna Di Martino and Sara Troiani present the APGRD and Laboratorio Dionysos Databases

11.00-12.00 Classicising the Spectacle – Chair: Oliver Taplin (Oxford)
Eleftheria Ioannidou (Groningen) – A Classical Modernity
Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford) – Aeschylus, Modernity and the New ‘Classical’ Ideal

12.00-13.00 Classics and the Spectacular I: Ettore Romagnoli, INDA and Fascism – Chair: Giorgio Ieranò (Trento)
Sara Troiani (Trento) –Ettore Romagnoli’s Productions and the Fascist Regime
Natalie Minioti (Thessaloniki) – The Secret Meaning of the Chorus in the Theatrical Performances of the Dramatic Festival of Syracuse During the Fascist Period  

13:00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00 Classics and the Spectacular II – INDA, Music and Dances – Chair: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
Giovanna Casali (Bologna) – Did the Music Change under the Fascist Regime? A Survey of the Musical Compositions in the INDA Performances 
Giulia Bordignon (Venice) – Dance

15.00-15.15 Coffee break

15.15-16.15 Theorising Fascist Classicism – Chair: Eleftheria Ioannidou (Groningen)
Dimitris Plantzos (Athens) and Vasileios Balaskas (Malaga-Athens) – Reinventing Romanitas; Exchanges of Classical Antiquities as Symbolic Gifts Between Italy and Spain (1933-1943)
Helen Roche (Cambridge) – Theorising the Use and Abuse of the Classical Past in Mussolini’s Third Rome and Hitler’s Third Reich

16.15-17.15 Plenary led by Pantelis Michelakis

17.15-18.00 Drinks reception

For more information: giovanna.dimartino@classics.ox.ac.uk