Reception Studies: State of the Discipline and New Directions

An online, four-day conference hosted by Massey University, New Zealand, in collaboration with The Imagines Project. More information and how to register for the panels (and/or the entire conference) will be made available in the next couple of months.

Programme

Day 1: 24 June 2021 

Greetings and brief opening remarks by: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand) and Luis Unceta Gómez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Panel 1: Rethinking Classical Reception Theory and Methodology

Chair: Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Saint Joseph’s University)

Suspended Temporalities, Female Otherness, and Classical Reception – Zina Giannopoulou (University of California Irvine: UC Irvine)

Rethinking Dialogue Models: The Case of the Phaedrus – Lauren Wilson (The University of Nottingham)

Fortuna dell’antico (and Beyond): The State of Reception Studies in Italy – Tiziana Ragno (Università di Foggia)

Panel 2: Screen Receptions  

Chair: Luis Unceta Gómez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Palimsestic Idols: Classical Receptions in Silent Film Stardom – Michael Williams (University of Southampton)

Mocking the Hollywood Canon: Parodies of Celluloid Classics from Latin American Cinema’s Studio Era –Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Saint Joseph’s University) 

Masked Celluloid Classics? In Search of the Tragic Heroine Electra in Film Noir – Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand)

Day 2: 25 June 2021 

Panel 3: Popular Culture  

Chair: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand)

Classics on the Surface: Classical Reception as an Emergent Process – Luis Unceta Gómez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

The Merging of Eastern and Western Traditions: Manga and the Power of the Classical Object – Amanda Potter (Open University) and Guendalina Daniela Maria Taietti (University of Liverpool)

Escaping ‘Hades’: Playing with Classical Reception – Hamish Cameron (Victoria University of Wellington)

 Panel 4: Performance Reception  

Chair: Martina Treu (Università IULM, Milan)

Theatre, Politics, and Money: Karolos Koun’s Art Theatre, the Greek Dictatorship, and the Ford Foundation – Gonda Van Steen (King’s College, London)

The “Advent of the New Order”: An Oresteia in Prague (1947) and the Epistemological Limits of Archivalia – Alena Sarkissian (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

Persistence of Tragedy: Antigone Today – Meryem Denyz (Stanford University) 

Day 3: 26 June 

Panel 5: Modern Societal Challenges and the Classics 

Chair: Zina Giannopoulou (University of California Irvine: UC Irvine)

The Master’s Tools?: Towards a Politics of Reception – Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College)

Ecoclassicisms: Ecocriticism and Classical Reception – Samuel Cooper (American University in Cairo)

Classical Reception in Disability Studies: Mary Duffy Imagining Alternative Futures – Amanda Kubic (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)

Day 4: 27 June 

Panel 6: Education in Academia and Beyond 

Chair:  Gonda Van Steen (King’s College, London)

Social Justice-Engaged Reception Pedagogy: “Classics Beyond Whiteness” at Wake Forest – T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University) and Caitlin Hines (University of Cincinnati)

Talking about Silence: How and Why to teach Classical Rape Stories – Caroline Bristow (University of Cambridge), Susan Deacy and Aimee Hinds (University of Roehampton)

Panel 7: Digital Pedagogy and Public Engagement  

Chair: Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College)

Classical Reception Meets Pedagogy: The Creation and Uses of the Panoply Vase Animation Project’s Our Mythical Childhood Animations – Sonya Nevin (University of Roehampton/Panoply Vase Animation Project)

Classical Reception Beyond the Classroom: Engaging Public Audiences with Remaking Ancient Myths – Emma Bridges (The Open University)

Brief concluding remarks – Anastasia Bakogianni