mardi 18 juin 2019

A one-day conference on Greek drama and the ‘classic(s)’ in the Arab-speaking world and Iran, Oxford 12.7.2019

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Classical Theatre and the Middle East

A one-day conference on Greek drama and the ‘classic(s)’ in the Arab-speaking world and Iran

Friday 12 July, Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford



10am Welcome: Marilyn Booth (Khalid bin Abdulla Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, Oxford)

10.15-11.30am - Classics and theatre in the Middle East (Chair: Marilyn Booth (Oxford))

Evelyn Richardson (Chicago): Greek myth and ancient history on the early Arabic stage: three translations of Racinian tragedies

Raph Cormack (Columbia): Foreign or local: what did ancient Greece mean in an age of modern nationalism?

11.30-1pm - What is a "classic" in the Middle East? (Chair: Malika Bastin-Hammou (Grenoble))

Ons Trabelsi (Lorraine): Molière, un classique arabe?

Carmen Gitre (Virginia Tech): Shadow Play to Proscenium Stage: Najib al-Rihani and the Crafting of Modern Egyptian Comedy

Sameh Hanna (Leeds): Reconfiguring the ‘classic’ in the Arabic translations of Shakespeare’s tragedies: Khalīl Muṭrān’s Othello



1-2.15pm LUNCH



2.15pm-3.30pm - Modern engagements with the classics in the Middle East: (Chair: Nur Laiq (TORCH Global South Visiting Fellow))

Shaymaa Moussa (Cairo): Ahmed Etman and Classics in Egypt

Sandra Vinagre (Lisbon): The Syria Trojan Women: From therapeutic theatre to a cry for action

3.30- 4.30pm - Modern engagements with the classics in Iran: (Chair: Yana Zarifi (London))

Lloyd Llewelyn-Jones (Cardiff): Greek theatre in Iran - a long view?

Houman Zandi-Zadeh (Flinders): The Politics of State Festivals: Disloyal to the Queen, Loyal to Peter Brook

4.30-5pm - tea

5-6pm – Exhibition

6pm - PERFORMANCE of Hanane Hajj Ali’s Jogging

With very best wishes,

The APGRD
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APGRD
Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama
University of Oxford, 66 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk

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