Princeton/Oxford Seminar in Greek Literature

Antigone and Postclassicism

  • January 9-10, 2013
  • Princeton University

Schedule

Wednesday, January 9

11:00-12:30
Session 1
Chair: Brooke Holmes (Princeton)

Sebastian Matzner (Oxford)
“Postclassicism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism (and Philhellenism) – Some Theoretical Reflections”

Response: Gina White (Princeton)

Sam Galson (Princeton)
“Redeeming Exemplarity: Antigone before Hegel”

Response: Dan Jolowicz (Oxford)

12:30-2:00
Lunch (Prentice Library)

2:00-3:30
Session 2
Chair:  Andrew Ford (Princeton)

Barney Taylor (Oxford)
“The Sorites and the Canon: Horace Ep. 2.1.34-49″

Response: Sam Galson (Princeton)

Emilio Capettini (Princeton)
“Eros’ Attack on ktêmata (S. Ant. 782): A Case Study on the Role of the Chorus in the Antigone

Response: Lucy VanEssen-Fishman (Oxford)

3:30-4:00
Coffee Break

4:00-5:30
Session 3
Chair: Tim Whitmarsh (Oxford)

Joseph Dexter (Princeton)
“Performing the Non-Canonical Antigone: The Reception of Euripides’ Phoenissae, 1990-2010″

Response: Justine McConnell (Oxford)

Brad Wilson (Oxford)
“Phenomenology, Artaud and Performance Reception from the Inside”

Response: Mathura Umachandran (Princeton)

6:00-9:00
Reception & Dinner

Thursday, January 10

9:15-9:45
Breakfast

9:45-11:00

Bonnie Honig (Northwestern)
“Feminist Theory and the Turn to Antigone”

11:00-11:15
Coffee Break

11:15-12:45
Session 4
Chair: Constanze Güthenke (Princeton)

Gina White (Princeton)
“A Modern Antigone: Hegel, Kierkegaard, and the Sophoclean”

Response: Dawn LaValle (Princeton/Oxford)

Dan Jolowicz (Oxford)
“Some ‘Postclassicisms’: Thoughts on Belatedness, Newness, Prose and Film”

Response: Joseph Dexter (Princeton)

12:45-2:00
Lunch

2:00-3:30
Session 5
Chair: Bonnie Honig (Northwestern)

Mathura Umachandran (Princeton)
“Temporal Experiences of the Antigone

Response: Athina Siapera (Oxford)

Helen Todd (Oxford)
“Longinus on Imitation”

Response: Ella Haselswerdt (Princeton)

3:30-3:45
Coffee Break

3:45-5:15
Session 6
Chair: Katharine Earnshaw (Oxford)

Lucy Jackson (Oxford)
“Sophocles’ Influence on ‘Aeschylus’ and the End of the Seven Against Thebes

Response: Emilio Capettini (Princeton)

Ella Haselswerdt (Princeton)
“Dreams of a New World Order: The Role of the Choral Odes in Sophocles’ Antigone

Response: Sophie Bocksberger (Oxford)

5:30
Film Screening

7:00
Dinner
Masala Grill, 15 Chambers Street