“The Greeks”: Muses, Myths, and Modernities
An International Seminar Monash University, Thursday May 3, 2007
Venue: Monash Conference Centre, Seminar Room 1, Level 7, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne CBD.
Recordings of this seminar are available via the Communications & Media Studies Podcast or by clicking on the title of each paper listed in the programme below.
Programme
9.30 am-9.45am
Welcome and Introduction
9.45am-10.45am
Associate Professor Peter Murphy, Communications and Media Studies, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
Paper: Troy and Gallipoli: The Australian Myth of Foundation
Peter Murphy is the author of Civic Justice (Prometheus/Humanity Books, 2001), co-author of Dialectic of Romanticism (Continuum, 2004), and coeditor of Agon, Logos, Polis (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001).
10.45am-11.45am
Morning Tea (Catered)
11am-12noon
Associate Professor Louis Ruprecht, Jr, William Suttles Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Georgia State University
Paper: Modern shrines to an ancient muse: a religious history of the modern public art museum
Louis Ruprecht is author of Was Greek Thought Religious? On the Use and Abuse of Hellenism, From Rome to Romanticism (Palgrave, 2002), Symposia: Plato, the Erotic and Moral Value (SUNY, 1999), Afterwords: Hellenism, Modernism and the Myth of Decadence (SUNY, 1996), Tragic Posture and Tragic Vision: Against the Modern Failure of Nerve (Continuum, 1994).
12noon-1pm
Lunch Break
1pm-2pm
Associate Professor Luis David, S.J., Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University
Paper: The Reclamation of Classical Antiquity For Post-Modern Times
Luis David is editor of Budhi, the leading journal of ideas and culture in the Philippines.
2pm-3pm
Professor Vassilis Lambropoulos, C.P. Cavafy Chair in Modern Greek, Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature, Department of Classical Studies and Program in Comparative Literature, University of Michigan.
Vassilis Lambropoulos is author of The Tragic Idea (Duckworth, 2006), The Rise of Eurocentrism (Princeton University Press, 1993), and Literature as National Institution (Princeton University Press, 1988).
3pm-3.30pm
Afternoon Tea (Catered)
*3.30pm-4.30pm_
Associate Professor Vrasidas Karalis, Department of Modern Greek, University of Sydney
Paper: Can ancient myths express modern politics: some comments on Theo Angelopoulos’ Ulysses Gaze
Vrasidas Karalis is the author of Nikos Kazantzakis and the Palimpsest of History (Kanakis, 1995) and a number of translation-studies of books by Michael Psellos, Michael Doukas, and Leo the Deacon. He is also the translator of Patrick White’s Voss and A Cheery Soul into Greek.
4.30-6pm
Concluding General Discussion
For further information, contact Peter Murphy.