Saturday 20th September  9.00 – 9.30  Registration

1) 9.30-11.15

Staging the Past

The Space is the Show: Spatial Poetics as Reception of Greek Tragedy

Paul Monaghan
University of Melbourne

The Emotion of Multitude: The Greek Chorus on the Modern Stage

Martina Treu
IULM University, Milan

Adolescent Pastoral and the Golden Age in Act I of The Lost Echo’

Elizabeth Hale
University of NSW

Humour, Metafiction and the Frogs: Aristophanes and the Tradition of Self-conscious Literature

Will Noonan
University of Sydney

Morning Tea 11.15 – 11.45

2) 11.45-1.15

Playing with Bodies

Playing Clytemnestra and the Forgotten Body

Meredith Rogers
La Trobe University

Seneca in the Flesh

Helen Slaney
Monash University

Fleshing out the Gaps: Staging Sappho

Jane Griffiths
Monash University

Lunch 1.15 – 2.15

3) 2.15-3.45

Politics

Fear and Greed under Pax Romana

Hugh Niall
Monash University

Greek Tragedy and Political Reflection

Michael Janover
Monash University

The Legacy of George Grote's Reconstruction of Athenian Democracy

Stuart Dawson
Monash University

Afternoon Tea 3.45 – 4.15

4) 4.15-5.30

Edge of Empire

'Hobart's Very Own Parthenon': Lady Jane Franklin's Ancanthe

Jessica S. Dietrich
Australian National University

On the Unimportance of Oscar Wilde

Alastair Blanshard
University of Sydney

Reception   5.30 – 6.15

5) 6.15 – 7.30 The 2008 Trendall Lecture:

Professor Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge): The Audience on Stage in Sophocles

8.00 – Conference dinner – Santucci’s, Koornang Road, Carnegie

Sunday 21st September  9.00 – 9.30 - Day registration

6) 9.30-11.00

Retelling Homer

Charybdis, Circe, Scylla and Sam Newman: gender wars in Odyssey XII

Siobhan Privitera
Monash University

The Ruins of Apollo's City: Wolfgang Petersen's 'Troy' and the Crisis of Western Civilization

Barbara P. Weinlich
Texas Tech University

Penelope Speaks

R. Natasha Amendola
Monash University

Morning Tea 11 – 11.30

7) 11.30-1.00

Medea

Ernest Legouvé's Medea and the Ghost of Frances Knorr
 



Ivar Kvistad
Deakin University

Medea in Gabon

Elke Steinmeyer
University of KwaZulu-Natal

Exploring Medea as Political Actress

Natalie Miller
Monash University

Lunch 1.00 – 2.00

8) 2.00-3.30

The ancient and the novel

A City Famed Through the World’: Pompeii in 20th & 21st Century Fiction.

Joanna Paul
University of Liverpool

Grandia Consumpsit Moenia Tempus Edax: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in XX Century Historical Fiction.

Filippo Carlà
Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy)

The Modern Labyrinth:
Post-Sovism and the Minotaur

Alison Traweek /
Douglas Carman
University of Pennsylvania

Afternoon Tea 3.30 – 4.00

9) 4.00-5.30

Education and the Classics

My First Book of Greek Myths:
Classical Mythology as Children's Literature

Miriam Riverlea
University of Melbourne

Latin for the Very Young

Meg McPherson
Christ Church Grammar
Melbourne

Classics at the Crossroads

Victoria Fritze
Monash University

Closing comments - convenors and keynote