Conferences

An international, interdisciplinary conference held on 29-30 January 2016, exploring the myth of the sacrifice of Iphigenia in various media over the centuries, from ancient art to Game of Thrones.

Keynote speaker: Edith Hall - Iphigenia and atheistic thought from Lucretius to the 21st century.

Creative practitioners:

• Mike Carey (author)
• Emma Rucastle (The Rose Company)

Details and programme here. In association with the  Greek Tragedy Film Season.

This three-day conference was held on 23-25 July 2012 at Lincoln Hall, University of Nottingham.

Scholars from Britain, Europe, North and South America delivered 24 papers in panels on:

• Menander and Athenian Society (unfreedom; men and women; the economy, the military and religion)
• Menander and the comic/tragic/intellectual traditions
• Menander’s reception in antiquity and modern times.

Conference programme here. The proceedings were later published under the same title, see our Publications page.  

This colloquium, co-sponsored by the Classical Reception Studies Network, was held on 31 October 2009 at the Hemsley Staff Club, University of Nottingham.

Speakers:

• Pat Easterling (Cambridge): Greek Tragedy and its Transformations (keynote)
• Barbara Graziosi (Durham): The encounter between Hector and Andromache: ancient and modern receptions
• Sarah Miles (Nottingham): Comic Quotations: The Reception of Euripidean Drama in [Plato’s] Theages
• Susanna Phillippo (Newcastle): Andromache’s ‘vel umbra satis es’; Seneca (and Virgil) and the recreation of Greek tragedy
• Tim Rood (Oxford): Polybius, Thucydides and the First Punic War
• Nick Wilshere (Nottingham): Lucian’s Achilles: melancholy shade, vainglorious soldier and cross-dressing lesbian

This one-day conference was held on 6 December 2008 at the Arts Centre, University of Nottingham.

Speakers:

• Toni Badnall (Nottingham): Gendered speech in Lesbian love-lyric?
• Jennifer Coates (Roehampton): Gender myths and gendered reality: a sociolinguistic overview
• Stephen Colvin (UCL): The koiné: a common language (for men, that is)
• Luuk Huitink (Oxford): Xenophon's gallery of women: speaking women in Xenophon's works
• Helen Lovatt (Nottingham): The eloquence of Dido: speech and gender in Virgil's Aeneid
• Judith Mossman (Nottingham): ‘A man’s a man for a’ that’: male speech in Euripides; Trojan Women
• Alison Sharrock (Manchester): Further voices in Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Evert van Emde Boas (Oxford): Gender-specific communication and speaker-line attribution in tragedy: two test cases

This one-day conference was held on 29 April 2006 in the Trent Building, University of Nottingham, in association with a production of the play.

Speakers:

• Performance panel discussion: Producing Nottingham’s 'Trachiniae'
• Vasiliki Angelaki (RHUL): Her Side of the Story: Martin Crimp’s 'Cruel and Tender'
• Felix Budelmann (OU): Representing Heracles’ Pain
• Ioanna Hadjicosti (UCL): Two Performances of the 'Trachiniai' in Greece, 1994 and 2004
• Stephanie Harrop (RHUL): Ezra Pound’s 'Women of Trachis': Modernist Translation as Performance Text
• Eleanor O’Kell (Leeds): Sophocles’ 'Trachiniae' in 2004-2005 - Luc Bondy, Martin Crimp’s 'Cruel and Tender' and Handel’s 'Hercules'
• Amanda Wrigley (APGRD/OU): Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Dianeira

This three-day conference was held on 30 June-2 July 2004 at Nightingale Hall, University of Nottingham. Proceedings were later published as Horkos. The Oath in Greek Society.

This one-day conference was held on 14 May 2003 to celebrate the completion of Alan Sommerstein’s Aris & Phillips edition of the comedies of Aristophanes, in the Arts Centre, University of Nottingham. The proceedings were later published under the same title.

This three-day international conference was held on 17-19 July 2000 at Nightingale Hall, University of Nottingham. The proceedings were later published as Shards from Kolonos, 2003.