THE NEXT OPEN CONFERENCE – ON THE THEME OF ‘PERFORMING TEXTS’ WILL BE HELD ON THE GREEK ISLAND OF SPETSES.

Wednesday, July 1

13.00-16.30 Arrivals and Check-In

17.00-17.15 Introduction: Gregory Nagy (CHS, Harvard University), Lucia Athanassaki (University of Crete), Tim Power (Rutgers University)

Session 1: Discussant Michel Briand (Université de Poitiers)

17:15-18.00 Asya Sigelman (Bryn Mawr College)
Paraleipsis in Olympian 1: Restoring Cosmic Balance in Text and in Performance

18.00-18.45 Maša Ćulumović (CHS US)
Pindar’s Olympian 9 from a local and Panhellenic perspective

18.45-19:30 Pavlos Sfyroeras (Middlebury College)
How to Repay a Debt: Performing Pindar’s Olympian 10

Evening Free

Thursday, July 2

Session 2: Discussant Angus Bowie (University of Oxford)

09:00-09:45 Amy Lather (Wake Forest University)
The Allure of Poikilia in the Ancient and Modern Imagination

09:45-10:30 Vanessa Cazzato (CNRS – ANHIMA, Paris)
Performance in the Mind: Perceptual Simulation in Archaic Greek Lyric (and Japanese Noh and Contemporary Experimental Theatre)

10:30-11:15 Pauline A. LeVen (Yale University)
Posthuman lyric: performance and non-human texture

Session 3: Discussant Nancy Felson (University of Georgia)

11:45-12:30 Thomas Kuhn-Treichel (University of Heidelberg)
‘Imitate the Pelasgian horse …’: exhortations relating to the performance in Pindar and Bacchylides

12:30-13:15 Il-Kweon Sir (University of Oxford)
The Controlling Poet: Deictics and Poetic Control in Reperformance

13:15-14:00 Ronald J.J. Blankenborg (Radboud University)
Phonology beyond performance: Particles as written phonation in archaic lyric poetry

14:00-15:00 Lunch (offered by the organizers*)
15:00-17:00 Break

Session 4: Discussant Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (Stanford University)

17:00-17.45 Vasiliki Kousoulini (University of Athens)
Repetition in Ancient Greek Popular Songs and the Poetics of Performance in Perpetuum

17:45-18.30 Robert de Brose (Federal University of Ceará)
Cognitive Aspects of Pindar’s Poetics of Orality

18.30-18:45 Break

Session 5: Discussant Andrew Ford (Princeton University)

18:45-19:30 Henry Spelman (University of Cambridge)
Learning to Perform Texts

19:30-20:15 Enrico Emanuele Prodi (University of Oxford)
Text in performance, performance in text: Archaic poetic culture and the poetry book

20:15 Dinner (offered by the organizers*)

Friday, July 3

Session 6: Discussant Paula da Cunha Correa (Universidade de São Paulo)

09:00-09:45 Margarita Alexandrou (University of Cyprus)
Iambos between performance and textuality: the case of Hipponax

09:45-10:30 Adrian Gramps (University of Dublin)
Performing Hipponax: Callimachus fr. 191 Pf.

10:30-11:15 Andrea Rotstein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Text, Performance and Genre in Timocreon of Rhodes fr. 727 PMG

11:15-11:45 Coffee break (offered by the organizers)

Session 7:Discussant Lawrence Kowerski (CUNY Graduate Center)

11:45-12:30 Gregory Nagy (CHS, Harvard University)
Text and reperformance: do you really need a text for your reperformance?

12:30-13:15 Xavier Riu (Universitat de Barcelona)
Πάλιν from oral to written. Reinterpretations of an old compositional device

13:15-14:00 Andrea Capra (Durham University)
Simonides and the Homeridae

14:00-15:00 Lunch (offered by the organizers*)
15:00-17:00 Break

Session 8: Discussant Ettore Cingano (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)

17:00-17.45 Almut Fries (University of Oxford)
Κλέος ἄφθιτον ἕξεις: Text and Reperformance in Early Greek Praise Poetry

17:45-18.30 Thomas J. Nelson (University of Cambridge)
The Poetics of Iteration: Greek Lyric Between Re-Performance and Intertextual Repetition

18.30-18:45 Break

Session 9: Discussant Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)

18:45-19:30 Deborah T. Steiner (Columbia University)
Lyric figures: the iconography of archaic and early classical song performances

19:30-20:15 Emmanuel Aprilakis (Rutgers University)
The Chorus-Leader in Archaic Lyric Poetry

20:15 Evening free

Saturday, July 4

Session 10:Discussant Giuseppe Zanetto (Università degli Studi di Milano)

09:00-09:45 Carmine Ampolo (Scuola Normale Superiore) & Emilio Rosamilia (Università di Pisa)
Performing Odai in the West. A New Fifth-Century-BC Document from Ancient Kaulonia

09:45-10:30 Mark de Kreij (Radboud University)
‘Sänger und Sängerinnen finden wir überall’? A survey of circumstantial and direct evidence for Greek song in Roman Egypt

10:30-11:15 Ian Rutherford (University of Reading)
Hymns to Eileithuia in Pausanias

11:15-11:45 Coffee break (offered by the organizers)

Session 11: Discussant Jenny Strauss Clay (University of Virginia)

11:45-12:30 Giovan Battista D’Alessio (Università di Napoli)
Performance, ‘mediated’ communication, and the first person

12:30-13:15 Ella Haselswerdt (Cornell University)
The Tragic Choral We: Understanding the Chorus’s Subject Position through Ajax’s Second Stasimon

13:15-14:00 Claire Catenaccio (Georgetown University)
Song and Self-Determination in Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians

14:00-15:00 Lunch (offered by the organizers*)
15:00-17:00 Break

Session 12: Discussant Ellen S. Greene (University of Oklahoma)

17:00-17.45 Eva Marie Stehle (University of Maryland)
Mousikê as Peithô and the Strategy of Sappho 16 and 96 V

17:45-18.30 Anton Bierl (University of Basel)
Sappho between Performance and “Text”: Body and Aesthetics in Dialog

18.30-18:45 Break

Session 13: Discussant Ewen Bowie (University of Oxford)

18:45-19:30 André Lardinois (Radboud University)
Sappho’s Silent Children: How, when and why were Sappho’s songs first being read?

19:30-20:15 Caterina Carpinato (Università Ca’ Foscari)
Re-performing archaic lyric poetry towards the end of the IInd millennium CE.

20:15 Dinner (offered by the organizers*)

Sunday, July 5

Session 14: Discussant Maria Xanthou (Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University & University of Bristol)