PROGRAM
THURSDAY 1st SEPTEMBER
14h00-14h30
Registration
14h30-15h15
Anton BIERL (University of Basel)
David BOUVIER (University of Lausanne)
Ombretta CESCA (University of Lausanne)
Introduction
15h15-16h00
Niall SLATER (Emory University)
"Modified rapture!" In and Out of Orality in Staging Comedy
Coffee-break
Chair: Elizabeth Minchin
16h15-17h00
Claas LATTMANN (Kiel University)
Between Athens and Delphi. The Performance and Poetics of the Delphic Hymns
17h00-17h20
Sandra FLEURY (University of Montreal and EPHE Paris)
Writing the Unspeakable : How Did the Greeks Write About the Mysteries
17h20-18h05
Mathilde CAMBRON-GOULET (University of Québec)
Chreia in Context
FRIDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER
Chair: Niall Slater
9h15-10h00
Collective discussion with Claude CALAME (EHESS Paris).
From Cultural Memory to Poetic Memory: Ancient Greek Practices of History.
10h00-10h45
Fiona SWEET FORMIATTI (Australian National University)
The Transformation of Ransom into ξένιον: The Talking Therapy of Priam and Akhilleus (Il. 24)
Anna LEFTERATOU (Göttingen and Heidelberg Universities)
Eudocia Homeric Centos in Literary and Ritual Context
Coffee-break
Chair: Ruth Scodel
11h00-11h45
James O'MALEY (Melbourne College)
The Underworld as Narrative Space in Greek Oral Epic
11h45-12h30
Jonathan READY (Indiana University)
Oral Texts and Entextualization in Homeric Epic
Lunch
Chair: Ombretta Cesca
14h00-14h45
Deborah BECK (University of Texas)
Homeric Allusions in the Parodos of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
14h45-15h30
Elizabeth MINCHIN (Australian National University)
Memories Become Story: Homer’s Poetics of Persuasion
Coffee-break
Chair: Ray Person
15h45-16h30
Jasper GAUNT (Emory University)
Between Page, Stage and Symposium: Circe and Her Audiences in Archaic and Classical Greece
16h30-17h15
Rachel ZELNICK-ABRAMOVITZ (Tel Aviv University)
“Who Are You and Where Do You Come From?” – Mythical Language in Herodotus
Dinner at Crêt Bérard
SATURDAY 3rd SEPTEMBER
Chair: Jonathan Ready
9h15-10h00
Ruth SCODEL (University of Michigan)
Epitaph and Ritual
10h00-10h45
Greta HAWES (Australian National University)
Mythographical Topography and the (Dis)ordering of Myth: the Case of Antoninus Liberalis
Coffee-break
Chair: Deborah Beck
11h00-11h45
Ray PERSON (Ohio Northern University)
Multimodality and Metonymy: Deuteronomy as a Test Case
11h45-12h05
Olivier MOSER (HEP Lausanne)
Ritualizing the Reading. About Plato’s Corybantic Narratology
Lunch
Chair: Anton Bierl
14h00-14h45
Gregory NAGY (Harvard University)
Sappho 44 Revisited: What Is ‘Oral’ About the Text of This Song?
14h45-15h30/16h00
Collective discussion with the example of Sappho's poetry.
Some chosen texts will be read and commented by Anton Bierl, David Bouvier and Olivier Thévenaz.