Διεθνές συμπόσιο «Shakespeare in Greece - Greece in Shakespeare» στο ΕΚΠΑ

Για την επέτειο των 400 χρόνων από τον θάνατο του Σαίξπηρ. το Τμήμα Αγγλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών διοργανώνει διεθνές συμπόσιο με θέμα: Shakespeare in Greece / Greece in Shakespeare στις 25/10/2016, με τη συμμετοχή Βρετανών και Ελλήνων μελετητών, μεταφραστών και σκηνοθετών του έργου του.

Kτήριο Κωστής Παλαμάς
Ακαδημίας 48 και Σίνα
Τρίτη 25 Οκτωβρίου 2016, 9:15 - 20:00

Πρόγραμμα
Tuesday 25 October 2016 Kostis Palamas building
Organized by Vassiliki Markidou, Efterpi Mitsi
(Department of English Language and Literature) and Xenia Georgopoulou (Department of Theatre Studies)

PROGRAMME

9:15-9:30 Welcome - Evangelia Sakelliou-Schultz, Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

9:30-10:15 1st Plenary Lecture:
Alison Findlay, Lancaster University
Re-Shaping Athens in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen (Chair: Vassiliki Markidou)

10:15-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-12:15 1st session: Greece and the Greeks in Shakespeare (Chair: Mina Karavanta)
Efterpi Mitsi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Greek Heroes and ‘strutting players’ in Troilus and Cressida
Vassiliki Markidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
‘To take our imagination / From bourn to bourn, region to region’: The Politics of Greek Topographies in Pericles
Nic Panagopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Plato’s Republic and King Lear: The Theme of Justice

12:15-13:00 2nd Plenary Lecture: John Drakakis, University of Stirling Hospitality, Friendship and Republicanism in Timon of Athens (Chair: Aspasia Velissariou)

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:30 2nd session: Shakespearean Afterlives (Chair: Nic Panagopoulos)
Aspasia Velissariou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
‘And makes it indistinct / As water is in water’: The Melting Away of the Heroic Subject in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Dryden’s All for Love
Xenia Georgopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Shakespeare in the popular culture of 21st century Greece
Mina Karavanta, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Blood Fictions: The Nature of Race Thought in Caryl Phillips’ Othello

15:30-16:15 3rd Plenary Lecture: Rob Maslen, University of Glasgow
Generals and Degenerates in Shakespeare’s Trojan History
(Chair: Efterpi Mitsi)

16:15-16:45 Coffee break

16:45-18:15 3rd session: Shakespeare in Translation
(Chair: Xenia Georgopoulou)
Paschalis Nicolaou, Ionian University
Re-arrivals at Troy: Greek Responses to Troilus and Cressida’s Textual Complexities
Vasso Yannakopoulou, University of Cyprus
The Fickle Nature of a Danish Prince in Greek
Nikos Ηatzopoulos, translator, director and actor
Xenia Georgopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Errikos Belies on Shakespearean Translation

18:15-19.45 Round table: Shakespeare on the Greek Stage
(Chair: Xenia Georgopoulou)
Georgina Kakoudaki, director and theatre teacher
Savvas Stroumpos, director and actor
Alexandros Sotiriou, director and actor

Funded by the Department of English Language and Literature & by the Special Account for Research Grants of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens