conference program

8:30 a.m. Registration, Coffee

9:00 a.m. - 12 p.m. Morning Session
            (Both the Morning and Afternoon Sessions will include ample time for audience discussion.)
 

Thomas Bishop, Associate Professor and Director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University
Welcome

Mary-Kay Gamel, Flora Stone Mather Visiting Professor at Case Western Reserve University; Professor of Classics, Comparative Literature, and Theater Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Opening Remarks

Niall W. Slater, Professor of Classics; Director, The Center for Language, Literature, and Culture, Emory University
"Cross-Dress for Success"

Angeliki Tzanetou, Assistant Professor of Classics, Case Western Reserve University
"Sex, Lies, and Women's Rituals"

Gonda Van Steen, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Arizona
"Performing Women at the Thesmophoria in Modern Greece"

12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch Break

1:00-4:00 Afternoon Session
 

Peter Meineck, Artistic Director, Aquila Theatre Company; Artist-in-Residence/Adjunct Professor, New York University
"Stealing Fire from Olympus: Translating Aristophanes for the Stage"

John H. Starks, Jr., Lecturer in Classics, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"Inferior Argument Wins Every Time: Learning Aristophanes Onstage"

Richard Perloff, Assistant Professor of Drama, Ohio University
"Lysistrata in Go-Go Boots?  It Only Hurts When They DON'T Laugh"
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4:00-4:30 p.m.  Comment

Jeffrey Henderson, Professor of Classical Studies, Boston University

4:30-5:30 p.m. Reception
 

8:00 p.m. The Julie Thesmo Show directed by Michael Fullmer and Mary-Kay Gamel, Eldred Theater,
                Case Western Reserve University

Post–Show Discussion with Directors Mary-Kay Gamel and Michael Fullmer and actors

For more information:thesmo@po.cwru.edu

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