Programme:
10.15-10.45
Registration and Coffee
10.45-11.00
Welcome from Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford) and Sara Troiani (Trento) present the APGRD and Laboratorio Dionysos Databases
11.00-12.00
Classicising the Spectacle
Chair: Oliver Taplin (Oxford)
Eleftheria Ioannidou (Groningen) - A Classical Modernity
Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford) – Aeschylus at the Crossroads between ‘Modernities’
12.00-13.00
Classics and the Spectacular I
Chair: Giorgio Ieranò (Trento)
Sara Troiani (Trento) - Ettore Romagnoli’s Productions and the Fascist Regime
Natalie Minioti (Thessaloniki) - The Secret Meaning of the Chorus in the Theatrical Performances of the Dramatic Festival of Syracuse during the Fascist Period
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00
Classics and the Spectacular II
Chair: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
Giovanna Casali (Bologna) - Did Music Change under the Fascist Regime? A Survey of the Musical Compositions in the INDA Performances
Giulia Bordignon (Venice) - "Living Sculpture": The Dancing Chorus at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse, 1927-1939
15.00-15.15
Coffee break
15.15-16.15
Theorising Fascist Classicism
Chair: Eleftheria Ioannidou (Groningen)
Dimitris Plantzos (Athens) and Vasileios Balaskas (Malaga-Athens) - Reinventing Romanitas: Exchanges of Classical Antiquities as Symbolic Gifts between Italy and Spain (1933-1943)
Helen Roche (Durham) - Theorising the Use and Abuse of the Classical Past in Mussolini's Third Rome and Hitler's Third Reich
16.15-17.15
Plenary led by Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol)
17.15-18.00
Drinks reception
Free, all welcome. Please register for your place here.
