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Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds -
an international, interdisciplinary conference

19-20 May 2004, The Open University, Harborne, Birmingham

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Conference Papers

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An examination of the Boudica speeches to her troops found in the works of
Tacitus (
Ann. 14.35) and Cassius Dio (62.3-6)
Eric Adler, Dept of Classical Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 

Fémi Òsòfisan's The Women of Owu’
Felix Budelmann, Lecturer, Dept of Classical Studies, The Open University, UK    

Imperial Reflections: The Post-Colonial Verse-Novel as Post-Epic
Katharine Burkitt, Salford University, UK

Medea from Brazil: Canonical counter discourse in Postcolonial Latin America
Concetta Croce, L'Aquila University, Italy

Can tragedies staged in post-colonial settings be tragic? 
Freddy Decreus, Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Gent, Belgium

Finding Classical civilization in darkest Africa: Greek/Roman material culture
and the construction of colonial myths

Thomas Dowson, School of Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester, UK

‘O, Sing, Ulysses!’ Jonas Mekas and the Home Movie of Displacement
Richard Fletcher, Downing College, Cambridge University, UK  

Of Sirens, Science and Oyster-Shells: Hypatia the philosopher from Gibbon to Black Athena 
Robert Fraser, Senior Research Fellow, Literature Department, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK  

Antigone and her African Sisters: an examination of work based on Antigone
produced in Ghana, South Africa, Malawi and Nigeria (1962-1994)

James Gibbs, Senior Lecturer, School of English and Drama, University of West England, Bristol, UK

Antigone’s Boat: the colonial and the postcolonial in Tegonni by Fémi Òsòfisan
Barbara Goff, Lecturer, Dept. of Classics, University of Reading, UK  

Use of Greek Hubris as a Concept Applied to Contemporary History Events 
Jaime Gonzalez, Associate Research Member, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur l'Antiquite, Groupe "Texts scientifiques et techniques anciens", Universite de Caen, France

Between Colonialism and Independence:
Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 60s
 
Emily Greenwood, Lecturer, School of Greek, Latin and Ancient History, University of St. Andrews, Fife, UK

Invoking the Muse and performing your name: 
Derek Walcott’s approach to one aspect of epic tradition in
Omeros
Rhona Hammond, The Open University, UK 

Multi-lingualism in classical representations in post-colonial contexts
Lorna Hardwick, Professor of Classical Studies, The Open University, UK

Performativity and Conflict in Greek Tragedy: A Postcolonial and Postliberal Reading
Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam, Holland

Hellenistic India
Rachel Mairs, Faculty of Classics, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, University, UK

Classical Influences on Sculpture in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe
Jessie Maritz, Senior Lecturer, Religious Studies, Classics and Philosophy, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe.

Classics and the Indian Civil Service
Phiroze Vasunia, Dept. of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Cicero's Verrines and British Imperialism 
Jonathan Prag, Lecturer in Ancient History, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK

A Divided Child, or Derek Walcott’s Post-colonial Philology 
Cashman Kerr Prince, Assistant Professor of Classics, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada 

The Curse of the Canon : Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to blame
Michael Simpson, Lecturer, Dept of English and Comparative Literature,
Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK.

Post-Apartheid Electra in the City of Paradise
Elke Steinmeyer, Lecturer, Classics Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Ulysses’ Gaze – on the Balkan Conflict, War and the Greek Soul      
Trish Thomas, University of Wales Swansea, UK

Western Classics: Indian Classics
Contestations in Postcolonial Space

Harish Trivedi,  Dept. of English, Dehli University, India

‘The shades of borrowed ancestors’: Greek and Roman Classics
in the Post-Colonial Poetry of Derek Walcott

Richard Whitaker, Professor of Classics, University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa

The Empire Never Ended 
Ika Willis, Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, UK 

Finding a Post-colonial Voice for Antigone: Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes
Stephen Wilmer, Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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