Classical Receptions in Drama and Poetry in English
from c.1970 to the Present

WEDNESDAY 19 MAY
10.00	COFFEE
10.30	WELCOME and
	Opening Plenary Freddy Decreus, Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Gent, Belgium, Can tragedies staged in post-colonial settings be tragic? [abstract] Thomas Dowson, School of Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester, UK Finding Classical civilization in darkest Africa: Greek/Roman material culture and the construction of colonial myths [abstract] Harish Trivedi, Professor of English, University of Delhi, University, India Western Classics: Indian Classics Contestations in Postcolonial Space [abstract] Steve Wilmer, Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Finding a Post-colonial Voice for Antigone: Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes [abstract]
12.45	LUNCH
14.00	Africa Panel Chair : David Richards Felix Budelmann, Lecturer, Dept of Classical Studies, The Open University, UK Fémi Òsòfisan 's ‘The Women of Owu’ [abstract] James Gibbs, Senior Lecturer, School of English and Drama, University of West England, Bristol, UK Antigone and her African Sisters: an examination of work based on Antigone produced in Ghana, South Africa, Malawi and Nigeria (1962-1994) [abstract] Barbara Goff, Lecturer, Dept. of Classics, University of Reading, UK Antigone’s Boat: the colonial and the postcolonial in Tegonni by Fémi Òsòfisan [abstract] Michael Simpson, Lecturer, Dept of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK The Curse of the Canon : Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to blame [abstract]
16.00	TEA/COFFEE
16.30	Caribbean Panel Chair : Ruth Hazel Richard Whitaker, Professor of Classics, University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa ‘The shades of borrowed ancestors’: Greek and Roman Classics in the Post-Colonial Poetry of Derek Walcott” [abstract] Cashman Kerr Prince, Assistant Professor of Classics, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada A Divided Child, or Derek Walcott’s Post-colonial Philology [abstract] Emily Greenwood, Lecturer, School of Greek, Latin and Ancient History, University of St. Andrews, Fife, UK Between Colonialism and Independence: Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 60s [abstract] Rhona Hammond, Research Associate, Post-Colonial Literatures Research Group,The Open University, UK Invoking the Muse and performing your name: Derek Walcott’s approach to one aspect of epic tradition in Omeros [abstract]
19.00	CONFERENCE DINNER

THURSDAY 20 MAY
09.00	Post-Colonial Theory & Texts Panel Chair : David Richards Katharine Burkitt, Salford University, UK Imperial Reflections: The Post-Colonial Verse Novel as Re-Worked Epic [abstract] Robert Fraser, Senior Research Fellow, Literature Department, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Of Sirens, Science and Oyster-Shells: Hypatia the philosopher from Gibbon to Black Athena [abstract] Jaime Gonzalez, Associate Research Member, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur l'Antiquite, Groupe "Texts scientifiques et techniques anciens", Universite de Caen, France Use of Greek Hubris as a Concept Applied to Contemporary History Events. [abstract] Michiel Leezenberg, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Performativity and Conflict in Greek Tragedy: A Postcolonial and Postliberal Reading [abstract]
11.00	COFFEE
11.30 Parallel Session	Empire Panel Chair : Ruth Hazel Rachel Mairs, Faculty of Classics, St Catharine's College, Cambridge University, UK Hellenistic India [abstract] Phiroze Vasunia, Dept. of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA Classics and the Indian Civil Service [abstract] Ika Willis, Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, UK The Empire Never Ended [abstract]
11.30 Parallel Session	Politics & Texts Panel Chair : Felix Budelmann Eric Adler, Dept of Classical Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, An examination of the Boudica speeches to her troops found in the works of Tacitus (Ann. 14.35) and Cassius Dio (62.3-6) [abstract] Concetta Croce, L'Aquila University, Italy, Medea from Brazil: Canonical counter discourse in Postcolonial Latin America [abstract] Elke Steinmeyer, Lecturer, Classics Programme, University of Natal, South Africa, Post-Apartheid Electra in the City of Paradise [abstract]
13.00	LUNCH
14.00	Images Panel Chair : Thomas Dowson Richard Fletcher, Downing College, Cambridge University, UK ‘O, Sing, Ulysses!’ Jonas Mekas and the Home Movie of Displacement. [abstract] Jessie Maritz, Senior Lecturer and acting Head of Department, Religious Studies, Classics and Philosophy, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, Classical Influences on Sculpture in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe [abstract] Trish Thomas, University of Wales Swansea, UK, Ulysses’ Gaze – on the Balkan Conflict, War and the Greek Soul [abstract]
15.30 – 16.30	*Closing Plenary Round Table* Chair : Lorna Hardwick Professor Freddy Decreus, Dr. Thomas Dowson, Dr. Jessie Maritz, Professor Harish Trivedi, Professor Richard Whitaker, Professor Steve Wilmer

Classical Receptions in Drama and Poetry in English from c.1970 to the Present

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

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

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Programme

Opening Plenary

Africa

Caribbean

Post-Colonial Theory & Texts

Empire

Politics & Texts

Images

Classical Receptions in Drama and Poetry in English
from c.1970 to the Present

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