School of History, Classics & Archaeology

Conference - Staging emotions: Affect and emotional expressions in Euripides

Programme

Monday 19 December

  • 9:30-9:45 Welcome and registration
  • 9:45-10:00 Opening remarks
  • 10:00-11:00 Keynote speaker: DOUGLAS CAIRNS (University of Edinburgh): Euripides, Tragedy, and the History of Emotions

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

  • 11:15-12:00 ANNA CONSER (University of Cincinnati): Passion and Pitch Accents: A Digital Study of Intonation Melodies in Euripides
  • 12:00-12:45 RONALD BLANKENBORG (University of Nijmegen): Truncated emotions: Euripidean dochmiacs

12:45-14:15 Lunch break

  • 14:15-15:00 LUUK HUITINK (University of Amsterdam): Once More with Feeling: The Affective Narratology of Some Euripidean Messenger Speeches
  • 15:00-15:45 JANEK KUCHARSKI (University of Silesia in Katowice): Invisible Emotions. Off-Stage Cries and their Enactment in Euripides

15.45-16:00 Coffee break

  • 16:00-16:45 CHIARA BLANCO (University of Edinburgh): The Final Touch: Exploring Emotions in Euripides’ Alcestis
  • 16:45-17:30 ANASTASIA-STAVROULA VALTADOROU (University of Edinburgh): Falling in Love with Euripides’ Andromeda: A Metatheatrical Reading of Menander’s Dyscolus

Tuesday 20 December

  • 09:30-10:15 SANDY CARDINALI (University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”): Φιλανθρωπία as (tragic) emotion. Preliminary remarks on Euripides’ drama
  • 10:15-11:00 ALBA BOSCA-CUQUERELLA (University of Bristol – Universidad de Salamanca): Analysing emotions through γνῶμαι: the case of some Euripidean women

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

  • 11:15-12:00 ALEXANDRA HARDWICK (Oxford University): “What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, / That he should weep for her?” Shared Affects in Hecuba and Trojan Women
  • 12:00-12:45 DANIELA MILO (University of Naples “Federico II”): The emotions of memory: thoughts on Trojan female prisoners of war in Euripidean plays

12:45-14:15 Lunch break

  • 14:15-15:00 THEODORE HILL (Durham University): The Nature and Function of Divine Emotions in Euripides
  • 15:00-15:45 VASILIKI KOUSOULINI (University of Patras – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): The Emotions of the Victims of Divine Rape in Euripides’ Plays

15:45-16:00 Coffee break

  • 16:00-16:45 VALENTINA CARUSO (University of Sassari): The impossible song between horror and mystery: Choral odes about filicide
  • 16:45-17.30 LOES WOLTERS (University of Nijmegen): ‘This best thing is slippery’ – The narrative function of αἰδώς in Iphigenia at Aulis and The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • 17:30-17:45 Closing remarks
The Sculpture of Farnese Hercules
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Conference - Staging emotions: Affect and emotional expressions in Euripides

The conference is a collaborative venture between the University of Leiden and the University of Edinburgh, held in person in Leiden and on Zoom.

University of Leiden 6 Pieterskerkhof Gravesteen 0.11 2311 SR Leiden Netherlands and on Zoom