Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia

Convegno / Congresso
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Audience in archaic lyric performance and classical theatre:

a synaesthetic continuity?

30 Settembre 2026 - 2 Ottobre 2026 , ore 9:30
Aula 001
Ingresso libero
Organizzato da: Anna Novokhatko
Destinatari: Tutti/e
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Staff del Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia
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WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER


9.30-9.45 Opening words (Bernhard Zimmermann, Anna Novokhatko)

9.45-10.30 Laura Swift (Magdalen College, Oxford), Mental Imagery and Visual Perception in Partheneia

10.30-11.15 Daniel Anderson (Merton College, Oxford), Flower Music, and Other Song Metaphors


11.15 COFFEE BREAK


11.45-12.30 Samantha Newington (University of Aberdeen), Poetic catharsis and the beauty of performance: Sappho, Hesiod and Euripides

12.30-13.15 Anna Novokhatko (Università di Trento), Comparing Synaesthetic Immersion Techniques in Epic, Lyric, and Dramatic Performance

15.00-15.45 Lawrence Kowerski (Hunter College, New York), Sympotic Senses: The Sympotic Context and Sensory Imagery in Early Greek Elegy

15.45-16.30 Cecilia Nobili (Università di Bergamo), The Dramatic Experience of the Symposium: Mimesis and Synaesthetic Perception    


16.30 COFFEE BREAK


17.10-17.45 Ronald Blankenborg (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Is Rhythm ‘a dancer’? Embodied Prosody as the Parser of Anapestic and Trochaic Speech

17.45-18.30 Chenxi Zhang (University of Chicago), The counter-palinodic gesture of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon


THURSDAY 1 OKTOBER


8.30-9.15 David Wilson (King’s College London), Pathways to Epiphany at the Dionysia

9.15-10.00 Andrea Capra (Università degli Studi di Milano), Reconfiguring Synaesthetic Experiences: The Dionysian from Ion of Chius to Plato

10.00-10.45 Simone Corvasce (Sapienza Università di Roma) A Kinaesthetic Approach to the Performance-Reperformance Duality of the Epinician Genre


10.45 COFFEE BREAK


11.15-12.00 Ettore Cingano (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia), Setting up Choruses All Over Greece: the Context and Gist of Choral Performance and its Relevance to Stesichorus

12.00-12.45 Edith Hall (University of Durham), ‘I Stand on Light Feet and Draw Breath’: Breathing and the Experience of Greek Choral Performance

15.00-15.45 Jonathan L. Ready (University of Michigan), Kinaesthetic Empathy, Inhabitable Scenarios, and the Enjoyment of Ancient Greek Tragedy and Choral Lyric

15.45-16.30 Theodora Hadjimichael (University of Birmingham), On coming after: Cultural knowledge, Memory, and Reperformance


16.30 COFFEE BREAK


17.10-17.45 Andrea Giannotti (University of Durham), Synaesthetic Lamentation: Multisensory Experience and Affective Imagery in the First Stasimon of Euripides’ Suppliant Women

17.45-18.30 Margaret Foster (University of Michigan), Off the Ground: Spatial Syntax in Ancient Greek Lyric and Tragedy


18.45-19.15 PERFORMANCE


Carina de Klerk (Binghamton University) and Lynn Kozak (Université McGill),

Ephemer-illz: an Improvised Greek Poetry Performance

20.00 CONFERENCE DINNER


FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER


9.15-10.00 Chiara Di Maio (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Διθυραμβοποιός or τραγῳδοποιός? Tracing the Cross-Generic Expressions of the So-Called New Music

10.00-10.45 Massimo Giuseppetti (Università Roma Tre), Modelling Cultic Effects: Synaesthetic Ecologies of Audience Response in Late Archaic Choral Song and Fifth-Century Drama


10.45 COFFEE BREAK


11.15-12.00 Giambattista D’Alessio (Sapienza Università di Roma), A Meta-Performative Text: New Readings and a New Interpretation of Pindar. fr. 140b

12.00-12.45 Richard Hunter (Trinity College, Cambridge), Plato on the Audiences of Epic, Lyric and Drama

12.45-13.00 Concluding remarks (Bernhard Zimmermann, Anna Novokhatko)