Staging Emotions: Affect and emotional expressions in Euripides

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19

9:15-9:45 Welcome & registration, coffee/tea

9:45-10:00 Opening remarks

Chair: Leonie Henkes

10:00-11:00 KEYNOTE: Douglas Cairns (University of Edinburgh) ‘Euripides, Tragedy, and the History of Emotions’

11:00-11:15 Coffee & Tea Break

Session 1 Chair: Arjan Nijk

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

Session 2 Chair: Casper de Jonge

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 Katowace) ‘Invisible Emotions. Off-Stage Cries and their Enactment in Euripides’

15:45-16:00 Coffee & Tea Break

Session 3 Chair: Glyn Muitjens

16:00-16:45 Sandy Cardinali (University of Urbino Carlo Bo) ‘Φιλανθρωπία as (Tragic) Emotion. Preliminary Remarks on Euripides’ Drama’

16:45-17:30 Anastasia-Stavroula Valtadorou (University of Edinburgh) ‘Falling in Love with Euripides’ Andromeda: A Metatheatrical Reading of Menander’s Dyscolus’

17:30 Drinks at PAKHUIS (Doelensteeg 8)

19:00 Dinner for speakers at KARALIS (Doezastraat 5)

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20

9:15-9:30 Welcome, Coffee & Tea

Session 4 Chair: Tazuko van Berkel

9:30-10:15 Chiara Blanco (University of Edinburgh) ‘The Final Touch: Exploring Emotions in Euripides’ Alcestis’

10:15-11:00 Alba Bosca-Cuquerella (University of Bristol – University of Salamanca) ‘Analysing Emotions through γνῶμαι: The Case of some Euripidean Women’

11:00-11:15 Coffee & Tea Break

Session 5 Chair: Francesco Moles

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

Session 6 Chair: Yolanda Panou

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 & Tea Break

Session 7 Chair: Leonie Henkes

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: Douglas Cairns

18:00 Drinks at Café DE KEYZER (Kaiserstraat 2-4)