Comedy On and Off Stage
Conference Date: April 29, 2023
Conference Schedule:
Session I: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Faith McFadden (University of Southern California)
“The Non-Human Human: Animal-Valent Language in Aristophanes’ Courts”
Anna Andreopoulou (University College London)
“Reclaiming words: Gendered Perspectives on malitia in the comedies of Plautus”
Jo Spellman (University of Georgia)
“Talking Around the Victim: The Contentious Discussion of Rape in Terence’s Hecyra”
Lunch break: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Session II: 1:30 pm-3:00 pm
Anna Cambron (Duke)
“Mime and Comedy Onstage and Offstage in the Historiography of Nero”
Jenni Glaser (Bryn Mawr)
“Tragic Tears and Raucous Laughter: Lucian’s Theater of Life in the Underworld”
Maxwell Anthony (Columbia)
“Comedy and Regime: Apuleius and the Imperial Distortion of Political Philosophy”
Short break
Keynote: 4:00 pm
Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University, Emeritus)
“Clio Smiles: Greek Comedy As and For Historiography.”