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Poetics, Politics and the Ruin in Cinema and Theatre since 1945

Poétique et politique de la ruine au cinéma et au théâtre depuis 1945

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Published on Monday, March 22, 2021

Summary

References to Greco-Roman antiquity in Europe between the two World Wars were abundant: first the 'Classical'served the idea of 'a return to order' considered by some as necessary after the heresies of the pre-War avant-garde; it then went on to be manipulated by both Fascist and Nazi ideologies. This conference explores how, by reinventing antiquity through working with ruins both politically and poetically, artistic processes as well as works of theatre and cinema record the historical and artistic consequences of this trauma in Europe.

Announcement

Argument

References to Greco-Roman antiquity in Europe between the two World Wars were abundant: first the 'Classical'served the idea of 'a return to order' considered by some as necessary after the heresies of the pre-War avant-garde; it then went on to be manipulated by both Fascist and Nazi ideologies. This conference explores how, by reinventing antiquity through working with ruins both politically and poetically, artistic processes as well as works of theatre and cinema record the historical and artistic consequences of this trauma in Europe. While this research is initially rooted in classical reception and theatre and cinema studies, the conference intends to enter into dialogue with other fields including archaeology, aesthetics, political sciences, anthropology, and media theory. The aim is to study these processes from 1945 to the present where these traces continue to be detectable in the works of artists in Europe.

Programme

University of Oxford, 2 april 2021

via zoom inscription : apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk

9:00-9:30 (GMT) : Introduction

9:30-10:45 : History and myth

Respondent: Laura Marcus, University of Oxford, New College, Goldsmith’s Professor of English literature

  • Werner Schroeter et l’interprétation des ruines (Pierre Eugène, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Études cinématographiques)
  • Theatre amongst the ruins: The poetics and politics of South African adaptations (Mark Fleishman, University of Cape Town, Theatre and Performance Studies)

10:45-11:00 : Break

11:00-12:15 : Setting and landscape

Modération Respondent: Justine McConnell, King’s College London, Comparative Literature, Classical Reception

  • The Ruin as an emblem for Contemporary European Theatre: Milo Rau’s Orestes in Mosul (Nicole Haitzinger and Johanna Hörmann, University of Salzburg, Dance Studies)
  • Antigone à ciel ouvert (Cléo Carastro, EHESS, Anthropologie religieuse et histoire culturelle de la Grèce ancienne)

12:15-1:15 : Lunch

1:15-2:45 : War and violence

Respondent: Tiphaine Karsenti, Université Paris Nanterre, Études théâtrales

  • Material and immaterial ruin: ta'zieh and Greek tragedy (Yassaman Khajehi, Université Clermont Auvergne, Études théâtrales)
  • Tony Harrison and the Unflinching Gaze (Agata Handley, University of Lodz, Literature Studies)
  • War in Fragments (Estelle Baudou, University of Oxford, Theatre Studies, Classical Reception; Giovanna Di Martino, University College London, Classics)

2:45-3:00 : Break

3:00-4:00 : Plenary

Respondent: Pantelis Michelakis, University of Bristol, Classical Reception

Université Paris Nanterre, INHA, 22 novembre 2021

timetable to be confirmed

Nature and Anthropocène

Respondent: Clare Finburgh-Delijani, Goldsmiths University of London, Theatre Studies

  • De la ruine comme métamorphose cinématographique de la vanité : Robinson in Ruins, à la recherche d’une image « naturelle » (Marianne de Cambiaire, Université d’Aix-Marseille, Études cinématographiques)
  • La ruine antique comme véhicule d’un renouvellement descriptif de la figuration du paysage au cinéma (Pollet, Huillet et Straub, Robbe-Grillet) (Lucas Lei, Université Paris Nanterre, Études cinématographiques)

Remaking and repetition

Respondent: Joanna Paul, Open University, Classical Studies

  • Singing Ruins: cinema and musical iterability in Philip Glass’Orphée (1993) (Zoë Jennings, University of Oxford, Classics)
  • Le Mépris : un Solde de l’Olympe ? (Marc Cerisuelo, Université Gustave Eiffel, Études cinématographiques, Esthétique)
  • Par-delà la ruine, retrouver la question de l’être : une remontée de l’Ister avec Hölderlin et Heidegger (David Barison et Daniel Ross, The Ister, 2004) (Marie Eve Loyez, Université Paris Nanterre, Université de Montréal, Études cinématographiques)

Body and lisibility

Respondent: Barbara Le Maître, Université Paris Nanterre, Études cinématographiques

  • Saxa loquuntur : (il)lisibilité des ruines chez Pasolini (Anne-Violaine Houcke, Université Paris Nanterre, Études cinématographiques, Réception de l’Antiquité)
  • From Fragmentation to Deconstruction: Ancient Myth on Contemporary Stage (Malgorzata Budzowska, University of Lodz, theatre studies, classical reception)
  • Quelqu’un a-t-il déjà entendu soupirer des pierres ? (W. Herzog). Du corps à la ruine (et retour) (Jeremy Hamers et Lison Jousten, Université de Liège, Études cinématographiques)

Plenary

Respondent: Fiona Macintosh, University of Oxford, APGRD, Classical Reception

Organisers

  • Anne-Violaine Houcke, HAR (Histoire des Arts et des Représentations), Université Paris Nanterre
  • Estelle Baudou, APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama), University of Oxford

Scientific Committee

  • Estelle Baudou (University of Oxford) 
  • Anne-Violaine Houcke (University of Paris Nanterre)
  • Barbara Le Maître (University of Paris Nanterre)
  •  Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford)

Participation

The first day of this conference will be held online via Zoom. Please email apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk with queries or to book a place.


Date(s)

  • Friday, April 02, 2021
  • Monday, November 22, 2021

Attached files

Keywords

  • archéologie, ruine, ruine, cinéma, théâtre, représentation, politique, poétique

Contact(s)

  • Marina Egidi
    courriel : marina [dot] egidi [at] parisnanterre [dot] fr

Information source

  • Marina Egidi
    courriel : marina [dot] egidi [at] parisnanterre [dot] fr

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« Poetics, Politics and the Ruin in Cinema and Theatre since 1945 », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Monday, March 22, 2021, https://calenda.org/857361

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