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Hellenic Studies Symposium
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies
Executive Director: Tom Papademetriou
conference organizer: David Roessel
Sponsored by the American Foundation of Greek Language
and culture
With the assistance of the European cultural centre at
delphi
Americans and the Experience of Delphi
June 24, 2008
8:55 Welcome: Tom Papademetriou
George Cram Cook Session
Chair: Christa Fratantoro
9:00 – 9:30 Linda Ben Zvi – “Jig Cook's Road
to the Temple”
9:30- 10:00 Debra Pantelaras, Victoria Conover,
Christa Fratantoro, Erica Skinner, John Logan and
David Roessel – “Cook’s American Friends in Greece:
John Alden and William Rapp”
10:00-10:30 Rodger Jackson – “Trust and
Betrayal in Eugene O’Neill”
10:30 – 11:00 Break
Eva Palmer Sikelianos Session
Chair: Tom Papademetriou
11:00 – 11:30 Gonda Van Steen –
“When to Stop Performing? The Delphic Festivals,
Nietzsche, and Mounting Militarism of the Late 1920s
and 1930s”
11:30 – 12:00 Efthalia Papadaki –
“Disconnecting the Delphic Festivals from their
American predecessors. A Greek leftwing construction
and the real Sikelianos George Cram Cook
relationship”
12:00 – 12:30 Mary Louise
Hart – “Eva Palmer’s Delphic Iconography”
12:30 – 1:00 Vassilis Lambropoulos – “The Allure of
Panic After Nietzsche”
The Magic Circle in 1939 – Seferis,
Miller and Durrell Session
Chair: Demetres Tryphonopoulos
4:30- 5:00 Diskin Clay – “Seferis' Delphi”
5:00 – 5:30 Ian Mac Niven – “The Road from
Delphi: Henry Miller and Greece”
5:30 – 6:00 Paul Lorenz – “The Omphalos and the
Pythia in Lawrence Durrell”
6:00 – 7:30 Reading of Suppressed
Desires and The Verge by Susan Glaspell
June 25, 2008
Susan Glaspell Session
Chair: Marina Angel
9:00 – 9:30 Barbara Ozieblo – “Letters Home:
Susan Glaspell’s Experience of Delphi”
9:30-10:00 Martha Carpentier – “Susan Glaspell’s
Greece: the people, the place and the past”
10:00- 10:30 Noelia Hernando-Real – “Susan
Glaspell’s Female Charioteers: the spirit of Delphi
and Aristotle’s Poetics in Inheritors, The
Verge and The Comic Artist”
10:30-11:00 Michael Winetsky – “The Noble
Peasant: Humanism and Primitivism in Glaspell’s Life
and Work”
11:00- 11:00 Break
H. D. Session
Chair: Katherine Panagakos
11:30 - 12:00 Demetres Tryphonopoulos – “A Journey
Towards Gnosis: The Place of Delphi in H. D.’s Majic
Ring”
12:00 - 12:30 Cathy Gere – “Minoan religion and
Delphic prophecy in
H. D.'s wartime works”
12:30 - 1:00 Peter Cochran – “Byron and the
Eagles of Parnassus”
3:00 - Visit to the Sikelianos Museum and
Cook Grave
4:00 - Poetry Reading by Edmund Keeley
5:30 - Desire Under the Elms,
directed by Pam Hendrick and performed by University of
Athens students
June 26, 2008
8:00 Breakfast Round-Table chaired by
Marina Angel and Tom Papademetriou
Discussion groups are planned, one on strengthening the
core; the other on expanding interdisciplinary
endeavors. We ask everyone to assist in building a
better program.
L’Envoi to George Cram Cook
Chair: David Roessel
9:00 – 9:30 Gail Cohen – “It Is Time to Go to
Greece: The Legacy of George Cram Cook”
9:30 – 10:00 Mike Solomonson
– “The Influence of
George Cram Cook’s Delphic Spirit on Eugene O’Neill”
10:00 – 10:30 Mark Mallett
Isadora Duncan Session
Chair: John Logan
11:00-11:30 Nurit Yaari – “Martha
Graham’s Greek Cycle”
12:00-12:30 Maria Hnaraki – “Isadora Duncan and
Greece”
12:30- 1:00 Lori Belilove from the Isadora Duncan
Foundation
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