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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        

 

 

The Eugene O'Neill Society Seventh Annual Conference
June 11 - 15, Tao House Danville, CA
"O'Neill's Global Legacy"

Susan Glaspell Society Sponsored Panel:

"Performing Race, Gender and Nation:
Susan Glaspell, Eugene O’Neill
and the Modern Drama Classroom"

Chaired by Monica Stufft, University of California Berkeley

This panel will explore the global legacies of the two playwrights and to consider the ways we locally stage these legacies in a broadly defined modern drama classroom that includes our scholarship and productions.  Papers will investigate intertextual links around issues of race, gender and/or nation.  How do the plays of Glaspell and O”Neill construct identities both nationally and internationally?  How might issues of race, gender and/or nation circulate when we frame these playwrights as American in relation to the European modern theatrical tradition and, in our scholarship and productions, as part of the modern drama canon? 

Francesca Coppa, "Divided by a Common Language: O'Neill, Glaspell and the European Modern Drama Tradition"

Michael Winetsky, "Performing Liberalism: Empathy and Protest in an Age of Nationalist Fervor"

Monica Stufft, "American Bodies: Intersections of Race and Gender in Emperor Jones and Inheritors"


 

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