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Internationaal symposium “The Role of Classics in the Formation of European and National Identities. Euripides in Modern Europe”

Thursday, November 5
	Inauguration of the exhibition “Ceramic sculptured wall costumes inspired
	by Euripides’ Bacchae” of the Greek artist Stelios Koutroulis
Friday, November 6
9.30	Christiane Tytgat, director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens, Welcome
9.45	Pim den Boer, University of Amsterdam, Introduction: Euripides in Modern
	Europe
10.35	Irene de Jong, University of Amsterdam, Euripidean prologues: on the
	discontinuity of a classical tradition in European drama
11.25	Coffee Break
11.55	Pantelis Michelakis, University of Bristol, ‘A certain kind of realism’: Euripides,
	Sophocles, and cinema
13.00	Lunch Break
15.00	Bernhard Zimmermann, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Euripides-Rezeption
	in der deutschen Klassik und Romantik
15.50	Édith Karagiannis-Mazeaud, Université de Strasbourg, Aspects de la fortune
	d’Euripide en France au XVIe siècle : des plaidoyers de Budé aux «inventions»
	de la Pléiade
16.40	Chua Soo Pong, Chinese Opera Institute Singapore, Greek Theatre in China
17.30	Discussion
Saturday, November 7
9.30	Alexander Gavrilov, Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana, Die Rezeption 'à venir'
	des euripideischen 'Ion'
10.20	Anne Schlichtmann, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Euripides in der
	Romantik: August Wilhelm Schlegels Ion
11.10	Coffee Break
11.40	Maarten De Pourcq, Radboud University Nijmegen, Transforming the classics:
	sites of plenitude, sites of contingency. Jan Decorte’s childlike poetics in
	‘Betonliebe + Fleischkrieg: Medeia’
12.30	Lunch Break
14.30	James Stratford, University of Melbourne, In Medeas Res: Restaging Euripides
	on the European Stage
15.20	Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London, Euripides’ Iphigenia among the
	Taurians and European Identity
16.10	Ahmed Etman, Cairo University, Euripides Our Contemporary Humanist
17.00	Closing discussion