Theatrum Mundi conference
This conference programme is provisional; please check nearer the time for any changes.
(Venue: Daubeny Rooms, Magdalen College, Oxford unless otherwise stated)
Thursday 12th September
13:00-15:00 Pedagogical Forum --- POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Friday 13th September
9:00-9:30 Registration and Welcome
9:30-10:30 First Keynote: PD Dr. Stefan Tilg (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, Austria), ‘Early Modern Latin Comedy’
10:30-12:30 Panel 1:New Discoveries
- Dr. Martin Wiggins (Shakespeare Institute), ‘A Recently Discovered Latin Play from Civil War Oxford’
- Prof. Roger Green (Glasgow), ‘George Buchanan’s Jephthes: Euripides versus Seneca’
- Prof. John Nassichuk, ‘A woman saint at the College de Bourgogne: Claude Roillet’s Catherinae tragoedia’
- Dr. Cressida Ryan (Oxford), ‘The art of Artaxerxes, or what we can learn from an unknown play’
12:30-13:30 Lunch (Magdalen dining hall)
13:30-15:00 Panel 2:Early Drama at Oxford
- Dr. James McBain (Magdalen, Oxford), ‘Early Drama at Oxford: The example of Magdalen’
- Ms. Elizabeth Sandis (Merton, Oxford), ‘A Christmas Special: manuscript evidence for a spectacular season at St John's College, Oxford (1607/8)’
- Dr. Emma Buckley, ‘Matthew Gwinne’s Nero, Academic Drama, and the Politics of Polity’
15:00-15:30 Coffee/Tea
15:30-17:00 Visit to Manuscript Exhibition: Laudian Library, St John’s College
Tour of APGRD (Oxford Classics Faculty’s Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama)
17:30-19:00 Staged Reading (The Christmas Prince): Laudian Library, St John’s.
Followed by Prof. Elisabeth Dutton (Fribourg), the director of The Christmas Prince, in conversation with translator Elizabeth Sandis and the cast.
19:30 Conference Dinner (Al Shami Lebanese restaurant)
Saturday 14th September
9:00-10:00 Second Keynote: Prof. Thomas Earle (St Peter’s, Oxford), ‘The Creative Use of Latin Drama: The Case of Portugal’
10:00-11:30 Panel 3:Catholic Drama
- Dr. Nienke Tjoelker (LBI), ‘Clemency, Patriotism and the Roman Republic: the Significance of Jesuit Theatre in the Eighteenth Century’
- Dr. Valerio Sanzotta (LBI), ‘Respiciens ad pauca facile pronuntiat: Michele Giuseppe Morei’s preface to the fourth edition of Carpani’s tragedies’
- Dr. Ewa Skwara (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan), ‘A Renaissance Comedy in a Roman Costume (Chrysis by Aenea Silvio Piccolomini)’
11:30-12:00 Coffee / Tea
12:00-13:00 Panel 4: Latin Drama in the Low Countries
- Prof. Jan Bloemendal (Huygens Institute), ‘Religion and Latin Drama in the Early Modern Low Countries’
- Ms. Eva Von Hooijdonk (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), ‘Commoedia Harlemiensis and Hollandsch Sinnespel: Dynamic interplay of Neolatin and vernacular drama in two Naaman-plays from Holland’
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Magdalen dining hall)
14:00-15:30 Panel 5: Latin Drama in England
- Mr. Daniel Blank (Princeton), ‘Performing Religion: the Staging of Exile in John Foxe’s Christus Triumphans’
- Dr. Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby (Memorial University of Newfoundland), ‘Dramatic Texts in the Tudor Curriculum: John Palsgrave and the Henrician Educational Reforms’
- Prof. Russ Leo (Princeton), ‘The Dramata Sacra, before Confessionalization’
15:30-17:00 Panel 6: Latin Drama in Bohemia
- Dr. Kateřina Bobková-Valentová (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), ‘Jesuit School Theatre Practices in the Bohemian Province and their Educational Function’
- Dr. Alena Bočková (Charles University, Prague), ‘The Protagonist as a Role Model: Jesuit School Plays featuring St. John of Nepomuk’
- Dr. Magdaléna Jacková (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), ‘Staging the End of the Academic Year at Jesuit Grammar Schools in the Bohemian Province’
17:00-17:30 Coffee/Tea (Magdalen Auditorium foyer)
17:30-18:30 Public Lecture (Magdalen Auditorium): Dr. Alison Shell (UCL), ‘Byzantium in Seventeenth-Century English Catholic School Drama’
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