Conference Abstracts
1. Eric Adler (Dept of Classical Studies, Duke University,
Durham, NC, USA)
An examination of the Boudica speeches to her troops found in
the works of Tacitus (Ann. 14.35) and Cassius Dio (62.3-6 )
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2. Felix Budelmann (Lecturer, Dept of Classical Studies,
The Open University, UK)
Fémi Òsòfisan's The Women of Owu’
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3. Katharine Burkitt (Salford University, UK)
Imperial Reflections: The Post-Colonial Verse-Novel as Post-Epic
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4. Concetta Croce (L'Aquila University, Italy)
Medea from Brazil: Canonical counter discourse in Postcolonial
Latin America
Abstract
5. Freddy Decreus (Professor of Theatre Studies, University
of Gent, Belgium)
Can tragedies staged in post-colonial settings be tragic?
Abstract
6. Thomas Dowson (School of Art History and Archaeology,
University of Manchester, UK)
Finding Classical civilization in darkest Africa: Greek/Roman
material culture and the construction of colonial myths.
Abstracts
7. Richard Fletcher (Downing College, Cambridge University,
UK)
‘O, Sing, Ulysses!’ Jonas Mekas and the Home Movie
of Displacement
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8. Robert Fraser (Senior Research Fellow, Literature
Department, Open University, UK)
Of Sirens, Science and Oyster-Shells: Hypatia the philosopher
from Gibbon to Black Athena
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9. James Gibbs (Senior Lecturer, School of English
and Drama, University of West England, Bristol, UK)
Antigone and her African Sisters: an examination of work based
on Antigone produced in Ghana, South Africa, Malawi and Nigeria
(1962-1994)
Abstract
10. Barbara Goff (Lecturer, Dept. of Classics, University of Reading,
UK)
Antigone’s Boat: the colonial and the postcolonial in
Tegonni by Fémi Òsòfisan
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11. Jaime Gonzalez (Associate Research Member, Centre d'Etudes et
de Recherches sur l'Antiquite, Groupe "Texts scientifiques
et techniques anciens", Universite de Caen, France)
Use of Greek Hubris as a Concept Applied to Contemporary History
Events
Abstract
12. Emily Greenwood (Lecturer, School of Greek, Latin
and Ancient History, University of St. Andrews, Fife, UK)
Between Colonialism and Independence: Classics in Trinidad in
the 1950s and 60s
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13. Rhona Hammond (The Open University, UK)
Invoking the Muse and performing your name: Derek Walcott’s
approach to one aspect of epic tradition in Omeros
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14. Lorna Hardwick (Professor of Classical Studies,
The Open University, UK)
Multi-lingualism in classical representations in post-colonial
contexts
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15. Michiel Leezenberg (University of Amsterdam, Holland)
Performativity and Conflict in Greek Tragedy: A Postcolonial
and Postliberal Reading
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16. Rachel Mairs (Faculty of Classics, St Catharine's
College, Cambridge, University, UK)
Hellenistic India
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17. Jessie Maritz (Senior Lecturer, Religious Studies,
Classics and Philosophy, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)
Classical Influences on Sculpture in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe
Abstract
18. Phiroze Vasunia (Dept. of Classics, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
Classics and the Indian Civil Service
Abstract
19. Jonathan Prag (Lecturer in Ancient History, School
of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK)
Cicero's Verrines and British Imperialism
Abstract
20. Cashman Kerr Prince (Assistant Professor of Classics,
McMaster University, Ontario, Canada)
A Divided Child, or Derek Walcott’s Post-colonial Philology
Abstract
21. Michael Simpson (Lecturer, Dept of English and
Comparative Literature,
Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK)
The Curse of the Canon : Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not
to blame
Abstract
22. Elke Steinmeyer (Lecturer, Classics Programme,
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Post-Apartheid Electra in the City of Paradise
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23. Trish Thomas (University of Wales Swansea, UK)
Ulysses’ Gaze – on the Balkan Conflict, War and
the Greek Soul
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24. Harish Trivedi (Dept. of English, Dehli University,
India)
Western Classics: Indian Classics Contestations in Postcolonial
Space
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25. Richard Whitaker (Professor of Classics, University
of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa)
‘The shades of borrowed ancestors’: Greek and Roman
Classics in the Post-Colonial Poetry of Derek Walcott
Abstract
26. Ika Willis (Centre for Cultural Studies, University
of Leeds, UK)
The Empire Never Ended
Abstract
27. Stephen Wilmer (Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity
College, Dublin, Ireland)
Finding a Post-colonial Voice for Antigone: Seamus Heaney's
Burial at Thebes
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