Plautus' Stichus: Seminar Series and Workshop
Corpus Christi College Classics Centre and the APGRD are pleased to invite you to a double act dedicated to Plautus’ Stichus, which will consist of a hybrid weekly seminar and a two-day workshop, both open to everyone, in collaboration with the APGRD and Corpus Christi College Classics Centre.
Organisers: Domenico Giordani (Oxford/UCL) and Giuseppe Pezzini (CCC, Oxford).
Introduction
Mondays from 5pm to 6.30pm, 24 April - 12 June, Corpus Christi College and on Zoom
Our programme encompasses a wide array of topics and perspectives on the play — from textual criticism to gender studies, from ancient and modern reception to stage-related issues and performance. In addition to presentations on selected passages given by graduate students and early career researchers, sessions will also feature introductions on several aspects of the text such as transmission, language, metre, Greek model, and the historical context of its performance.
The seminar is open to everyone and it is by no means expected that participants will have any prior knowledge of Stichus or of Roman comedy in general. In fact, our aim is to bring different approaches to bear on the text and thus open up new avenues for interpretation.
The programme, including the location for each session and the list of speakers, can be found below.
Seminar Registration
If you are planning to attend the seminar (either in person or via Zoom), please register your details on our online seminar form here.
Seminar Programme
Week 1: 24 April (Seminar room)
Domenico Giordani (Oxford/UCL) and Vincent Graf (Leipzig)
Week 2: 1 May (Rainolds Room)
Domenico Giordani (Oxford/UCL) and Gregory Hutchinson (Oxford)
Week 3: 8 May (Seminar Room)
Anna Andreopolou (UCL) and Beppe Pezzini (Oxford)
Week 4: 15 May (Seminar Room)
Marius del Core (Pisa) and Connor Beattie (Oxford)
Week 5: 22 May (Seminar Room)
Cynthia Liu (Oxford) and Łukasz Berger (Poznań)
Week 6: 29 May (Seminar Room)
Timothy Smith (Oxford) and Holly Hunt (Oxford)
Week 7: 5 June (Seminar Room)
Thomas Lister (Oxford) and Eleanor Dickey (Reading)
Week 8: 12 June (Seminar Room)
T.H.M Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest) and Stefano Cianciosi (Oxford)
Research Conference
Potant seruuli: Text, Performance, and Reception of Plautus' Stichus
Organisers: Giuseppe Pezzini (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) & Domenico Giordani (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford / UCL)
15 June (Lady Margaret Hall, Monson Room)
3-3.15: Introduction
3.15–4: Gesine Manuwald (UCL): ‘Plautus’ Stichus and dramatic conventions’
4-4.15: Tea and coffee
4.15–5: Matthew Leigh (Oxford): ‘Reading Plautus with Frederick Douglass’
16 June (Ioannou Centre, Lecture Theatre)
9-9.15: Tea and coffee
9.15-10: Orlando Gibbs (Cambridge): ‘Sub-elite friendship in the Stichus’
10-10.45: Dorota Dutsch (UCSB): ‘Pamphila De Officiis’
10.45-11: Tea and coffee
11-11.45: Wolfgang de Melo (Oxford): ‘Old men, women, slaves: a linguistically realistic portrayal?’
11.45-12.45: Domenico Giordani (Oxford/UCL) & Alex Silverman (Oxford): ‘Singing Sisters: Plautus in Music’
12.45-1.15: Roundtable
1.15-2.15: Lunch