Classical Studies Program Presents
Sappho: New Voices
Presented by the Bard College Classical Studies Program and sponsored by James H. Ottaway Jr.
Bard's Classical Studies Program will host a day-long colloquium on the ancient Greek poet Sappho in light of the extraordinary discovery this year of two previously unknown poems. The colloquium will bring together a panel of experts to lead one of the first public discussions of this important new find, reevaluating the context, meaning and implications of Sappho's poetry and her literary world.
Program:
10am: Introduction: Lauren Curtis (Bard College) and Robert Cioffi (Bard College)
10.45-12.15: Session 1: Gender and Performance
Timothy Power (Rutgers University): "Performance Scenarios for the New Poems of Sappho"
Melissa Mueller (University of Massachusetts Amherst): "Recentering Epic Nostos: Gender and Genre in the Brothers Poem"
12.15-1.30: Lunch break
1.30-3: Session 2: Sappho and Society
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University): "A High-class Trader, Courtesan, and Poetess, a Tyrant, and Archaic Greek-Eastern Interaction”
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University): "Hera and Now"
3-3.30: Coffee break
3.30-5: Session 3: Religious Poetics
Timothy Barnes (Princeton University): "Sappho's daimon: a Reading of the Fourth Stanza"
Albert Henrichs (Harvard University): “What’s in a Prayer? Sappho’s Way with Words"
5-5.30: Round table discussion
Evening performance:
6pm, Olin Auditorium
Bracko: A reading of Sappho by Anne Carson, Robert Currie, Nick Flynn, and Sam Anderson.
For more information, call 845-758-7282, e-mail [email protected],
or visit http://classicalstudies.bard.edu.
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 204