2015 Classical Reception Workshop (U Michigan and Northwestern University)

10:10am: Philosophy, Ancient and Modern

• Arlene Saxonhouse: “‘Save Our City’: The
  Curious Absence of Aeschylus in
  Contemporary Political Theory”
• Frederika Tevebring: “Nietzsche vs. Classics,
  It’s a Draw”
• Ruth Mary Martin: “Bakhtin’s Socrates:
  Platonic Dialogue and the Origin of the
  Novel”
• Sara Ahbel-­Rappe and Eleanor Rappe:
  “Plato’s Games”

1:00pm: Lunch Break

2:00pm: Visit to Papyrology Library (meet in
Classics Library)

3:10pm: Classics in the 19th Century

• Heidi Morse: “Roman Slave Law and Black
  Testimony in 19th Century America”
• Neville McFerrin: “The Body Politic: How
  Neo-­Classical Fashion Helped Shape the
  Politics of Nineteenth Century Britain”

4:30pm: Break

4:45pm: Reception in Opera

• Jason Geary: “Strauss’s Elektra and the
  Violence of Modernism”
• Megan Wilson: discussion, selection from
  Ancient Rome in Early Opera