From Homer to Hatzi-Yavrouda Aspects of Oral Narration in the Greek Tradition

29-30 September

From Homer to Hatzi-Yavrouda

Aspects of Oral Narration in the Greek Tradition

International conference arranged by The Danish Institute in collaboration with The University of Athens and with the support of The Carlsberg foundation.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Saturday

9.00 Welcome

9.15-10.00 General keynote: Michalis Meraklis, What is orality?

Panel 1 Ancient Greece

10.00-10.45 Keynote: Minna Skafte Jensen, The arch narrative: Homeric epics

10.45-11.15: Discussion

11.15-11.45: Coffee break 

11.45-12.05: Ioannis M. Konstantakos, Homeric epic and the Archaic Ionian novella 

12.05-12.25: Christos Zafiropoulos, University of Athens, The philosopher Socrates and the mythologos Aesop

12.25-12.45: Liqiong Yang, The interrelationship between the written treatises and oral delivery in the Hippocratic Corpus 

12.45-13.05: Sophia Papaioannou, University of Athens, Greek oral narrations and Roman imperial history 

13.05-13.35: Discussion

Lunch break

Panel 2 After Antiquity – Byzantium and post-Byzantium

15.00-15.45: Keynote: Tina Lendari, University of Athens

15.45-16.05: Stratis Papaioannou, Brown University, USA/University of Crete, Orality and Textuality in the Byzantine Literary Tradition 

16.05-16.25: Carolina Cupane, Orality, Aurality and the emergence of Byzantine Vernacular Literature

16.25-16.55: Discussion

16.55-17.20: Coffee break

17.20-17.40: Markéta Kulhánková, Masaryk University Brno, Byzantine Edifying Stories between Orality and Literacy 

17.40-18.00: Nicolette S. Trahoulia, Deree College – The American College of Greece, Looking for Traces of Orality in Byzantine Illustrated Manuscripts 

18.00-18.20: Andrew Walker White, George Mason University POST-CLASSICAL ‘ORALITURE’: THOUGHTS ON THE DRAMATIC SCHOLIA AS REGIEBUCH 

18.20-18.35: Discussion

19.30-20.30: Live performance of The Odyssey by Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden in the Garden of The British School at Athens

Sunday

Panel 3 Modern Greek tales, etc. 

9.00-9.45 Keynote: Carl Lindahl, University of Houston

9.45-10.05: Marianthi Kaplanoglou, University of Athens, Storytelling and the organization of village life in certain Greek insular communities 

10.05-10.25: Dimitris V. Prousalis, Once upon a time there was a storyteller: Past and present of orality and transmission under the identity of the human element 

10.25-10.55: Discussion

10.55-11.30: Coffee break

11.30-11.50: Birgit Olsen, Danish Institute at Athens, Hatzi-Yavrouda and the craft of storytelling 

11.50-12.10: Despina Damianou, Greek oecotype ATU 433B*. From Yavrouda to Tsirogles

12.10-12.30: Argyro E. Mountaki, Intermediators, collectors and the unknown sources in the 19th century 

12.30-12.50: Stamatis Zochios, The legend as fact in Greek and European traditions: structures and functions of the supernatural folk beliefs 

12.50-13.20: Discussion

Lunch break

15.00-15.20: Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou, University of Athens. Personal Narratives of Traumatic Experiences: From Oral Narratives to Websites 

15.20-15.40: Giorgos Katsadoros and Ioanna Kafetzidaki, Aegean University, The Mantinades (Couplets) of Karpathos on the Internet and their Reception among Local Student Population 

15.40-16.00: Evy Johanne Håland, Fieldwork and Ancient Sources: A Comparative Method 

16.00 -16.20: Manolis Varvounis and Georgios Kouzas, Orality and Contemporary Society: Analyzing the Form and the Structure of Social Commentations (Gossips) in a Modern Greek Community 

16.20-16.40: Discussion

16.40-17.10: Coffee break

17.10-18.10: Concluding discussion