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
