Conference Papers

10-11 April 2025 with Caterina Paoli ‘Bemporad and the Poet-Translators: Refiguring the Tragic in Fascist Italy’, at conference Refiguring the Tragic, at Uniwerystet Łódzki, CHORUS symposium (invited speaker)

6-7 February 2025 ‘Founding Greek Tragedy Scholarship in 16th-Century Europe: Deconstructing Common Tropes in Aeschylus’ Reception’, at the conference Du manuscrit à l’imprimé. La tragédie grecque et ses héritages aux XVe et XVIe siècles, at Aix Marseille Université and organised by Alexia Dedieu (invited speaker)

10 December 2024 ‘Modernismo Ellenico: Teatro Greco e Fascismo Italiano’ at the conference MACCHINE SCENICHE. L'evoluzione scenografica nei teatri all'aperto, organised by INDA (Syracuse) (invited speaker)

4 November 2024 ‘Inclusive Theatre and Community-Building: Giovanna Di Martino in Conversation with Dave Carey and Marco Martinelli’ at APGRD, Oxford (invited speaker) 

20-21 August 2024 ‘Fragments, Translation and Early Modern Drama’ at the conference Classical Receptions in Early Modern Drama, organised by Skenè, University of Verona (invited speaker)

9-10 July 2024 ‘Fragmentary Curses and Tragic Endings: Eteocles and Polynices in Tragic-Epic Recounts’ at the 2024 CCC in Cardiff (invited speaker)

26-29 June 2024 ‘Translation Strategies and Greek Tragedy in 19th-Century Europe’ at Plus ça change? Continuity and Discontinuity in Philology before and after 1800, organised by Laura Loporcaro and Paul Michael Kurtz, University of Ghent (invited speaker)

29-31 May 2024 ‘Aristophanes in Early Modernity: Translations of Wealth’ at the conference Aristophanes after Babel, organised by Malika Bastin-Hammou, Giovanna Di Martino and Micol Muttini at the University of Grenoble 

8 May 2024 ‘Performance, Greek Drama and the Greek Theatre Model under Italian Fascism: A Hellenic Modernism’, at the Skenè Research Centre, University of Verona (invited speaker)

26-27 April 2024 ‘Performing Early Modern Translations of Aristophanes’, at Ancient Myths in the Performing Arts, second international conference organised by the Hellenic Foundation for culture and the University of Bari (CIRST - Centro interuniversitario di ricerca ‘Studi sulla tradizione’), Athens (invited speaker)

9-10 November 2023 with Maddalena Italia ‘“Classical” Drama and the ‘Rediscovery’ of Sanskrit: Theatre Translation Theories and Practices in the Long 19th Century’, at the conference Nothing Happened: Translation Studies before James Holmes, organised by Kathryn Batchelor and Iryna Odrekhivska, UCL 

2-3 October 2023 with Fiona Macintosh ‘Iphigenia in Early Modernity: The Forgotten Phase in Her Reception History’ at the conference Performance and Reception of Classical Drama. From Classical Antiquity to the Contemporary Age, University of Bari (invited speaker)

22-24 June 2023 ‘The Ancient Greek Theatre Model under Italian Fascism. The Case of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus at the Ancient Roman Theatre of Sabratha (1937)’, at the conference Classics and Italian Colonialism, organised by Samuel Agbamu (RHUL/Reading) and Elena Giusti (Warwick) in collaboration with Gaia Delpino (Museo delle Civiltà) and Rosa Anna Di Lella (Museo delle Civiltà)

31 May 2023 ‘Fragmenting the Canon’, at the International Colloquium Dropping the Canons, organised by the Swiss Institute in Rome (invited speaker)

10 January 2023 ‘Early Modern Translation and English Drama’, at the 2nd International Colloquium in Classical Receptions in Early Modern English Drama 2017 PRIN (Verona, Valle D’Aosta, Genoa, Pisa), organised by Sivlia Bigliazzi (Verona) and Tania Demetriou (Cambridge) (invited speaker)

13-14 October 2022 & 23-24 February 2023 with Francesca Bortoletti (Parma) and Marco Martinelli (Teatro delle Albe) ‘Early Modern Aristophanes in Performance’ at ‘Memory and Performance: Classical Reception in Early Modern Festivals’, organized by Francesca Bortoletti (Parma) and Giovanna Di Martino (UCL)

15-18 July 2022 ‘Early Modern Prometheus and Practice Research’ at the 13th Celtic Conference in Classics, hosted by the universities of Lyon and by the École normale supérieure de Lyon, in Lyon (invited speaker).

24 June 2022 with Cécile Duduoyt (Paris 13) and Estel Baudou (APGRD) ‘New Translational Paradigms and the ‘Rediscovery’ of Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound in Performance’, at Translating Ancient Greek Drama in the Early Modern Period at UCL, organised by Giovanna Di Martino and Cécile Duduoyt (Paris 13).

3 May 2022 with Lucy Ruddiman (UCL), Zoë Morris (UCL) ‘UCL Classical Play as Practice Research’, at Workshop on Practice Research in and out of Classics at UCL, organised by Giovanna Di Martino, Zoe Harris-Wallis, India Halstead, Lucy Ruddiman

27-28 April 2022 ‘Translation Pedagogy and the Study of Ancient Greek Drama’, at Classics in Translation: Greek and Latin in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, ONLINE, organized by the University of Parma (invited speaker)

25 March 2022, with Maddalena Italia (UCL) ‘Translation and the Classics’, at the Changemaker Series 2022 (UCL) (invited speaker)

29-30 November 2021 ‘Teatro Tragico e Traduzione Frammentaria nel Rinascimento’, at The Forgotten Theatre IV, Centro Studi sul Teatro Classico, Turin (invited speaker)

18 November 2021 ‘Translating Ancient Greek Drama’, guest lecturer at St Anne’s Classics Society (Oxford) (invited speaker)

14-15 October 2021 ‘Agamennone, Eschilo e il teatro all’aperto nell’Europa dei primi del Novecento’, at LA RINASCITA DEL TEATRO GRECO NEI PRIMI DECENNI DEL NOVECENTO, organized by ACCADEMIA ROVERETANA DEGLI AGIATI, Rovereto (invited speaker)

24 May 2021 with Claire Barnes ‘Performing the Archive: Classical Archaeology and early 20th Century Theatre’, at Archaeology and Storytelling, organized by The Oxford Archaeological Society (invited speaker)

9 April 2021 with Estel Baudou ‘Conceptualizing commonality: dramaturgical processes and Greek tragedy’ at the Histoire des Arts et des Représentations (HAR) and Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) joint conference in Oxford on ‘Common Places / Lieux Communs’ (invited speaker)

2 April 2021 with Estel Baudou ‘War in Fragments’ at the International Online Conference ‘Poetics, Politics and the Ruin in Cinema and Theatre since 1945 / Poétique et politique de la ruine au cinéma et au théâtre depuis 1945’ organized by Estel Baudou, APGRD, University of Oxford; Anne-Violaine Houcke, HAR (Histoire des Arts et des Représentations), University of Paris Nanterre

15 January 2021 ‘Archiving and Documenting Classical Performance during Fascism’, at the International Online Conference ‘The Fascist Archive in Performance: Classical Reception in Film and Live Events under Mussolini’ organised by Giovanna Di Martino (UCL and APGRD), Eleftheria Ioannidou (Groningen), and Sara Troiani (Trento)

11 December 2020 with Cécile Dudouyt and Estel Baudou ‘Intertextuality, Performance and the Politics of Translation’ at the Paris 13, Grenoble-Alpes and APGRD joint Online conference on ‘Translating Greek Drama III (1600-1750), organized by Malika Bastin-Hammou (Grenoble-Alpes), Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford), Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13)

10 October 2020 ‘Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound in Translation’ at the Society of Neo-Latin Society Postgraduate Day on ‘Neo-Latin and the Vernacular’ hosted by the Warburg Institute ONLINE

28-29 September 2020 with Fiona Macintosh ‘Archiving and Interpreting Performance’ at the International Online Conference ‘Ancient Greek Theatre in the Digital Age’ organised by the University of Bari (keynote speaker)

13 December 2019 ‘Aeschylus at the Crossroads between “Modernities”’ at the APGRD (Oxford) and LABORATORIO DIONYSOS (Trento) joint conference at the University of Oxford on ‘Classics and the Spectacular under Fascism – INDA in the “ventennio fascista”’, organized by G. Di Martino, E. Ioannidou and Sara Troiani

29 November 2019 ‘“Vernacularisation” as Translation Theory in Early Modern Italy’ at the MFO and APGRD joint conference at the MFO (Oxford) on ‘On Translating Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe’, organized by G. Di Martino, Malika Bastin-Hammou and Cécile Duduoyt

11-12 April 2019 ‘Performing the “classic” – INDA, 1914-1960’ at the Histoire des Arts et des Représentations (HAR) and Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) joint conference in Oxford on ‘Defining the Classic / Définitions du classique’ (invited speaker)

15 April 2019: ‘Poeti alla prova: Pasolini, Quasimodo, Sanguineti e l’Edipo Re di Sofocle’ at ‘Traduzioni d’Autore: tra scrittori classici e poeti moderni’, organized by the association ‘Prolepsis’, University of Bari (invited speaker)

14 December 2018: ‘Theatre Translation and Aeschylus in Early Modern Italy: three case studies’ at ‘Translating Greek Tragedy in 16th-century Europe’, organized by G. Di Martino, Cécile Dudouyt and Tristan Alonge, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford

11-14 July 2018: ‘Will Power, Aeschylus and hip-hop’, in the panel ‘Democratising the Classics’ at the 11th Celtic Conference in Classics, University of St Andrews

15-16 May 2018: ‘Tradurre il teatro per il teatro: dialoghi e didascalie sceniche in due adattamenti cinquecenteschi del Prometeo Incatenato’, at ‘Le théâtre et les genres dialogués de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance’, organized by G. Ieranò, University of Trento and L. Boulègue, UPJV/ EA 4284 TrAme (invited speaker)

5-6 April 2018: ‘Archaeology and Powerful Absence(s) in the 1914 Agamemnon at Syracuse’, at the Histoire des Arts et des Représentations (HAR) and Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) joint conference in Paris on ‘Staging Power in the Agamemnon / Pouvoir et représentation dans Agamemnon’ (invited speaker)

21 March 2018: ‘Sicilianità, italianità e l’Agamennone di Eschilo
alla vigilia della Grande Guerra’, at ‘The Old Lie: Classics and the Great War’, an interdisciplinary conference organized by Prolepsis e Rodopis, University of Bologna

19-22 July 2017: ‘Vittorio Alfieri’s tormented relationship with Aeschylus. The case of his Agamennone (1783): between Tradition and Innovation’, at the 10th Celtic Conference in Classics, McGill University and University of Montréal, Montreal, Canada

26-27 June 2017: ‘Movement and limits in Vittorio Alfieri’s ‘reformed’ tragic theatre. The case of his Oreste and its sources’, at the 17th annual postgraduate symposium on the reception of ancient drama (APGRD and Royal Holloway, University of London) on ‘Movement and Limits in the Theory and Practice of Ancient Drama’

14-15 June 2017: ‘Multilingualism and primitivism in Ellen Stewart and Will Power’s adaptions of Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes’, at ‘Kingship and Power. Shakespeare and Classical Theatre’, an interdisciplinary conference organized by Thespis, University of Verona (invited speaker)

30-31 March 2017: ‘Alfieri, Aeschylus and the Canon: a new chapter in the history of Italian tragic theatre’ at the Histoire des Arts et des Représentations (HAR) and Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) joint conference in Paris on ‘Canon et Repertoire II’ (invited speaker) 

27-28 June 2016: ‘On Italian memories of Aeschylus’ Oresteia in the early modern period (1500-1750)’, at the 16th annual postgraduate symposium on the reception of ancient drama (APGRD and Royal Holloway, University of London) on ‘Memory and Imagined Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’

10-11 June 2016: ‘The Reception of Aeschylus in sixteenth-century Italy: the case of Coriolano Martirano’s Prometheus Bound (1556)’, at ‘Making and Rethinking Renaissance between Greek and Latin Between 15th- and 16th-century Europe’, a conference organized by Paola Tomé and Stephen Harrison at Corpus Christi College (invited speaker)

7-8 April 2016: ‘Uncovering Aeschylus in 16th-century Italy’ at the Histoire des Arts et des Représentations (HAR) and Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) joint conference in Paris on ‘Canon et Répertoire’ (invited speaker)