Tragedy and Resistance
Zur politischen Reaktivierung historischer Tragödien
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For participating in this workshop: please register through the following website before 1 April 2026: https://event.ugent.be/registration/TragedyResistance
Veranstaltung auf Englisch / Event in English
9:00
Keynote Lecture by Marco Checchi (Northumbria University)
11:00
Session 2: Classical Resistances
Marta Lietti and Marco Formisano (Ghent University): Unsettling Borders in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus
Sotera Fornaro (University of Campania): Tragedy and Resistance: The Antigone Paradigm
Oana Marin (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu): Tragedy to Anti-Tragedy: Antigone and the Politics of Resistance from Sophocles to Brecht, Anouilh, and Žižek
13:30
Session 3: Early Modern Resistances
Canberk Doğalı Resistant Hermeneutics of Jouissance in Antony and Cleopatra
Emma Barrett (University of Limerick): Witchcraft, resistance, and masculinity in The Tragedy of Sophonisba (1606) and Macbeth (1623)
James Ee (Cambridge University): Samson Agonistes, The Tragedy of Antiperistasis
15:30
Session 4: Tragedy and Resistance Now
Mia Zeko Panić (University of Osijek): The Child as Contemporary Pharmakos: Sacrifice, Ritual, and Pre-Dramatic Structures in Marius von Mayenburg’s Freie Sicht
Sus Min (GGN Khalsa Coll.): Speaking Resistance: Doctor Faustus, Escaped Alone, and the Tragic Ethics of Deliberation
Cato Rooryck (Ghent University): ‘The land that is us’: King Lear as a Confrontation with Australia’s Colonial Past and Present in The Shadow King