Date: 20th-22nd August, 2010
Venue: Malthouse Theatre, Sturt Street, Southbank

The conference will bring together Classical scholarship, theatre studies, translation studies and cultural studies to investigate how performance manipulates and embodies our understanding of the classical world. Keynote speakers include Professor Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge), Professor Page Du Bois (University of California), Dr Margaret Reynolds (University of London), and from Monash, Professors Andrew Benjamin and Peter Snow.

Using the figure of Sappho as a metaphor for the many gaps we have to fill as we grapple with the otherness of the ancient world, the conference will explore how readers, translators, performers and spectators endlessly recreate the Classics in our imaginations and our embodiments.

Further details and provisional programme are available at

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/conferences/from-sappho-to-x/

Registration costs are:
Full Price (full registration) $85
Full Price (one day registration) $45

Concession (full registration) $35
Concession (one day registration) $20

Student registration: free

Bookings may be made by following the website links to Monash ecart. Please note, even though student registration is free, booking is essential.
In addition, conference delegates can buy discounted tickets for the conference performance of 'Sappho...in 9 fragments' on 20th August at the cost of $37.00 (plus booking fee of $1.50). Further details on this will be given after ecart registration has been made.

For further information, please contact Jane Griffiths on jane.griffiths@arts.monash.edu.au

This event is generously sponsored by the Australian Research Council, Monash University's School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, The Classical Association of Victoria and the Australasian Society for Classical Studies.