Course Planning Seminar Agenda

Sunoikisis Greek 293/393: Comedy
Seminar Agenda, June 8-11, 2009
Faculty Consultant: Anton Bierl (University of Basel)
Course Director: Kenny Morrell (Rhodes)
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Seminar Participants:
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Kenny Morrell (Rhodes) (attended workshop, did not teach course)
Hal Haskell (Southwestern) (attended workshop, did not teach course
Scott Garner (Rhodes) (attended workshop and taught course)
Masa Culumovic (Furman) (attended workshop, did not teach course)
Anton Bierl (University of Basel) (attended workshop, did not teach course)
Introduction
This is the agenda for the course development seminar for
Collaborative Advanced Greek 393: Comedy (CAGR 393), which
will take place during the fall semester of 2009. The following
agenda also includes the schedule for the common session on
Thursday, when both groups will meet together.
Index
Monday, June 8
Tuesday, June 9
Wednesday, June 10
Thursday, June 11
Monday, June 8
Time
8:009:00
a.m.
9:0010:30
a.m.
Event
Location
Breakfast
Common Room, Main Library
First Session
House A
General Introductions, Overview, and Feedback
• Introductions
• Review of the evolution of Sunoikisis and the development of
ICC's
• Discussion of proposed modifications based on feedback from
students
10:3011:00
a.m.
11:00
a.m.12:30
p.m.
12:30
Coffee Break
Second Session
House A
Comdey: Genre
1.
Anton Bierl, "Experimentelle Innovation und ihre rituell–
pragmatischen Grenzen in der Alten Komödie," Quaderni
urbinati di cultura classica 72.3 (2002): 7–21. [Kenny
Morrell will lead the discussion.]
2.
O. Taplin, "Fifth–Century Tragedy and Comedy: A
synkrisis," Journal of Hellenic Studies 106 (1986): 163-174.
[Hal Haskell will lead the discussion.]
3.
G. M. Sifakis, "Dramatic Illusion and Old Comedy," in
Parabasis and Animal Choruses. A Contribution to the
History of Attic Comedy (London: University of London
Press, 1971), pp. 7-14. [Maša Culumovic will lead the
discussion.]
4.
M. S. Silk, "Character and Characterization," in
Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2000), pp. 207-255. [Scott Garner will lead
the discussion.]
5.
R. Warning, "Elemente einer Pragmasemiotik der Komödie,"
in Das Komische, edited by Wolfgan Preisendanz and Rainer
Warning (München: Fink, 1976), pp. 279–333. [Kenny
Morrell will lead the discussion.]
Lunch
Downstairs dining room
p.m.2:00
p.m.
2:003:30
p.m.
Third Session
House A
Comedy: Frogs I
1.
Anton Bierl, "Dionysos in den Fröschen des Aristophanes,"
in Dionysos und die griechische Tragödie. Politische und
'metatheatralische' Aspekte im Text (Tübingen: Gunter Narr,
1991), pp. 27-44. [Kenny Morrell will lead the discussion.]
2.
T. K. Hubbard, "From Birds to Frogs," in The Mask of
Comedy. Aristophanes and the Intertextual Parabasis
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), pp. 199-219.
[Hal
Haskell will lead the discussion.]
3.
C. P. Segal, "The Character and Cults of Dionysus and the
Unity of the Frogs," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology,
65 (1961): 207-242.
[Maša Culumovic will lead the
discussion.]
4.
N. W. Slater, "Glorious Mud: Frogs," in Spectator Politics:
Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), pp. 181–206. [Scott
Garner will lead the discussion.]
5.
B. Snell, "Aristophanes and Aesthetic Criticism," in The
Discovery of the Mind , translated by T. G. Rosenmeyer
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953), pp. 113-135.
[Hal Haskell will lead the discussion.]
3:304:00
p.m.
4:005:30
p.m.
Coffee Break
Fourth Session
House A
Course Development: Lectures and Study Questions for the
Frogs
• Work on the lectures and study questions for weeks 1 through 4
1.
2.
Week 1: Frogs 1-133
3.
Week 2: Frogs 134-284
4.
Week 3: Frogs 285-459
5.
Week 4: Frogs 460-604
•
5:308:00
p.m.
8:009:00
p.m.
Dinner
Discussion
Common Room
Reading and discussing selected passages from the Frogs
• 209–284, 324–464, 880–1363
Tuesday, June 9
8:009:00
a.m.
9:0010:30
a.m.
Breakfast
Common Room, Main Library
First Session
House A
Comedy: Religion and Frogs
1.
F. Graf, "Eleusis and Dionysos" and "Die Jenseitsdictung,"
in Eleusis und die orphische Dichtung Athens in
vorhellenistischer Zeit (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1974), pp.
40-58, 79-94. [Kenny Morrell will lead the discussion.]
2.
A. M. Bowie, "Frogs" in Aristophanes. Myth, Ritual and
Comedy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993),
pp. 228-253. [Hal Haskell will lead the discussion.]
3.
R. G. Edmonds III, "Who in Hell is Heracles? Dionysus'
Disastrous Disguise in Aristophanes' Frogs," in Initiation in
Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives. New Critical
4.
5.
10:3011:00
a.m.
11:00
a.m.12:30
p.m.
Perspectives, edited by D. B. Dodd and C. A. Faraone
(London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 181-200. [Maša Culumovic
will lead the discussion.]
I. Lada–Richards, "'Separation,' 'Limen,' 'Aggregation': The
Frogs as a 'Rite of Passage,'" in Initiating Dionysus. Ritual
and Theatre in Aristophanes' Frogs (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1999), pp. 45-122. [Scott Garner will lead
the discussion.]
X. Riu, "Presentation of the Comic Dionysism: Frogs," in
Dionysism and Comedy (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield,
1999), pp. 115-141. [Kenny Morrell will lead the
discussion.]
Coffee Break
Second Session
House A
Comedy: The Comic Chorus
1.
A. Bierl, "Der komische Chor im Vergleich mit der Tragödie
un dem Satyrspiel," "Der komische Chor in den
Thesmorphoriazusen des Aristophanes," and
"Zusammenfassung und Ausblick," in Der Chor in der Alten
Komödie. Ritual und Performativität (München: Saur, 2001),
pp. 64–86, 105–150, 362–376 [Kenny Morrell will lead the
discussion.]
2.
C. Calame, "Choral Forms in Aristophanic Comedy. Musical
Mimesis and Dramatic Performance in Classical Athens," in
Music and the Muses. The Culture of 'Mousikê' in the
Classical Athenian City, edited by P. Murray and P. Wilson
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 157–
184.
[Maša Culumovic will lead the discussion.]
3.
K. J. Dover, "The Choruses" in Aristophanes, Frogs
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 55–69. [Scott
Garner will lead the discussion.]
12:30
p.m.2:00
p.m.
2:003:30
p.m.
Lunch
Downstairs dining room
Third Session
House A
Comedy: Politics, Laughter, and Derision
1.
K. J. Dover, "Politics," in Aristophanes, Frogs (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 69–76. [Hal Haskell will
lead the discussion.]
2.
J. Henderson, "The Demos and the Comic Competion," in
Nothing to Do with Dionysos?, edited by J. J. Winkler and F.
I. Zeitlin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990),
pp. 271–313. [Maša Culumovic will lead the discussion.]
3.
S. Halliwell, "Comic Satire and Freedom of Speech in
Classical Athens,'" Journal of Hellenic Studies 111 (1991):
181-202. [Scott Garner will lead the discussion.]
4.
S. Halliwell, "The Uses of Laughter in Greek Culture,'"
Classical Quarterly 41 (1991): 279-296. [Scott Garner will
lead the discussion.]
3:304:00
p.m.
4:005:30
p.m.
Coffee Break
Fourth Session
House A
Course Development: Lectures and Study Questions for the
Frogs
• Work on the lectures and study questions for weeks 5 through 8
1.
2.
Week 5: Frogs 605-737
3.
Week 6: Frogs 738-904
4.
Week 7: Frogs 905-1044
5.
•
5:308:00
p.m.
8:009:00
p.m.
Week 8: Frogs 1045-1176
Dinner
Discussion
Common Room
Reading and discussing selected passages from the Acharnians
and Thesmophoriazousae
• Acharnians 262–625
• Thesmophoriazousae 101–29, 846–1135
Wednesday, June 10
8:009:00
a.m.
9:0010:30
a.m.
Breakfast
Common Room, Main Library
First Session
House A
Comedy: Language and Paratragedy
1.
J. Henderson, "Obscene Language and the Development of
Attic Comedy" and "The Dramatic Function of Obscenity in
the Plays of Aristophanes: Frogs, in The Maculate Muse.
Obscene Language in Attic Comedy, 2nd edition (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 1-29; 91-93. [Hal
Haskell will lead the discussion.]
2.
M. Silk, "Aristophanes as a Lyric Poet," Yale Classical
Studies 26 (1980): 99-151. [Scott Garner will lead the
discussion.]
3.
A. Willi, "Technical Languages: The Language of Literary
Criticism," in The Languages of Aristophanes. Aspects of
Linguistic Variation in Classical Attic Greek (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 87-95. [Maša
4.
5.
10:3011:00
a.m.
11:00
a.m.12:30
p.m.
Culumovic will lead the discussion.]
Peter Rau, "Die Paratragodie in den Fröschen," in
Paratragodia. Untersuchung einer komischen Form des
Aristophanes (München: Beck, 1991), pp. 115-136.
[Kenny Morrell will lead the discussion.]
Coffee Break
Second Session
House A
Comedy: Acharnians
1.
L. Edmunds, "Aristophanes' Acharnians," Yale Classical
Studies 26 (1980): 1-36. [Hal Haskell will lead the
discussion.]
2.
R. Kannicht, "Dikaiopolis. Von der Schwierigkeit, ein
rechter Bürger zu sein," in Literatur in der Demokratie.
Walter Jens zum 60. Geburtstag (München: Kindler, 1983),
pp. 246–257. [Kenny Morrell will lead the discussion.]
3.
H. P. Foley, "Tragedy and Politics in Aristophanes'
Acharnians," Journal of Hellenic Studies 108 (1988): 33–47.
[Maša Culumovic will lead the discussion.]
4.
G. Compton–Engle, "From Country to City: The Persona of
Dicaeopolis in Aristophanes' Acharnians," Classical Journal
94 (1999): 359–373. [Scott Garner will lead the discussion.]
12:30
p.m.2:00
p.m.
2:003:30
p.m.
Lunch
Downstairs dining room
Third Session
House A
Comedy: Thesmophoriazousae
1.
A. Bierl, "Der komische Chor in den Thesmophoriazusen des
2.
3.
4.
4:005:30
p.m.
Aristophanes," in Der Chor in der Alten Komödie. Ritual
und Performativität (München: Saur), pp. 105-299. [Kenny
Morrell will lead the discussion.]
H. Hansen, "Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae. Theme,
Structure and Production," Philologus 120 (1976): 165–185.
[Hal Haskell will lead the discussion.]
F. I., Zeitlin, "Travesties of Gender and Genre in
Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousae," in Reflections of
Women in Antiquity, edited by H. P. Foley (Philadelphia:
Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1981), pp. 169–217.
[Maša Culumovic will lead the discussion.]
E. Stehle, "The Body and Its Representation in Aristophanes'
Thesmophoriazousai," American Journal of Philology 123
(2002): 369–406. [Scott Garner will lead the discussion.]
Fourth Session
House A
Course Development: Lectures and Study Questions for the
Frogs
• Work on the lectures and study questions for weeks 9 and 10,
modifications for students in IAGR 293, and additional
readings
1.
2.
Week 9: Frogs 1177-1363
3.
Week 10: Frogs 1364-1533
•
6:008:00
p.m.
Dinner
Downstairs Dining Room
Thursday, June 11
8:009:00
a.m.
9:00-
Breakfast
Common Room, Main Library
First Session
House A
10:30
a.m.
Background on Sunoikisis
• History of the project (ACS-->NITLE-->CHS)
• Structure of inter-institutional courses and models of
collaboration
10:3011:00
a.m.
11:00
a.m.12:30
p.m.
Coffee Break
Second Session
House A
Digital infrastructure
• Using the Sakai course management system
• Introduction to the multipoint interative videoconferencing
system
• Strategies for using the technology and building redundancy
12:30
p.m.2:00
p.m.
2:003:30
p.m.
Lunch
Downstairs dining room
Third Session
House A
Assessment
• Presentation on the findings from the Teagle study of classics
majors
• The role of Sunoikisis in assessment and departmental objectives
4:005:30
p.m.
Fourth Session
House A
The future of Sunoikisis
• Overview of the course cycles and planning for future course
development seminars
• Planning for the 2010 Undergraduate Research Symposium
• Ideas for future projects
• Governance
6:008:00
p.m.
Dinner
Downstairs Dining Room
Sunoikisis–Preliminary Agenda for Course Development Seminar, June 8-10,
2009