Since last December, the Athens Epidaurus Festival has been participating in the research programme VAST-HORIZON, alongside 8 partners from 4 countries. The VAST project investigates fundamental European values and how these are transformed across space and time. In the context of this programme, an International Conference named Values of Ancient Greek Theatre Across Space & Time: Cultural Heritage and Memory will be held. The conference focuses on resilient values bequeathed to us through ancient drama. More specifically, organisers are interested to explore how these “old” values concerning Democracy, Human Rights, Freedom, Peace, Rational Thinking, Hegemonic Discourse and Equality, amongst others, travel through time and space, how they are recalled or forgotten, how they are engaged with our variously enclosed existence, by what method they are performed, and how they evolve and/or transfigure in the context of post-modern and post-humanist world boundaries.
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Ancient Greek world as global cultural heritage
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Ancient Greek theatre: moving across place, space and time
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The problematics and challenges of adaptation: a matter of choice or a necessity?
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Re-reading ancient Greek theatre’s values: about limits and possibilities
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Educational values of ancient drama in the post-postmodern and post-humanist era
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Classical studies and theatre in education: what is new in the old?
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Digital humanities, digital drama/theatre and the study of ancient Greek culture: New paradigms of accessibility
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Cultural consciousness and theatre memory
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Tragic violence: an all-time classic
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Ancient drama and contemporary views about gender, race, family, body, sexuality, diversity, nature, ecology
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Ancient drama and popular culture
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Ancient drama vis-à-vis the contemporary social diversity/alterity/multiplicity
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The classics and the new generation
