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Playing Along with Plautus

2009 Langford Conference
of the Department of Classics
at The Florida State University
February 27-28, 2009

Links:
Conference Poster (big .pdf / small .pdf)
Conference Schedule (.pdf)
(New) Scenes from Curculio

Broad Auditorium, The Pepper Center (map)
The Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

Conference Organizer:

Prof. Kenneth Reckford
Langford Eminent Scholar FSU and Kenan Professor
Emeritus of Classics, University of North
Carolina at Chapel HillKenneth Reckford

Speakers:

Prof. Eckart Lefèvre (University of Freiburg)
"Plautus and Improvisatory Techniques"

Prof. C.W. Marshall (University of British Columbia)
"Living Next Door to a Roman Comedy"

Prof. Kathleen McCarthy (University of California, Berkeley)
"Prologues: Between Performance and Fiction"

Prof. Timothy Moore (University of Texas, Austin)
"Even the Meter is Funny"

Prof. Amy Richlin (University of California at Los Angeles)
"Lighting out for the Territory: Slave Fantasies of Escape in Plautine Comedy"

Prof. Niall W. Slater (Emory University)
"Plautus the Theologian"

Prof. John H. Starks, Jr. (Binghamton University, State University of New York)
"servitus, sudor, sitis: Syrian Slave Stereotypes in Plautus"

http://www.fsu.edu/langford/langfordspring09.html
This conference is open to the public. For further information,
contact Prof. Allen Romano, aromano@fsu.edu | 850-644-0307