November 6-8, 2024
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[in person format only]
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From the joint initiative of the Universities of Coimbra, Granada, Mar del Plata and Rosario, CLASTEA was born, dedicated to reflection and debate on issues of classical Greek-Latin theatre and its reception.
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In its healthy routine, the CLASTEA (Classical Theatre) project will hold its seventh meeting in 2024, bringing together specialists focused on Greco-Latin theatre and its reception.
Interdisciplinarity has been a rule in previous events, so once again we hope to count on the participation of colleagues who can guarantee it - from Classical Studies, Literary Studies in general, Theatre Studies, Philosophy, History ... And because it's also about reception, geographical diversity is also an invaluable contribution.
In this issue, as in any of the previous ones, there is no restrictive theme. The only limitation of our proposal is that it deals with theatre, theoretical or practical, rooted in the Greco-Latin tradition.
Going back to analyse old texts will always mean looking for something new in the tradition. For if the corpus available is largely the same, the reading that each historical moment makes of it is new. The times in which we live have not spared us wars, political instability, the degradation of nature and economic inequality. None of these experiences is new. The contexts change, so do the agents of the events, but what underlies them - the very question of agency and human relationships - is perennial. That's why the Classics always have that characteristic that we all have: the quid humanum never alienum.
On the other hand, based on the ancient texts, many others have reinterpreted, rewritten and reformulated the theatrical repertoire bequeathed by Antiquity. These revisits deserve constant attention, because they are not exhausted either; they are in a constant process of renewal and demand our hermeneutic commitment. At this moment, someone will be putting an end to another Antigone, Medea or Penelope. Or someone will be criticising the use that has been made of a supposed 'classical heritage' linked to the history of the so-called Western countries - a history marked by barbarities that are not exempt from relations with the 'Classics'. CLASTEA provides space for all academic perspectives on theatre, whether theoretical or practical, Greco-Latin or with Greco-Latin roots, from any historical or contemporary period, in order to promote a broad debate on its contributions, its uses and abuses, its characteristics and its various versions and subversions.