Outreach Events – Montréal - APA 2006

Please join us!

Thursday, January 5

8:30 - 10:30 p.m.:  Viewing of Godard’s movie, Contempt, sponsored by the Committee on Outreach in advance of its panel entitled “Classics and Contemporary Fiction” (Hospitalité, Hyatt Level 5)

Friday, January 6

11:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.:  “Nationalisms, National Identity and the Classical Tradition.” Panel sponsored by the Committee on the Classical Tradition (519b, Palais des Congrès)

1:30 – 4:00 p.m.: “Classics and Contemporary Fiction.” (authors Margaret Drabble, Anne Carson, Michael Dirda, and Carol Goodman discuss classical antiquity and contemporary fiction).Panel sponsored by the Committee on Outreach (513c, Palais des Congrès)

4:30-6:30 p.m.: Presidential Panel: “ ‘Bringing ‘Em Back Alive’:  Reconstructions of Roman Culture for Our Century.” (Roger Macfarlane, Bernard Frischer, Barbara McManus and Lindsey Davis talk about reconstructing the past) (710b, Palais des Congrès)

8:00-10:00 p.m:  A Staged Reading of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old with music, directed by John Starks and produced by John Given  (Grand Salon B, Hyatt Level 4)

Saturday, January 7

1:30 – 4:00 p.m.:  “Performing Ideology:  Classicism, Modernity and Social Context.” Panel sponsored by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (519a, Palais des Congrès)