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The Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception is holding a conference on "Sacrificing Iphigenia through the Ages" at the University of Nottingham on 29th-30th January. Papers will include consideration of Racine, de la Touche & Gluck. Registration at http://store.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=9&catid=8&prodid=620 (closes Friday 22nd January; day-rates are available). Provisional programme below. Sacrificing Iphigenia through the Ages University of Nottingham, 29th-30th January 2016 Provisional Programme Friday 29th January 13.00-15.00 Contemporary theatre productions/adaptations • Mary-Kay Gamel (UCSC): A US West Coast Iphigenia • Magdalena Zira (Fantastico Theatro): Coming of age at Aulis: the young women in Euripides’ IA • Robert Icke (Almeida Theatre): Oresteia 2015 (video-interview exclusive to conference) 15.00-15.30 Coffee 15.30-18.00 Poetry & Keynote • Lynn Kozak & Miranda Hickman (McGill): Graven Images, Wounds of Knowledge: H.D.’s Translation of the Iphigenia in Aulis in the context of the First World War • Edith Hall (KCL): ‘Iphigenia and atheistic thought from Lucretius to the 21st century 18.00-19.00 Dinner in Pavilion Café (own expense) 19.00-22.30 Screening (open to members of the public) • Iphigenia at Aulis (dir. Don Taylor), BBC2 1990 • post-screening discussion/pop-up exhibition of theatre & television memorabilia Saturday 30th January 9.30-11.00 Fantasy • Amanda Potter (OU) & Tania Evans (NUA): Return to Troy: David Benioff brings Iphigenia to Westeros • Mike Carey (novelist): Short-story reading: ‘Iphigenia in Aulis’ + Q&A 11.00-11.30 Coffee 11.30-13.00 Visual Culture • Lindsey Annable (Nottingham): Representations of the sacrifice of Iphigenia in the visual culture of the ancient world • George Kovacs (Trent): Graphic sacrifice: Iphigenia in comics 13.00-14.00 Lunch 14.00-15.00 t.b.c. 15.00-15.30 Film • Anastasia Bakogianni (ICS): Dying for Hellas: Michael Cacoyannis’ Iphigenia (1977) 15.30-16.30 Coffee 16.00-18.30 Early modern theatre and opera • Alison Findlay (Lancaster) and Emma Rucastle (The Rose Company): Re-producing Lady Jane Lumley’s The Tragedie of Euripides called Iphigeneia (ca.1555) • Susanna Phillippo (Newcastle): Iphigenia reconciled? Aulis recalled by Agamemnon’s children in early modern adaptations of Iphigenia in Tauris • Sarah Hibberd (Nottingham): Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide at the Paris Opéra (1774)