"Odyssey, Skepticism, Tragedy, Mystery: A Symposium on the Work of Michelle Zerba"

Friday, March 7, 2025

11am-5pm

Hill Memorial Library Lecture Hall

Program

11am-11:30am Welcome and introductory remarks

11:30am-12:20pm Odysseys: A Conversation

 Drew Lamonica Arms

 Evan Leonhard

12:20-12:30pm Break; refreshments served

12:30pm-1:20pm Skepticism: A Conversation

 Suzanne Marchand

 Golden G. Richard III

 Inessa Bazayev

1:20pm-1:30pm Break

1:30pm-2:20pm Tragedy & Mystery

 James Stoner

 Joshua Allbright

 Victoria Pfeifer

2:20-2:30pm Break

2:30-3pm Thoughts, reflections, reminiscences 

Mary Sirridge (Zoom)

Liga Pavlovska

Alyssa Anders (video)

Elsa Hahne

Brad Storin (video)

Sue Weinstein (video)

Maribel Dietz

Mattie Worsham Thompson (video)

Joshua Thompson

 

3pm Cake-cutting: Jonathan Earle

3pm-4pm Music and mingling

4pm-5pm Reading of The Bacchae

 Chris Barrett (Dionysus)

 Drew Lamonica Arms (Pentheus)

 Elsa Hahne (Agave)

 James Stoner (Cadmus)

 Suzanne Marchand (Tiresius)

 Golden Richard (Servant)

 Joshua Allbright (Messenger) 

 David Nee (Second Messenger)

 Rhett Barker (Chorus/Maenad)

 Daniel Goldsmith (Chorus/Maenad)

 Bella Spano (Chorus/Maenad)

 Maddie Jackson (Chorus/Maenad)

 Madalaine Dupree (Chorus/Maenad)

 Nolde Alexius (Stage Directions)

 

Special thanks to sponsors the Eric Voegelin Institute, the LSU Department of English, Inessa Bazayev, and Suzanne Marchand. Special thanks to Maddie Jackson for the choral masks.Special thanks to Laura Fernandez for organizational assistance.