Project description
Greek drama and emotional responses to contemporary adaptations
Emotions toward fictional characters in ancient drama continue to resonate today. Scholars suggest that new emotional practices, rooted in empathy and compassion, can foster stronger connections and contribute to a shift from the Anthropocene to the Compassionocene. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the TragEmA project will explore the link between Greek drama and emotional responses to modern adaptations, focusing on feelings like pity, empathy, and compassion. It will evaluate the ethical impact of these adaptations in France, Germany, Italy and the UK using an interdisciplinary approach that combines comparative-historical analysis, 4Ecognition tools, and citizen humanities. The project will also examine inclusion and exclusion in empathetic practices. Ultimately, the project explores how Greek drama fosters modern compassion.
Objective
What role can emotions felt towards fictional characters, and specifically aroused from ancient drama, possibly play in the 21st century? In an era in which humans’ impact on the earth system leads us to rethink our social, economic, and cultural paradigms, scholars encourage new emotional practices as a contribution to new ways of interrelating with otherness, evoking a transition from the Anthropocene to the Compassionocene. Acknowledging pity as a specific emotional response to Greek tragedy according to Aristotle’s Poetics, TragEmA aims to investigate the relationship between Greek drama, emotional response to contemporary adaptations of ancient plays (i.e. pity and its cognate phenomena such as compassion, empathy, and sympathy) and their ethical impact on the Western world, by considering productions in the UK, France, Italy, and Germany. While scholars have mostly been focused on ancient spectators’ responses and the notion of narrative empathy, this project aims to go beyond the state of the art, applying to a neglected case study – Greek drama today – a new interdisciplinary approach: a comparative-historical approach will be combined with 4Ecognition tools and citizen humanities, opening a dialogue between classical reception, cognitive science, philosophy of emotions, and ethics. Investigating today’s response to Greek drama, TragEmA will explore the mechanisms of in- and exclusion in empathetic practices to define that kind of fellow-feeling that we urgently need to reshape as a contribution to the ethical debate on attention to alterity and diversity. Lastly, it aims to enhance the role of Classics within the European educational curricula as a privileged way to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Benefiting from the interdisciplinary environment of Lethica (Strasbourg) and the APGRD (Oxford), and from the expertise of my supervisor E. Zanin, this fellowship will impact my career and boost my knowledge of connecting Classical reception, ethics, and cognitive humanities.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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