On October 9-10, 2014, the University of Rochester hosted a two-day symposium examining the reception history of Salomé.
A number of the presentations at the symposium have been made available on YouTube.
October 9, 2014:
9:00-9:30 am
“Josephus on Salomé and Her Times”
Aaron Hughes
9:30-10:00 am
“Salomé in the New Testament and Later Christianity”
Anne Merideth
10:00-11:00 am
“From Dancing Daughter to Femme Fatale: Salome in Western Art”
Grace Seiberling
11:00 am-Noon
“Late-Medieval Music for John the Baptist and the Dancing Girl.”
Michael Anderson
Matthew Brown
1:00-1:30 pm
“A Heady History: Salomé and John the Baptist in English Literature”
Jonathan Baldo
1:30-2:30 pm
“Writing Salomé’s Dance: Mallarmé, Flaubert, Huysmans, and Wilde.”
Francoise Meltzer
2:30-3:00 pm
“Salome at the Theatre: Oscar Wilde in Paris and London”
Jean Pedersen
3:00-3:30 pm
“Staging Scandal with Salomé”
Joy Calico
3:45-4:30 pm
“P. Craig Russell and a recent interpretation of Salomé”
Emil Homerin
October 10, 2014:
“The Dance of Seduction”
Deirdre Towers
“Twisted, Tangled, and Tied Up in Knots: Finding Salomé’s Motivation to Dance Beneath the Mystique, Double Standards, and a Pile of Fabric”
Betty Jenkins and Leanne Rinelli