A Live Podcast Event with Rosanna Bruno, Ella Haselswerdt, and Naomi Weiss
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2026
Time: 5:30 p.m. EST
Location: Center for Hellenic Studies, 3100 Whitehaven St. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom
Please join us on April 16 for a panel discussion on Euripides’ Trojan Women!
Euripides’ Trojan Women, first produced in 415 BCE, has long been considered an anti-war play—a devastating portrayal of the past, present, and future suffering of war’s female victims. In the modern era, productions and adaptations of the play have often reflected on contemporary conflicts, from Korea to Vietnam to Syria. But this is not the only way scholars and artists have interpreted and reimagined Euripides’ tragedy: it is also, for example, about female relationships and forms of agency, and about the power of artistic innovation in the face of brutality and loss. In this panel discussion about the play, Naomi Weiss (Professor of the Classics, Harvard University) will be joined by Rosanna Bruno (artist and illustrator of Euripides’ Trojan Women: A Comic) and Ella Haselswerdt (Assistant Professor of Classics, UCLA).
This panel discussion will be recorded as part of a new CHS podcast called Ancient Greece Today. Hosted by Naomi Weiss, this podcast brings together scholars and artists to explore the ancient Greek world and how it is used and reimagined in the present day. The first season (“Tragedy Today”) focuses on ancient Greek tragedies and some of their most recent adaptations across different media. Episode 1 will be released April 9.