Tuesday Oct 13, 2026
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
Western Connecticut State University
Midtown Student Center Theater
181 White Street
Danbury, cT
Free and Open to the Public
Reception will follow the panel discussion
Bernadette Ludwig
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Macricostas Hellenic and Greek Studies Panel
From the revolutionary workers’ theater of the early 20th century, to the Bush-era “Lysistrata Project,” to the women’s peace movement in Liberia, to Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq and South Korean 4B activists, Aristophanes’ play, Lysistrata, has long been invoked to inspire, imagine, and interpret political movements for peace and sexual justice.
This panel discusses the play and its legacy. What makes Lysistrata such an enduring vehicle for imagining collective refusal? Can it continue to nourish radical politics? Or does the play flatten and trivialize the realities of feminist and pacifist movements?
Panelists:
Dr. Ani Chen, Mitchell Center/SNF Paideia
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Danielle Hanley, Assistant Professor of Political
Science, Clark University
Sam McChesney, Macricostas Teaching Fellow,
Western Connecticut State University
Moshe Henderson, director, actor, singer, HB studio
