APGRD term card: Michaelmas '24

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Michaelmas Term events taking place at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama.

2nd Week: Friday 25 October, 9.30am-6.45pm, at All Souls, Old Library/St Hilda’s JdP, An in-person Study Day on Sanctuary (co-organised by Marina Warner, Alicia Stallings and Fiona Macintosh). Speakers: David Greig (playwright), Oliver Taplin (Oxford); Antony Bale (Cambridge); A.E. StallingsElena Isayev (Exeter). Roundtable with Helen Mountfield (Chair - Oxford), Clelia Bartoli (Palermo), Nadina Christopoulou (Melissa Network Athens), Esa Aldegheri (Glasgow), David Herd (Kent), Mark Goldring (Asylum Welcome). Workshop by Dine Diallo (Giocherenda); readings by A.E. Stallings; scene from Asylum Seekers by Dan Byam Shaw; ode from Oedipus at Colonus by Alex Silverman http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2024/10/25-sanctuary-study-day

3rd Week: 28 October, 7.30pm: JdP St Hilda’s: Film Screening

4th Week: 4 November, 2pm-3.30pm, Ioannou Centre Lecture Theatre and on Zoom: ‘Inclusive theatre and Community-Building’, with Marco Martinelli (director), Dave Carey (Chickenshed) in conversation with Giovanna Di Martino (UCL/APGRD). http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2024/11/04-inclusive-theatre-community-building-and-aristophanes

4 November, 7.30 pm: JdP St Hilda’s: Film Screening

5th Week: 11 November: 2pm-3.30pm,Ioannou Centre Lecture Theatre and on Zoom: Alexander Zeldin (playwright and director) in conversation about The Other Place, his new version of Antigone (NT, London) with Fiona Macintosh and Laura Swift (Oxford). http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2024/11/11-alexander-zeldin

11 November, 7.30 pm: JdP St Hilda’s: Film Screening

6th Week: 18 November, 7.30 pm: JdP St Hilda’s: Film Screening

7th Week: 25 November, 5pm: online book launch: Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome (Madrid 2024) edited by Zoa Alonso Fernández and Sarah Olsen. Respondents:  Sue Jones (Oxford) and Tom Sapsford (Boston College). http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2024/11/25-imprints-of-dance

8th Week: 2 December, 2pm-3.30pm, Ioannou Centre Lecture Theatre and on Zoom: Conor Hanratty (director) in conversation with Edith Hall about the Irish-language version of Aeschylus’ Persians (Abbey Theatre, 2024). http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2024/12/02-conor-hanratty

9th Week: 13 December, 5pm JdP St Hilda’s: a performance of a Cultural Programme-funded workshop, ‘Songs of Solidarity’ with Dash Arts, Projekt Europa, Asylum WelcomeDetails TBC 


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