Performing Epic into the Twenty-First Century

Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 9:30am to Friday, September 19, 2014 - 5:00pm
Lecture Theatre, 66 St Giles', Oxford

Speakers: Graeme Bird (Gordon College), Rachel Bryant-Davies (Leys School), Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13), Laura Monrós Gaspar (València), Barbara Graziosi (Durham), Emily Greenwood (Yale), Lorna Hardwick (Open), Stephe Harrop (RCSSD), Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol), Emily Pillinger (KCL), Patrice Rankine (Hope College), Margaret Reynolds (QMUL), Tom Sapsford (USC) and New Movement Collective, Arabella Stanger (Roehampton), Brad Wilson (Oxford).

The conference will include a performance by leading German poet, and author of Niemands Frau, Barbara Köhler, with Georgina Paul (Oxford); the premiere of Neron Kaisar, a new opera by Mark Usher (Vermont) & John Peel (composer, Willamette); and an 'In Conversation' with New Movement Collective, whose site-specific response to the OdysseyNest, was performed last year in London.

Download the conference programme here

Please register for the conference here.

If you have any questions about the conference, please contact justine.mcconnell@classics.ox.ac.uk