A one-day conference
On Friday 22 September the APGRD will host a one-day conference with an accompanying exhibition to celebrate the life of the Greek theatre director, Karolos Koun (1908-1987). The conference is co-organised with Dr Angeliki Varakis-Martin (University of Kent); with generous support from the Institute of Classical Studies.
The conference will be held in the JdP Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
Registration costs £20 (£10 concession) - this includes lunch, refreshments, and a drinks reception. There will be an optional conference dinner at an additional cost of £35.
Register via the University of Oxford's Store website
Programme:
10am Coffee and Registration
10.30am Welcome: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
Opening Lecture: Chair: Oliver Taplin (Oxford)
10.45am: Helen Varopoulou (Berlin), ‘Karolos Koun: Greekness and interculturality’
Panel 1: Chair: Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh)
11.30am: Dio Kangelari (Thessaloniki), ‘Karolos Koun and the “popular expressionism”’
12.15pm: George Sampatakakis (Patras), ‘“hunger was hunger…”: Koun’s ideology on acting’
LUNCH (1-3pm) - Screening of a message from Lydia Koniordou (Greek Minister of Culture), and a newly commissioned film by Vouvoula Skoura. There will be an accompanying poster exhibition, in the foyer, by Angie Varakis-Martin (supervised and hung by Claire Kenward).
Panel 2: Chair: Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol)
3pm: Gonda Van Steen (Florida), ‘Theatre, politics and money: Koun’s Art Theater and the Greek dictatorship’
3.45pm: Platon Mavromoustakos (Athens), ‘Karolos Koun between identities, languages and aesthetics’
4.30-5pm: TEA
Panel 3: Chair: Hans-Thies Lehmann (Frankfurt am Main)
5pm: Eleni Papazoglou (Thessaloniki), ‘Between west and east, character and figure: Koun’s “dark” Electra’
5.45pm: Angie Varakis-Martin (Kent), ‘“The movement that speaks”: The masked chorus in Koun's productions of Greek drama
6.30pm Drinks Reception – with toast by Struan Leslie, Director, Movement Director and Choreographer (RSC Head of Movement 2004-2013)
*8pm Optional Conference Dinner
Registration
Registration costs £20 (£10 concession) - this includes lunch, refreshments, and a drinks reception. *There will be an optional conference dinner at an additional cost of £35.
Please Register via the University of Oxford's Store website
