This two-day symposium proposes to address the reception of ancient drama in light of concepts developed by Media Studies.
The reception of ancient drama is a multimodal and plurimedial process involving multiple modes of interaction with ancient sources – visual, auditory, kinetic, and others – across a variety of media and artistic formats. This is not limited to the multisensory dimension of theatrical performances, since performances, besides being part of a theatrical tradition, are also caught in a network of non-theatrical receptions through other arts and media, in artistic, scholarly, political, or commercial contexts.
Previous CHORUS events
CHORUS' origins, the APGRD/HAR Symposia
CHORUS' origins can be traced to 2011, when Christian Biet (Nanterre Paris Ouest Histoire des Arts et des Représentations) and Fiona Macintosh (APGRD, University of Oxford) created an annual symposium between their two research centres to foster multilingual exchanges at the intersection between theatre studies and reception studies, these symposia were co-organised by Cécile Dudouyt and Tiphaine Karsenti.
The APGRD/HAR symposia - on chorality/choralité, epic/épique and classic/classique - each threw into relief the differences between concepts across languages. These conferences soon became a source of inspiration both for individual and for collective research, not only in French and English, but, because of the diversity of researchers in both research centres, in many different languages and countries.
PDF Programmes of the 2011-2022 APGRD/HAR Symposia:
- Common Places (Paris, 9 April 2021)
- Defining the Classic / Définitions du classique (Oxford, 11-12 April 2019)
- Staging Power in the Agamemnon / Pouvoir et Représentation dans Agamemnon (Paris, 5-6 April 2018)
- Canon / Repertoire II (Oxford, 30-31 March 2017)
- Canon / Repertoire I (Paris, 7-8 April 2016)
- Theatre and War (Oxford, 26-27 March 2015)
- Epic and Performance (Oxford, 18-19 April 2013)
- Chorality (Oxford, 8-9 March 2011)
Contact CHORUS
The CHORUS organisation committee can be contacted at receptionchorus@gmail.com