The APGRD (University of Oxford) and ReTAGS (University of Cape Town) are co-hosting a two-day hybrid conference: 'Re-Imagining Tragedy Across Africa and the Global South', co-organised by Professor Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) and Dr Justine McConnell (KCL), on 26-27 September, in the Classics Centre in Oxford and online. 

Registration for in-person attendance

A registration fee of £20 (or £15 for students/concessions) for in-person attendees covers the cost of pastries, refreshments, lunch, and a drinks reception. Please book online via the University Store (we are aware that there has been some issues with the booking site; if you have any trouble please email apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk as there are still places available). NB. The booking page is to register for in-person attendance only, online attendance is free.

Remote Attendance

Remote online attendance is free; registration is not necessary: Join us online via Zoom >>

Please keep cameras and microphones switched off unless invited to speak during the Q&A sessions.

Programme

Day 1 - Tuesday 26th September 2023 

10.45am (BST): Welcome 

11am (BST): Chair: Barbara Goff (University of Reading) 

• Lesego Chauke (University of Cape Town): ‘“Live and Proclaim!”: Dramaturgies of Mourning in the Context of Pervasive Death; Speculations on Antigone’s (Not Quite/Quiet) Migration’ 
• Neo Muyanga (UCT; online): ‘Chorus of Sparagmos - the weight of voices singing where flames engulf South Africa’ 
• Leo Kershaw (University of Oxford): ‘Situating the Magnet-Jazzart Medea in the performance history of the Greek tragedy in South Africa’  
• Purav Goswami (UCT; online): ‘Othello's Wild Years: Before Shakespeare’ 

1pm (BST): Lunch 

2pm (BST): Chair: Justine McConnell (King's College London) 

• Madhlozi Moyo (University of the Free State): ‘Classical allusion in Marechera’  
• Adam Lecznar (University College London): ‘Wole Soyinka’s Tragic Classicism’ 

Coffee Break 

4pm (BST): Chair: Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths, University of London) 

• Margherita Laera (University of Kent) in conversation with playwright Ubah Cristina Ali-Farah about her Antigone and Medea projects

5.30pm (BST): Drinks

Day 2 - Wednesday 27th September 2023 

10.30am (BST): Mark Fleishman, Mandla Mbothwe, and Jayne Batzofin (University of Cape Town; ReTAGS project and Magnet Theatre Company) 

Coffee Break 

12.15pm (BST): Chair: Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford) 

• Rosa Andújar (King's College London): 'Race and Historical Memory in Iván García’s Andrómaca’ 
• Magdalena Bournot (Grenoble Alpes): ‘Reimagining tragedy from Brazil: Abdias do Nascimento and the Black Experimental Theatre’ 
• Ana María Dopico (Hemispheric Institute, NYU; online) 

2pm (BST): Lunch

Accessibility

The Ioannou Centre lecture theatre is located on the ground floor and the Centre is fully wheelchair accessible; an accessible toilet is located on the ground floor and on the first floor. The lecture theatre is equipped with a hearing induction loop. Please see the online Access Guide for more details about the building's accessibility. Feel free to email the apgrd at apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk with any queries.