Re-Imagining Tragedy Across Africa and the Global South

Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th September 2023
Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LU - and online
faculty website event

Final dress rehearsal photograph of iKrele leChiza (2022); photo by Rob Keith. See ReTAGS 2022-03-28_ILp2_FDR_RK_083

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. 

Speakers include: Sam Agbamu (Reading); poet, novelist, playwright and librettist Ubah Cristina Ali-Farah; Rosa Andújar (KCL); Jayne Batzofin (UCT); Magdalena Bournot (Université Paris Nanterre); Lesego Chauke (UCT); Ana María Dopico (NYU); Mark Fleishman (UCT); Purav Goswami (UCT); Leo Kershaw (Oxford); Margherita Laera (Kent); Adam Lecznar (UCL); Mandla Mbothwe (UCT); Madhlozi Moyo (University of the Free State); Neo Muyanga (UCT).

Please check the APGRD website for updates on how to register for in-person attendance; how to join online; the programme; and accessibility information.