Fiona Macintosh (Emeritus Professor of Classical Reception and Senior Research Fellow, St Hilda’s) and Tom Nelson (Career Development Fellow in Ancient Greek, St Hilda’s) have received funding from the University’s Cultural Programme to continue their collaboration on a bold interdisciplinary performance project that reimagines ancient epics through the voices of migrant communities today.
Following on from the last year's highly successful Cultural Programme-funded week-long workshop held in the JdP [https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/research/creative-collaborations/songs-of-solidarity], this year’s funding will enable them to continue to support the development of a new epic narrative through devised performance, drawing on Gilgamesh, Iliad, Kalevala, and Ramayana.
Led by Dash Arts and PROJEKT EUROPA, in partnership with APGRD, this second phase will involve a Writers’ Room with five emergent and seasoned writers, together with academics from Classics, Ancient and Near Eastern Studies, and the University’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).
Hosted in the JdP at St Hilda’s from Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 December, the Writers’ Room will lay the foundation for a full-scale production in 2027. On Wednesday 17 December at 5pm, there will be a public discussion about the project. For further information, email fiona.macintosh@classics.ox.ac.uk
