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Hunger Artistry: Kafka and the Art of Starvation

Kafka’s provocative story “The Hunger Artist” explores starvation, art, and the nature of human existence. Experts discuss the story and its reception.
Conversations on Kafka
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Dancing "The Metamorphosis"

One of the most striking transformations of Kafka's most famous story is into an acclaimed performance for the Royal Ballet.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

A dance band for Playford?

This talk will consider how and why the frontispiece to this edition was different from those in earlier editions and place the image in relation to other images of ballroom dance bands before and after 1728.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

The Dancer and the Ubermarionette: Duncan, Craig and Modernist Performance

An APGRD / DANSOX public lecture given in February 2019: Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh) discusses the work of Isadora Duncan and Edward Gordon Craig.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

Gestures and Postures: the construction and reception of the tragic in Jean-Georges Noverre's dance-drama Agamemnon Vengé

An APGRD / DANSOX public seminar given in November 2018: Nicole Haitzinger (Salzburg) discusses Noverre's use of gesture and the tragic.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century

A discussion about the book Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century. Part of 'A Book at Lunchtime' series
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

How could it be otherwise? The body as a resource for exploring the past

A UBVO seminar given by Dr Caroline Potter of the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, on 10 May 2018.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

Likely Terpsichore? (Fragments), a solo durational dance work

Created by APGRD Artist in Residence Marie-Louise Crawley
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

What remains? Dancing archaeology

This UBVO seminar was given by Marie-Louise Crawley (Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University) in May 2018
History of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American Art

Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2018: The Body of a Nation: (3) Modernism disfigured: cult and illicit ritual in New Mexico in the works of Georgia O’Keeffe and Martha Graham

Professor Miguel de Baca gives his third Terra Foundation Lecture in American Art on the works of Georgia O’Keeffe and Martha Graham.
Anthropology

Transformation through Ritual: Bodies as Sacred Space

A seminar of the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions. Dr Ann R. David (University of Roehampton) focuses on Tamil worshippers in the UK to discuss the role of ritual in religion and dance. 18 January 2017.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

Method in the Motion

A unique evening combining a scientific talk with inspirational dance.
Teaching to Transgress

The Poems were my Dance: Speaking Histories, Cultural Subjectivities, and the Embodies Writer in Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze’s? The Fifth Figure

Emma Kelley presents her Master's thesis entitled 'The Poems were my Dance: Speaking Histories, Cultural Subjectivities, and the Embodies Writer in Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze’s ?The Fifth Figure'
Anthropology

Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, the Anthropology of Dance: Same Difference?

Andrée Grau (University of Roehampton) discusses the anthropology of dance and its development as a discipline of anthropology. The talk also reflects on the discipline's neglected figures (27 February 2015)
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Wayne McGregor: Neuroscience and Dance

Wayne McGregor (Director, Random Dance) talks about his choreographic practice with Dr Phil Barnard, (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) and Eckhard Thiemann (Arts Producer).
Changing Character of War
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5 SOLDIERS – The Body is The Frontline: Choreographing 21st Century War

Rosie Kay gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series on dance and war
Anthropology

Choreographing lived experience: the stories that dancing bodies tell

This Anthropology seminar looks at the role of dance and movement of the body as a theme in itself; using dance to understand embodied experience. 21 February 2014
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Dance Circles

An interdisciplinary discussion of Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach's book.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Interview with Hélène Neveu Kringelbach

The author discusses her recent book on dance in urban Senegal.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Shaped by the Classics?

Tania Demetriou on the non-existent classical epyllion; Helen Slaney on dilettante comparatists; Henriette Korthals Altes on dance and text; John McKeane on Sophocles, Holderlin and Lacoue-Labarthe.

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