Performance Research Hub
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Performance Research Hub
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Performance Research Hub, University of Oxford. https://torch.ox.ac.uk/performance-research-hub
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Do you work in #policy at local, regional, national government level? Fancy spending some time with like-minded researchers at @ox.ac.uk on the burning issues of the day?

Consider our new Visiting Fellowship scheme just open this week:
www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...
October 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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We have a wonderful series of events coming up, save the dates in your diaries! Next week's Research Seminar will focus on "Filiation, Cannibalism, Carrier/Vehicle" with Emma Greensmith, Rosa Andújar, Giovanna Di Martino and Carla Suthren.
#apgrd #classics #reception #metaphor
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Join the Performance Research Hub on 11 November for a housewarming party in the brand new Schwarzman Centre! What do you want for performance research at Oxford? torch.ox.ac.uk/event/perfor...
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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'Recovering Laura Kieler--The Real Woman behind Ibsen's A Doll's House' -- Univ of Birmingham, Oct 29, 1.30-3pm, Arts Building 103 (Constance Naden Room – 1st fl). Please join us!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/documents/un...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The new TORCH Humour Network offers regular writing group meetings designed for scholars who engage with humour in their research. Open to all - DPhil students and ECRs especially welcome! Tuesdays week 1, 3, 5 and 7 details: tinyurl.com/yfjfu842
HUMOUR NETWORK: WRITING GROUP MEETINGS
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October 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Join playwright Nicholas McInerny and BAFTA-winning actress Rakie Ayola on 25 October. Sensitivity reading as dramaturgy: can it really work? torch.ox.ac.uk/event/sensit...
October 6, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Today we are delighted to launch the new Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, a one-of-a-kind space where academia and culture will intersect to create something extraordinary. Read more: humanities.web.ox.ac.uk/article/step...
September 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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For anyone in/ near Oxford, @marieminden.bsky.social and I are having a public conversation about our new books and ’new approaches to theatrical form’ with the fabulous Sos Eltis in November. There will be cake! www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/new-ap...
New Approaches to Theatrical Form: Radical Realisms in Contemporary British Theatre and Modernism after the Ballets Russes book conversation
www.torch.ox.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Join @marieminden.bsky.social @hgreenstreet1.bsky.social on 5 November for a book conversation: New Approaches to Theatrical Form! torch.ox.ac.uk/event/new-ap...
September 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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🎉🎉New exciting event just announced for November. 'Dressing “Greek”: Clothing, Movement and Performance from Ancient to Modern', Ertegun House, Oxford, 29th November. An interdisciplinary conference on ancient Greek bodies, performance and clothing.
#clothing #performance #classics #reception
August 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Performance Research at Oxford - what has happened over the last term? torch.ox.ac.uk/article/perf...
Theatre & Performance: TT '25 round-up
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June 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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You are warmly invited to the 25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, Thursday 3 July and Friday 4 July. University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London.
Zoom link and Programme now available: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
June 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Expressions of Interest due mid-July. www.music.ox.ac.uk/british-acad...
British Academy (BA) Postdoctoral Fellowships
www.music.ox.ac.uk
June 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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On Tuesday 10 June, Dr Esther Cavett and Javier Rivas present at the Graduate Research Colloquia, exploring current conversations on the potential for participatory music-making to promote sustainable human coexistence.
Graduate Research Colloquia: Dr Esther Cavett (KCL, University of Oxford) and Javier Rivas (King's College London)
www.music.ox.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Timothy Coombes, ‪@marinuleccia.bsky.social‬, @ehmacgregor.bsky.social, and Javier Rivas will each give presentations at OSiMTA on Tuesday. Please do join us from 5pm for this session on Music Theory, Analysis, Education and Play.
This term the Oxford Seminar in Music Theory and Analysis has been curated by Dr Giles Masters and explores 'Scenes from Childhood: Music Theory and Analysis, Education and Play'. Mark your diaries to join us on Tuesday 3 June!
Oxford Seminar in Music Theory and Analysis: Scenes from Childhood: Music Theory and Analysis, Education and Play
www.music.ox.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Join @kirstensb.bsky.social for a workshop looking at soon-to-be-published translations of the work of Henrik Ibsen and Laura Kieler - three plays in dialogue with one another. 19 May 2025. torch.ox.ac.uk/event/voiced...
May 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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What's In A Letter: Queer Temporalities.
Listen to Ruskin DPhil researcher Jen DeNike on local BBC radio tonight at 9pm interviewed in the show Out with Kathy to hear all about Jen's performance lecture & exhibition in collaboration with Giulia Astesani, on Sat 3 May!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
April 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Join Jen DeNike & Giulia Astesani on 3 May for a performative lecture and conversation designed to collaboratively think through an (inherently queer) epistolary form. torch.ox.ac.uk/event/whats-...
April 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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EMPRes collaborate with @modernartoxford.bsky.social on Thursday 1 May to present an evening of experimental performance, electronic music, sound art, film, and movement.
LIVE x EMPRes
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April 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Join us on 28 April for an open rehearsal of The White Whale, a new adaptation of Moby Dick by The Theatre, Chipping Norton in collaboration with Professor Christine Gerrard (English). @chippytheatre.bsky.social torch.ox.ac.uk/event/open-r...
April 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Time's running out to book your free ticket for this evening's English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinar.

Delve into The #Tempest with Emma Smith and Lauren Working.

7 April at 6pm - 7.15pm
Online via Zoom

All welcome!

#TeamEnglish #Cpd #BookSky
English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: The Tempest
In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of The Tempest from Oxford World's Classics.
shakespeare-webinar-the-tempest.eventbrite.co.uk
April 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Are you an aspiring novelist, playwright or screenwriter? There's still time to enter the Oxford/42 New Writing Prize.

We're looking for talented new voices in fiction & welcome experimental writing as well as work that would appeal to a broad audience. Closing date=30 April.

#BookSky #amwriting
Launch of Oxford/42 New Writing Prize: now open for submissions
english.web.ox.ac.uk
March 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Join us on 9 May for Videographic Entanglements. At a time of extraordinary challenges to the university as a social institution, we gather to discuss the role of video in sustaining our research practices and collaborations. Book your place: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...
March 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Final reminder to sign up for A Colloquium on Aeschylus' Agamemnon!
⏰ 1.30pm Friday 21 March
📍 Ioannou Centre, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
📢 FREE, but register to attend in person
🧑‍💻 Join online - no registration needed
🎭 All details: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
March 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Excited to announce “TECHNO-UTOPIA”, my new concerto for Zubin Kanga commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. TECHNO-UTOPIA explores memory, magic, ruthless algorithms, and what makes music more than just data.
March 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM