On Friday 22 September the APGRD will host a one-day conference with an accompanying exhibition to celebrate the life of the Greek theatre director, Karolos Koun (1908-1987). The conference is co-organised with Dr Angeliki Varakis-Martin (University of Kent); with generous support from the Institute of Classical Studies.

The conference will be held in the JdP Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford.

Registration costs £20 (£10 concession) – this includes lunch, refreshments, and a drinks reception. There will be an optional conference dinner at an additional cost of £35.

Programme:

10am Coffee and Registration
10.30am Welcome: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)

Opening Lecture: Chair: Oliver Taplin (Oxford)
10.45-11.30am: Helen Varopoulou (Berlin), ‘Karolos Koun: Greekness and interculturality’

Panel 1: Chair: Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh)
11.30am-12.15pm: Dio Kangelari (Thessaloniki), ‘Karolos Koun and the “popular expressionism”’
12.15-1pm: George Sampatakakis (Patras), ‘“hunger was hunger…”: Koun’s ideology on acting’

1-3pm LUNCH, Exhibition in the foyer of the JdP plus a video by Vouvoula Skoura

Panel 2: Chair: Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol)
3-3.45pm: Gonda Van Steen (Florida), ‘Theatre, politics and money: Koun’s Art Theater and the Greek dictatorship’
3.45-4.30pm: Platon Mavromoustakos (Athens), ‘Karolos Koun between identities, languages and aesthetics’

4.30-5pm: TEA

Panel 3: Chair: Hans-Thies Lehmann (Frankfurt am Main)
5-5.45pm: Eleni Papazoglou (Thessaloniki), ‘Between west and east, character and figure: Koun’s “dark” Electra’
5.45-6.30pm: Angie Varakis-Martin (Kent), ‘“The movement that speaks”: The masked chorus in Koun’s productions of Greek drama

6.30pm Drinks Reception

8pm Conference Dinner (*optional, at additional cost of £35)