by valeriejames | Mar 15, 2021 | Public engagement
Here She Comes: Agave in lockdown Christine Plastow In summer 2020, By Jove Theatre Company staged two digital productions of existing works by the company: Medea and Here She Comes. Medea, a new retelling of Euripides’ play by Wendy Haines, was broadcast live from...
by emmabridges | Oct 31, 2019 | Events, Public engagement
Poster design by Valeria Vitale. Image by Robin Kaplan @TheGorgonist. For this year’s Being Human festival, the ICS is putting on a free event in London in partnership with Islington’s Little Angel Theatre and puppeteer-storyteller Tinka Slavicek. Making Medusa, which...
by emmabridges | Sep 20, 2019 | Events, Public engagement
Prof. Miriam Leonard (University College London) reports on a new exhibition supported by an ICS public engagement grant. For a number of years I have been exploring Sigmund Freud’s interest in antiquity. I have been repeatedly struck by the way that the Greco-Roman...
by emmabridges | Aug 28, 2019 | Public engagement
Dr. Christine Plastow (Open University) reports on the latest phase of a new project from By Jove Theatre Company. From 22nd-26th July 2019, By Jove Theatre Company held a week of research and development work partially funded by the ICS Public Engagement small grant...
by emmabridges | Jun 28, 2019 | Conferences
Dr. Maria Fragoulaki (Cardiff), Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies (2018-19), reports on a day on Thucydides’ modern reception hosted by the ICS earlier this year. What do an analysis of the ‘chain of participles’ in Thucydides’ History of the...
