Applications are open for the Go Global seminar (THTR 440A) which will take students to Greece again in May 2020.
The program has ARA (Arts Research Award) funding which will cover 70-100% of students’ costs, excluding tuition, meals, and incidentals. It is open to all majors in the Faculty of Arts who will be in their 3rd year by May.
This course is led by UBC Theatre Studies Professor Hallie Marshall.
The poetic traditions of ancient Greece were deeply rooted in place and cultural events and practices. This course seeks to explore ancient Greek drama beyond the confines of the traditional classroom by associating texts with particular sites in Greece and ancient performance traditions and conventions. Students will be encouraged to think not only about how text creates meaning, but also how performance creates meaning, and how physical and cultural spaces exert influence. It is expected that students will embrace thinking about poetry that sits not quietly on the page, but resounds in the ancient performance space; to think about how cultural products can be both universal and yet rooted in time and place; and to see that the traditions they are learning about, which often seem distant and abstract, have a tangible form where the ghosts of the past can be felt amidst the ruins.
There will be an information session on October 17 from 11-1 in Room 1505 of the UBC Life Building (the old SUB). Applications are due by November 29, 2019. Information session: October 17. Applications due: November 29.
