Summer School 2027
ERASMUS+ Blended Intensive Programme
Embodied Realities: Classical Reception in Performance and Virtual Spaces
Venue: Palacký University Olomouc
On-Site Period: 28th June-3rd July 2027
Online Sessions: 15 hours between April and May 2027
Directors: Eliška Kubartová (Olomouc), Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford/APGRD), Eleftheria Ioannidou (Groningen)
The 2027 BIP Embodied Realities: Classical Reception in Performance and Virtual Spaces introduces students to new and expanding methodologies in classical reception studies, performance, and digital media. It explores how ancient texts and performance traditions are transformed, embodied, and reimagined across physical stages, digital environments, and hybrid spaces.
Bringing together scholars, theatre practitioners, dramaturgs, and specialists in virtual spaces, the programme investigates how embodied practice, translation, adaptation theory, postdramatic theatre, and virtual/immersive technologies generate new forms of engagement with Greco-Roman antiquity. Students will work with ancient fragments and complete plays, creating new translations through embodied practice and investigating how meaning shifts as texts move across media, performance contexts, and modes of embodiment.
Designed to be transnational, transdisciplinary, and practice-based, BIPs allow students to learn from academic and professional experts across multiple institutions while engaging in hybrid modes of teaching, including online seminars, collaborative tasks, and an in-person intensive programme.
Participating institutions and contacts:
Palacký University Olomouc – Eliška Kubartová (co-director)
(eliska.kubartova@upol.cz)
University of Oxford / APGRD – Giovanna Di Martino (co-director)
(giovanna.dimartino@classics.ox.ac.uk)
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen – Eleftheria Ioannidou (co-director)
(e.ioannidou@rug.nl)
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen – Hossein Tavazoni
(h.tavazoni.zadeh@rug.nl)
Université Grenoble Alpes – Malika Bastin-Hammou
(malika.bastin@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr)
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord – Cécile Dudouyt
(cecile.dudouyt@googlemail.com)
Università degli studi di Parma – Francesca Bortoletti
(francesca.bortoletti@unipr.it)
University of Łódź – Małgorzata Budzowska
(malgorzata.budzowska@uni.lodz.pl)
University of Vienna – Anke Charton
(anke.charton@univie.ac.at)
University of Seville – Rosa María Moreno Soldevila
(rmoreno@us.es)
University of Trento – Giorgio Ieranò
(giorgio.ierano@unitn.it)
University of Trento – Anna Novokhatko
(anna.novokhatko@unitn.it)