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Thursday 23rd May 2013

Description: On Tuesday 4 June, to commemorate 100 years since the death of Suffragette and Royal Holloway English Literature alumna, Emily Wilding Davison, famous for throwing herself under King George V's racehorse at the 1913 Epsom Derby, we are holding an afternoon of events here on campus.
Date:: 23/05/2013

Friday 17th May 2013

Description: As excitement builds ahead of this year's Play! Festival, we caught up with Stage Manager and Royal Holloway alumna Lizzie Cooper to find out how rehearsals are going and what she finds inspiring about the theatre.
Date:: 17/05/2013

Description: English and Drama student Catherine Sutherland was recently selected by the British Council from hundreds of applicants to raise awareness of the benefits of international study in an event in China.
Date:: 17/05/2013

Thursday 16th May 2013

Description: The APAF (Asian Performing Arts Forum) is pleased to present two free events on May 24 and May 25 in central London. Read on for more information about the events!
Date:: 16/05/2013

Monday 18th February 2013

Description: The Arab Spring uprisings that swept across the Middle East in 2011 are the subject of a new trilogy of plays by Professor Dan Rebellato from Royal Holloway university.
Date:: 18/02/2013

Description: MA Programmes & Funding Opportunities (including AHRC) The Department anticipates awarding one MA AHRC-funded scholarship to a student who intends to proceed to doctoral study. Applicants for this scheme will study for a Master's qualification (not MPhil) and should be intending to proceed to doctoral study after successful completion of their Master's programme. The AHRC funding application deadline for MA students is midday, 28 February 2013.
Date:: 18/02/2013

Description: 'The Mariam Project' seeks to mark thequatercentenary of the publication of The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen ofJewry by investigating Mariam in performance, by exploring Mariamin a range of theatrical conditions, recording the outcomes, analysing them andthen curating an online workshop. It seeks to bring scholars andpractitioners together to work on Mariam's theatricality, to usescholars as dramaturgs and practitioners as scholars. It seeks to createresearch-led practice, which will then result in practice-led research.
Date:: 18/02/2013

Description: Drama alumnus Dr. Diego Pellecchia has been selected as a recipient of the 2013 IFTR Young Scholar's Prize for his essay 'Ezra Pound and the Politics of Noh Films', in which he explores the role of Noh in Pound's controversial political activism during the years preceding World War II. The article shows how Pound's interest for Noh continued after the publication of Noh, or, Accomplishment, in which he edited Ernest Fenollosa's co-translations of Noh plays, and was stimulated by early audiovisual recordings of Noh plays that started circulating in the late 1930s. Through the film medium Pound wished to disseminate in the West what he regarded not only as an aesthetically beautiful art-form, but also as an ideal vehicle of good ethics.
Date:: 18/02/2013

Wednesday 6th February 2013

Description: Applications are invited for a three-year full-time PhD studentship, funded by the AHRC, to be based in the Department of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. The student will be an important part of the research team, with a parallel PhD studentship at the University of Warwick and a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Exeter.
Date:: 06/02/2013

Friday 25th January 2013

Description: The Oscar-nominated film Zero Dark Thirty, released in cinemas today, features Royal Holloway Drama alumnus Ricky Sekhon who plays the man at the centre of the plot – Osama bin Laden.
Date:: 25/01/2013

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