ERC Project DERIVATE

Events

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OCTOBER 15

Panel Event: Early Modern Women Take to the Stage

On Thursday 15 October 2026 we are holding two performed readings followed by a panel who will answer questions. This event, entitled 'Early Modern Women Take to the Stage: Creative Responses to the Past', is supported by the Centre for Historical Reconstruction Research and DERIVATE.
G.03, Doorway 6, Medical School, Teviot, University of Edinburgh
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OCTOBER 13

Workshop: Critical Fabulation and Reparative Retellings: Creative Approaches to War and Peace

This workshop will consider whether creative methodologies can help us better understand the past, reframing our understanding of history as well as myth. Engaging with research on peace storytelling and narrative transformation, we will also consider the role that creative retellings of ancient myth/history can play in deepening understanding of the war and peace in the present and driving change for the future. 
Hebdomadars Room, University of St Andrews
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JULY 17

Summer in the Garden: A Literary Picnic

Join us for an afternoon of literary readings and we'll celebrate summer together! Our readers are excited to share their selection of summertime prose, poetry, and drama with you. Staff, students, and friends of the English Department are welcome.
University of Freiburg, HS1221
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MAY 21
MAY 22

The War Monologues

Join us for three performances of retellings based on Ovid's Heroides!
Peterhof Cellar, University of Freiburg
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OCT 29
OCT 30

Workshop Theorizing Retelling(s)

In our workshop, we connected medievalists’ perspectives on retelling with adjacent (and often overlapping) theories and approaches, including adaptation, variation, repetition, intertextuality, hyper- and transtextuality, seriality, and translation.
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
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