Lecture
Samantha Masters (Stellenbosch University, South Africa): ‘From Greece and Rome to South Africa: Wim Botha and Classical Statuary’
OnlineA free, online lecture by Samantha Masters (Ancient Studies Department, Stellenbosch University, South Africa) hosted by the University of Vienna ("Eranos Vindobonensis"). Join the event via this access link at 5pm CET (4pm UTC) on Thursday 14 January. In amongst a gallery of international artists that engage with classical antiquity, there are also several contemporary […]
Rosa Andújar (KCL) ‘The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: New Visions of Tragedy in 21st-Century America’
OnlineAn APGRD Public Lecture streamed live on YouTube, followed by live Q&A; chaired by Dr Justine McConnell (KCL).
Isabelle Torrance (Aarhus): ‘Uses of the Past: ERC-Funded Research at the Classical Influences and Irish Culture project’
OnlineAn online lecture hosted by the Classical Association in Northern Ireland at 6.45pm (UTC) on Wednesday 27 January. Visit the event webpage for more information.
Henry Stead (St Andrews): ‘A Defiant Scottish Renaissance’
OnlineA public talk hosted by the Classical Association of Scotland (Edinburgh and SE Centre) and the Classics Department of the University of Edinburgh. The talk will take place via Zoom at 6pm (UTC) on Wednesday 10 February. Register here. In 2016 Dr Stead found a photo in a Moscow archive. It had been taken in […]
Naomi Weiss (Harvard) ‘Tragic Form in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire’
OnlineNaomi Weiss (Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University) on Kamila Shamsie’s retelling of Sophocles' Antigone, Home Fire (Bloomsbury, 2017; winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018). An APGRD Public Lecture streamed live on YouTube, followed by live Q&A.
Tristan Alonge (Maison Française d’Oxford/La Réunion): ‘Qui graecizabant lutheranizabant: apprendre le grec de Montaigne à Racine’
OnlineAn online public lecture hosted jointly with by the Oxford University Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. The event will be chaired by Prof. Stephen Harrison (Oxford). 12pm, Thursday 18 February. Find the Zoom link on the Maison Francaise d'Oxford webpage.
Patrice Rankine (University of Richmond): ‘Touching the Body: some observations on rights, punishment, and justice, with reference to Prometheus, Emmett Till, and George Floyd’
OnlinePatrice Rankine will give the online 2021 Morse Lecture at Bristol University's Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition on Thursday 4 March, 5pm (UTC). Register here, and find more information here. This paper’s literary focal point is James Baldwin’s 1964 play, Blues for Mister Charlie, which adapts the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till […]
Marina Carr and Patrick O’Kane in conversation about ‘Girl On An Altar’
OnlineAward-winning playwright, Marina Carr will be in conversation with actor Patrick O'Kane who plays Agamemnon in Marina's new play, Girl On An Altar (Kiln Theatre) - a retelling of the myth of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. The conversation will be streamed on the APGRD's YouTube channel, followed by live Q&A. Watch live or recorded catch-up here. […]
Classics, Decolonisation and Race: a talk with Prof. Phiroze Vasunia
OnlineProf. Phiroze Vasunia will be speaking broadly about topics relating to Classics, decolonisation and race at this online talk hosted by London Classicists of Colour. 25 March 2021, 6pm UTC. Vasunia is a Professor in UCL’s Greek and Latin department, with a broad range of research interests including the relationship between Classics and imperialism / […]
Panel Discussion: ‘Race: Antiquity and its Legacy’
OnlineA panel discussion, hosted by the Hellenic Society (SPHS), with Zena Kamash (RHUL), Rosa Andújar (KCL), Denise McCoskey (Miami), and Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton), chaired by Professor Phiroze Vasunia (UCL). Free, online event at 2-4pm (UTC+1) on Friday 23 April.