Public Event
Ellen Renton: ‘What Athena Saw When Tiresias Looked: Greek Myth and Contemporary Poetry’
OnlineAn online webinar for the British Museum's Hidden/revealed event series on Friday 5 February. According to ancient Greek mythology, the goddess Athena blinded Tiresias as a punishment for him watching her bathe, and then gifted him the ability to see the future by way of compensation for her actions. At this event, poet, performer and […]
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 […]
Seminar Series: Agamennone Classico e Contemporaneo
OnlineAn online seminar series on Aeschylus’ and Seneca's Agamemnon and their modern and contemporary reception, running from February to May 2021. Hosted by the University of Bologna. Agamennone Classico e Contemporaneo is a project that brings together research from the departments of Cultural Heritage and Classical Philology and Italian Studies of the University of Bologna, the […]
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.
Queer and The Classical: Critical Futures, Critical Feelings
OnlineA two-day conference running on Zoom on the 20th-21st February, hosted by the Corpus Christi Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity (University of Oxford). You can find the full program, complete with abstracts and panel times (UTC), on the project site. In order to attend and receive the conference Zoom link on […]
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 […]
New lines: contemporary poets and the classics
OnlineAn APGRD online performance event, in collaboration with Live Canon and hosted by Dr Helen Eastman. Four poets (Fahad Al-Amoudi, Maia Elsner, Glyn Maxwell and Laura Theis) will read their work and read their work and discuss their engagement with classical material. Watch live or after the event at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-LYP8QB-J4 Fahad Al-Amoudi is a poet […]
Now and Then: (In)equity and Marginalization in Ancient Mediterranean Studies
OnlineThe first biennial Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College SPEAC (Students Promoting Equity in Archaeology and Classics) conference for undergraduate and graduate research. A free, two-day online conference with keynote by Emily Greenwood (John M. Musser Professor of Classics, Yale): 'A Classical Primer for Anti-Racism / An Anti-Racist Primer for Classics'. Register here for a […]
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. […]
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ancient Mediterranean
OnlineA conference hosted by Penn State’s Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CAMS), to be held on Zoom on March 19-21, 2021. The event is co-organized by Dr. Mathias Hanses (Penn State) and Dr. Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky) and co-sponsored by PSU’s Humanities Institute, the College of the Liberal Arts, the Department of […]