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 […]
Imagines VII: Playful Classics
OnlineThe Göttingen Department of Ancient History and the Tom Stern Film Archive will be hosting the 7th Imagines Conference "Playful Classics" from 5 to 6 March 2021. To register for the online event, please send an email with your name and affiliation to register@imagines7.org. For details on the programme, please see the conference leaflet or visit […]
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 […]
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 / […]
Poetics, Politics and the Ruin in Cinema and Theatre since 1945
OnlineAn APGRD online conference, co-hosted with Paris Nanterre; co-organised by Estelle Baudou and Anne Violaine Houcke.
William Golding: Beyond Good and Evil
OnlineA one-day online symposium on the life and work of William Golding, 8 April 2021. While Lord of the Flies remains a widely read and much studied work of twentieth-century fiction, the rest of Golding’s creative output has suffered from a dearth of serious critical attention in the past two decades. However, the novels themselves […]
Sex, Rage and Change: feminist adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
OnlineA public conversation hosted by the Department of Classics, the University of the South (Sewanee) with Nina MacLaughlin (author of Wake Siren: Ovid Resung, 2019), Paisley Rekdal (Poet Laureate of Utah and author of Nightingale, 2019) and Prof. Stephanie McCarter (Professor of Classics, University of the South, Sewanee and translator of Ovid's Metamorphoses). Email Stephanie McCarter […]