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 […]
Méduse, de Hésiode à Assassin’s Creed: Représentations et réception historique d’une figure emblématique de la mythologie grecque
OnlineA one-day, trans-disciplinary conference on the reception of the figure of Medusa from antiquity to today. From the archaic Gorgon to Assassin's Creed and #MeToo, via the uses of Medusa at the end of the Roman Republic, in the Middle Ages and in modern times, the speakers will question the popularity and the continual re-semantisation […]
CFP: (Un)-Forgotten Realms: Science Fiction and Fantasy in and about the Ancient Mediterranean
Online25th Annual Classics Graduate Student Colloquium, University of Virginia Saturday, April 17th, 2021 Keynote Speaker: Jennifer Rea (University of Florida) Conceptions of the fantastic appear throughout Classical antiquity as the Greeks and Romans looked to the supernatural as a way of understanding themselves and the world around them. Ancient literature abounds with elements of fantasy, […]