Rhodessa Jones: ‘Medea in Lockdown’
OnlineRhodessa Jones, Visiting Artist for the Center for Hellenic Studies, will be presenting on 'Medea in Lockdown' at 11.30am EST (4.30pm UTC) on Friday 15 January. Free, online - register by emailing events@chs.harvard.edu to receive the Zoom link. Rhodessa Jones is Co-Artistic Director of the acclaimed San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey. She is an […]
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).
Edith Hall (KCL): ‘Why Homer’s Iliad is so popular in the 21st century’
OnlineA free online event considering why Homer’s Iliad is so popular in the 21st century. Part of the Historic-All lecture series organised by Cambourne Village College, and open to all via Teams.
Oren Margolis (East Anglia): ‘After Daedalus’
OnlineDr Oren Margolis (lecturer in Renaissance Studies at the University of East Anglia) will be presenting a paper on 'After Daedalus', exploring the mechanical and the liberal arts in Aldus Manutius and beyond, for the Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series. 5.15.pm (UTC) on 26 January. Email nh433@cam.ac.uk for a Zoom link.
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.
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 […]
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.