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.
CRSN Early Career Networking Event
OnlineThe CRSN invites you to an online Networking Event for early career scholars and PhD students at 3-5pm (GMT) on Thursday 18th February. Come along and: meet and chat informally to other scholars from a range of disciplines hear a bit about the activities and plans of the CRSN help us shape an upcoming series […]
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 […]
Interview with Judge Wade McCree about studying Classics
OnlineNorma Goldman Interviews Judge Wade McCree, the Second Black Solicitor General of the United States: A Video Introduced by Professor Michele Valerie Ronnick, Wayne State University. There will be a brief introduction before the video begins, so it is best not to arrive too late. There will be time for commentary and questions with an […]
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 […]