An 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… Continue reading Seminar Series: Agamennone Classico e Contemporaneo
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2 events,An APGRD online conference, co-hosted with Paris Nanterre; co-organised by Estelle Baudou and Anne Violaine Houcke. |
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3 events,A 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… Continue reading William Golding: Beyond Good and Evil A 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… Continue reading Sex, Rage and Change: feminist adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
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2 events,A 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… Continue reading Méduse, de Hésiode à Assassin’s Creed: Représentations et réception historique d’une figure emblématique de la mythologie grecque |
2 events,25th 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,… Continue reading CFP: (Un)-Forgotten Realms: Science Fiction and Fantasy in and about the Ancient Mediterranean |
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A panel discussion, hosted by the Hellenic Society (SPHS), with Zena Kamash (RHUL), Rosa Andújar (KCL), Denise McCoskey (Miami), and Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton), chaired by Professor Phiroze Vasunia (UCL). Free, online event at 2-4pm (UTC+1) on Friday 23 April. |
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The APGRD will be welcoming Dr Jennifer Wallace (Cambridge) to speak about her book Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World Out of Joint (Bloomsbury, 2019), for the sixth annual Classics and English lecture (postponed from last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic). Monday, April 26, 2021, 2pm UTC. This APGRD public lecture will be streamed live on YouTube… Continue reading Oxford/APGRD Classics and English Annual Lecture: Tragedy Since 9/11 |
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The British School of Athens: Virtual Lecture by Ian Collins on John Craxton: A Life in Greece *You can participate in the event live online via Zoom* Born into a bohemian family in London, the painter John Craxton (1922-2009) was a nomad who yearned to live and work in Greece. He achieved his goal from… Continue reading John Craxton: A Life in Greece
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