Reception and Translation Seminar Series
– corrected programme
The following APGRD seminars will be given at 5 pm on Mondays in the First Floor Seminar Room, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford.
For more information please visit www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk.
Convenors: Dr
Fiona Macintosh and Professor Chris Pelling
Professor Susan Bassnett, Warwick
8 Oct:
‘Variations on translation’
Professor Oliver Taplin, Oxford
15 Oct: ‘Searching for a metrical equivalent: Sophocles
on old Age’
Professor Charles Martindale, Bristol
22 Oct:
‘A New Humanism? Reception and the Transhistorical’
Dr Cécile Dudouyt, Oxford
29 Oct:
‘Fragmented translations: early modern circulation of Sophocles'
Electra’
Dr Henry Stead, Oxford
5 Nov: ‘Seneca's
Oedipus, by hook or by crook’
Dr Stuart Gillespie, Glasgow
12 Nov:
‘Dryden's
Aeneis and the writing of empire’
Professor Margaret Williamson, Dartmouth
19 Nov:
‘Translating Sophocles'
Electra: community and subjectivity’
Dr Matthew Reynolds
26 Nov:
‘Reception, translation, and dissolution (Pope, Homer, Dante, Tennyson, Conrad)’