*Final Reminder* - with apologies for cross-posting

Bann Valley Muses: Seamus Heaney and the Classics - a one day conference.

Friday 17 July 2015
Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford.

10.00: Registration and Welcome

10.30 – 11.15: Neil Corcoran (Liverpool), “Early allusions: Antaeus on the Move”.

11.15 – 12.00: Rowena Fowler (Independent Scholar), “Heaney and Hesiod”.

12.00 – 12.45: Bernard O’Donoghue (Oxford), “Heaney and the Language of Pastoral”.  

12.45 – 2.00: Lunch

2.00–2.45: Rosie Lavan (Oxford), “Watchmen and Watching Women: Seeing Things in ‘Mycenae Lookout’”.
2.45 – 3.30: Lucy Pitman-Wallace (Theatre Director) in conversation: “Door into the Dark: Staging Burial at Thebes”.

3.30 – 4.00: Tea and Coffee

4.00 – 4.45: Peter McDonald (Oxford), “‘Weird brightness’ and ‘the shaded bank’: Human Chain and Virgil”.

4.45 – 5.30: Rachel Falconer (Lausanne), “‘That quick unburdening’: Heaney and the descent to Hades in Virgil”.

5.30 – 6.15: Drinks reception

6.15 –7.30: Performances by Live Canon theatre company

Registration is £20  (or £15 for students), and this fee includes lunch and a drinks reception.
To register please visit the University Stores’ website at: www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=743

Kind regards,

APGRD

Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama
Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies,
University of Oxford, 66 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU
+44 (0)1865 288210
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk
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