Dear all - with apologies for cross-posting

You are warmly invited to the following APGRD events taking place in Michaelmas term at the Classics Faculty, University of Oxford:

Monday 16 October, 2.15pm

Outreach Room, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford

Classics and Social Justice

 

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)

 

An APGRD Public Lecture

Free, all welcome, no booking required

 

Friday 27 October, 5pm

 

Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford

Crossing the Sea

 

Paul O'Mahony, (APGRD Artist in Residence) and the Out of Chaos Theatre Company will give a lecture-performance on the development of their new version of the AeneidCrossing the Sea

 

Free, all welcome, no booking required

 

Thursday 2 November, 5pm

 

Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford

Josephine Balmer – a reading

 

Poet and translator Josephine Balmer reads from her new poetry collection, The Paths of Survival, based on Aeschylus' Myrmidons. Followed by a discussion with Oliver Taplin and Laura Swift.

 

Free, all welcome, no booking required

 

*This event complements the work-in-progress performance of Laura Swift's and Russell Bender's Fragments at the Old Fire Station, Oxford, at 7.30pm the same evening. For details of that event, and to book please see:

 

https://oldfirestation.org.uk/whats-on/

Monday 20 November, 2.15pm

 

Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford

Tragedy’s Endurance

 

Erika Fischer-Lichte, (Freie Universität Berlin)

 

An APGRD Public Lecture

Free, all welcome, no booking required

 

Monday 20 November, 6pm

 

Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford

Emily Wilson: The Odyssey

 

Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania), will give a reading from her new translation of the Odyssey.

 

An APGRD Public Reading

Free, all welcome, no booking required

 

Monday 27 November, 12pm

 

First Floor Seminar Room, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford

Singulier Pluriel - spécificité des écritures pour la scène théâtrale

 

An APGRD Research seminar by playwright, Enzo Cormann.


Free, all welcome, no booking required

 

Tuesday 12 December, from 9.30am

 

Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford

Byron the Latinist

 

A one-day conference organised by Karen Caines, with support from Trinity College Oxford, on Lord Byron and the Classics.

 

Speakers:

Anna Camilleri (Oxford)

Karen Caines (Oxford)

Mirka Horová (Charles University, Prague)

Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University, Montreal)

William St. Clair (University of London)

Timothy Webb (University of Bristol)

 

With an introduction by Sir Drummond Bone (Oxford), and final reflections on the day by Bernard Beatty (University of Delaware).


Registration will be £15 (student concessions £10) and this will include a buffet lunch. Online registration will open shortly.




Further details can be found in the Events section of our website at: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events 

Kind regards from the APGRD

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