Monday 10 October 2016

• 17:00 - “It’s a long way to Rome”: David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life and Australian appropriations of antiquity
  Rachael White (University of Oxford)
  APGRD Seminar Series 2016 : Reception and World Literature

Monday 17 October 2016

• 15:15 - Alice Oswald - a reading
  Everyone welcome. Please note we start at 3.15pm - an hour later than our usual time slot.
  Alice Oswald (Poet)
  APGRD Public Lectures
• 17:15 - Contemporary Canon Formation
  Please note we are starting at a slightly later time due to the Alice Oswald event at 3.15pm
  Vanda Zajko (University of Bristol)
  APGRD Seminar Series 2016 : Reception and World Literature

Monday 24 October 2016

• 17:00 - Epitomising World Literature: Classical Reception in the Caribbean
  Dr Justine McConnell (KCL)
  APGRD Seminar Series 2016 : Reception and World Literature

Monday 31 October 2016

• 17:00 - A Cuban Odyssey and the Transcultured Classics in Latin America
  Rosa Andújar (KCL)
  APGRD Seminar Series 2016 : Reception and World Literature

Monday 7 November 2016

• 17:00 - Weltliteratur in the English Fin de Siècle: Oscar Wilde, Max Müller and the English Goethe Society
  Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford)
  APGRD Seminar Series 2016 : Reception and World Literature

Monday 14 November 2016

• 17:00 - Lyric Systems: The Siren Song of World-Literature
  Nick Lawrence (University of Warwick)
  APGRD Seminar Series 2016 : Reception and World Literature

Monday 21 November 2016

• 17:00 - You’ve been framed! Reception, Philhellenism, and the Comparative Contexts of World Literature
  Sebastian Matzner (KCL)
  APGRD Seminar Series 2016 : Reception and World Literature

Monday 28 November 2016

• 14:15 - Bodies and texts: Attitudes towards tragedy from the Second Sophistic to Late Antiquity
  Everyone welcome
  Professor Ruth Webb (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III)
  APGRD Public Lectures
• 17:00 - Autobiographical reading: the case of the Odyssey
  Barbara Graziosi (University of Durham)
  APGRD Seminar Series 2016 : Reception and World Literature

Monday 6 February 2017

• 14:15 - The Other Muse: Latin and English Poetry in the Seventeenth Century
  Free, everyone welcome
  Dr Victoria Moul (KCL)
  APGRD Public Lectures

Monday 27 February 2017

• 14:15 - Wayne Jordan in conversation with Fiona Macintosh - on 'Oedipus' (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2015)
  Free, everyone welcome
  Wayne Jordan (Director - Abbey Theatre), Professor Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford)
  APGRD Public Lectures

Friday 10 March 2017

• 17:30 - Silent Cinema and the Classics
  Dr Pantelis Michelakis (University of Bristol), Mr Stephen Horne (BFI), Professor Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford), Professor Susan Jones (St Hilda's College), Professor Laura Marcus (New College, Oxford)

Monday 15 May 2017

• 14:15 - Domesticating Death: Living in the House of Hades
  Free, everyone welcome
  Professor Karen Bassi (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  APGRD Public Lectures

Monday 26 June 2017

• 10:30 - The 17th Annual Joint APGRD / London Postgraduate Symposium on the theory and practice of Ancient Drama
  Free, all welcome, no booking required
  Various Speakers
• 18:00 - (Im)/mobility in Tom Paulin's Seize the Fire
  Isabelle Torrance (Aarhus University)

Monday 16 October 2017

• 14:15 - Classics and Social Justice
  Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)
  APGRD Public Lectures

Friday 27 October 2017

• 17:00 - Crossing the Sea - a new version of the Aeneid
  Paul O'Mahony, Out of Chaos Theatre Company
  APGRD Public Lectures

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 17:00 - Josephine Balmer - a reading
  Josephine Balmer
  APGRD Public Lectures

Monday 20 November 2017

• 18:00 - Emily Wilson: The Odyssey
  Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)
  APGRD Public Lectures

Monday 27 November 2017

• 12:00 - Singulier pluriel - spécificité des écritures pour la scène théâtrale
  TBA

Tuesday 12 December 2017

• 09:30 - Byron the Latinist - one-day conference
  Various Speakers

Monday 10 February 2025

• 17:00 - Orestes (2021), seminar-screening
  Various Speakers
  Greek tragedy between stage and screen

Monday 17 February 2025

• 17:00 - The Rescheduled Antigone / Die verschobene Antigone (1978), seminar-screening
  Arshya Bommaraju, Carrie Thomas
  Greek tragedy between stage and screen

Monday 24 February 2025

• 19:00 - Fellini Satyricon (1969), seminar-screening
  Joanna Paul (Open University)
  Greek tragedy between stage and screen

Monday 2 June 2025

• 14:00 - Tilted Gazing: American Women Writers and the Tenuousness of Classics
  Dr Katerina Stergiopoulou (University of Edinburgh)

Monday 14 July 2025

• 17:00 - What Makes an American “Classic”? Book Launch. ONLINE EVENT
  Join us online. Zoom link on the APGRD website. https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/07/what-makes-an-american-classic
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 14:00 - Conceptual Metaphors in Reception Studies
  This is part of a Seminar Series, every Tuesday during MT, 2pm For more details go to: https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/10/conceptual-metaphors-in-reception-studies-week-one
  TBA
  Reception Studies Seminar

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 14:00 - Conceptual Metaphors in Reception Studies
  This is part of a Seminar Series, every Tuesday during MT, 2pm For more details go to: https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/10/conceptual-metaphors-in-reception-studies-week-one
  TBA
  Reception Studies Seminar

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 14:00 - Conceptual Metaphors in Reception Studies
  This is part of a Seminar Series, every Tuesday during MT, 2pm For more details go to: https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/10/conceptual-metaphors-in-reception-studies-week-one
  TBA
  Reception Studies Seminar

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 14:00 - Conceptual Metaphors in Reception Studies
  This is part of a Seminar Series, every Tuesday during MT, 2pm For more details go to: https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/10/conceptual-metaphors-in-reception-studies-week-one
  TBA
  Reception Studies Seminar

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 14:00 - Conceptual Metaphors in Reception Studies
  This is part of a Seminar Series, every Tuesday during MT, 2pm For more details go to: https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/10/conceptual-metaphors-in-reception-studies-week-one
  TBA
  Reception Studies Seminar

Monday 17 October 2016

• 15:15 - Alice Oswald - a reading
  Everyone welcome. Please note we start at 3.15pm - an hour later than our usual time slot.
  Alice Oswald (Poet)
  APGRD Public Lectures

Monday 28 November 2016

• 14:15 - Bodies and texts: Attitudes towards tragedy from the Second Sophistic to Late Antiquity
  Everyone welcome
  Professor Ruth Webb (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III)
  APGRD Public Lectures

Monday 6 February 2017

• 14:15 - The Other Muse: Latin and English Poetry in the Seventeenth Century
  Free, everyone welcome
  Dr Victoria Moul (KCL)
  APGRD Public Lectures

Monday 27 February 2017

• 14:15 - Wayne Jordan in conversation with Fiona Macintosh - on 'Oedipus' (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2015)
  Free, everyone welcome
  Wayne Jordan (Director - Abbey Theatre), Professor Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford)
  APGRD Public Lectures

Friday 10 March 2017

• 17:30 - Silent Cinema and the Classics
  Dr Pantelis Michelakis (University of Bristol), Mr Stephen Horne (BFI), Professor Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford), Professor Susan Jones (St Hilda's College), Professor Laura Marcus (New College, Oxford)

Monday 15 May 2017

• 14:15 - Domesticating Death: Living in the House of Hades
  Free, everyone welcome
  Professor Karen Bassi (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  APGRD Public Lectures

Monday 26 June 2017

• 10:30 - The 17th Annual Joint APGRD / London Postgraduate Symposium on the theory and practice of Ancient Drama
  Free, all welcome, no booking required
  Various Speakers
• 18:00 - (Im)/mobility in Tom Paulin's Seize the Fire
  Isabelle Torrance (Aarhus University)

Friday 22 September 2017

• 10:00 - Celebrating Karolos Koun : a one-day conference
  The entire day will now be held in the JdP Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford and will start at the slightly later time of 10am.
  Various Speakers

Monday 16 October 2017

• 14:15 - Classics and Social Justice
  Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)
  APGRD Public Lectures

Friday 27 October 2017

• 17:00 - Crossing the Sea - a new version of the Aeneid
  Paul O'Mahony, Out of Chaos Theatre Company
  APGRD Public Lectures

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 17:00 - Josephine Balmer - a reading
  Josephine Balmer
  APGRD Public Lectures

Monday 20 November 2017

• 18:00 - Emily Wilson: The Odyssey
  Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)
  APGRD Public Lectures

Monday 27 November 2017

• 12:00 - Singulier pluriel - spécificité des écritures pour la scène théâtrale
  TBA

Monday 12 May 2025

• 14:00 - Janet Suzman in conversation with Edith Hall
  Online and in person. Online: https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk
  Janet Suzman, Prof Edith Hall (King's College, London)

Thursday 3 July 2025

• 16:30 - Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres
  Professor Vicky Angelaki will deliver the guest lecture at the 25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, but all are welcome, attendance at the symposium is not required to join the guest lecture.
  Vicky Angelaki (Mid Sweden University)

Monday 14 July 2025

• 17:00 - What Makes an American “Classic”? Book Launch. ONLINE EVENT
  Join us online. Zoom link on the APGRD website. https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/07/what-makes-an-american-classic
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 14:00 - Conceptual Metaphors in Reception Studies
  This is part of a Seminar Series, every Tuesday in MT 2pm
  TBA
  Reception Studies Seminar

Monday 3 November 2025

• 17:00 - For the sake of history alone: Queer adaptations of Greek Tragedy in Greece
  For more information go to: https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/11/for-the-sake-of-history-alone-queer-adaptations-of-greek-tragedy-in-greece
  Giorgos Sampatakakis

Monday 17 November 2025

• 17:00 - Phoebe Giannisi in conversation with Brian Sneeden and A. E. Stallings
  For more information go to: https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/11/phoebe-giannisi-in-conversation-with-brian-sneeden-and-a-e-stallings
  Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, A. E. Stallings

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 17:00 - Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
  For more details, please go to: https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/11/constantine-cavafy-a-new-biography
  Gregory Jusdanis

Saturday 29 November 2025

• 09:00 - Dressing 'Greek': Clothing, Movement, and Performance from ancient to modern
  This event is free and open to all, to register please contact milly.cox@classics.ox.ac.uk
  Various Speakers

Friday 5 December 2025

• 14:30 - Akram Khan in conversation
  For more details please go to: https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/12/akram-khan-in-conversation
  Akram Khan, Marcus Bell