The full Call For Papers can be accessed at the following link: https://shorturl.at/RiviU
Call For Papers: Teaching With Ovid.
Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026.
Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU
Deadline 16 Jan.
07.10.2025 09:55 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Photograph of the National Theatre exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention", showing a young man standing in front of a panel with information and pictures and listening to some audio information on headphones.
Photograph of the National Theatre exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention", showing a bald man's back, standing in front of a panel with information and pictures.
Photograph of the National Theatre exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention", showing the back a young woman, standing in front of a panel with information and pictures.
Photograph of the National Theatre exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention", showing the back of a young woman standing in front of a panel with information and pictures and listening to some audio information on headphones.
Exciting news! Our friends at the National Theatre bring a new, interactive free exhibition: "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention". Journeying through past reimaginings of Greek tragedies & featuring archival objects. Not to be missed!
#nationaltheatre #thegreeks #greektragedy #reception #performance
22.09.2025 11:20 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Image of a drawing of an ancient dancer, dark hair and light clothing. She is waving her hands up and jumping on one foot. The backfroung is mustard colour.
๐๐New exciting event just announced for November. 'Dressing โGreekโ: Clothing, Movement and Performance from Ancient to Modern', Ertegun House, Oxford, 29th November. An interdisciplinary conference on ancient Greek bodies, performance and clothing.
#clothing #performance #classics #reception
18.08.2025 13:04 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Picture of a poster that says Aristophanes' Clouds. Thiasos Theatre company. At the Cockpit, 16th-20th Sep. There is an image of three women dressed in ancient Greek gowns with clouds for heads.
Picture of a poster that says Euripides' Cyclops. Thiasos Theatre company. At the Cockpit, 16th-20th Sep. There is an image of the head of a statue of a cyclops and drawings of three satyrs on different positions.
Picture of an ancient Greek theatre with five actors dressed as satyrs and on the background the sky with the torsos and heads of four actresses dressed as clouds. On top of the picture it says Thiasos Theatre
Our friends at Thiasos Theatre are performing two comedic plays at The Cockpit Theatre, London, 16th to 20th September: Euripides' Cyclops and Aristophanes' Clouds. Not to be missed!!
#euripides #cyclops #aristophanes #clouds #ancientdrama
15.09.2025 08:33 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of a drawing of an ancient dancer, dark hair and light clothing. She is waving her hands up and jumping on one foot. The backfroung is mustard colour.
๐๐New exciting event just announced for November. 'Dressing โGreekโ: Clothing, Movement and Performance from Ancient to Modern', Ertegun House, Oxford, 29th November. An interdisciplinary conference on ancient Greek bodies, performance and clothing.
#clothing #performance #classics #reception
18.08.2025 13:04 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Screen shot of webpage https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british-academy-conferences/comparative-literature-and-decoloniality/
An extremely interesting event coming up soon, organised by our friends at BCLA: Comparative Literature and Decoloniality
British Academy / British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) St Johnโs College, Oxford. 11โ12 Sept 2025. To book (free) go to:
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
11.08.2025 15:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
โ ๏ธ๐ก This sounds like we also need to improve our Hypsipyle detection radar! If anyone knows of Hypsipyles or Hypsipyle-inspired performances - anytime since 1315 CE, any country, drama, dance, radio, tv, film etc. - let us know at: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/apg... (we accept Medeas too ๐)
09.08.2025 11:40 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
image of coloured photographs with images of a performance of a Classical Greek comedy
image of coloured photographs with images of a performance of a Classical Greek comedy
Image of a musical score of Aristophabnes' birds
Image of a drawing showing two men wearing some feathers on their backs and arms, a costume design for a classical comedy
Did anyone said "birds"? Costume design, music score and some performance pictures of Aristophanes' Birds and other comedies. Beautiful findings in our Aristophanes' drawer...
#aristophanes #classics #reception #birds #performance
04.08.2025 13:28 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Screenshot of a YouTube video showing 12 people in a zoom meeting
๐๐If you missed the launch of this fascinating, thought provoking issue, 'What Makes an American โClassicโ?' co-edited by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes, the recording is now online! Head to the APGRD Website to watch the video, or go to our YouTube channel.
#reception #classics #american
29.07.2025 11:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of a staircase and a corridor with empty walls, a Greek classical statue of Athena on the right and an open door leading to a corridor on the left.
Image of a room with shelves with books in the background some stacked chairs and a couple of framed posters leaning on them, one of Mucha Medea, and one with an image of a blue lady's naked upper body
Image of a hand holding some posters in plastic sheets, showing one with a drawing of the head of a blue bird and some Greek writing
It feels strange to see our walls so bare... but we are bringing in some changes over the summer! Blue lady is down ๐ข... and a little birdie is flying in...
#poster #exhibition #birds #classics
28.07.2025 10:49 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of a laptop opened on top of a table, with a bookcase in the background. There is an open notebook on it, with a pen. On the laptop screen there is a video that says "Ecologies and Futures"
๐๐ If you missed it, Dr Emily Pillinger's fascinating contribution to the 25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception is now online, accessible to all. Go to the APGRD website or our YouTube channel to watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjzb...
21.07.2025 11:14 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of a table with rows of video tape cases and a cardboard box on the left bottom front corner and bookshelves at the back
Image of a table with rows of video tape cases and a cardboard box on the left top corner and bookshelves at the back
Image of some video tape cases and one in the centre open, showing a masked actor in Ancient Greek robes, with the writing โSophoclesโ Oedipus Rexโ, then a video tape with a label saying โCorinth video. Oedipus Rexโ
Image of a poster with drawings of birds and the back of a person disguised as a bird, with the writing โAristophanesโ The Birds. A new Translation by the Harvard Classical Classical Clubโ
Happily rummaging through the APGRD's video recording collection. So many interesting little gems there! And behold! Another bird (or birds) in the Archive...
#birds #archive #greektragedy #video #drama
17.07.2025 08:51 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
image of diary, book and text that says "SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE ONLINE LAUNCH MONDAY JULY 14TH, 5PM (UK TIME) RESPONDENTS Wiebke Denecke Glenn W. Most Tessa Roynon & contributors WHAT MAKES AN AMERICAN CLASSIC? I Am an American WHAT EVERY CITIZEN SHOULD KNOW An invitation from co-editors Dr Caterina Domeneghini and Claire BarnesNEW AMERICAN STUDIES JOURNAL"
๐๐ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH!!! Don't miss our next event, Monday 14 July 5pm (UK time) ONLINE book launch, 'What makes an American Classic?', an invitation from co-editors Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes.For the Zoom link to join us, please go to the APGRD website: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
10.07.2025 08:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
event flier
What Makes an American โClassicโ? Monday July 14 5pm UK Time= 12pm, EST @apgrd.bsky.social www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/... Celebrates the publication of New American Studies Journal vol. 76 (2025) What Makes an American โClassicโ? edited by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes
09.07.2025 20:05 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
An image of two dancers and text that says "Thursday 24th 24thJuly July 2025 at 5.30pm followed by Q&A & reception Jacqueline du Prรฉ Building, St Hilda' College, Oxford Book on Eventbrite or contact susan,jones@ell.ox.ac.uk"
Exciting events coming up from our friends at DANSOX. Thursday 24 July, SHOBANA JEYASINGH in residence at the Jacqueline du Prรฉ Building 21st-25th July, We Caliban, an inventive, sideways look at Shakespeareโs The Tempest.
For more details, head to: dansox3.wordpress.com/upcoming-eve...
08.07.2025 10:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of a XIX century leather photograph holder with German writing โHerrn Prof Dr H. Blumner, our Erinnerung an die Antigone-Aussuhrung in Zurich Mai 1887โ
Image of a hand opening an old photograph case, showing a black and white photograph of a two actors, man and a woman dressed in Ancient Greek clothes in front of a black door opening with a staircase, gesturing.
Image of a eight old black and white pictures on a table, showing actors in various positions, gesturing, dressed in Ancient Greek robes, standing in front of a black door opening with a staircase
Image of a hand holding an old black and white photograph of a performance, five actors, two women and three men, standing in Ancient Greek robes in front of a black door opening with a staircase
Kindly donated by Bill Zewadski, this little gem holds pictures of an 1887 production of Antigone in Zurich, collected as a memento of the performance for/by (?) Prof Dr Hugo BLรMNER, a German archaeologist & classicist who in 1877 transferred to Zurich University
#antigone #reception #performance
08.07.2025 10:13 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Photograph of a laptop and bookshelves with books in the background. On the laptop screen an image of a blue booklet saying"I am an American" and to the right "APGRD event, What makes an American Classic?"
Book Launch! Join us online to explore and celebrate the publication of the especial edition of the New American Studies Journal (Vol. 76, 2025) What Makes an American 'Classic'?, co-edited by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes. Zoom link: apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/
07.07.2025 08:33 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of a table with showing some people's hands handling a number of black and white photographs inside archival plastic sleeves, books, paper articles, a laptop, an old recording inside an orange case and various old leaflets.
Picture of a group of young people in a teaching room sitting at tables looking at archive material (photographs, printouts, articles)
Image of a teaching room with a digital screen at the background, a middle age man in front of it explaining something, and a group of students at a table handling archival material
Image of a table with a number of black and white photographs inside archival plastic sleeves, also a book (Agamemnos) and a black notebook
This week the BADA (British American Drama Academy) Greek Theatre Summer Programme has come to the APGRD for a few days of enriching varied activities and workshops. Here they are interacting with some of the Archiveโs fascinating collections.
#archive #classics #theatre #reception #drama #bada
03.07.2025 13:06 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Photo of a corridor with two stands with posters of Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception 3-4 July, and Lecture Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres, 4:30pm Thursday 3 July.
We are now so close to the 25th Annual Postgraduate Symposium, Thu-Fri 3-4/07, and Prof Vicky Angelaki's fascinating guest lecture "Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres", 4:30pm Thu 3/07. In Person and ONLINE via Zoom. More details on the APGRD website.
30.06.2025 09:37 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of a poster advertising a public lecture, reading: 4:30pm. Thursday 4 July. 3rd Floor Seminar Room Radcliffe Humanities Building. All Welcome. Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres. Vicky Angelaki (Mid Sweden University). APGRD.
"Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres" public lecture by Prof Vicky Angelaki coming soon! Don't miss it. Free and open to all.
#reception #theatre #classics #classicalcanon #ecotheatre
16.06.2025 08:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of a screenshot showing a computer screen with a section of its keyboard, a picture of an ancient Greek fresco and writing "Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception"
You are warmly invited to the 25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, Thursday 3 July and Friday 4 July. University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London.
Zoom link and Programme now available: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
24.06.2025 13:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of the cover of a journal called Thรฉรขtre Public, No 255 Avril-June 2025 "Matiรจres Antiques", picturing a young brunette woman screaming and a dark wood with a doll on the bottom left illuminated by a light.
Image of a page of the journal with the title "Nous sommes toujours soumis aux mรชmes passions, entretien avec Marina Carr, rรฉalisรฉ par Fiona Macintosh".
Image of two pages of the journal, on the right a picture in black and white of an amphitheatre and a group of people dancing in the centre, on the right a title "La tragรฉdie est une mise en scรจne de l'experiรฉnce de la communautรฉ", entretien avec Marco Martinelli et Paul O'Mahony, rรฉalisรฉ par Ezra Baudou et Giovanna si Martino.
Congratulations to our Advisory board members Prof Fiona Macintosh, former Director of the APGRD, Dr Ezra Baudou, and current APGRD Researcher Dr Giovanna Di Martino for their brilliant contributions to Thรฉรขtre Public, fresh out of the oven!
#theatrepublic #reception #drama #classics
23.06.2025 08:36 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The recording of the 2025 annual Classics and English lecture delivered by Dr Katerina Stergiopoulou on Monday 2 June is now on YouTube! If you missed it, head to our YouTube channel to watch this truly fascinating lecture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eAh...
19.06.2025 08:13 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of a poster advertising a public lecture, reading: 4:30pm. Thursday 4 July. 3rd Floor Seminar Room Radcliffe Humanities Building. All Welcome. Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres. Vicky Angelaki (Mid Sweden University). APGRD.
"Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres" public lecture by Prof Vicky Angelaki coming soon! Don't miss it. Free and open to all.
#reception #theatre #classics #classicalcanon #ecotheatre
16.06.2025 08:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of a Lecture Theatre with wooden chairs and at the back a window to a sound room. At the front there is a poster saying 'Vindices. A Latin Play. loosely based on William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus'
Don't miss Vindices, a Latin Play, free entry and open to all. Tomorrow Friday 13/06 at 8pm and Saturday 14/06 at 3pm, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles.
#theatre #performance #latin #play #reception
12.06.2025 08:41 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of a poster saying "25th annual postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception. 3-4 july 2025. Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception. APGRD, University of Oxford. Royal Holloway, University of London"
Not long until the 25th Annual Postgraduate Symposium! 'Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception'. There will be a public lecture open to all on 3rd July. More details to come.
#reception #classics #symposium #ecology #performance
09.06.2025 09:27 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of a table in a study room with a bookshelf on the left, a number of colourful posters on the table and the back of a blonde woman on the right
Image of a section of a table with some posters on top covered with some A1 and A2 size white papers
Image of some A2 size frames on the floor leaning against a bookshelf
Image of a study room with a bookshelf on the left, a table in the centre with posters and a young woman working on a laptop
What is cooking in the APGRD kitchen...? Exciting things coming up, we are planning a new exhibition open to the public. Watch this space!
#exhibiton #reception #classics #poster #theatre #design
05.06.2025 08:44 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Picture of a group of people at a table, a man in the centre with his fist up. Writing saying 'A Latin Play. Vindices. loosely based on William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. Ioannou centre Friday June 13, Saturdat June 14'
A performance in Latin free and open to all, don't miss this unique experience. Saturday matinee followed by a conversation with director and cast. Book your free ticket:
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
#latin #roman #performance #theatre
03.06.2025 09:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Screenshot of Youtube page showing a video of Janet Suzman and Edith Hall seating at a table in a conference room conversing.
If you missed the brilliant Janet Suzman in conversation with Edith Hall at the Ioannou Centre, you can now watch this public lecture's recording. Fascinating snippets of her life acting and directing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfIS...
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
02.06.2025 15:17 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of a wall with a poster with the image of a lady with an ancient book and stylus and some writing: Katerina Stergiopoulou, 2pm 2 June 2025, Tilted Gazing: American Women Writers and the tenuousness of Classics.
Not long to our English & Classics Lecture on Monday 2 June 2pm. If you can't attend, you can join us online via Zoom. Head to our website for the Zoom link: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
29.05.2025 08:44 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0