| The APGRD Newsletter Winter 2009 has been issued.
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REGISTRATION OPEN
RHUL conference on ‘Classics & Class', July 2010
The Centre for the Reception of Greece & Rome at Royal Holloway is delighted to announce that registration is now open for its British Academy-sponsored conference, ‘Classics & Class’, to be held at the British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH, on July 1st and 2nd 2010. This is a change from the previously advertised venue of Bedford Square. Speakers include Jonathan Rose (Keynote, Author of The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes), Chris Stray, Ed Richardson, Ekaterina Basargina, Adam Roberts, John Holford, Peter Rose, Paula James, Annie Ravenhill, Graham Oliver, Robert Crawford, Sarah Butler, Richard Alston, Margaret Malamud, and Katharine T. von Stackelberg. In addition, there will be a Performance Event on the evening of July 1st with poetry and prose looking at the history of Classics through the prism of social class, featuring Tony Harrison and chaired by Peggy Reynolds (BBC’s Adventures in Poetry).
Separate registration for both the conference and the event (both of which are entirely free of charge and open to the public) is now open online at http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2010/classicsandclass/index.cfm. Places for attendees other than speakers and chairpersons are limited to 60, and will be offered on a firmly first-come first-serve basis. For further information please contact edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
10th Annual Postgraduate Symposium, June 2010
We are happy to announce the Tenth Annual Postgraduate Symposium organised by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford and the Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London. This two-day event will take place on Monday 21 June at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford (66 St Giles) and Tuesday 22 June at Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham (Noh Studio). To celebrate the event’s tenth year, the symposium will focus on ‘Revelry, Rhythm and Blues’ in the reception of Greek and Roman drama from antiquity to the present day.
Postgraduates from across the globe working on the reception of Greek and Roman drama are welcome to participate, as are those who have completed a doctorate but not yet taken up a post. The Symposium is open to speakers from different disciplines, including researchers in the fields of classics, modern languages and literature, or theatre studies. Practitioners are welcome to contribute their personal experience of working on ancient drama. Papers may also include demonstrations. Undergraduates are very welcome to attend.
Those who wish to contribute a short paper (20 minutes) or performative presentation are invited to send an abstract of up to 400 words outlining the proposed subject of their discussion to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk by Wednesday 31 March 2010. (Please include details of your current course of study, supervisor and academic institution).
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The APGRD Lecture Series presents
'Martha Graham: From Mythic Journey to Psychoanalytic Voyage (1947-1953)'
A lecture given by
Mark Franko
Professor of Dance, University of California, Santa Cruz
2.15pm on Wednesday 17 March 2010
in the Lecture Theatre at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
All are welcome.
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