Events in 2016

Events in 2016, in chronological order

 

The Changing of the Guard
Iqbal Khan (Director), Shomit Dutta (Playwright)
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 7:00pm
ICONS - a rehearsed reading by Blazon Theatre
Blazon Theatre Company
Friday, March 4, 2016 - 5:00pm
The Tyranny of Greece over Greece
Apostolos Doxiadis
Monday, March 7, 2016 - 2:15pm
From the Neo-Classical Turn to the Baroque ‘Re’-turn: French Dance in Retrospective Modernity and Recycling Postmodernity
Mark Franko (Temple University, Philadelphia)
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 5:00pm
Illustration, by CE Brock, of the 1900 Cambridge Greek Play: Agamemon
E. M. Forster’s Tragic Interior
David Scourfield (Maynooth)
Monday, May 9, 2016 - 2:15pm
Italy and the Classics
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 10:00am
Bellissima Maria (a rehearsed reading)
Roberto Cavosi (playwright), Jane House (translator), Marco Gambino (actor), Sasha Waddell (actor), Marina Warner - chairing
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 6:00pm
Detail of painted ceiling in Waltham Abbey Parish Church, depicting Janus, photograph by Steve Day
16th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
Monday, June 27, 2016 - 10:00am to Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 10:00am
William Zappa: Homer's Iliad (Book 1)
William Zappa
Monday, June 27, 2016 - 7:00pm
Lyric and Lyricism
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 10:00am
Reception and World Literature - ‘It’s a long way to Rome’: David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life and Australian appropriations of antiquity
Rachael White (Oxford)
Monday, October 10, 2016 - 5:00pm
Alice Oswald - a reading
Alice Oswald (Poet)
Monday, October 17, 2016 - 3:15pm
Reception and World Literature - Contemporary Canon Formation
Vanda Zajko (Bristol)
Monday, October 17, 2016 - 5:15pm
Reception and World Literature - Epitomising World Literature: Classical Reception in the Caribbean
Justine McConnell (KCL)
Monday, October 24, 2016 - 5:00pm
Reception and World Literature - A Cuban Odyssey and the Transcultured Classics in Latin America
Rosa Andújar (KCL)
Monday, October 31, 2016 - 5:00pm
Reception and World Literature - Weltliteratur in the English Fin de Siècle: Oscar Wilde, Max Müller and the English Goethe Society
Stefano Evangelista (Oxford)
Monday, November 7, 2016 - 5:00pm
Reception and World Literature - Lyric Systems: The Siren Song of World-Literature
Nick Lawrence (Warwick)
Monday, November 14, 2016 - 5:00pm
Reception and World Literature - You’ve been framed! Reception, Philhellenism, and the Comparative Contexts of World Literature
Sebastian Matzner (KCL)
Monday, November 21, 2016 - 5:00pm
Bodies and texts: Attitudes towards tragedy from the Second Sophistic to Late Antiquity
Ruth Webb (Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III)
Monday, November 28, 2016 - 2:15pm
Reception and World Literature - Autobiographical reading: the case of the Odyssey
Barbara Graziosi (Durham)
Monday, November 28, 2016 - 5:00pm