Events in 2019

Events in 2019, in chronological order

 

Poster for Performing Pindar event at the APGRD in 2019
Performing Pindar
Nancy Felson (Georgia), Helen Eastman (Theatre Director), Alex Silverman (Composer)
Friday, January 11, 2019 - 3:00pm
Poster for Melinda Powers' 2019 lecture at the APGRD
Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage
Melinda Powers (CUNY)
Monday, January 21, 2019 - 3:00pm
Poster for a rehearsed reading of Andromeda at the APGRD in 2019
A Play after Euripides' Andromeda
Monday, January 28, 2019 - 6:00pm
Poster for Martin Revermann's 2019 lecture at the APGRD
Translation Prefaces
Martin Revermann (Toronto)
Monday, February 25, 2019 - 3:00pm
Poster for Olga Taxidou's 2019 lecture at the APGRD
The Dancer and the Übermarionette: Duncan, Craig and Modernist Performance
Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh)
Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 5:00pm
Poster for the Iliad Book 6 global reading event
13th European Festival of Latin and Greek: Iliad Book 6
Friday, March 22, 2019 - 9:00am
Poster for Henry Power's 2019 lecture at the APGRD
Homer and the Discovery of the Pacific
Henry Power (Exeter/All Souls)
Monday, May 13, 2019 - 3:00pm
Poster for Isobel Hurst's Classics and English Lecture 2019
The Mask of a Very Definite Purpose: Edith Wharton and the Classics
Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths)
Monday, May 20, 2019 - 3:00pm
Poster for We Are Not Princesses screening and discussion event
We Are Not Princesses: APGRD/TORCH Film Screening
Hal Scardino (Producer), Nur Laiq (TORCH Global South Visiting Fellow), Fiona Macintosh (APGRD Director)
Thursday, June 13, 2019 - 6:00pm
19th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
Monday, June 24, 2019 - 10:00am to Tuesday, June 25, 2019 - 5:00pm
Classical Theatre and the Middle East
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 10:00am
Beyond the text: Chorus in the twenty-first century
Marie-Louise Crawley (Choreographer), Struan Leslie (Dramaturg and Movement Director), Malcolm Atkins (Composer)
Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 5:00pm
Classics and Poetry Now - Classics and Poetry Now: words and the company they keep
Lorna Hardwick (OU), Justine McConnell (KCL)
Monday, October 14, 2019 - 11:30am
Classics and Poetry Now - Going digital with World War 1 Poetry: Wilfred Owen and Charles Hamilton Sorley
Elizabeth Vandiver (Whitman College), Stephen Harrison (Oxford)
Monday, October 21, 2019 - 11:30am
Classics and Poetry Now - Farewells, Debts and Ale: Poetic inspiration from non-literary texts
Josephine Balmer (poet and translator), Fiona Cox (Exeter), Elena Theodorakopoulos (Birmingham)
Monday, October 28, 2019 - 11:30am
Poster for Alena Sarkissian's talk at the APGRD, 2019
Theatre as a space of Spiritual Contemplation: Greek Tragedy at the National Theatre of Prague during the Nazi occupation (1939 – 1945)
Alena Sarkissian (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Monday, October 28, 2019 - 3:00pm
Classics and Poetry Now - The Reception of Prometheus in 'Prometheus: The Play of a Day' by Nikephoros Vrettakos
Ioanna Karamanou (Thessaloniki)
Monday, November 4, 2019 - 11:30am
Classics and Poetry Now - Comrade Catullus: the Translation Practice of Jack Lindsay
Henry Stead (St Andrews)
Monday, November 11, 2019 - 11:30am
Classics and Poetry Now - Reception Unboxed: Anne Carson and Remediating the Classics
Genevieve Liveley (Bristol)
Monday, November 18, 2019 - 11:30am
Classics and Poetry Now - Sylvia Plath’s Classical Palimpsests
Holly Ranger (Institute of Classical Studies, London)
Monday, November 25, 2019 - 11:30am
Lee Breuer and Maude Mitchell in conversation with Olga Taxidou
Lee Breuer (director), Maude Mitchell (actor), Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh)
Monday, November 25, 2019 - 5:00pm
sixteenth century map of Europe
On Translating Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe (ca. 1400-1600)
Friday, November 29, 2019 - 11:30am to 6:30pm
Classics and Poetry Now - Modern Portuguese Poets and the Greeks: a poetic theory
Maria de Fatima Silva (Coimbra), Susana Marques (Coimbra)
Monday, December 2, 2019 - 11:30am
Hélia Correia (Portuguese poet-playwright) in conversation
Hélia Correia (Portuguese poet-playwright)
Monday, December 2, 2019 - 3:00pm
Classics and the Spectacular under Fascism: Classical Performance in the ‘Ventennio Fascista’
Monday, December 16, 2019 - 10:15am