Events in 2021

Events in 2021, in chronological order

 

Panathenaea at the ancient temple of Paestum, 1936 © INDA
The Fascist Archive in Performance: Classical Reception in Film and Live Events under Mussolini
Friday, January 15, 2021 - 10:00am
Front cover of The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro Electricidad; Oedipus El Rey; Mojada by Luis Alfaro, edited by Rosa Andújar
The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: New Visions of Tragedy in 21st-Century America
Rosa Andújar (KCL)
Monday, January 18, 2021 - 12:00pm
Front cover to Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Tragic Form in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
Naomi Weiss (Harvard)
Monday, February 15, 2021 - 2:00pm
Portraits of Montaigne and Racine, overlaid with sixteenth century printed Greek text
Qui graecizabant lutheranizabant: apprendre le grec de Montaigne à Racine
Tristan Alonge (La Réunion/MFO)
Thursday, February 18, 2021 - 12:00pm
New lines: contemporary poets and the classics
Monday, March 8, 2021 - 2:00pm
Head-shots of Marina Carr and Patrick O'Kane
Marina Carr and Patrick O'Kane in conversation about Girl On An Altar
Monday, March 15, 2021 - 2:00pm
Close-up black and white photograph of ruins of Paestum
Poetics, Politics, and the Ruin in Cinema and Theatre since 1945 [Day One]
Friday, April 2, 2021 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
Classics and English Annual Lecture: Tragedy Since 9/11
Jennifer Wallace
Monday, April 26, 2021 - 2:00pm
Photo of Kevin Willmott, seated, in front of a blue background
Kevin Willmott in conversation with Edith Hall
Kevin Willmott, Edith Hall
Monday, May 10, 2021 - 5:00pm
Portrait photograph of Yaël Farber stood in front of a dark red wall
Yaël Farber in conversation with Helen Eastman
Yaël Farber, Helen Eastman
Monday, May 17, 2021 - 2:00pm
Photograph of Inu Ellams at the Tower of London; Henry Nicholls © SWNS.com
Inua Ellams in conversation with Helen Eastman
Inua Ellams, Helen Eastman
Monday, May 24, 2021 - 2:00pm
Cover to Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily, by Kathryn G. Bosher
Book Launch: Kathryn Bosher’s Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily
Monday, June 7, 2021 - 5:00pm
Poster advertising the masterclass, featuring headshots of Paul O'Mahony, Evelyn Miller, and Tim Delap
Greek Tragedy - Masterclass on Film: Antigone
Friday, June 11, 2021 - 5:00pm
New Lines: Poetry Reading with Live Canon
Monday, June 14, 2021 - 2:00pm
Poster advertising symposium, yellow text on a black background reads: Challenging Traditions and Traditions of Challenge in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama, below a ripped illuminated manuscript of Medea
21st Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
Monday, June 28, 2021 - 9:00am to Tuesday, June 29, 2021 - 6:00pm
Black and white sketch by George Romney of the The Ghost of Darius Appearing to Atossa
Ghosts: From Aeschylus’ The Persians to Wajdi Mouawad’s The Blood of Promises
Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths)
Monday, June 28, 2021 - 4:00pm
Photograph of an ancient Greek statue, without a head, surrounded by scaffolding
Collective Trauma and Contemporary Crisis in performances of Ancient Tragedies
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 - 10:00am to 5:00pm
Poster for APGRD Seminar Series 2021: Receptions & Comparatisms
Receptions and Comparatisms - Disciplinarity
Emily Greenwood (Princeton), María del Pilar Blanco (Oxford)
Monday, October 11, 2021 - 5:00pm
The Glory and the Grandeur: John Clarke Stobart and the Defence of High Culture in a Democratic Age
Christopher Stray (Swansea)
Monday, October 18, 2021 - 2:00pm
Poster for APGRD Seminar Series 2021: Receptions & Comparatisms
Receptions and Comparatisms - Temporalities
Tim Rood (Oxford), Adhira Mangalagiri (QMUL)
Monday, October 18, 2021 - 5:00pm
Poster for APGRD Seminar Series 2021: Receptions & Comparatisms
Receptions and Comparatisms - What is a language?
Lucy Jackson (Durham), Matthew Reynolds (Oxford)
Monday, October 25, 2021 - 5:00pm
Book cover, yellow background with black text reading: Estelle Baudou: Créer le choeur tragique: Une archéologie du commun (Allemagne, France, Royaume-Uni ; 1973-2010)
Book launch: Créer le Chœur Tragique by Estelle Baudou
Estelle Baudou (Oxford)
Thursday, October 28, 2021 - 5:00pm
Portrait photograph of Femi Osofisan
In partnership with the University of Ibadan and University of Reading: Femi Osofisan in conversation
Femi Osofisan (playwright and poet), Tunde Awosanmi (University of Ibadan and Theatre Director), Barbara Goff (University of Reading), Kunbi Olasope (University of Ibadan)
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 2:00pm
Poster for APGRD Seminar Series 2021: Receptions & Comparatisms
Receptions and Comparatisms - Orality and script worlds
Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago), Haun Saussy (University of Chicago)
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 5:00pm
Poster for 15 Heroines showing the outline of three female heads, designed by Ciaran Walsh
Tom Littler and Indra Ové in conversation: Jermyn Street Theatre's 15 Heroines
Tom Littler (Director/Dramaturg), Indra Ové (Actor)
Monday, November 8, 2021 - 2:00pm
Poster for APGRD Seminar Series 2021: Receptions & Comparatisms
Receptions and Comparatisms - Decolonisation
Phiroze Vasunia (UCL), Francesca Orsini (SOAS), Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (Lancaster), Maddalena Italia (UCL)
Monday, November 8, 2021 - 5:00pm
Poster for APGRD Seminar Series 2021: Receptions & Comparatisms
Receptions and Comparatisms - Decoloniality
Marchella Ward (Oxford), Mathura Umachandran (Cornell), Joanna Page (Cambridge)
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 5:00pm
Close-up black and white photograph of ruins of Paestum
Poetics, Politics and the Ruin in Cinema and Theatre since 1945
Monday, November 22, 2021 - 9:15am
Poster for APGRD Seminar Series 2021: Receptions & Comparatisms
Receptions and Comparatisms - Posthumanism
Clara Bosak-Schroeder (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Alexander Beecroft (University of South Carolina)
Monday, November 22, 2021 - 5:00pm
Headshot of A.E. Stallings in front of a black background
A.E. Stallings: online reading
A. E. Stallings (Poet)
Monday, November 29, 2021 - 2:00pm
Poster for APGRD Seminar Series 2021: Receptions & Comparatisms
Receptions and Comparatisms - Anthropocene
Brooke Holmes (Princeton), Ben Hutchinson (Kent)
Monday, November 29, 2021 - 5:00pm
Front cover to Martin Revermann's book, Brecht and Tragedy Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Book Launch: Brecht and Tragedy by Martin Revermann
Martin Revermann (Toronto), Michael Sharp (Classics Editor CUP), Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
Monday, December 6, 2021 - 6:00pm