
Public lectures
The APGRD has been running its public lecture series since 1998 to which everybody - including the general public - is invited. Events are usually held during term time at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Whitman College)
21 May, 2012 - 15:15
Edward Petherbridge (actor)
14 May, 2012 - 14:15
Ariane Mnouchkine (Director of Théâtre du Soleil)
8 May, 2012 - 17:00
Robert Crawford (Professor of English, St Andrews), Norman McBeath (photographer)
6 February, 2012 - 17:00
Oliver Taplin, Greg Hicks, Tony Harrison
19 November, 2011 - 17:00 to 19:00
Professor Kathryn Bosher (Northwestern)
17 October, 2011 - 14:15
Professor Peter Mackridge (Oxford)
6 June, 2011 - 14:15
Dr Dan Orrells (Warwick), Tessa Roynon (Oxford)
9 May, 2011 - 14:15
Professor Christian Biet (Paris X-Nanterre)
7 March, 2011 - 14:15
Martin Crimp (playwright)
7 February, 2011 - 14:15
John Hamilton (Harvard University)
8 November, 2010 - 14:15
Patrice Rankine (Associate Professor of Classics, Purdue University)
1 November, 2010 - 14:15
Mark Franko (Professor of Dance, University of California, Santa Cruz)
17 March, 2010 - 14:15
David Wiles (Professor of Drama, Royal Holloway University)
22 February, 2010 - 14:15
Włodzimierz Staniewski
26 October, 2009 - 14:15
Declan Donnellan (Artistic Director, Cheek by Jowl)
10 March, 2009 - 14:15
Vassilis Lambropoulos (Department of Comparative Literature, University of Michigan)
23 February, 2009 - 14:15
Bernhard Zimmerman (Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
26 January, 2009 - 15:00
Oliver Taplin (Director, APGRD), Pantelis Michelakis (Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol)
1 December, 2008 - 14:15
Margaret Malamud (Associate Professor of History, New Mexico State University)
17 November, 2008 - 14:15
David Beard (Lecturer, School of Music, Cardiff University)
27 October, 2008 - 14:15
Joanna Paul (Lecturer, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool)
19 May, 2008 - 14:15
Pantelis Michelakis (Lecturer, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol) , Michelle C. Paull (Lecturer, Department of Drama and Performance Studies, St Mary’s University College, London)
4 February, 2008 - 14:15
Terry Eagleton (Professor of English Literature, University of Manchester)
14 January, 2008 - 14:15
Blake Morrison (Professor of Creative and Life Writing, Goldsmiths' College, London)
26 November, 2007 - 14:15
Jatinder Verma (Artistic Director, Tara Arts Theatre Company)
12 November, 2007 - 14:15
Erin B. Mee (Professor of Theater, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania)
25 June, 2007 - 14:15
Barbara Ravelhofer (Lecturer in English, University of Durham)
14 May, 2007 - 14:15
Edith Hall (Professor of Classics & Drama, Royal Holloway, University of London; and Co-Director, APGRD)
30 April, 2007 - 14:15
Frederick Naerebout (Senior Lecturer, Department of Ancient History, Leiden University)
12 March, 2007 - 14:15
Simone Beta (Professor of Classics, University of Siena)
6 March, 2007 - 14:15
Ismene Lada-Richards (Lecturer in Classics, King’s College London)
19 February, 2007 - 14:15
Sue Jones (Lecturer in English, St Hilda’s College, Oxford)
6 November, 2006 - 14:15
Christian Wolff (Composer, and former Professor of Classics and of Music, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)
18 October, 2006 - 14:15
Athol Fugard (Playwright), Marianne McDonald (Professor of Theatre & Classics, University of California, San Diego)
14 June, 2006 - 14:15
Richard Armstrong (Associate Professor of Classics, University of Houston)
10 May, 2006 - 14:15
John Eaton (Composer; Professor of Music, University of Chicago)
22 February, 2006 - 14:15
Wlodzimierz Staniewski (Gardzienice)
8 February, 2006 - 14:15
Marina Carr (Playwright), Professor Edith Hall
16 November, 2005 - 14:15
Stephen Walsh (Professor of Music, University of Cardiff)
26 October, 2005 - 14:15
Gabriel Josipovici (Writer; Research Professor of English, University of Sussex)
11 May, 2005 - 14:15
Simon Goldhill (Professor of Greek Literature & Culture, University of Cambridge)
23 February, 2005 - 14:15
Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Consultant Scholar-Editor, OUP)
2 February, 2005 - 14:15
Tony Harrison (Poet and Playwright), Professor Oliver Taplin
17 November, 2004 - 14:15
Professor Eric Csapo (University of Toronto)
26 May, 2004 - 14:15
Professor Allen Kuharski (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania)
28 April, 2004 - 14:15
Dr Pantelis Michelakis (Honarary Research Fellow, APGRD; Lecturer, University of Bristol)
26 November, 2003 - 14:15
Professor Alain Viala (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford), Dr Kate Tunstall (Worcester College, Oxford)
29 October, 2003 - 14:15
Professor Reinhard Strohm (Wadham College, Oxford)
4 June, 2003 - 14:15
Professor Oliver Taplin (APGRD, and Magdalen College, Oxford)
3 March, 2003 - 14:15
Barrie Rutter (Actor and Artistic Director of Northern Broadsides)
29 January, 2003 - 14:15
Professor Freddy Decreus (University of Gent)
20 November, 2002 - 14:15
William K. Zewadski (Private Collector of images and artefacts)
23 October, 2002 - 14:15
Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, directed by David Raeburn at Bradfield College, 1955 David Raeburn (New College, Oxford; director of the Oxford Greek Play 1996)
8 May, 2002 - 14:15
Lorna Hardwick (Open University)
27 February, 2002 - 14:15
Abd' Elkader Farrah (1963-1991 RSC Associate Designer; since 1991 RSC Honorary Associate Artist)
30 January, 2002 - 14:15
How Do We Believe in the Gods? On the presence of Greek myth and drama in recent creative literature
Marina Warner (Writer and Visiting Fellow, All Souls)
21 November, 2001 - 14:15
David Wiles (Professor of Theatre, Department of Drama & Theatre, Royal Holloway)
9 May, 2001 - 14:15
Katharine Worth (Emeritus Professor of Drama, King's College London)
31 January, 2001 - 14:15
Don Chapman (former Theatre Critic for the Oxford Mail)
15 November, 2000 - 14:15
Froma I. Zeitlin (Charles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Princeton University)
14 June, 2000 - 14:15
Pantelis Michelakis (Research Fellow, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama)
4 May, 2000 - 14:15
Fiona Macintosh (Senior Research Fellow, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama)
2 February, 2000 - 14:15
Mae Smethurst (University of Pittsburgh)
30 April, 1999 - 14:15
Hellmut Flashar (University of Munich)
10 June, 1998 - 14:15
Helene Foley (Professor of Classics, Barnard College, New York)
5 May, 1998 - 14:15

