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  • Professor Fiona Macintosh sat in a front row seat with a group of people behind her.

    Fiona Macintosh, Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques

    Wonderful news! Emeritus Professor of Classical Reception Fiona Macintosh has been been made a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Minister of Education for her research in classical reception and theatre studies, her promotion of Franco-British scholarly exchange, and, during her time as Director of the APGRD, her significant contribution to innovation in the humanities and digital humanities. Congratulations Fiona!!


     

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    BADA summer program 2026

    Applications are now open for the British American Drama Academy's (BADA) month-long summer Greek Theatre program 2026. Participants spend 10 days in London, 10 days in Greece, and a final residency in Oxford with the APGRD. The programme's interdisciplinary model makes it suitable for students and theatre practitioners at various stages of their careers.

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    Fixed! Newsletter sign-up and contact us forms

    A glitch in our new Contact Us form and Newsletter Subscription form has been fixed; if you recently used either of these and received an error message or no response from us, please do try again with our apologies for the inconvenience.

  • A photograph of a University of Oxford lanyard on top of an open laptop on a desk in a library

    Job opportunity: part-time Research Assistant

    We're looking for a part-time Research Assistant to join our project, “Exploring Digital Futures at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama”. 8hrs per week for 9 months. Full details on jobs.ac.uk. Closing date for applications is 14 May.

  • Detail from an ancient Greek fresco depicting a figure gathering Saffron

    CFP: Extended deadline for Postgraduate Symposium

    We have extended the Call For Papers for this year's postgraduate symposium: new deadline for abstracts is Friday 9 May. So still time to come and join us! This year's theme is: ‘Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception(s).’ Read the CFP in full (PDF).

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    Welcoming Florencia Nelli

    A warm welcome to Florencia Nelli, our new Archive Administrative Assistant and Researcher, who joined the APGRD team this week. Florencia's research focuses on deixis in ancient Greek drama, comparative philology and ancient Greek dialects, and reception studies in Latin America.