The APGRD Research Seminar 2021 will take place in Michaelmas Term, from 11 Oct. to 29 Nov. 2021, on Mondays at 5pm (UK time) online only due to the ongoing COVID pandemic.
The seminar is convened by Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, and David Ricks; and it is co-organised with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), and with the support of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation research centre (OCCT)
Each week this seminar series brings together international scholars from Classics and Comparative Literature to engender cross-disciplinary reflection on some of the most pressing intellectual concerns within the Humanities. Classics and Comparative Literature as disciplines have undergone radical changes in the academy in recent years, but not always as a result of sustained dialogue between the two constituencies. This series seeks to promote such a dialogue.
Week Two, Temporalities
- Tim Rood (Oxford) and Adhira Mangalagiri (QMUL)will discuss 'Temporalities'.
- Tim Rood's handout (PDF)
Recordings
Recordings of the speakers, but not the subsequent discussions with attendees, are available on the APGRD YouTube channel.
Programme
- Week 1: Disciplinarity. 11 Oct. 5pm
Emily Greenwood (Princeton); María del Pilar Blanco (Oxford). - Week 2: Temporalities. 18 Oct. 5pm
Tim Rood (Oxford); Adhira Mangalagiri (QMUL). - Week 3: What is a language? 25 Oct. 5pm
Lucy Jackson (Durham); Matthew Reynolds (Oxford). - Week 4: Orality and script worlds. 1 Nov. 5pm
Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago); Haun Saussy (University of Chicago). - Week 5: Decolonisation. 8 Nov. 5pm
Phiroze Vasunia (UCL); Francesca Orsini (SOAS); Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (Lancaster); Maddalena Italia (UCL). - Week 6: Decoloniality. 15 Nov. 5pm
Marchella Ward (Oxford); Mathura Umachandran (Cornell); Joanna Page (Cambridge). - Week 7: Posthumanism. 22 Nov. 5pm
Clara Bosak-Schroeder (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Alexander Beecroft (University of South Carolina). - Week 8: Anthropocene. 29 Nov. 5pm
Brooke Holmes (Princeton); Ben Hutchinson (Kent)
Posters by Thom Cuschieri.