Corpus Christi College Classics Centre and the APGRD are pleased to invite you to a two-day workshop, open to all; co-organised by Giuseppe Pezzini (Corpus Christi College) and Domenico Giordani (Lady Margaret Hall / UCL).

The hybrid event will take place online and in Oxford on the afternoon of Thursday 15 June (Lady Margaret Hall, Monson Room) and the morning of Friday 16 June (Ioannou Centre, Lecture Theatre). If you are planning to attend the event, either in person or via Zoom, please register your details in our online form. 

Programme

15 June: Lady Margaret Hall, Monson Room

• 3-3.15pm: Introduction
• 3.15–4pm: Gesine Manuwald (UCL): ‘Plautus’ Stichus and dramatic conventions’
• 4-4.15pm: Tea and coffee
• 4.15–5pm: Matthew Leigh (Oxford): ‘Reading Plautus with Frederick Douglass’

16 June: Ioannou Centre, Lecture Theatre

• 9-9.15am: Tea and coffee
• 9.15-10am: Dorota Dutsch (UCSB): ‘Pamphila De Officiis’
• 10-10.45am: Orlando Gibbs (Cambridge): ‘Sub-elite friendship in the Stichus’
• 10.45-11am: Tea and coffee
• 11-11.45am: Wolfgang de Melo (Oxford): ‘Old men, women, slaves: a linguistically realistic portrayal?’
• 11.45-12.45pm: Domenico Giordani (Oxford/UCL) & Alex Silverman (Oxford): ‘Singing Sisters: Plautus in Music’
• 12.45-1.15pm: Roundtable
• 1.15-2.15pm: Lunch

*All times are BST

Queries

For any information or queries, please write to domenico.giordani@lmh.ox.ac.uk.