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Symposia

The APGRD regularly hosts academic symposia, one of its longest running such events being the annual postgraduate symposium on ancient drama and its reception, co-convened with Royal Holloway, which began in 2000. Our symposia are frequently collaborative and are open to scholars, students, and often the general public. 

Events of type: symposium

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an ancient Greek fresco depicting a figure gathering Saffron
Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception
25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
Guest Lecture: Vicky Angelaki
Oxford / Royal Holloway / Online
Oil painting shows the queen Clytemnestra standing, holding the axe with which she killed her husband Agamemnon
Aeschylus' Agamemnon colloquium
An afternoon devoted to research on Agamemnon
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
An oil painting depicting the outline of an otherwise invisible figure at a large wooden church door
Sanctuary Study Day
A day of talks, panel discussions, workshops and performances on the theme of Sanctuary
All Souls College and St Hilda's College
A statue of Thespis, holding a mask.
24th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance
Symposium
Bodies and Voices in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception
Sarah Cullinan Herring, 
Marcus Bell, 
Konstantinos Thomaidis
St Hilda's College and Royal Holloway
An illustration by John Flaxman based on Homer's Iliad.
Turning Epic and Epic Turns
An in-person study afternoon
St Hilda's College
Monumental head of the goddess Commagene (Tyche-Bakht) from Mount Nemrut
23rd Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
Symposium
Precarity, Vulnerability, and Power in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama
St Hilda's College and Royal Holloway
A mosaic depicting three male figures, two seated either side of a central standing figure
Potant seruuli: Text, Performance, and Reception of Plautus' Stichus
A two-day hybrid workshop on Plautus' comedy
Corpus Christi College and Zoom
Catullus in Song
Workshop
Stephen Sharkey, 
Jack Tarlton, 
Alex Silverman
JdP, St Hilda's College, Oxford
A photo of Extinction Rebellion's Red Brigade.
22nd Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
Photograph of an ancient Greek statue, without a head, surrounded by scaffolding
Collective Trauma and Contemporary Crisis in performances of Ancient Tragedies
Online
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
Online
A photo of a 1936 celebration of the Panathenaea at the ancient temple of Paestum,
The Fascist Archive in Performance: Classical Reception in Film and Live Events under Mussolini
An online symposium in collaboration with the University of Groningen, Laboratorio Dionysos - University of Trento, and University College London.
Photograph of a laptop displaying a full screen of Zoom participants (blurred faces)
Virtual theatre and performance in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama
20th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
Online
Communities and Contexts in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama
19th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
Ioannou Centre, Oxford; Royal Holloway, Egham
Misdirections and Misconceptions in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama
18th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
Ioannou Centre, Oxford; Royal Holloway, Egham
A black and white woodcut design of men, in a plain uniform, walking in a circle
Movement and Limits in the Theory and Practice of Ancient Drama
17th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
Ioannou Centre (Oxford); Royal Holloway (Egham)
Detail of painted ceiling in Waltham Abbey Parish Church, depicting Janus
Memory and Imagined Futures in the Theory and Practice of Ancient Drama
16th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
APGRD, University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London
A photo of Seamus Heaney at Epidaurus
Bann Valley Muses: Seamus Heaney and the Classics
Lecture Theatre, 66 St Giles', Oxford