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Join us for a public discussion to close the 3 day development workshop “Songs of Solidarity Project Writer's room”. Weds 17 Dec 5pm, St Hilda's College Oxford.
Songs of Solidarity is an interdisciplinary performance project reimagining ancient epics through the voices of migrant communities today.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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We have a wonderful series of events coming up, save the dates in your diaries! Next week's Research Seminar will focus on "Filiation, Cannibalism, Carrier/Vehicle" with Emma Greensmith, Rosa Andújar, Giovanna Di Martino and Carla Suthren.
#apgrd #classics #reception #metaphor
Image of a poster with a picture of a woman holding a goat and the information: "Phoebe Giannisi, 5pm, 17 Nov 2025. In conversation with Brian Sneeden and A. E. Stallings. Taylor Institution. St Giles. All welcome; no booking required" Image of a poster showing an ancient picture of a siren dragging a man from a boat from his head into the sea, with the information: "Conceptual Metaphors in Reception Studies, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, Tuesdays 2025 - 14:00" Image of a poster with red background and a diagonal grey stroke in the middle with the information: "For the sake of history alone: Queer adaptations of Greek Tragedy in Greece, Giorgos Sampatakakis, 5pm, Monday 3 Nov Taylor Institution, St Gile's Oxford" Image of a poster with a female dancing in the centre and the information: "Dressing 'Greek': Clothing, Movement, and Performance from ancient to modern, Ertegun House, 29 Nov 9am-18:30pm"
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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We are so excited! We got our posters back and we are just about to get them back in the corridors. Expect some new faces in there!
#posters #apgrd #classics #reception
October 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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A reminder that our Reception Studies Seminar "Conceptual Metaphors in Reception Studies" continues tomorrow. This week: Presence, Typology, Time. Don't miss it! Join us at the Ioannou Centre, or go to the APGRD website for instructions on how to join online.
#metaphor #reception #classics
Screenshot of "Conceptual Metaphors in Reception Studies: week 2" Seminar. Presence, Typology, Time. Duncan Kennedy, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 14:00. On top there is an image of an old painting depicting a siren on the left pulling a man on a boat into the sea by his head.
October 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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The APGRD wants to warmly welcome the new cohort of Classics and Reception Studies students starting their Oxford journey today. And what a better way of doing it than with this exquisite quote from Vallejo, Irene, 'Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World', Hodder & Stoughton, 2023.
Photograph of page 140 from the book Vallejo, Irene. Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World. Translated by Charlotte Whittle. Hodder & Stoughton, 2023.
October 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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We would like to pay tribute to Tony Harrison, not only for his landmark adaptations of Greek drama but also for being so supportive of the APGRD’s formation and research endeavours; many of our archive’s highlights are indebted to his work - a colleague and friend to many of us over the years 💛
Photograph of a rehearsal script of the Oresteia, by Tony Harrison, an APGRD archive item once belonging to Oliver Taplin (academic consultant on Peter Hall’s National Theatre production of 1981).
October 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Starting Oct 14 (hybrid/Oxford, 2pm UK) - #APGRD series: Conceptual Metaphors in Reception Studies www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events
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September 30, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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🎉🎉If you missed the launch of this fascinating, thought provoking issue, 'What Makes an American “Classic”?' co-edited by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes, the recording is now online! Head to the APGRD Website to watch the video, or go to our YouTube channel.
#reception #classics #american
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July 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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🎉🎉 If you missed it, Dr Emily Pillinger's fascinating contribution to the 25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception is now online, accessible to all. Go to the APGRD website or our YouTube channel to watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjzb...
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July 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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📕🚀ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH!!! Don't miss our next event, Monday 14 July 5pm (UK time) ONLINE book launch, 'What makes an American Classic?', an invitation from co-editors Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes.For the Zoom link to join us, please go to the APGRD website: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
image of diary, book and text that says "SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE ONLINE LAUNCH MONDAY JULY 14TH, 5PM (UK TIME) RESPONDENTS Wiebke Denecke Glenn W. Most Tessa Roynon & contributors WHAT MAKES AN AMERICAN CLASSIC? I Am an American WHAT EVERY CITIZEN SHOULD KNOW An invitation from co-editors Dr Caterina Domeneghini and Claire BarnesNEW AMERICAN STUDIES JOURNAL"
July 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Then, at the 25th Annual APGRD Symposium (Oxford & Royal Holloway), I gave a speech on “Pollution Networks in Greek Tragedy” during the opening panel on miasma.

Came home with a pile of notes and a longer reading list - it was great to meet such passionate Classics communities!
July 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Book Launch! Join us online to explore and celebrate the publication of the especial edition of the New American Studies Journal (Vol. 76, 2025) What Makes an American 'Classic'?, co-edited by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes. Zoom link: apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/
Photograph of a laptop and bookshelves with books in the background. On the laptop screen an image of a blue booklet saying"I am an American" and to the right "APGRD event, What makes an American Classic?"
July 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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This week the BADA (British American Drama Academy) Greek Theatre Summer Programme has come to the APGRD for a few days of enriching varied activities and workshops. Here they are interacting with some of the Archive’s fascinating collections.
#archive #classics #theatre #reception #drama #bada
Image of a table with showing some people's hands handling a number of black and white photographs inside archival plastic sleeves, books, paper articles, a laptop, an old recording inside an orange case and various old leaflets. Picture of a group of young people in a teaching room sitting at tables looking at archive material (photographs, printouts, articles) Image of a teaching room with a digital screen at the background, a middle age man in front of it explaining something, and a group of students at a table handling archival material Image of a table with a number of black and white photographs inside archival plastic sleeves, also a book (Agamemnos) and a black notebook
July 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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We are now so close to the 25th Annual Postgraduate Symposium, Thu-Fri 3-4/07, and Prof Vicky Angelaki's fascinating guest lecture "Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres", 4:30pm Thu 3/07. In Person and ONLINE via Zoom. More details on the APGRD website.
Photo of a corridor with two stands with posters of Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception 3-4 July, and Lecture Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres, 4:30pm Thursday 3 July.
June 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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July 3-4 Oxford/London #APGRD Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium. Theme: "Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception(s)" www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
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June 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Congratulations to our Advisory board members Prof Fiona Macintosh, former Director of the APGRD, Dr Ezra Baudou, and current APGRD Researcher Dr Giovanna Di Martino for their brilliant contributions to Théâtre Public, fresh out of the oven!
#theatrepublic #reception #drama #classics
Image of the cover of a journal called Théâtre Public, No 255 Avril-June 2025 "Matières Antiques", picturing a young brunette woman screaming and a dark wood with a doll on the bottom left illuminated by a light. Image of a page of the journal with the title "Nous sommes toujours soumis aux mêmes passions, entretien avec Marina Carr, réalisé par Fiona Macintosh". Image of two pages of the journal, on the right a picture in black and white of an amphitheatre and a group of people dancing in the centre, on the right a title "La tragédie est une mise en scène de l'experiénce de la communauté", entretien avec Marco Martinelli et Paul O'Mahony, réalisé par Ezra Baudou et Giovanna si Martino.
June 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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"Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres" public lecture by Prof Vicky Angelaki coming soon! Don't miss it. Free and open to all.
#reception #theatre #classics #classicalcanon #ecotheatre
Image of a poster advertising a public lecture, reading: 4:30pm. Thursday 4 July. 3rd Floor Seminar Room Radcliffe Humanities Building. All Welcome. Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres. Vicky Angelaki (Mid Sweden University). APGRD.
June 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Not long until the 25th Annual Postgraduate Symposium! 'Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception'. There will be a public lecture open to all on 3rd July. More details to come.
#reception #classics #symposium #ecology #performance
Image of a poster saying "25th annual postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception. 3-4 july 2025. Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception. APGRD, University of Oxford. Royal Holloway, University of London"
June 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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What is cooking in the APGRD kitchen...? Exciting things coming up, we are planning a new exhibition open to the public. Watch this space!
#exhibiton #reception #classics #poster #theatre #design
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June 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Exciting new public lecture coming up at the APGRD, add it to your diaries! Monday 2nd June, 2pm at the Ioannou Centre, Dr Katerina Stergiopoulou on American Women Writers & Classics. For more details go to: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/
#classics #englishliterature #americanwriters #literature
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May 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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If you missed yesterday's brilliant event at the APGRD, Janet Suzman in conversation with Edith Hall, you can watch it on our YouTube page, link to be published soon. Here are some brilliant materials Dame Janet Suzman donated to the APGRD after the event! #theatre #drama #reception #classics
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May 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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May 12 hybrid/Oxford (2pm UK) APGRD Public Lecture: Janet Suzman in conversation with Edith Hall www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/... @apgrd.bsky.social
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May 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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The wonderful Reception Research Group meets up every week during Term Time for workshops, lectures, discussions, and a whole array of activities linked to Reception. Some pics of week 1 poetry workshop. Don't miss next week's meeting! APGRD in the Ioannou centre at 5:15-6:45 on Tuesday 13/05
Picture of a group of students seating on the ground at an Oxford College grounds, with pieces of paper in the centre Picture of a group of students seating on the ground at an Oxford College grounds, with pieces of paper in the centre Picture of a piece of paper with words glued to it Picture of many pieces of paper on the ground
May 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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APGRD have extended the Call For Papers for the postgraduate symposium. New deadline for abstracts is this Friday, 9 May. #CFP #classicalreception #symposium

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May 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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2pm (UK time), Monday 12 May: Janet Suzman in conversation with Edith Hall. APGRD Public Lecture; Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles' Oxford and online. Free and open to all.
For the link for ONLINE attendance, please check the APGRD website: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
Close up portrait of Janet Suzman with information written down about the talk planned for Monday 12th May
May 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM