Listings and reviews of events from 1st October 2005

27th October 2008
"Incidental" Music? Settings of Greek Tragedy by Judith Weir and Harrison Birtwistle in the Classics Centre Lecture Theatre, Oxford, UK

David Beard (Lecturer, School of Music, Cardiff University) will give a lecture on "Incidental" Music? Settings of Greek Tragedy by Judith Weir and Harrison Birtwistle at 2.15pm on 27th October 2008. The lecture will be followed by refreshments. Contact: apgrd AT classics.ox.ac.uk

16th June 2008
APGRD Event: Politics, Culture and the Ancient World in Post-War Greece in the Classics Centre Lecture Theatre, Oxford, UK

The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama presents a joint colloquium with Modern Greek Studies, University of Oxford: Politics, Culture and the Ancient World in Post-War Greece. The colloquium begins at 2pm - 6.30pm.

Constanze Guthenke (Princeton University) 'Inside or Outside the University? Greek Classical Scholarship After 1945'
Eleftheria Ioannidou (University of Oxford) 'The Heterotopia of the Ancient Theatre: Greek Tragedy and Cultural Politics in Post-War Greece'
Pantelis Michelakis (University of Bristol) 'The Tragedy of History in Theo Angelopoulos' Travelling Players'
Dimitris Papanikolaou (University of Oxford) 'Popular Culture, Banal Exceptionalism and the Classical Tradition in Post-War Greece'
Dimitris Tziovas (University of Birmingham) 'Meta-Classical Revisions: Modern Attitudes to the Past'

The Plenary discussion, led by Edith Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London, Co-Director APGRD) and Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford, Co-Director APGRD), will be followed by a drinks reception. Contact: apgrd AT classics.ox.ac.uk

19th May 2008
Performing Epic in the Cinema: Epic Bards, Kleos, and the Epic Tradition in the Classics Centre Lecture Theatre, Oxford, UK

Joanna Paul (Lecturer in Classical Studies, University of Liverpool) will give a lecture on 'Performing Epic in the Cinema: Epic Bards, Kleos, and the Epic Tradition' at 2.15pm on Monday 19th May 2008. The lecture will be followed by refreshments. Contact: apgrd AT classics.ox.ac.uk

28th April 2008
"Incidental" Music? Settings of Greek Tragedy by Judith Weir and Harrison Birtwistle in the Classics Centre Lecture Theatre, oxford, UK

David Beard (Lecturer, School of Music, Cardiff University) will give a lecture on "Incidental" Music? Settings of Greek Tragedy by Judith Weir and Harrison Birtwistle' at 2.15pm on Monday 28th April 2008. The lecture will be followed by refreshments. Contact: apgrd AT classics.ox.ac.uk

**We regret that this APGRD event has been unavoidably CANCELLED. We apologise for any inconvenience, and hope to reschedule the event soon.**

4th February 2008
Leyhausen's Collection of Greek Tragic Theatrical Memorabilia 1920-1960 in the Classics Centre Lecture Theatre, UK

Pantelis Michelakis(Lecturer, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol) and Michelle C. Paull (Lecturer, Department of Drama and Performance Studies, St. Mary's University College, London) will give a presentation on 'Leyhausen's Collection of Greek Tragic Theatrical Memorabilia 1920-1960' at 2.15pm on Monday 4 February 2008. Contact: apgrd AT classics.ox.ac.uk

January 2008
2009 CAMP Staged Reading in Philadelpia, US

The APA's Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (CAMP) invites proposals for the Eighth Annual Staged Reading, to be performed at the APA/AIA meetings in Philadelphia in January 2009.

CAMP has sponsored the annual staged reading at the APA/AIA meetings since 2002. The production has become a central event at each year's conference. It brings together APA and AIA members across our various sub-disciplines for a good time apart from the stresses of the rest of the conference. It also sets on display the many talents that usually lie hidden in our profession. And, perhaps most importantly, it demonstrates the centrality of performance in our scholarly understanding of the ancient world and shows that everyone can bring performance back home to their own campuses. At the upcoming 2008 meeting in Chicago, we are proud to present Euripides' satyr play Cyclops, directed by Laura Lippman and Mike Lippman.

Also in Chicago, the Committee members hope to move toward selecting a play for the 2009 meeting. We therefore are seeking any ideas that you, fellow Thespians, may have. We are open to proposals for ancient plays and for more recent plays with classical themes. If you have an idea for a play, would you be able and willing to sign on as a director, or do you know someone whom we should ask? The director is given free rein with regard to the artistic realm of the play (albeit on a very limited budget!—the APA generally finances only the printing of a program). The director is responsible, along with a producer if one is appointed, for writing and distributing a call for actors, for casting the show, for planning the production's needs and rehearsal schedule, for maintaining contact with a CAMP liaison and the APA regarding performance progress and needs, and of course for directing the show in Philadelphia. If, however, you are not ready to take the director's seat, but have a good idea for a play that should be produced, please let us know that too. We may be able to find a director suitable to the play.

If you would like to submit a proposal, respond to the CAMP subcommittee on the staged reading: myself (givenj AT ecu.edu), John Starks (jhstarksjr AT yahoo.com) and Liz Scharffenberger (hypsipyle AT earthlink.net).

26th November 2007
Turning Classical Play into Contemporary Theatre at the Lecture Theatre, Classics Centre, UK

Professor Blake Morrison (Goldsmith's College, London) will be giving a lecture at this APGRD event at 2.15pm on Monday 26th November 2007 in the Lecture Theatre, Classics Centre, 66 St Giles. For more information please contact apgrd AT classics.ox.ac.uk.

24th November 2007
Prometheus on Stage and Screen at The British Museum, London, UK

A joint study day organised by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, The Open University and the British Museum in the BP Lecture Theatre, The British Museum Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Programme is currently provisional. For more information please contact Russell Shone.

17th November 2007
Politics & Society

One of a series of AHRC funded research workshops on THUCYDIDES: Reception, Reinterpretation & Influence. taking place at Bristol, Cambridge & Oxford. For more information please contact the series organiser Neville Morley, University of Bristol (n.d.g.morley AT bris.ac.uk). Project site: http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/thucydides.html

15th - 16th November 2007
Greco-Roman Ghosts: Receptions Of The Classical World In The 19th And 20th Centuries at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland

For programme details and registration form please see the RIA website http://www.ria.ie/committees/greeklat/new.html

15th November 2007
Classics and Comics *Call for Papers*

Proposals are invited for an edited volume to be entitled Classics and Comics, Edited by George Kovacs (University of Toronto) and C. W. Marshall (University of British Columbia). Comics have been a major element of popular culture in North America, Europe, and Japan for over a century. For the past two decades comics have been regarded increasingly as a legitimate artistic and literary medium, through the emergence of the 'graphic novel' (developed literary narratives extending beyond the 22-page single-issue format) and through efforts of scholar/ practitioners such as Will Eisner and Scott McCloud to define the relationship of the comic book to audience, artist, and other artistic media. So far there has been very little work integrating the medium into a larger understanding of Western artistic and literary culture. In Classics and Comics, we shall begin this work by presenting the first extended integration of comics with the foundations of western culture, in a collection of 12-18 chapters, each approximately 5000 words in length.

This collection will be aimed at both academic readers and an educated general audience. We seek essays that are both scholarly and engaging, and authors who are equally comfortable in Greek, Latin, and the pre-Crisis history of the Justice League. Given the nature of our subject material, images are essential and contributors will be allowed the equivalent of three or four plates. A major university press has expressed interest in the volume, dependant upon the final submissions.

Please send a 400 word abstract, along with a separate file containing your name, the abstract title, and a brief biographical statement (or CV), as email attachments in Word or Rich Text Format to both of the editors: George Kovacs (george.kovacs AT utoronto.ca) and C.W. Marshall (toph AT interchange.ubc.ca). Further questions may also be addressed to either of the editors. The deadline for abstract submission is 15th November 2007. Selected contributors will have until May 2008 for final submission.

12th November 2007
Tara Arts and the Greeks at the Lecture Theatre, Classics Centre, UK

Jatinder Verma (Artistic Director, Tara Arts Theatre Company) will be giving a lecture at this APGRD event at 2.15pm on Monday 12th November 2007 in the Lecture Theatre, Classics Centre, 66 St Giles. For more information please contact apgrd AT classics.ox.ac.uk.

10th - 11th November 2007
Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature (AMPAL) 2007 at University of Nottingham, UK

Registration is now open for the Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature (AMPAL) 2007. This conference is free and is open to all postgraduates; this year's theme is 'Heroes'. For more information please visit http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~abxsnm/ampal/reg.html or please contact Toni Badnall (abxtpb AT nottingham.ac.uk). All bookings must be received by 20th October 2007.

31st October 2007
Sirens: The Seductive Lure of the Female Voice at Magdalen Auditorium, Oxford, UK

The event is a lecture recital featuring the mezzo soprano Hannah Rosenfelder, with the pianist Merel van der Knoop and Anneke Hodnett on the harp. The event begins at 5pm on Wednesday 31 October 2007 in Magdalen Auditorium. For more information please visit www.onassis.ox.ac.uk

13th October 2007
Historiography at Burwalls Centre for Continuing Education, Bristol, UK

One of a series of AHRC funded research workshops on THUCYDIDES: Reception, Reinterpretation & Influence taking place at Bristol, Cambridge & Oxford. The work of Thucydides has had a far-reaching influence on the understanding of the modern world; he has been seen as the founder of critical history, as a pioneer in the critique of democracy and as a key thinker in the field of international relations. Remarkably, however, the history of the reception of Thucydides has never been studied in depth. The aim of these workshops is to bring together scholars from different disciplinary traditions to discuss how Thucydides has been read, studied and reinterpreted since the eighteenth century. Project site: http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/thucydides.html

For more information please visit http://www.bristol.ac.uk/burwalls/ or contact the series organiser Neville Morley, University of Bristol (n.d.g.morley AT bris.ac.uk).

12th July 2007
Ancient Drama in Modern Opera, 1600-1800 at APGRD Conference, Classics Centre, Oxford, UK

The importance of Greek drama for the evolution of European opera is well known but tends not to be distinguished from the influence of Greek mythology more generally. In keeping the focus of this conference on the influence of ancient drama in the first 200 years of opera's development we hope to shed new light both on that development and on the reception of Greek drama. The speakers are drawn from the worlds of Classics, Modern Languages, and Music, and they include people involved in the performance of operatic works as well as some of the leading academics in this field. The provisional speakers and paper titles for this conference are as follows:

Dr. Michael Burden (Director of Productions, New Chamber Opera), 'Myth in Metastasio's works'
Mr Bruno Forment (composer and performer; PhD student at University of Ghent), 'The gods out of the machine ... and their come-back'
Prof. Wendy Heller (Department of Music, Princeton University), 'Playing with fortune: the fate of Pyrrhus in seicento Venice'
Prof. Robert Ketterer (Department of Classics, University of Iowa), 'The influence of Agostino Piovene's translations of Greek tragedy on his opera libretti in the first quarter of the 18th century'
Dr. Suzana Ograjenšek (Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge), 'Andromache in late 17th and early 18th century operas'
Prof. Ellen Rosand (Department of Music, Yale University), 'Classical themes in Monteverdi'
Prof. Reinhard Strohm (Faculty of Music, Oxford University), ' "Addio Tebani!" Oedipus Tyrannus as opera seria (1729)'
Ms Jennifer Thorp (Archivist, New College, Oxford), 'Dance in Lully's Alceste'
Dr. Amy Wygant (School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Glasgow University), 'The Ghost of Alcestis'

After the papers there will be a wine reception and then a short recital of arias from eighteenth-century tragic operas by Ensemble La Falsirena (Suzana Ograjenšek, soprano; Luke Green, harpsichord; Henrik Persson, baroque cello). We currently expect the papers to run from 9.30 to 6.15, and the recital to be over by 8.00.

Enquiries about the conference are welcome at apgrd AT classics.ox.ac.uk. We can provide advice on accommodation in the local area if required, but we regret that we cannot undertake to make bookings on behalf of conference delegates.

The £20 registration fee includes lunch and all refreshments on the day. Student bursaries are also available. For more information on the student bursaries, please visit our website. To register for this conference, please either:

(i) go to www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/confopera.htm, and follow the link to the electronic booking facility for registration and payment online (n.b. there is a surcharge of 50p for credit/debit card bookings) or
(ii)complete the registration form which is available at www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/confopera.htm and send together with a cheque to 'Opera Conference: Registrations', APGRD, Classics Centre, 66 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LU. Please contact the APGRD if you would like a paper version of the registration form.

October - November 2006
Modern Receptions of Ancient Greek and Roman Cultures

This interdisciplinary seminar will take place from 5pm to 6.30pm on Mondays of Michaelmas Term 2006, in the History Faculty building (except in Week 3).
Organisers: amanda.wrigley AT classics.ox.ac.uk, heather.ellis AT balliol.ox.ac.uk, isobelhurst AT hotmail.com

Week 2: 16th October
Film and popular culture
Dr Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol), 'Filming Death at Work: Silent Cinema, Theatre, Photography'
Dr Gideon Nisbet (Glasgow), title tbc

Week 3: 23rd October
19th-century literature [jointly with Victorian graduate seminar: English Faculty, History of the Book Room)
Dr John Holmes (Reading), 'Lucretius at the Fin de Siècle: Faith, Science and Poetry'

Week 4: 30th October
Early 20th-century literature
Dr Jessica Meyer (Oxford Brookes University), 'The Three Thousand of Thermopylae: Classical Imagery in British First World War Mourning Practices'
Dr Rowena Fowler (University of Oxford), 'Virginia Woolf's Greek Choruses'

Week 5: 6th November
Intellectual history I
Dr Miriam Leonard (Bristol), 'Reception and the Return of the Repressed'
Heather Ellis (Oxford), 'Marcus Aurelius: A Conflict between Classics and Christianity in Victorian Scholarship'

Week 6: 13th November
19th-century material culture
Dr Debbie Challis (National Portrait Gallery), 'Old News: Classical Antiquities, Excavation and Oriental Landscape in the 19th Century'
Dr Shelley Hales (Bristol), 'Living with Pompeii: Domestic Reconstruction in the 19th Century'

Week 7: 20th November
Intellectual history II
Dr Katherine Harloe (Oxford), 'Between Aesthetics and History? Some Early Responses to Winckelmann on Ancient Art'
Dr Liz Potter (Bristol), 'Ideas and Ideals of Athens in Britain in the 19th-Century'

Week 8: 27th November
Imperialism and classics
Dr Mark Bradley (Nottingham), ' "Creating a Desert and Calling it 'pax' ": Reading Tacitus' Agricola in Victorian and Edwardian England'
Dr Ali Parchami (St Antony's), 'Victorian and Edwardian Perceptions of Rome'

18th October 2006, 2.15pm
Greek Tragedy and some 20th Century Experimental Music at the Lecture Theatre, Classics centre, Oxford, UK

Professor Christian Wolff, composer and former Professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, will be speaking on 'Greek Tragedy and some 20th Century Experimental Music' on Wednesday 18th October. The lecture will be taking place at the Lecture Theatre, Classics Centre, The Old Boys' High School, George street.
For further information, please email: apgrd AT classics.ox.ac.uk

10th - 21st July 2006, 12pm - 2pm
Martha Graham's Greek Journeys: An Exhibition of Max Waldman Photographs at the Magdalen Auditorium, UK

America's leading performing arts photographer of the post-war period, Max Waldman (1919-1981) made a portfolio of his photos of Martha Graham's work especially for the choreographer. By kind permission of the Max Waldman Archive this collection will be on show in the Magdalen Auditorium from 10 to 21 July (12-2pm daily). Entrance is free to all.

A one-day conference on the study and teaching of classical subjects in Oxford in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Convenors Chris Stray and Stephen Harrison. Speakers will include Heather Ellis, Stephen Harrison, Isobel Hurst, August Imholtz, James Morwood, Chris Stray and Graham Whitaker.
Offers of papers on any aspect of the topic are invited. The programme allows for 30-minute papers, but offers of shorter papers are also welcome. Please send a title and a summary (maximum 100 words) by 30 October to Chris Stray: c.a.stray@swan.ac.uk

Bookings for attendance are also now invited. The cost of the conference, to include tea, coffee and light lunch, will be £10. Please send payment to Professor Stephen Harrison, Corpus Christi College, Oxford OX1 4JF. Cheques should be made payable to Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Autumn 2005 - Spring 2006, 4.30pm
Call for Papers - The London Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminars at the Institute of Classical Studies, UK

We are looking for speakers (papers 45 minutes) for our Autumn term 2005 and Spring term 2006. The Seminars are held at 4:30 on Fridays at the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London. This is a friendly, informal post-graduate (MA and research students only) forum. Travelling expenses for speakers coming from outside the London colleges will be reimbursed. Post-paper drinks and nibbles supplied!

For further information please contact Luca Asmonti (luca.asmonti AT kcl.ac.uk).

4th February 2006, 9.30am - 6pm
Oxford Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK

12th October - 23rd November 2005
Research Training Workshops for Graduate Students in Classical Reception Studies at the Institute of Classical Studies, UK

A series of eight research training workshops will be held at the ICS on Wednesdays in the Autumn Term 2005, starting on October 12th 10.30-16.30. The workshops form part of the project on graduate student research training run by the Institute of Classical Studies and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Workshops are open to graduate students, from any institution, and all are welcome. Those from departments other than Classics/Ancient History are particularly invited to join. Attendance at the workshops is free but numbers will be limited and prior registration is ESSENTIAL. Further details

2nd November 2005, 5pm
A Meeting for Classics, Ancient History and Classical Archaeology PhD students at the Institute of Classical Studies, UK

An informal meeting to discuss the training needs of PhD students. Topics for discussion: Generic courses, MA Modules, Greek and Latin, Modern Languages, Presentation Skills, Teaching Opportunities. Chaired by the Research Assistant for the AHRC Project Dr Anastasia Bakogianni with the assistance of Stavroula Kiritsi (Royal Holloway). This meeting forms part of the project on graduate student research training run by the Institute of Classical Studies and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

For further information please contact Dr Anastasia Bakogianni (Anastasia.Bakogianni AT sas.ac.uk).

10th October 2005, 2pm
Gender in the Humanities Seminar at Arts Meeting Room, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture at Hamilton College. She is the author of Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women , the co-editor of Feminist Theory and the Classics and Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World , as well as the translator and co-author of Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides . She is currently at work on a study of women in vase painting, with Sue Blundell, and a study of Greek Tragedy: Then and Now. Further Details

1st October 2005, 10.30am - 6pm
Dryden in the 1690s: The Virgil and the Fables at The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH, UK

Further details and symposium programme are available on the British Academy's Website: www.britac.ac.uk/events/2005/dryden/index.html.