A screenshot of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, showing three people dressed in white robes, there is an image of text that says "Oh, ruler of my country, Oedipus, you see our company around the Altar, and I, the priest of Zeus!"
Remembering the time that Buffy the Vampire Slayer did Oedipus... 😆😆
Apply now for ICS Public engagement grants
Deadline 1 May
Small grants (up to £500) are available to support Classics-themed public engagement activities. Full details: ics.sas.ac.uk/public-engag...
Join us on 4 May at 6pm for our next OWC #Shakespeare webinar on Henry VI Part II.
Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be joined by Dr Kavita Mudan Finn to discuss the play followed by a Q&A.
All welcome! Free but booking required.
shakespeare-webinar-henryvi-partii.eventbrite.co.uk
Screenshot of the welcome page of the DANSOX website, showing a group of dancers and the logo of DANSOX, with the writing "The heart of dance scholarship in Oxford'
Some exciting events coming up from our friends at DANSOX!
8th May 2026- 6pm, Amanda Britton, Director Rambert School and former dancer with Rambert Dance Company; 11th May 5.30pm a special lecture by Claire Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths). For more info: dansox3.wordpress.com/upcoming-eve...
Today and tomorrow! Join online if you can't get to the event in person. Link and programme for the event are on the APGRD's website: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
Image of the Atrium of the Ioannou Centre in Oxford, showing two notice boards with posters advertising APGRD events
It looks like we might have taken over the notice boards at the Ioannou Centre! We have some exciting events lined up for Trinity Term. Watch this space! :)
Image of a cloudy sky and some stage curtains on each side of the image, with the writing undereath: May be an image of text that says "COLLABORATION SYMPOSIUM CHORUS 2026: Transmedial Reception of Ancient Drama. The CHORUS network's 4th annual colloquium on ancient drama receptions Université Grenoble Alpes, MaCI (Maison de la Création et de l'Innovation) Thursday, March 26, ,2026-09:30 2026"
26-27 March. The APGRD is proud to support, with Université Grenoble Alpes, this year's CHORUS' annual colloquium, on the theme of the transmediality of receptions of Ancient Drama across arts and media. Organised by: Malika Bastin Hammou and Cécile Dudouyt. Queries: receptionchorus@gmail.com
How can computational approaches be applied to performing arts archives? 🤔🎭
Online and in-person lecture
24th March, 2pm ⬇️
www.classics.ox.ac.uk/event/from-s...
Image of a poster advertising Sympatheia, Symposium of Ancient Theatre Initiatives in Academia. 13-14 April 2026. University of Lisbon. There is an image of an ancient amphitheatre in the background.
13-14 April. The APGRD is proud to support, with Theatron - Teatro Antico alla Sapienza, the 1st edition of Sympatheia – Symposium of Ancient Theatre Initiatives in Academia, hosted by the Centre for Classical Studies, University of Lisbon. Go to the APGRD website for more details & to join online.
Image of a poster featuring a computer and the picture of a stage and some actors performing, with the writing "From Stage to Data: Computational Approaches to Performing Arts Archives. Clarisse Bardiot. Tue 24 March 2pm. Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’ & online www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events"
A fascinating lecture and live demonstration coming up soon! 'From Stage to Data: Computational Approaches to Performing Arts Archives' with Professor Clarisse Bardiot, Rennes 2 Univ. Ioannou Centre, Oxford, or visit our website for the Zoom link to join us online. www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
Image of a computer showing a stage with a performance, with the writing "From Stage to Data: Computational Approaches to Performing Arts Archives, Clarisse Bardiot. Tue 24 March 2pm. Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre"
Tuesday 24th March 2pm!! Can't come in person? Join us online! Visit the APGRD website to access the the Zoom link. Don't miss it!
Image of a computer showing a stage with a performance, with the writing "From Stage to Data: Computational Approaches to Performing Arts Archives, Clarisse Bardiot. Tue 24 March 2pm. Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre"
Tuesday 24th March 2pm!! Can't come in person? Join us online! Visit the APGRD website to access the the Zoom link. Don't miss it!
A photo of Fiona Macintosh in the APGRD Study Room.
📣📣❗❗Wonderful news! Emeritus Professor Fiona Macintosh has been been made a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques for her research in classical reception and theatre studies and her significant contribution to innovation in the humanities and digital humanities. Congratulations!
image of a screenshot of a movie still showing a couple embracing in the front and three people running to them at the back
From our friends at UCL: Experiencing the last days of Pompeii through silent cinema. Sat 9/05/26 8:30pm, Bloomsbury Theatre. A one-off screening of the rarely seen silent epic film Jone o Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei 1913, dir. Giovanni Enrico Vidali. More info:
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
📣📡 Calling all #archives with collections of #audiovisual recordings of performance or rehearsals! We need your help! With a *very* short and friendly survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/aud... 📽️📼🎭🪩 @apac-ssn.bsky.social 🙏
Image of a poster with an image of the tower of Babel from a medieval manuscript and the writing "26th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, will take place on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 June 2026. This year’s theme will be: ‘Technologies in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception.’
📣📣❗❗Call for Papers deadline 20th March!! For more information go to the APGRD website. Please email all enquiries to: postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk
Image of a page with etchings of Aristophanes, Birds, drawn and etched by Robert Farren, 1883, as performed by members of the University at the Theatre Royal Cambridge in November 1883.
Image of a page with etchings of Aristophanes, Birds, drawn and etched by Robert Farren, 1883, as performed by members of the University at the Theatre Royal Cambridge in November 1883.
Image of a page with etchings of Aristophanes, Birds, drawn and etched by Robert Farren, 1883, as performed by members of the University at the Theatre Royal Cambridge in November 1883.
Image of a page with etchings of Aristophanes, Birds, drawn and etched by Robert Farren, 1883, as performed by members of the University at the Theatre Royal Cambridge in November 1883.
A delightful new arrival to the APGRD! The Birds of Aristophanes drawn and etched by Robert Farren, 1883, as performed by members of the University at the Theatre Royal Cambridge in November 1883. Absolutely gorgeous drawings with quotes from the play in ancient Greek. With thanks to Prof. E. Bowie.
Image of a poster featuring a computer and the picture of a stage and some actors performing, with the writing "From Stage to Data: Computational Approaches to Performing Arts Archives. Clarisse Bardiot. Tue 24 March 2pm. Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’ & online www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events"
A fascinating lecture and live demonstration coming up soon! 'From Stage to Data: Computational Approaches to Performing Arts Archives' with Professor Clarisse Bardiot, Rennes 2 Univ. Ioannou Centre, Oxford, or visit our website for the Zoom link to join us online. www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
📣📡 Calling all #archives with collections of #audiovisual recordings of performance or rehearsals! We need your help! With a *very* short and friendly survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/aud... 📽️📼🎭🪩 @apac-ssn.bsky.social 🙏
We are very pleased to announce that the video recording for this lecture is now available to watch online at our website and also our YouTube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JJv...
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Due to unforeseen circumstances Costas Kafouros Music has cancelled this event. We apologise for any inconvenience.
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
An image of an ancient Greek vase painting style woman holding a thread with a trirreme boat attached to it and text that says "REVOICING CLASSICAL POETRY Josephine Balmer's Things We Leave Behind Ulrike Draesner's penelope'scr()ft: a postepic In conversation with Karen Leeder APGRD, Faculty OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES Tues 3 March 2pm Lecture Theatre, loannou Centre 66 St Giles & ONLINE (apgrd.ox.ac.uk). Free and open to all. No booking required"
Join us next Tuesday in person or online for a fascinating event! Not to be missed. Visit the APGRD website for more info and to get the Zoom link to join online.
#penelope #classicalpoetry #reception #classics
Image of a poster with a picture of a landscape with a mountain at the back and some Ancient Greek ruins at the front and the writing: New College Chapel. Songs from Antiquity: Reimagining the Ancient Greek Art of the Muses. Featuring: Callum Armstrong, Felipe Aguirre, Elisa Anzellotti & Rosa Fragorapti. Friday Feb 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM
A free event from Ancient Music at Oxford. New College Chapel. Songs from Antiquity: Reimagining the Ancient Greek Art of the Muses, Friday Feb 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM. Visit their website for more info:
ancientmusicoxford.web.ox.ac.uk/songs-antiqu...
Image of a poster with a picture of a landscape with a mountain at the back and some Ancient Greek ruins at the front and the writing: Ancient Greek Dance Workshop lead by Elisa Anzellotti (International Dance Council-UNESCO) February 24-27, 2026, 6-8 hs of workshop. Scan for more details
An exciting workshop from our friends at Ancient Music at Oxford, Ancient Dance Performance Workshop, February 24-27. For more information follow the link:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Tomorrow 2pm! Join us ONLINE
Deadline fast approaching! 6 Feb 26. BADA summer program. Participants spend 10 days in London, 10 in Greece,+ a final residency in Oxford with the APGRD. For students & theatre practitioners at various stages of their careers.
www.bada.org.uk/study/greek-...
#bada #greektheatre #classics #drama
A very interesting seminar coming up on Thurs 29 Jan 12pm, Faculty of English, Cambridge.
Malika Bastin-Hammou (Grenoble-Alpes), "To put it in a nutshell": Writing Neo-Latin Argumenta to Greek Drama -- The case of Aristophanes’ Clouds'. For more info go to: www.english.cam.ac.uk/seminars/Neo...
Happening now! Friends and colleagues are running some workshops for anyone who is around and able to attend. For more details go to:
www.instagram.com/p/DT2bDjqjbk...
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From our friends at Dansox!
Lecture by Edward Kemp (dramaturg) Thur 29 Jan 6pm
"Remembering the Cellist". w/ footage of choreographer Cathy Marston and dancers. Jaqueline du Pré Building, Oxford. Free and welcome to all.
Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rememberin...
or susan.jones@ell.ox.ac.uk
Deadline fast approaching! 6 Feb 26. BADA summer program. Participants spend 10 days in London, 10 in Greece,+ a final residency in Oxford with the APGRD. For students & theatre practitioners at various stages of their careers.
www.bada.org.uk/study/greek-...
#bada #greektheatre #classics #drama