
Public lectures
The APGRD has been running its lecture series since 1998 to which everybody - including the general public - is invited. Events are usually held during term time at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford.

Arshya Bommaraju, Carrie Thomas
17 February, 2025 - 17:00

Erin Lee (National Theatre, London), Jess Richardson (National Theatre, London)
3 February, 2025 - 17:00

Kimberly Johnson, A.E. Stallings
20 January, 2025 - 14:00

Alexander Zeldin (playwright and director)
11 November, 2024 - 14:00

4 November, 2024 - 14:00

Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle, Australia)
4 July, 2024 - 14:00

Carla Suthren (Oxford)
22 April, 2024 - 15:00

Alexa Piqueux (Paris Nanterre)
22 January, 2024 - 15:00

Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, Laura Jansen
31 October, 2023 - 19:00

Emily Lim, Lucy Jackson
23 October, 2023 - 14:00

Ezra Baudou (University of Lincoln)
29 June, 2023 - 17:00

Ruth Padel (Poet), Ellen Adams (KCL), Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol), Christine Morris (TCD), Andrew Shapland (Oxford)
12 June, 2023 - 14:00

Sophie Bocksberger (Brasenose and St Hilda's College) , Sarah Cullinan-Herring (Wadham College)
15 May, 2023 - 14:00

Lori Hopkins, Enrico Prodi, Alex Silverman, Laura Swift
12 May, 2023 - 17:00

Laura Jansen (Bristol)
24 April, 2023 - 14:00

Ellen McLaughlin, Helene Foley
6 February, 2023 - 14:00

Margherita Laera (Kent)
30 June, 2022 - 16:30

Errollyn Wallen, Wesley Stace, Tom Sapsford
23 May, 2022 - 17:00

Tanya Pollard
25 April, 2022 - 14:00

Tom Littler (Director/Dramaturg), Indra Ové (Actor)
8 November, 2021 - 14:00

Femi Osofisan (playwright and poet), Tunde Awosanmi (University of Ibadan and Theatre Director), Barbara Goff (University of Reading), Kunbi Olasope (University of Ibadan)
1 November, 2021 - 14:00

Estelle Baudou (Oxford)
28 October, 2021 - 17:00

Christopher Stray (Swansea)
18 October, 2021 - 14:00

Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths)
28 June, 2021 - 16:00

Rosa Andújar (KCL)
18 January, 2021 - 12:00

Edith Hall (KCL), Henry Stead (St Andrews)
23 November, 2020 - 14:00

Tom Morris (Artistic Director Bristol Old Vic), Helen Eastman (Theatre Director/APGRD Advisory Board Member)
26 October, 2020 - 14:00
Jennifer Wallace (Cambridge)
9 March, 2020 - 15:00

Joan Iyiola (RSC Duchess of Malfi 2018), Struan Leslie (Director, Movement Director, Dramaturg)
27 February, 2020 - 18:00

Fiona Macintosh (APGRD Director)
27 February, 2020 - 17:30

Nancy Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)
27 February, 2020 - 15:00

Micha Lazarus (Cambridge)
24 February, 2020 - 17:00

David Wiles (Wolfson)
10 February, 2020 - 17:00

Mark Fleishman (Cape Town)
27 January, 2020 - 17:30

16 December, 2019 - 10:15

Hélia Correia (Portuguese poet-playwright)
2 December, 2019 - 15:00

29 November, 2019 - 11:30 to 18:30

Lee Breuer (director), Maude Mitchell (actor), Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh)
25 November, 2019 - 17:00

Alena Sarkissian (Czech Academy of Sciences)
28 October, 2019 - 15:00

Marie-Louise Crawley (Choreographer), Struan Leslie (Dramaturg and Movement Director), Malcolm Atkins (Composer)
26 September, 2019 - 17:00

Hal Scardino (Producer), Nur Laiq (TORCH Global South Visiting Fellow), Fiona Macintosh (APGRD Director)
13 June, 2019 - 18:00

Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths)
20 May, 2019 - 15:00

Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh)
28 February, 2019 - 17:00

Melinda Powers (CUNY)
21 January, 2019 - 15:00

Nancy Felson (Georgia), Helen Eastman (Theatre Director), Alex Silverman (Composer)
11 January, 2019 - 15:00

Blanche McIntyre (Theatre Director)
26 November, 2018 - 17:00

Nicole Haitzinger (Salzburg)
8 November, 2018 - 17:00

Anna Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka)
2 July, 2018 - 17:00

Ben Morgan (Oxford)
8 May, 2018 - 14:15

Peter Wilson (University of Sydney)
30 April, 2018 - 14:15

Josephine Balmer, Laura Swift (Open University), Oliver Taplin (Oxford University)
2 November, 2017 - 17:00

Paul O'Mahony (APGRD Artist in Residence), Out of Chaos company
27 October, 2017 - 17:00

Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol), Stephen Horne (BFI), Laura Marcus (Oxford), Susan Jones (Oxford), Oliver Taplin (Oxford)
10 March, 2017 - 17:30

Wayne Jordan (Director), Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
27 February, 2017 - 14:15

Victoria Moul (KCL)
6 February, 2017 - 14:15

Ruth Webb (Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III)
28 November, 2016 - 14:15

14 November, 2015 - 15:00 to 3 December, 2015 - 16:00

Adele Thomas (Director), Rory Mullarkey (Translator)
2 November, 2015 - 14:15

Marina Carr
12 October, 2015 - 14:15

Ariane Mnouchkine, Théâtre du Soleil
14 September, 2015 - 09:00 to 25 September, 2015 - 17:00

Włodzimierz Staniewski, members of Gardzienice
30 June, 2015 - 19:00

Cathy Marston, Tom Sapsford, Sonya Cullingford, Aaron Vickers
5 June, 2015 - 17:00

Maarten De Pourcq (Radboud University Nijmegen)
18 May, 2015 - 14:15

Helen McCrory and Edith Hall
11 May, 2015 - 14:15

Marni Thomas Wood (Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance)
3 November, 2014 - 14:15

Speaker: Peter Parsons (Oxford), Respondent: Richard Hunter (Cambridge), Chair: Edith Hall (KCL)
27 October, 2014 - 14:15

Anthony Boyle (University of Southern California)
20 October, 2014 - 14:15

Sukanta Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University/All Souls College, Oxford)
19 May, 2014 - 14:15

Mary Hart (Associate Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum)
3 March, 2014 - 14:15

Helen Eastman (Director) and Alex Silverman (Composer)
3 February, 2014 - 14:15

23 November, 2013 - 17:00

Professor Roderick Beaton (KCL)
4 November, 2013 - 14:15

Conjoint Professor Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle, Australia)
3 June, 2013 - 14:15

Peter Meineck (Clinical Associate Professor of Classics, NYU, and Artistic Director, Aquila Theatre)
6 May, 2013 - 14:15

Adrian Noble (Theatre director), Joanne Pearce (Actor, RSC Associate)
25 February, 2013 - 14:15

Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)
21 January, 2013 - 14:15

Margaret Williamson (Dartmouth; Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the APGRD in MT)
29 October, 2012 - 14:15

Elizabeth Vandiver (Whitman College)
21 May, 2012 - 15:15

Edward Petherbridge (actor)
14 May, 2012 - 14:15

Ariane Mnouchkine (Director of Théâtre du Soleil)
8 May, 2012 - 17:00

Robert Crawford (Professor of English, St Andrews), Norman McBeath (photographer)
6 February, 2012 - 17:00

Oliver Taplin, Greg Hicks, Tony Harrison
19 November, 2011 - 17:00 to 19:00

Professor Kathryn Bosher (Northwestern)
17 October, 2011 - 14:15

Professor Peter Mackridge (Oxford)
6 June, 2011 - 14:15

Dr Dan Orrells (Warwick), Tessa Roynon (Oxford)
9 May, 2011 - 14:15

Professor Christian Biet (Paris X-Nanterre)
7 March, 2011 - 14:15

Martin Crimp (playwright)
7 February, 2011 - 14:15

John Hamilton (Harvard University)
8 November, 2010 - 14:15

Patrice Rankine (Associate Professor of Classics, Purdue University)
1 November, 2010 - 14:15

Mark Franko (Professor of Dance, University of California, Santa Cruz)
17 March, 2010 - 14:15

David Wiles (Professor of Drama, Royal Holloway University)
22 February, 2010 - 14:15

Włodzimierz Staniewski
26 October, 2009 - 14:15

Declan Donnellan (Artistic Director, Cheek by Jowl)
10 March, 2009 - 14:15

Vassilis Lambropoulos (Department of Comparative Literature, University of Michigan)
23 February, 2009 - 14:15

Bernhard Zimmerman (Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
26 January, 2009 - 15:00

Oliver Taplin (Director, APGRD), Pantelis Michelakis (Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol)
1 December, 2008 - 14:15

Margaret Malamud (Associate Professor of History, New Mexico State University)
17 November, 2008 - 14:15

David Beard (Lecturer, School of Music, Cardiff University)
27 October, 2008 - 14:15

Joanna Paul (Lecturer, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool)
19 May, 2008 - 14:15

Pantelis Michelakis (Lecturer, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol) , Michelle C. Paull (Lecturer, Department of Drama and Performance Studies, St Mary’s University College, London)
4 February, 2008 - 14:15

Terry Eagleton (Professor of English Literature, University of Manchester)
14 January, 2008 - 14:15

Blake Morrison (Professor of Creative and Life Writing, Goldsmiths' College, London)
26 November, 2007 - 14:15

Jatinder Verma (Artistic Director, Tara Arts Theatre Company)
12 November, 2007 - 14:15

Erin B. Mee (Professor of Theater, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania)
25 June, 2007 - 14:15

Barbara Ravelhofer (Lecturer in English, University of Durham)
14 May, 2007 - 14:15

Edith Hall (Professor of Classics & Drama, Royal Holloway, University of London; and Co-Director, APGRD)
30 April, 2007 - 14:15

Frederick Naerebout (Senior Lecturer, Department of Ancient History, Leiden University)
12 March, 2007 - 14:15

Simone Beta (Professor of Classics, University of Siena)
6 March, 2007 - 14:15

Ismene Lada-Richards (Lecturer in Classics, King’s College London)
19 February, 2007 - 14:15

Sue Jones (Lecturer in English, St Hilda’s College, Oxford)
6 November, 2006 - 14:15

Christian Wolff (Composer, and former Professor of Classics and of Music, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)
18 October, 2006 - 14:15

Athol Fugard (Playwright), Marianne McDonald (Professor of Theatre & Classics, University of California, San Diego)
14 June, 2006 - 14:15

Richard Armstrong (Associate Professor of Classics, University of Houston)
10 May, 2006 - 14:15

John Eaton (Composer; Professor of Music, University of Chicago)
22 February, 2006 - 14:15

Wlodzimierz Staniewski (Gardzienice)
8 February, 2006 - 14:15

Marina Carr (Playwright), Professor Edith Hall
16 November, 2005 - 14:15

Stephen Walsh (Professor of Music, University of Cardiff)
26 October, 2005 - 14:15

Gabriel Josipovici (Writer; Research Professor of English, University of Sussex)
11 May, 2005 - 14:15

Simon Goldhill (Professor of Greek Literature & Culture, University of Cambridge)
23 February, 2005 - 14:15

Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Consultant Scholar-Editor, OUP)
2 February, 2005 - 14:15

Tony Harrison (Poet and Playwright), Professor Oliver Taplin
17 November, 2004 - 14:15

Professor Eric Csapo (University of Toronto)
26 May, 2004 - 14:15

Professor Allen Kuharski (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania)
28 April, 2004 - 14:15

Dr Pantelis Michelakis (Honarary Research Fellow, APGRD; Lecturer, University of Bristol)
26 November, 2003 - 14:15

Professor Alain Viala (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford), Dr Kate Tunstall (Worcester College, Oxford)
29 October, 2003 - 14:15

Professor Reinhard Strohm (Wadham College, Oxford)
4 June, 2003 - 14:15

Professor Oliver Taplin (APGRD, and Magdalen College, Oxford)
3 March, 2003 - 14:15

Barrie Rutter (Actor and Artistic Director of Northern Broadsides)
29 January, 2003 - 14:15

Professor Freddy Decreus (University of Gent)
20 November, 2002 - 14:15

William K. Zewadski (Private Collector of images and artefacts)
23 October, 2002 - 14:15

David Raeburn (New College, Oxford; director of the Oxford Greek Play 1996)
8 May, 2002 - 14:15

Lorna Hardwick (Open University)
27 February, 2002 - 14:15

Abd' Elkader Farrah (1963-1991 RSC Associate Designer; since 1991 RSC Honorary Associate Artist)
30 January, 2002 - 14:15

How Do We Believe in the Gods? On the presence of Greek myth and drama in recent creative literature
Marina Warner (Writer and Visiting Fellow, All Souls)
21 November, 2001 - 14:15

David Wiles (Professor of Theatre, Department of Drama & Theatre, Royal Holloway)
9 May, 2001 - 14:15

Katharine Worth (Emeritus Professor of Drama, King's College London)
31 January, 2001 - 14:15

Don Chapman (former Theatre Critic for the Oxford Mail)
15 November, 2000 - 14:15

Froma I. Zeitlin (Charles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Princeton University)
14 June, 2000 - 14:15

Pantelis Michelakis (Research Fellow, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama)
4 May, 2000 - 14:15

Fiona Macintosh (Senior Research Fellow, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama)
2 February, 2000 - 14:15

Mae Smethurst (University of Pittsburgh)
30 April, 1999 - 14:15
Hellmut Flashar (University of Munich)
10 June, 1998 - 14:15
Helene Foley (Professor of Classics, Barnard College, New York)
5 May, 1998 - 14:15