VIRGIL SOCIETY PROGRAMME 2025-2026 - The Classics Library

Events take place in Room G35, Senate House South Block, London (and online).

Saturday 11 October 2025, 2:30 pm

Dr Alexander Lee (University of Warwick)

‘Machiavelli and Virgil’s Eclogues’

Saturday 29 November 2025, 2:30 p.m.

Dr Francesca Bugliani Knox (University College London)

‘“Looking below the surface”: Ronald Knox and Virgil’s Aeneid’

Saturday 17 January 2026, timings tbc.

SCHOOLS DAY – Chancellor’s Hall [further details will appear on the Virgil Society’s website]

Saturday 7 February 2026, 10:00 a.m.

*Online meeting via Zoom*

Prof. Hae-Young Choi (Chonnam National University)

‘Eclogue IV and the Emperor Julian’

Saturday 14 March 2026, 2:30 p.m.

Dr Emily Pillinger (King’s College London)

‘Sounding out alternative futures in the Aeneid’

Saturday 16 May 2026

11:15 a.m. Dr Tristan Franklinos (University of Oxford)

‘Authorising the Catalepton’

2:30 p.m. Annual General Meeting for 2025-2026

3:00 p.m. Reading from Virgil (John Hazel)

3:15 p.m. Prof. Monica Gale (Trinity College Dublin)

‘The Death of Dido: mors (minime) Romana’