Donald Russell Memorial Lecture 2024

St John’s College, Oxford, is delighted to announce that Professor Judith Mossman, of the University of Coventry, will deliver the second annual Donald Russell Memorial Lecture, on the theme of ‘Plutarch Speaking Metaphorically’. The lecture will be held in the St John’s College Auditorium, St Giles’, Oxford on Thursday 24 October 2024 (week 2 of Michaelmas Term) at 5pm.

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The lecture series has been established by the President and Fellows of St John’s College, Oxford, to celebrate and honour the contribution of Professor Donald Russell FBA (1920-2020) to the discipline of Classics, and his exceptionally generous support for Classics at St John’s, and is dedicated to the fields of Classical studies in which he had particular interest, including the art of Greek and Latin prose, rhetoric, and imperial Greek literature.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Garden Quad Reception Room.

Professor Judith Mossman

Professor Judith Mossman is currently Professor Emerita in Classics at Coventry University, and serves as the chair of the Council of the Classical Association. She has been the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Arts and Humanities at Coventry and the President of the Society of the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. She has published widely on the Greek biographer Plutarch, of whom she will be speaking in her lecture, and on Greek tragedy, particularly on Euripides.