It will be possible to attend most meetings via Zoom: please check https://virgilsociety.org.uk/new/ for details on how to register for online attendance.
For more information on the Virgil Society, including details of how to join and digital access to past issues of Proceedings of the Virgil Society (PVS), please visit https://virgilsociety.org.uk/new/.
VIRGIL SOCIETY PROGRAMME 2025-2026
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’