Past chair-holders, conferences and publications
Information about past Leventis Professors, conferences and resulting publications.
12th Leventis Professor and Conference
The twelfth Leventis Professor was Professor Roderick Beaton FBA. His conference, ‘The Greek Revolution of 1821: Contexts, Scottish Connections, the Classical Tradition’ was held 18–20 November 2021 hybrid, both online and in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh. You can find details of the programme and of the exhibition 'Edina/Athena: The Greek Revolution and the Athens of the North, 1821–2021' below.
2021 Leventis Professor of Greek, conference and exhibition
11th Leventis Professor and Conference
The eleventh Leventis Professor was Professor Mary Margaret McCabe, FBA (King’s College London). Her conference, 'Re-reading the Republic', was held from 21-24 November, 2019 at the John McIntyre Conference Centre, University of Edinburgh. Conference speakers were: Merrick Anderson, Joachim Aufderheide, Rachel Barney, Hugh Benson, Tad Brennan, Charles Brittain, Ursula Coope, Mike Coxhead, Sarah Broadie, Tim Clarke, Allison Glasscock, Margaret Hampson, Ben Harriman, Verity Harte, Brad Inwood, Fiona Leigh, Alex Long, Andrew Mason, Katharine O’Reilly, Christopher Rowe, Barbara Sattler, Frisbee Sheffield, Saloni de Souza, Simon Trépanier, Tamsin de Waal, Raphael Woolf.
10th Leventis Professor and Conference
The tenth Leventis Professor was Professor François Lissarrague (Berkeley). His conference 'Images at the cross-roads: Meanings, media, methods' was held from 9-12 November 2017 at the John McIntyre Conference Centre, University of Edinburgh. Conference speakers were: Judith Barringer (Edinburgh), François de Callatay, Véronique Dasen, Nikolaus Dietrich, Luca Giuliani, Annette Haug, Tonio Hölscher, Ken Lapatin , François Lissarrague, Mauro Menichetti, Marion Meyer, Richar Neer, Dimitri Paleothodoros, Verity Platt, Vicky Sabetai (Athens), Stefan Schmidt, Alan Shapiro, Adrian Staehli, Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell, Dyfri Williams, Martina Seifert, Arthur Muller, Gianfranco Adornato.
Publication: J. M. Barringer, F. Lissarrague (eds), Images at the Crossroads: Meanings, Media, Methods, Edinburgh Leventis Studies 10 (EUP, 2021)
9th Leventis Professor and Conference
The ninth Leventis Professor was Professor Josiah Ober (Stanford). His conference, ' Ancient Greek history and contemporary social science' was held from 12 to 15 November 2015 at the John McIntyre Conference Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Conference speakers were: Mirko Canevaro, Federica Carugati, Barry R. Weingast, Sara Forsdyke, Benjamin Gray, Robert K. Fleck, F. Andrew Hanssen, David Lewis, Carl Hampus Lyttkens, Henrik Gerding, Peter van Alfen, Peter Liddel, Polly Low, David Teegarden, Christian Mann, Diane Harris Cline, Vincent Azoulay, Paulin Ismard, Ingvar Maehle, Kim van Liefferinge, Emily Mackil, Claire Taylor, James Kierstead, Roman Klapaukh and John K. Davies.
Publication: M. Canevaro, A. Erskine, B. Gray, J. Ober (eds), 'Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science', Edinburgh Leventis Studies 9 (EUP, 2018)
8th Leventis Professor and Conference
The eight Leventis Professor was Professor Margaret Alexiou (Harvard). Her conference, 'Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After' was held on the 7-10th of November 2013 at the John McIntyre Conference Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Conference speakers were: Panagiotis Agapitos, Dimiter Angelov, Michael Angold, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Roderick Beaton, Simone Beta, Elena Boeck, Stephen Halliwell, Judith Herrin, Martin Hinterberger, David Holton, Marc Lauxtermann, Alex Lingas, Calum Maciver, Przemyslaw Marciniak, Margaret Mullett, Aglae Pizzone, Panagiotis Roilos, Richard Seaford, Anna Stavrakopoulou, Jan Stenger, Alicia Walker, Ruth Webb, Stephanie West.
The conference waslinked to an exhibition, ‘Myths, memories and mysteries: how artists respond to the past’, at The Scottish Historic Building Trust, 7 November 2013 - 31 January 2014.
Publication: M. Alexiou, D.L. Cairns (eds), 'Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After', Edinburgh Leventis Studies 8 (EUP, 2018).
7th Leventis Professor and Conference
The seventh A. G. Leventis Professor in Greek was Professor Ruth Scodel (Michigan).
Her conference, 'What's Greek about Ancient Greek Narrative', was held from 27-30 October 2011, in the Playfair Library, University of Edinburgh. Speakers present were: Lucia Athanassaki, Douglas Cairns, Erwin Cook, Irene de Jong, Pat Easterling, Stephen Halliwell, Lisa Hau, Johannes Haubold, Simon Hornblower, Richard Hunter, Adrian Kelly, Nick Lowe, John Morgan, Andrew Morrison, Damien Nelis, René Nünlist, Dennis Pausch, Alex Purves, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Ruth Scodel, Meir Sternberg, and Tim Whitmarsh.
Publication: D.L. Cairns, R. Scodel (eds), 'Defining Greek Narrative', Edinburgh Leventis Studies 7 (EUP, 2014).
6th Leventis Professor and Conference
The sixth A. G. Leventis Professor in Greek was Professor John Marincola (Florida State University). The conference in 2009 was 'History without Historians: Greeks and their Past in the Archaic and Classical Age'.
Publication: L.J. Llewellyn-Jones, J. Marincola, C.A. Maciver (eds), ‘History without Historians: Greeks and their Past in the Archaic and Classical Age’, Edinburgh Leventis Studies 6 (EUP , 2012)
5th Leventis Professor and Conference
The fifth A. G. Leventis Professor in Greek was Professor Jan Bremmer (Groningen). The conference in 2007 was 'The Ancient Gods of Greece: Identities and Tranformations'.
Publication: J.N. Bremmer, A.W. Erskine (eds), ‘The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations’, Edinburgh Leventis Studies 5 (EUP, 2010)
4th Leventis Professor and Conference
The fourth A. G. Leventis Professor in Greek was Professor Terry Penner (U. Wisconsin, Madison).
Publication: D. Cairns , F.-G. Herrmann , T. Penner, (eds), 'Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic', Edinburgh Leventis Studies 4 (EUP, 2007).
3rd Leventis Professor and Conference
The third A. G. Leventis Professor in Greek was Professor Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy Austrian Academy).
Publication: S. Deger-Jalkotzy, I.S. Lemos (eds), 'Ancient Greece: from the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer, Edinburgh Leventis Studies 3 (EUP, 2006).
2nd Leventis Professor and Conference
The second A. G. Leventis Professor in Greek was Professor David Konstan (Brown).
Publication: D. Konstan, N. K. Rutter (eds), Envy, Spite and Jealousy, Edinburgh Leventis Studies 2 (EUP, 2003).
1st Leventis Professor and Conference
The first A. G. Leventis Professor in Greek was Professor Brian Sparkes (Southampton).
Publication: N.K. Rutter, B.A. Sparkes (eds), 'Word and Image in Ancient Greece', Edinburgh Leventis Studies 1 (EUP, 2000).