Classics research seminars
The mid-week Classics Research Seminars are a lively forum for debate.
Time and location
Meetings are held on Wednesdays (5:10pm) or Thursdays (2:10pm), UK time. Due to restrictions on room capacity please register at the link. To be added to the Classics Research Seminars Mailing List please contact Dr Benjamin Harriman (Benjamin.Harriman@ed.ac.uk).
Event schedule
Semester 2, 2021/22
| Date | Speaker | Title | Venue | Register |
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Wed 9 Mar
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Justin Stover (University of Edinburgh) and George Woudhuysen (University of Nottingham) | 'Aurelius Victor reconsidered' | G.3, 50 George Square | Register |
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Thu 10 Mar |
Elaine Sanderson (University of Edinburgh) | 'Exile in Seneca’s Hercules furens' | Register | |
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Wed 16 Mar |
Roel Konijnendijk (University of Edinburgh) | 'Teach warfare, save Classics' | G.3, 50 George Square | Register |
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Wed 30 Mar |
Georgy Kantor (University of Oxford) POSTPONED |
'A new document from Spain on the accession of Tiberius' | G.3, 50 George Square | Register |
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Thu 31 Mar |
Jason Porter (University of Edinburgh) | 'Who owned the Therapontes in Lysias 1? Slavery, violence, and land exploitation in Classical Athens' | Register | |
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Thu 7 Apr |
Chiara Blanco (University of Edinburgh) | 'Flesh and stone: Skin and touch in Ovid’s Pygmalion' | Register | |
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Wed 27 Apr |
Sarah Levin-Richardson (University of Washington) |
'Slavery and affective labour in Roman culture' NB This is a hybrid event, please register to receive the link |
Register | |
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Thu 12 May |
Kleanthis Mantzouranis (University of Edinburgh) | 'Honour, slight, and revenge: Aristotle's orgē and modern anger' | Register | |
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Wed 18 May |
Elena Theodorakopoulos (University of Birmingham) | 'The eidolon of Helen in the poetry and prose of Laura Riding' | G.3, 50 George Square | Register |
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Thu 19 May |
Felix Meister (Universities of Cologne and Edinburgh) CANCELLED |
'Did Alcman write Epithalamia?' | Register | |
| Wed 1 Jun | Madalina Toca (University of Edinburgh) | 'Isidore of Pelusium’s Letters: Reconsidering the making of a corpus' | Lecture Theatre B, 40 George Square | Register |
Also of interest may be the Byzantine Studies seminars.
Semester 1, 2021/22
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 6 Oct | Mary Whitby (Merton and Regent’s Park Colleges, Oxford) |
'An Emperor and his poet: George of Pisidia on the Emperor Heraclius (610-641 CE)' |
| Wednesday 13 Oct | Toph Marshall (University of British Columbia) |
'Ajax and the stagecraft of surprise' |
| Wednesday 20 Oct | Alexandre Johnston (University College, Oxford) |
'Irony and theology in Sophocles' |
| Wednesday 3 Nov | Julia H. Gaisser (Bryn Mawr College) |
'Les amours de Catulle and the adventures of Catullus: Translating and transposing Catullus in the 17th century' |
| Wednesday 10 Nov | Tamer Nawar (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) |
'Ancient democracy: A philosophical analysis' |
| Wednesday 17 Nov | Alison John (All Souls College, Oxford) |
'Bilingual poetry in Late Antiquity: Author, audience and reception' |
| Wednesday 24 Nov |
Shane Wallace (Trinity College Dublin) |
'The Antigonids and their Hellenic Leagues: The case of Gonatas' |
| Wednesday 8 Dec |
Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University) |
'Figures of empire: Images of Aethiopian boys and the sexual economy of imperial slavery' |
Further information
Organisers: Benjamin Harriman, Gavin Kelly
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