Classics seminars
The Classics research seminars provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and the promotion of new research and debate among the research community, both within and outside the University. All are welcome.
Time and location
Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5.10 p.m. and on Thursdays at 2.10 p.m. With the exception of CAS/ESE seminars, they are hybrid. Please contact Dr Janja Soldo (janja.soldo@ed.ac.uk) for details of how to join these sessions remotely.
Event schedule
Semester 2, 2023/24
Date | Speaker | Topic | Venue | Note/Chair (University of Edinburgh) |
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Wed 17 Jan |
Dr Lucy Grig (University of Edinburgh) |
'Representations of the emperor in late antique popular culture' |
CAS/ESE |
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Thu 18 Jan | Dr Emily Kneebone (University of Nottingham) | 'Space, Place, and Ecology in Colluthus’ Abduction of Helen' | Doorway 3, Old Medical School, Teaching room 13, 1M.473 | Dr Calum Maciver |
Wed 24 Jan |
Dr Jesse Hill (University of Edinburgh) |
'Our Word is Our Bond: Catullus, Ennius, and fides' |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Dr Donncha O’Rourke |
Thu 25 Jan |
Dr Viola Periti (University of Edinburgh) |
'Snakes of history and snakes of exemplarity in Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia (1.8 de miraculis)' |
Doorway 3, Old Medical School, Teaching room 13, 1M.473 | Dr Janja Soldo |
Wed 31 Jan |
PD Dr Julia Hoffmann-Salz (University of Mannheim) |
'They who must not be named? Hellenistic Empires and their Enemies' |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Dr Benedikt Eckhardt |
Thu 1 Feb | Dr Diana Rodriguez Perez (University of Edinburgh) | 'Where have you been? "Heirloom" (Athenian) Vases in Iberian Tombs and Settlements' | Doorway 3, Old Medical School, Teaching room 09, 1.1416 | Dr Anja Slawisch |
Thu 8 Feb | Professor Henriette van der Blom (University of Birmingham) | 'Oratory in Valerius Maximus: sources, traditions and interests' | Old College, Teaching room 12 | Dr Viola Periti |
Wed 14 Feb |
Professor Maurizio Giangiulio (University of Trento) |
'Delphic Oracles and Greek History: A Reassessment' |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
MACKAY LECTURE |
Thu 15 Feb |
Professor Maurizio Giangiulio (University of Trento) |
'How federal was the political organization of the Locrians in Central Greece? On M&L 20 once more' | LG.09, 40 George Square | MACKAY SEMINAR |
Wed 28 Feb |
Dr Matthew Haysom (University of Birmingham) |
'What's wrong with the Minoans? Crete from an east Mediterranean perspective' | Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School | CAS/ESE |
Thu 29 Feb | Professor John Bintliff (University of Edinburgh) | 'Rethinking Roman Urbanism: The ERC Empire of 2000 Cities Project' | Doorway 3, Old Medical School, Teaching room 13, 1M.473 | Professor Ben Russell |
Wed 6 Mar |
Dr Thomas Biggs (University of St Andrews) |
'Transformative poetics: Aeneas, Attis, and Chloreus in Virgil’s Aeneid' |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Dr Jesse Hill |
Thu 7 Mar | Professor Catherine Steel (University of Edinburgh) | 'The cursus honorum in the Republican Senate: expectation and reality' | G.16, Doorway 4, Old Medical School | Dr Dominic Berry |
Wed 13 Mar | Dr Mario Paganini (University of Edinburgh) | 'The Experience of Migration in Hellenistic Egypt: Some Remarks' | Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School | Dr Andrew Erskine |
Wed 20 Mar | Professor Christian Amitzbøll Thomsen (University of Copenhagen) - POSTPONED |
'Isopoliteia – a reappraisal' - POSTPONED |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School | Dr Lina Girdvainyte |
Thu 21 Mar | Dr Pablo Rojas (University of Edinburgh) | Geographic, Strategic, and Tactical Space: Caesarian Spatial Thinking in Tacitus' Agricola | Doorway 3, Old Medical School, Teaching room 09, 1.1416 | Dr Janja Soldo |
Wed 27 Mar |
Professor Andrew Morrison (University of Glasgow) |
Philosophy, Friendship, Forgery: making sense of Greek letter collections | Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Dr Benjamin Harriman |
Wed 3 Apr |
Professor Esther Eidinow (University of Bristol) |
tbc | Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School | CAS/ESE |
Semester 1, 2023/24
Date | Speaker | Topic | Venue |
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Wed 20 Sep |
Dr Dominic Berry (University of Edinburgh) |
'What, or who, was Sallust's principal source for the Bellum Catilinae?' |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Wed 4 Oct |
Laura Loddo |
'Legal Regulations for Exiles in Ancient Greek Law: Some Remarks on I.Sinope 1' | Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Wed 11 Oct | Professor
Ewen Bowie |
Leventis Inaugural Lecture |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Wed 18 Oct |
Stephen Oakley |
'The transmission and text of Pontius’ Life of Saint Cyprian' |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Wed 25 Oct |
Elizabeth Greene |
'Local and global dynamics in a Roman frontier settlement. Deceiving expectations. ' |
CAS/ESE (online) |
Thu 26 Oct |
Vicente Flores Mitello |
'Immersive Narrative Strategies in Late Latin Epic? (Claud. Eutr. 2.409-461)' |
Seminar room 5, Chrystal Macmillan Building |
Wed 1 Nov |
Catherine Steel |
'The cursus honorum in the Republican Senate: expectation and reality ' |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Thu 2 Nov | Consuelo Martino |
'Surviving the Trauma of Civil War: Propertius and the Memory of Perusia' |
Lister Learning and Teaching Centre G.13 |
Wed 8 Nov |
Ingvar Brandvik Mæhle |
'Patronage, exploitation and honour in Archaic Athens' |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Thu 9 Nov |
Rolf Strootman |
TBC |
Seminar room 5, Chrystal Macmillan Building |
Wed 15 Nov |
Martin Henig |
'Tiberius Claudius Togidubnus, Rex Magnus Britanniae, a client king and his achievements in the First century AD' |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Wed 22 Nov |
Catharine Edwards |
'Breathing freely: mind, body and personal identity in Seneca’s philosophical writing' |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Thu 23 Nov |
Roberta Leotta Yolanda Panou |
'Coniunx viduata taedis ardet et odit: embodied experiences and jealousy metaphors in Latin' 'Representations of filicide on the tragic stage: The child-as-seed metaphor and the ‘uprooting’ of the oikos' |
Seminar room 5, Chrystal Macmillan Building |
Wed 29 Nov |
Richard Rutherford |
'Ambiguity and the classical critic' |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Thu 30 Nov | Corey Brennan |
'The Villa Ludovisi in Rome: Display and Dispersion of its Collections (1621-2023)' |
NB 3:10pm |
Further information
Organiser: Dr Janja Soldo (janja.soldo@ed.ac.uk)
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