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Recent research seminars

Spring Semester 2011/12

25 January

Mark Bradley, Nottingham: Obesity, corpulence and emaciation in Roman art 
1 February Tim Witmarsh, Oxford: Greek tragedy in the Hellenistic diaspora: the strange case of Ezekiel's 'Exagoge' 
8 February Stephen Oakley, Cambridge: Renaissance rediscoveries of Latin texts 
15 February Joint session: Danielle Frisby, Nottingham:

'Drowning in poetry': Hippomedon, Achilles and the river battle in Statius 'Thebaid 9'

22 February Mary Harlow, Birmingham: Wrapping up warm: infants and the elderly at Rome
1 March  John Holford, Nottingham: Constructions of the Ancient World in early 20th century British worker's education
8 March  Benjamin Russell: The Roman sarcophagus trade and the problem of production to stock
15 March Thomas Nielsen, Copenhagen: Athletic competitions in the Peloponnese
22 March Esther Eidinow, Birmingham: Metaphors to maim by 


Autumn Semester 2010/11

28 September

Rhiannon Ash, Merton College, Oxford: Fractured Vision: Josephus and Tacitus on Triumph and Civil War

5 October

CA meeting: Harry Sidebottom, Lincoln College, Oxford: Tbc

12 October

John Healey, Manchester: The Role of Aramaic in the Roman Near East

19 October Joint session: Maruis in Cicero: aspects of exemplarity
Eleanor Brooke, Cambridge: Chains of exemplarity
Henriette Van Der Blom, Wolfson College, Oxford:Variations on Marius in Cicero
26 October

Richard Hunter, Cambridge:Plato and the Ship of State

2 November Consolidation Week
9 November

Michael Reeve, Cambridge: Problems in the transmission of Pliny's natural history

16 November

Gunther Martin, Nottingham: Mimesis and plausibility in the parodos of Euripides' Ion

23 November

Johannes Haubold, Durham:The succession of empires: Greek and Mesopotamian perspectives

30 November

Costas Panayotakis, Glasgow:Publilius the mimographer: facts and problems

7 December

Joe Skinner, British School at Athens:The invention of Greek ethnography



Spring Semester 2009/10

26 January     No seminar
2 February Roger Rees (St Andrews): The artful text of Pacatus
9 February Gesine Manuwald (UCL): Terence’s Eunuchus and the conventions of Roman comedy’
16 February Ted Kaizer (Durham): Continuity and change: religious identities in Dura-Europos’
23 February Evert van Emde Boas (Oxford): Linguistic characterisation in Greek literature
2 March Peter Heather (KCL): Predatory Migration and the First Millennium
9 March (with the Nottingham Branch of the CA and the Roman Society): John Prag (Manchester) Faces from Shaft Grave VI at Mycenae: Stamatakis, Schliemann and Grave Circle A faces’
16 March Kristis Sergidis (Nottingham): An Athenian Strategic Triangle: Rhodes, Euboea and the Hellespont; Jane Draycott (Nottingham): Worship Like an Egyptian? A Reappraisal of the Temple of Soknebtunis and its Library
23 March Valentina Arena (UCL): A Pantheon with restricted access: religious liberty in the late Roman Republic
30 March Duncan Kennedy (Bristol): Sums in verse or mathematical aesthetic? Manilius' Astronomica

 

Autumn Semester 2009/10

29  September  Robin Osbourne (Cambridge): The art of signing
6 October No seminar
13 October (with the Nottingham branch of the CA) Roy Gibson (Manchester): The villa of Pliny the Younger
20 October Alexey Zadorozhnyy (Liverpool): Off the Wall: Graffiti and Inscriptions in the Greco-Roman narratives
27 October Laura Swift (Oxford): Visual imagery in parthenaic song
3 November No seminar (reading week)
10 November Mike Squire (Cambridge): Visualising epic on the Tabulae Iliacae
17 November Staff Research Forum
24 November William Rees (Oxford): Philotimia ametros : Cassius Dio and Euergetism in the Roman Empire
Jack Lennon (Nottingham): Shouldn't You Be Dead?  The Liminal Satus of Devotio Survivors in Rome
1 December Catherine Draycott (Oxford): Self-representation in Anatolia under the Persian Empire
8 December Anton Powell (Swansea): Sparta: the scandalous origins of her ideals

 

Spring Semester 2008/09

3 February Angelos Chaniotis (Oxford): Listening to stones: Οrality and emotions in ancient inscriptions.
10 February Annalisa Paradiso (Basilicata): Xanthus of Lydia between East and West [joint seminar with the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies]
17 February No seminar
24 February     Ellen Millender (Reed College): Thucydides and Sparta [joint with the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies]
3 March Nottingham CA meeting. Susan Walker (Ashmolean): Actium and the art of victory
10 March No seminar
17 March Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck): Bishops and lawcourts in late antiquity: how (not) to make sense of the legal evidence [joint seminar with the Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies]

 

 

 

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