Postgraduate events

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Postgraduate Workshop

An Olive Tree, a Vineyard, and a Ship: (Re)imagining Greece Across Time

When: 4 December 2026

Where: Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre (Old Medical School, Doorway 1)

Inspired by Odysseas Elytis’ image of Greece as an olive tree, a vineyard, and a ship, this one-day workshop will explore the ways in which the Greek world has been imagined, appropriated, and reconstructed across different historical periods, geographical contexts, and literary and artistic traditions.

Image of sea, ship with mast, and tree
Provisional Programme (98.1 KB / PDF)

Workshop

Agency and Intent in the Greek Funerary Epigram: A Diachronic Approach

When: 21 April 2027

Where: tbc

Spanning antiquity to the post-Byzantine world, this workshop explores how Greek funerary epigrams expressed the agency and intentions of patrons, poets and those they commemorated. Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, it examines how this enduring literary form served as a medium of public self-fashioning and memorialisation for the deceased and the living alike. Particular attention will be paid to the influence of geography, social status, gender and religious identity on commemorative practice, alongside the relationship between literary form and material setting. The workshop will also consider the afterlife of these texts and how reuse and transmission gave them new meanings, tracing both continuity and change across the long history of Greek funerary verse.

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