All three fields represented by the A. G. Leventis Centre hold regular research seminars during the academic year, many of which are co-sponsored by the Centre. Many of our events will be run in hybrid format: please contact the respective convenor for further information. Semester 1, 2026/7 Date & time Speaker Topic Convenor Location Thu 24 Sep, 4.15pm Dr Foteini Dimirouli (Oxford), in conversation with Dr Benjamin Bateman (Edinburgh) 'C. P. Cavafy in the English and American Literary Scenes: Authorizing the Other' (Book event) Modern Greek Studies Seminar Meadows Lecture Theatre POSTPONED Professor Filippomaria Pontani (Ca’ Foscari, Venice) ‘The Odyssey and its Scholia’ The Charles Gordon Mackay Lecture Meadows Lecture Theatre POSTPONED Professor Filippomaria Pontani (Ca’ Foscari, Venice) ‘The Hellenizing Muse: New Ancient Greek Poetry in Modern Europe’ The Charles Gordon Mackay Seminar Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building POSTPONED Professor Liz James (Sussex) ‘Medieval Mosaics in Motion’ Byzantine Studies Seminar 2.04 Appleton Tower POSTPONED Professor David Pritchard (Edinburgh/ Queensland) 'Children of Athena: The Armed Forces of Ancient Democratic Athens' Classics Seminar Meadows Lecture Theatre Thu 22 Oct, 5.10pm Dr Davide Napoli (Cornell) 'Virtues of Hypocrisy: Dissent in Classical Greek Democracies' Classics Seminar, sponsored by A. G. Leventis Centre Meadows Lecture Theatre Thu 29 Oct, 4.15pm Nicholas Doumanis (University of Illinois Chicago) 'The Modern Greek Diaspora “from Below”: The Case of the Anglosphere, 1890s–1970s’ Modern Greek Studies Seminar Meadows Lecture Theatre Wed 4 Nov, 5.10pm Professor Edward Schiappa (MIT) 'The Proem and Epilogue of Alcidamas’ On the Sophists: A Case for Interpolation' Classics Seminar Teviot Lecture Theatre Thu 5 Nov, 5.10pm Professor Nino Luraghi (Oxford) 'Silencing the Past: From Haiti to the Peloponnese' Edinburgh Centre for Global History Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery Fri 6 Nov, 11am-1pm Professor Nino Luraghi (Oxford), Mirko Canevaro (HCA), Matthew Hewitt (HCA), and Christine Whyte (Glasgow) Roundtable Edinburgh Centre for Global History Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building Tue 10 Nov, 5.10pm Professor Lisa Raphals (Edinburgh) 'Chance in Context: Early Chinese and Greek Accounts of Chance and Randomness' Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture Meadows Lecture Theatre Wed 11 Nov, 5.10pm Dr Christopher Jotischky (Royal Holloway) 'Alexander in America, Homer's Eyeglasses, and Diarrhoea: Absurdist Classical Reception in the 19th-century Greek Satirical Novel' Classics Seminar Meadows Lecture Theatre Wed 18 Nov, 5.10pm Professor Felix Pirson (DAIA) 'Galen’s Pergamon: The Transformation of City and Micro-Region in the Roman Imperial Period' Classics Seminar, sponsored by the Hellenic Society Meadows Lecture Theatre Tue 24 Nov, 5.10pm Professor Stratis Papaioannou (Oxford) ‘The Synaxarion of Constantinople as Literature’ Byzantine Studies Seminar Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College Wed 25 Nov, 5.10pm Professor Yannis Hamilakis (Brown) 'From the Acropolis to Moria (and Back): Archaeology, Race, and Unfinished Histories' Joint Modern Greek Studies Seminar and Classics Seminar Teviot Lecture Theatre Thu 26 Nov, 4.15pm Professor Gonda Van Steen (King’s College London), Dr Joseph La Hausse de Lalouvière (Edinburgh), Professor Aristidis Hatzis (Athens) Forum: ‘Revolutions at 200: Bicentenaries, Historiography, and the Politics of Commemoration’ Modern Greek Studies Seminar Meadows Lecture Theatre Wed 2 Dec, 5.10pm Dr Anna Judson (University of Durham) 'The Tablet-makers of Pylos: Experiments in Making Linear B Tablets' Classical Association of Scotland, Edinburgh and South East Centre 40 George Square, Room A Classics seminars The Classics research seminars provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and the promotion of new research and debate on topics pertaining to the ancient world. Classics seminars Byzantine Studies seminars This seminar series covers a wide range of cutting-edge topics pertaining to the Byzantine world and also forms part of the series convened by the Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies. Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies seminars Modern Greek Studies seminars This seminar series seeks to explore key themes in Modern Greek Studies through a global, interdisciplinary, and self-reflexive lens. Providing a forum for scholars coming from different disciplines and working in the field (broadly conceived), it aims to situate the Greek experience within broader transnational contexts, interrogate established narratives, and foster critical dialogue across disciplines. The Modern Greek Studies seminars are generously sponsored by the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Modern Greek Studies seminars Charles Gordon Mackay Lectures and Seminars The Charles Gordon Mackay Lectures are convened under the auspices of the A. G. Leventis Centre for Greek Studies. Charles Gordon Mackay Lectures and Seminars This article was published on Thursday 17 September 2026
