Classics postgraduate seminars

The Classics Postgraduate seminars enable postgraduate students to gain valuable experience and practice in delivering research papers and taking questions on their work.

There has always been a strong contingent of postgraduate students at both masters and doctoral levels studying Classics at the University of Edinburgh.

Part of the postgraduate experience here is the opportunity to deliver research papers to fellow students, providing postgraduates with a valuable experience and practice in delivering research papers in a friendly and supportive environment. Sessions will consist of a 20–30 -minute talk + discussion, where postgraduate students (both at MSc and PhD level) will present their research on any area of Classical Studies (Ancient History, Classics, Classical Archaeology, or any related discipline).   

Time and location

Unless otherwise stated, the seminars take place at 5pm every Friday in the MacLaren Stuart Room, Old College.

Fri 18 Oct Sisi Xie (Edinburgh)'Fire by the shore: Vulcan worship in Roman Gaul and Germany'
Fri 25 Oct Xiyuan Meng (St Andrews)'Reading duritia in Vergil: Primitivism and contestatory characterisation in Aeneid 6-9'
Fri 1 Nov Euan Bowman (School of Advanced Studies, London)'Did east Greek subjects of the Achaemenid Empire believe the Great King was divine?'
Fri 8 Nov Emmanuelle Jégo (University of Perpignan)'Physical violence in the performance of ancient comedy'
Fri 15 NovEleni Krikona (Thessaloniki)'Hobsbawm’s invention of tradition and Gehrke’s intentional theory in the study of 4th-century BCE political theories concerning the origins of Athenian democracy'
Fri 22 Nov Laura Bevilacqua (Chicago)'Interpretative proposals on the rituals of Astragalomantic Oracles in imperial Asia Minor'
Fri 29 Nov Dr Carl-Loris Raschel (Collège de France/Musée du Louvre)

'Professional associations and trade groups in Roman Egypt'

NB Hybrid. In-person, in room G.15, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School.

Fri 6 Dec Dominic Laverick (Edinburgh)'Aeschylus and the Mysteries'

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