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 Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, unless otherwise stated.

DateSpeakerTopic
Fri 19 SeptDominic Laverick (Edinburgh) 'κοὐ μαθοῦσι λήθομαι: Orphism and the Orestia'
Fri 26 Sept Susan Carter (Edinburgh)

'Defining the Servi Venerii: Between Hierodule and Servi Publici'

(Room 1.312, Doorway 1, Old Medical School)

Fri 3 OctMatteo Serra (UCLouvain) 'The (In)visible Hand of the Polis: Price Regulation in Hellenistic Markets – New Research Perspective'
Fri 10 Oct Josef Nicholson (Liverpool) 'North-South divides in the ancient Aegean world'
Fri 17 OctBrett Stine (Columbia) 'Skin Deep: Sympotic Materials and Surface Poetics in the Theognidea'
Fri 24 Oct Leticia Ferreira 'From Cynthis to Cornelia: Law and Female Identity in Propertius Book 4'
Fri 7 Nov Anne Lanckriet (Ghent) 'What is the Difference between a Wife and a Sex worker? Questioning the Sustainability of Categorisation in Athenaeus’ The Dinner Sophists'
Fri 14 Nov Angeliki Oikonomou (Ioannina)' Textiles and touch in dream divination rituals of the PGM: wrapping the body with “Isis-band"'
Fri 21 NovJorge Barbero Barroso (Madrid) 'Secret Diplomacy during the Period of Roman Expansion in the Western Mediterranean (3rd -1 st BC)'
Fri 28 NovDimitra Eleftheriou (Ioannina) 'Cataloguing the Marvelous: Physical and Literary Cabinets of Curiosities in Hellenistic Alexandria'
Fri 5 DecAlice Capobianco (Genova/ Köln) 'Scented Practices: tracing the production and use of aromatic substances in the Roman world'

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The School of History, Classics and Archaeology offers an exciting programme of seminars across many subjects areas. Visit the research seminars website to find out what else is happening.

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