The Classics research seminars provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and the promotion of new research and debate among the research community, both within and outside the University. All are welcome. Wednesday seminars take place at 5.10 p.m., Thursday seminars at 2.10 p.m. (except on 7 November 2024). Please check details below. Everyone welcome! Semester 2 2024/25Wed 15 JanDr Talitha Kearey (St Andrews)'Freedom's compromise: Collaborating on Persius’s Life and works'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 22 JanCAS/ESE: Dr Fiona Hobden (OU Scotland)'Growing Old in Ancient Greece: Care, Connections and Community'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolThu 23 JanDr Ruben Post (St Andrews)'Eclipses, droughts, and plague: Athenian environmental politics during the Archidamian War (431-421 BCE)'Seminar room 1, Chrystal Macmillan BuildingWed 29 JanDr Rebecca van Hove (Groningen)'Framing inscribed law in archaic Crete: Materiality and authority'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 5 Feb Dr Christina Leypold (Zurich)'Colossal statues in Olympia: Archaeological evidence of the statue setting'G.16, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 12 FebProfessor Panagiotis Agapitos (Mainz)'Editing the Vita Apollonii: Incompetent Byzantine scribes or three-dimensional architectures of textual history?'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 26 FebCAS/ESE: Dr Mariamne Briggs (Edinburgh)'More motherly, less martial: The role of Atalanta in the Middle Irish translation of Statius’ "Thebaid"'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolThu 27 FebDr Katerina Stergiopoulou (Edinburgh)'Textures of Greek: C.P. Cavafy’s \Modernist poetics of citation'Seminar room 1, Chrystal Macmillan BuildingWed 5 MarProfessor Mario Baumann (Dresden) (Mackay)'The scent of the text: Smells in Ancient Greek literature'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolThu 6 MarProfessor Mario Baumann (Dresden) (Mackay)'Beyond visuality: Reading classical texts in the age of the "Sensory Turn"'Seminar room 1, Chrystal Macmillan BuildingTue 11 MarProfessor Matt Simonton (Arizona State University)UKRI/ERC Class struggle in Ancient Greek democracy eventBasement Theatre, Adam House, 5pmWed 12 MarDr Ben Folit-Weinberg (Ohio)'Epic aēr and Milesian monism: problems and questions'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolThu 13 MarDr Maxwell Stocker (IASH)'Egypt and the Odyssey: The Egyptian cultural and literary influences on Homeric Epic'Seminar room 1, Chrystal Macmillan BuildingMon 17 MarProfessor Baukje van den Berg (Central European University)Joint seminar with CLAIBS:The Voice in Byzantine Literary ThoughtMeadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical School 5.15pmWed 19 MarProfessor Catherine Morgan (Oxford)'Rethinking ritual in the central Ionian archipelago (6th-2nd centuries BC)'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 26 MarDr Victoria Leonard (Kent)'Gendered violence in late antiquity'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolThu 27 MarDr Georgia Petridou (Liverpool)Eleusinian Society Lecture: 'Imagining Eleusis: The sanctuary of Demeter and Kore as a powerful and resonant sacred space in antiquity and modernity’Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical School, 5.10 pmWed 2 AprCAS/ESE: Professor Stephen Harrison (Oxford)'Interpretation and the original Roman reader in Horace’s "Odes"'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolThu 3 AprProfessor Chiara Fedriani (Geneva)'Dolor metaphors in Latin: What a corpus-based approach to ancient sources can (and cannot) tell us'LG.10, 40 George SquareTue 22 AprDr Ronaldo Forero Alvarez'The Irene Project: Reimagining Classics for peace and education'Seminar room 4, Chrystal Macmillan BuildingWed 23 AprProfessor Mark Usher (Vermont)'Umwelt and the etymology of ēthos: How animals make us human'MacLaren Stuart Room, Old CollegeWed 14 MayProfessor Chris Faraone (Chicago)'“And you, o holy chthonic gods, from below send a ghost into the light!”: Aeschylus’ Persians 623-71 and the Longue Durée of Ancient Necromancy'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolSemester 1 2024/2518 Sep Professor Han Baltussen (Adelaide/IASH) 'Eunapius’ Use of theios in his Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (VPS): Special, superhuman or ‘divine’?'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School25 Sep CAS/ESE - Dr Edmund Stewart (Nottingham) 'Theoria: Pilgrims and Sanctuaries in Greek Tragedy’Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School26 Sep Dr Georgia Petridou (Liverpool) 'Imagining Eleusis: The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore as a Powerful and Resonant Sacred Space in Antiquity and Modernity (Eleusinian Society inaugural lecture)G.16, Doorway 4, Old Medical SchoolCancelled02 OctInaugural Lecture - Professor Ben Russell: 'Roman Sculptors at Work’Playfair Library, Old College, South Bridge09 OctDr Marios Anastasiadis & Dr David Lewis (Edinburgh)Murdo Homewood (Edinburgh)'Reading Medical Practice in Augustine’s Sermones ad Populum through the image of the Christus medicus.' 'The inside woman: A new solution to the riddle of the endothidia dola (I. Cret. IV 72 II 11–16)Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School16 Oct Dr Max Leventhal (Edinburgh): 'Speaking Statues and Silent Slaves in Herodas, Mimiamb 4’Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School23 Oct Dr Consuelo Martino (Edinburgh) 'Simul filius, simul Caesar: Debating Leadership in the Age of Trajan’Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School24 Oct Professor Oswyn Murray (Oxford): 'Workshop on Oswyn Murray, The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present, in dialogue with the author’Seminar room 4 Chrystal Macmillan Building, George Square30 Oct Dr Christian A. Thomsen(Copenhagen): 'Isopoliteia – a reappraisal’Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School06 Nov Professor Chris Kraus (Yale): 'Caesar, Dio, and Andrea Brenta at the dawn of the Vatican Library’Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical School07 NovProfessor Michael Kulikowski (Penn State)'Government, bureaucracy, and the writing of history (Launch Lecture for the Last Historians of Rome Project)Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical School. 5:10pm13 Nov Dr Theodore Hill (Edinburgh) 'Divine Emotions in Classical Greek Culture’Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School20 Nov Dr Jutta Stroszeck (DAI Athens) 'Mackay Lecture: About the discovery of Paian’s Oracle in the Athenian Kerameikos’Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School21 Nov Dr Jutta Stroszeck (DAI Athens): 'Mackay Seminar – Kerameikos: The Burial plot of the Lacedaimonian warriors (403 BCE)Teaching Room 12, Doorway 3, Old Medical School27 Nov Dr Antony Lee (National Museum of Scotland)'Whose gods are they anyway? Romano-British religion and museum displays’Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School This article was published on 2024-08-01
