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. Research seminars take place from 5:10-6:00p.m. on Wednesdays; questions and refreshments will be served in the Macmillan Room from 6:00pm. NB, the seminar on Thursday 5 March begins at 4.30pm. Seminars organised by the Classical Association of Scotland, Edinburgh and South-East Region begin at 5.10pm, locations are indicated below and are followed by a drink with the speaker at a suitable public house or similar, and thence to dinner at a restaurant. Members can join the speaker for a drink and/or dinner. Semester 2 2025/26NB, CAS/ESE: Classical Association of Scotland, Edinburgh and South-East Region.DateSpeaker Host LocationWed 14 JanDr Henry Stead (University of St Andrews)'Classics and the British Radical Left, 1917–1956' Meadows Lecture Theatre, G.07 Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 21 JanProfessor Polly Low (University of Durham)'The Athenian exception? Thucydides (and others) on the urge to rule'CAS/ESEOld College, G.159/ MacLaren Stuart RoomWed 28 JanDr James Oakley (University of Edinburgh)'Unravelling whiteness in Classical antiquity' Meadows Lecture Theatre, G.07 Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 4 FebDr Eva Mol (University of York)'Life paths of the parahuman: Roman slavery, assemblages, and diasporic personhood' Meadows Lecture Theatre, G.07 Doorway 4 Old Medical School11 FebProfessor Anna Leone (University of Durham)'Aspects of Territorial Control in Byzantine North Africa: Fortifications, Military Strategy and Administration in the 6th and 7th centuries' Meadows Lecture Theatre, G.07 Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 25 FebProfessor Monica Gale (Trinity College Dublin)'Word on the street: Catullus and Roman graffiti'CAS/ESE40 George Square, LG 11 Wed 4 MarDr Martina Gatto (University of Rome Tor Vergata) 'Sparta in the Late French Renaissance: Lycurgus and Spartan Institutions in the Political Thought of François Hotman, Jean Bodin, and Michel de Montaigne' Meadows Lecture Theatre, G.07 Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolThu 5 MarProfessor Rhiannon Ash (University of Oxford)‘Gossips three’: Concentric circles of rumor in Tacitus'(Lecture sponsored by the AHRC-funded Last Historians of Rome project)4.30pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, G.07 Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 11 MarProfessor Angelos Chaniotis (Princeton University Institute for Advanced Study)'Cavafy as a historian of the Post-Classical World'(Charles Gordon Mackay Lecture, co-sponsored by the A.G. Leventis Centre for Greek Studies and the Modern Greek Seminar)Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5 Old Medical SchoolWed 18 MarProfessor Corinne Bonnet (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)'Playing across the gap: A comparative approach to divine onomastics in a Mediterranean context' Meadows Lecture Theatre, G.07 Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 25 MarDr Chiara Ferella (University of Edinburgh)'Metaphors of mind in the Derveni papyrus' Meadows Lecture Theatre, G.07 Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 1 AprProfessor John Wilkins (University of Exeter)'Galen, the Greco-Roman elite and the Herculaneum sewer'CAS/ESEOld College, G.159/ MacLaren Stuart Room Semester 1 2025/26DateSpeakerTopicLocationWed 17 SepProfessor Andrew Burnett (British Museum)[Professor N. Keith Rutter Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Classical Association of Scotland]'The Greek context of the invention of Roman coinage' Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolThis event will be accessible online. Please email Calum Maciver if you would like to attend remotely: Calum.Maciver@ed.ac.uk. Wed 24 SepWelcome Event / Dr Donncha O’Rourke (Edinburgh)'Sorry not sorry: the ethics of wrongdoing in Virgil and Augustan culture'Sydney Smith Lecture Room, Doorway 1 Old Medical SchoolWed 1 OctProfessor Barbara Graziosi (Princeton University) [Leventis Professor Inaugural Lecture]'A Humanistic Approach to Artificial Intelligence'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 8 OctDr Lisa Eberle (Tübingen/Oxford) 'Disciplining Dominae. Sex, Slaves, and Stories in the Reign of Constantine'Sydney Smith Lecture Room, Doorway 1 Old Medical SchoolWed 15 OctDr Lucy Nicholas (Warburg Institute)'Cicero in Tudor England'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 22 OctDr Maria Mili (University of Glasgow)'Who was the Thessalian goddess Ennodia? Variations of the Thessalian Pantheon'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 29 OctProfessor Lucy Grig (University of Edinburgh) [inaugural lecture]'A Slow History of Late Antiquity'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolThu 30 OctProfessor Peter Wilson (University of Sydney)'Pindar of Thebes and the 470s: the awkward years?'1.312 (Doorway 1), Old Medical SchoolWed 05 NovDr Thomas Coward (University of Bristol)'The ending of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 12 NovDr Eve Macdonald (Cardiff University)'Carthage, Archaeology and Collective Memory'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 19 NovProfessor Gregory MacIsaac (Carleton University, Ottawa)'The Calculated Failure of the Wax Block in Plato’s Theaetetus'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 26 NovDr John Reid (Chair, Trimontium Trust, Melrose)'Presenting Early Scotland’s Experience of the Roman Empire to a 2020s Audience'Sydney Smith Lecture Room, Doorway 1 Old Medical School Follow the School You can keep up with the latest School news, events and developments by following us on Instagram, Bluesky and Facebook. The School also has a blog, and an Eventbrite account. Instagram Bluesky Facebook School blog Eventbrite Find out what else is onThe 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. Research seminars and events calendar This article was published on 2024-08-01
