Research Seminars in the Department of Classics
The Department's research culture includes a series of seminars which offer the chance to hear visiting scholars from the UK and from overseas. All workshops are held in the Humanities Buidling Room A1 at 5.00pm. Tea at 4.30pm.
There are no seminars over the summer vacation.
Spring Semester 2011/12
Research Seminars
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7 February
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Gillian Clark, Bristol: Too Late? Late Antiquity, the end of empire, and the classical canon
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14 February
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Alessanndro Rolim de Moura, Universidade Federal do Paraná: Pompey and some animal similes in Lucan: dialogism and erotic overtones (Cancelled)
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21 February
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Judith Barringer, Edinburgh: The changing image of Zeus at Olympia
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28 February
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David Lewis, Durham: Slave "marriages" at Gortyn: a matter of rights?
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13 March
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Christopher Smith, BSR: Thinking about kings
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20 March
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Saskia Roselaar: Divine trade: sanctuaries as a location for integration in the Roman Republic?
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Autumn Semester 2011/12
Research Seminars
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27 September
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No seminar
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4 October
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Patrick Finglass, Nottingham: How Stesichorus began his Sack of Troy
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12 October
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Michael Trapp, KCL: title TBA (NB Wednesday session)
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18 October
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No seminar
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25 October
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David Carter, Reading: Reported assembly scenes in Greek Tragedy
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1 November
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Benjamin Grunert, Freiburg: Friendship and patronage in Sparta. Theoretical and methodological considerations
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8 November
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No seminar
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15 November
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No seminar
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22 November
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Carrie Vout, Cambridge: Roman funerary art and the rhetoric of unreachability
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29 November
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Nick Wilshere, Nottingham: Swans and Sirens: Lucian's disappointing trip up the Eridanus
Mohammad Almohanna, Nottingham: Parody in ancient drama
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6 December
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Will Wootton, KCL: Paving Pompeii: a preliminary report on the mosaics of Regio VI.I
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For an example of the range of topics and speakers at the Classics Research Workshop, see last years' programmes.