Classics Research Seminars

Our Programme for the Academic Year 2011-2

The following events are currently scheduled for Summer Term 2011-2. Please also have a look at our Classics Conferences page for additional events.

Research Seminars

Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars will take place at 4pm in the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology (HumSS G38). Everyone welcome.

1 May
Theodora Jim (Hong Kong):
"Between Men and Gods: aparchai and dekatai in ancient Greece"

2 May
Beppe Pezzini (Oxford):
"Non recte vinctust: contraction of esse in Terence and beyond"

9 May
Michael Paschalis (Rethymno):
"Exile, Return and the City in Senecan Drama"

10 May
Michael Paschalis (Rethymno):
"The Modern Greek Rebirth of the Islands of Odysseus"

16 May
Giovanni Ruffini (Fairfield, CT):
"Byzantine Egypt and SNA"

23 May
Chiara Rolli (Parma):
"Edmund Burke and his use of Cicero"

24 May
Borja Antela-Bernárdez (Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona:
"Athenion and Mithridatic Athens"
 Kindly note: this seminar will take place at 3pm (!) in the Ure Museum (HumSS G38)

May 30
Jesus Carruesco (Tarragona): 

• "Nature as Text: Poetics and politics of the garden in the Early Empire"
  2 pm, Ure Museum (HumSS G38)
• "Kypris/Aphrodite and cross-cultural exchanges in the Archaic Mediterranean"
  4pm, Ure Museum (HumSS G38) 

13 June
Ilaria Romeo (Lecce):
"New archaeological research in Hierapolis of Phrygia: from the Beautiful Tomb to the Tomb of Saint Philip"