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Events from the 01 January 2026 - 31 December 2026 Reset
Ecocritical Approaches to Ancient Performance Culture
This international conference, convened in the Department of Classics and Ancient History by Durham PhD candidate Emma Bentley and Professor Edith Hall, and financially supported by the University of Durham, explores the particular relationship between the contexts, texts, sensory dimensions and afterlives of ancient performance culture and the natural world. The conference will be hybrid.
22 April 2026 - 23 April 2026
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
CL007, Classics and Ancient History Department / Online
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Department of Classics and Ancient History
Robin Kreutel (HU Berlin), Make comedy pure again - Terence’s programmatics of distinction and the reinvention of Roman comedy
Durham Classics & Ancient History research seminars, Epiphany term
29 April 2026
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CL108, Classics and Ancient History Department / Online
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Department of Classics and Ancient History
Jane Grenville, "Pevsner and Classicism in the North Riding of Yorkshire"
Classical Architecture in the North East series
07 May 2026
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Heritage Centre, 7 Owengate
- Lecture
- Department of Classics and Ancient History
Writing from the Margins: New Approaches to Ancient Authorship
This conference seeks to re-envision ancient authorship by exploring the roles played by socially marginalised and overlooked groups in the creation, preservation, and dissemination of ancient texts.
13 May 2026 - 15 May 2026
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
CL007, Classics and Ancient History Department
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Workshop
- Department of Classics and Ancient History
Pippa Steele (Cambridge), Semata and the epistemological position of early Greek alphabetic writing
Durham Classics & Ancient History research seminars, Epiphany term
13 May 2026
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CL108, Classics and Ancient History Department / Online
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Department of Classics and Ancient History
Em. Prof. Samuel N.C. Lieu, "The Battle of Aigospotamoi (405 BCE) – Historiography versus Topography"
Visiting lecture by Em. Prof. Samuel N.C. Lieu FBA, MAE
13 May 2026
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
CL007, Classics and Ancient History Department
- Lecture
- Research event
- Department of Classics and Ancient History
Tom Biggs (St Andrews), Sequence and Simultaneity: Rereading Gnaeus Naevius and Livius Andronicus
Durham Classics & Ancient History research seminars, Epiphany term
20 May 2026
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CL108, Classics and Ancient History Department / Online
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Department of Classics and Ancient History
Alex Mullen (Nottingham), TBA
Durham Classics & Ancient History research seminars, Epiphany term
27 May 2026
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CL108, Classics and Ancient History Department / Online
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Department of Classics and Ancient History
June Anthony Geraghty, "Vanbrugh and Cicero: The architecture of Castle Howard and Seaton Delaval reconsidered"
Classical Architecture in the North East series
18 June 2026
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Heritage Centre, 7 Owengate
- Lecture
- Department of Classics and Ancient History
CAMNE workshop: Fragile Networks
We are pleased to invite you to the annual research workshop from the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East (CAMNE). This year's research theme is 'Fragile Networks'.
23 June 2026
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
CL007, Classics and Ancient History Department
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Workshop
- Department of Classics and Ancient History