Classics and Ancient History seminars

For a full listing of departmental academic events, please see our Events Calendar.

Please find below and attached the department research/work-in-progress seminars programme for the Michaelmas Term. This year's theme is "Writing from the Margins: Decolonising Ancient Authorship".

All talks take place at 1-2pm UK time on Wednesdays. Talks marked “Hybrid” will be in person in CL108, followed by tea and biscuits, and online on Teams (unfortunately without tea or biscuits). Registration is not required to attend in person, but to attend the seminar online, you will need to register using the Teams link provided. 

Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars: Epiphany and Easter Term Card

14th January. Lilah Grace Canevaro (Edinburgh), William Morris: The People as Author. Hybrid.  Registration link

21st January. Martina Russo (La Sapienza), Tiberius sagacissimus: A Reading of Tacitus’s Ann. 2.37-38. Hybrid. Registration link

28th January. (Work in Progress Seminar) Costanza Barchiesi (Durham), Hydrogeological Poetics: The Refounding of Parthenope in Sannazaro’s Arcadia. Hybrid. Registration link

11th February. Katherine Backler (Leeds), TBA. Hybrid. Registration link

18th February. (LGBT+ month seminar) Joe Watson (Warwick), When Sappho met Lydia. Hybrid. Registration link

25th February (Work in Progress Seminar). Ilaria Bucci (Durham), Inscribing Devotion: Memory practices and patterns of mobility in the sacred landscape of Hatra (Iraq). Hybrid. Registration link

4th March. Theodore Hill (Edinburgh), Divine morality and emotions in Homeric epic. Online-only. Registration link

18th March. Stella Alekou (Ioannina), The Aesthetics of Ovidian Violence and the Limits of Narrative. Hybrid. Registration link

29th April. Robin Kreutel (HU Berlin), Make comedy pure again - Terence’s programmatics of distinction and the reinvention of Roman comedy. Hybrid. Registration link

13th May. Pippa Steele (Cambridge), Semata and the epistemological position of early Greek alphabetic writing. Hybrid. Registration link

20th May. Tom Biggs (St Andrews), Sequence and Simultaneity: Rereading Gnaeus Naevius and Livius Andronicus. Hybrid. Registration link

27th May. Alex Mullen (Nottingham), TBA. Hybrid. Registration link