Classics & Ancient History
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER: CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY
DEPT RESEARCH SEMINARS AND CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION MEETINGS 2011
Research Seminars, September – December 2011
Thursday seminars start at 4.55 p.m., in room S2.9 of the Alexander Building, followed by drinks and dinner with the speaker.
Wednesday meetings of the Classical Association (CA) start at 5.30 p.m. in room A7 of the Alexander Building, followed by drinks and dinner with the speaker.
All are welcome!
Thursday 29 September
Not Dark Yet: Reading to the End of Pliny’s Letters
Roy Gibson (Manchester)
Thursday 6 October
The Total Mother: Breastfeeding and its Consequences in the Roman World
Tim Parkin (Manchester)
Thursday 13 October
Graeco-Arabic Studies and Modern Corpus Linguistics: Problems and Prospects
Peter Pormann (Warwick)
Wednesday 19 October (Classical Association, 5.30 p.m.)
Etruscan Divination – It's not just sheep livers anymore!
Dr Jean Turfa (Pennsylvania)
Thursday 20 October
Text and Authority in Varro Res Rusticae
Aude Doody (UCD)
Thursday 27 October
Ovid’s Flora
John Miller (Charlottesville)
Wednesday 9 November (Classical Association, 5.30 p.m.)
Plato and Atlantis
Angie Hobbs (Warwick)
Thursday 10 November
Carthage in Modern Tunisia
Claire Stocks (Manchester)
Thursday 17 November
Cultural identity and the Language Shift in the Romanisation of Italy: strengths and weaknesses of the linguistic evidence
David Langslow (Manchester)
Thursday 24 November
Panhellenism without imperialism? Uniting the Greeks before and after Chaeroneia.
Polly Low (Manchester)
Wednesday 30 November (Classical Association, 5.30 p.m.)
Screening the End of the Classical World in Alejandro Amenabar's Agora
Joanna Paul (Open University)
Thursday 1 December
Achelous and Apotheosis in Sophocles' Trachiniai
Naomi Rood (Colgate)
Thursday 8 December
Jurisdiction in Baetica: reading a Misassembled Inscription
Ernest Metzger (Glasgow)
Thursday 15 December
Local Historiography and Delian Identity
Christy Constantakopoulou (Birkbeck)
Thursday 2 February 2012
"Frontinus' Cameo Role in Tacitus' Agricola"
Alice Koenig (St Andrews)
Thursday 9 February 2012
"Auctions everywhere! Where did Roman auctions take place?"
Marta Morcillo (Trinity St David)
(CA) Wednesday 15th February 2012 (location tbc)
"Women, Foreigners, and the start of the Koine in Greek Comedy"
Stephen Colvin (UCL)
Thursday 16 February 2012
"The Pindaric First Person in Flux"
Bruno Currie (Oriel College, Oxford)
Thursday 23 February 2012
"Thucydides in Constantinople"
Theresa Urbainczyk (University College, Dublin)
Thursday 1 March 2012
"Apollo Who? Disentangling the Evidence for Apollo(s) on Aigina"
Irene Polinskaya (King’s College, London)
Thursday 8 March 2012
"Lucretius and the Elegists"
Donncha O'Rourke (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
(CA) Wednesday 14th March 2012(location t.b.c.)
"A Cultural History of Olympia" (Joint Meeting with the Hellenic Society)
Judy Barringer (Edinburgh)
Thursday 15 March 2012
"Lucan in the eighteenth century"
Katharine Earnshaw (St John's College, Oxford)
Thursday 22 March 2012
"Prudentius: Cheek, Theft and Inversion"
Tony Dykes (Manchester)
Thursday 19 April 2012
"The treatise 'On Gout' of Alexander of Tralles: text and transmission"
Val Knight (Manchester)
(CA) Wednesday 25th April 2012 (location t.b.c.)
"The Origins of Religious Pluralism in the Roman Empire and Beyond" (Joint Meeting with the Roman Society)
Greg Woolf (St Andrews)
Thursday 26 April 2012
"Writing Letters in Roman and Byzantine Egypt: New texts from the Rylands Papyri Collection"
Roberta Mazza (Manchester)
Thursday 3 May 2012
"Problems in the Interpretation of Oedipus the King"
Scott Scullion (Worcester College, Oxford)