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Public Lectures and Events

Hilary Term 2013

Public Lectures

Public Lectures

APGRD Lecture Series

Various speakers; Monday 2:15 Wks 2, 4, 7 ; Ioannou Centre

Week 2 (21 January): Tanya Pollard, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, will deliver an APGRD lecture in the Outreach Room, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles'
Subject: What's Hecuba to Shakespeare?

Week 4 (4 February): Pantelis Michelakis, Bristol, will deliver an APGRD lecture in the Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles'
Subject: Homer and Early Cinema

Week 7 (25 February): Adrian Noble, theatre director, and Joanne Pearce, actor, will deliver an APGRD lecture in the Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles'
Subject: Sophocles' Theban Plays at the RSC in 1991




Carlyle Lectures 2013: Laws' Empire: Rethinking Law and Life under Rome, 212-565 AD

Dr C. Humfress; Wednesday 5 Wks 3-8 ; Examination Schools

Week 3 (30 January): 'Imperial Texts and Roman Legal History'

Week 4 (6 February): '"In the shadow of indigenous ordering." Law and social hierarchies in the provinces'

Week 5 (13 February): '"Legalism from below"? Institutional order and Christian communities'

Week 6 (20 February): 'Local reasoning in Late Roman disputes. Beyond the "law-in-practice" paradigm'

Week 7 (27 February): 'Cultures of law in Justinianic Constantinople'

Week 8 (6 March): 'Past law and empire. Late Antique reflections on "post-colonial" legal studies'

View the poster for this series.


Graduate Classes and Seminars

Ancient History Seminar: The High Roman Empire

Dr C.T. Kuhn ; Tuesday 5 ; Ioannou Centre

Week 1 (15 January): Alan Bowman: 'The State and the Economy in the High Empire'

Week 2 (22 January): Olivier Hekster: 'Adoptive Ancestry? Imperial Representations under the Antonines'

Week 3 (29 January): Christopher Howgego and Volker Heuchert: 'Roman Provincial Coinage in the Antonine Period'

Week 4 (5 February): Martin Goodman: 'Jews in the Antonine Age'

Week 5 (12 February): Tim Whitmarsh: 'Periegesis and the Art of Cultural Memory in the Antonine Empire'

Week 6 (19 February): Bert Smith: 'The Greek East under Rome: Some Monuments'

Week 7 (26 February): Barbara Levick: 'How did the Antonines become a Dynasty?'

[Week 8: Vernant Memorial Lecture]


Classical Archaeology Seminar: Hellenistic Cities

Prof. R.R.R. Smith, Dr M. Stamatopoulou ; Monday 5 ; Ioannou Centre

Week 1 (14 January): Messene: Its Classical, Hellenistic and Roman faces
Petros Themelis (Athens)

Week 2 (21 January): Aï Khanoum: The spatial organization of a Greek city in ancient Afghanistan
Laurianne Sève-Martinez (Lille)

Week 3 (28 January): Pella: capital of Alexander the Great. Its commercial and administrative centre
Ioannis Akamatis (Thessaloniki)

Week 4 (4 February): Delos: The urban fabric of late Hellenistic Delos and the integration of economic activities in the domestic sphere
Mantha Zarmakoupi (Washington DC)

Week 5 (11 February): Karasis: A fortified residence in Cilicia
Adolf Hoffmann (Istanbul)

Week 6 (18 February): Balboura: a Pisidian foundation in the highlands of 'North Lycian' Kabalia
Jim Coulton (Athens)

Week 7 (25 February): Alexandria: How Egyptian was Alexandria? Recent finds and discussions
Marianne Bergmann (Berlin)

Week 8 (4 March): Aphrodisias: Three Bouleuteria
Chris Hallett (Berkeley)

Organisers: R.R.R. Smith & Maria Stamatopoulou


Languages and Literature Sub-Faculty Seminar: Ancient Scholarship and Literary Texts

Mr T Phillips, Mr B Taylor ; Thursday 5-6:30 ; Ioannou Centre

Week 1 (17th January): Tim Rood (St. Hugh's) 'Thucydides and Homeric Scholarship'

Week 2 (24th January): Tom Phillips (CCC) 'Intertextuality and Ancient Pindaric Scholarship'

Week 3 (31st January): Richard Hunter (Trinity, Cambridge) 'Plutarch's Works and Days, and Hesiod's'

Week 4 (7th February): David Butterfield (Queens', Cambridge) 'Lucretius' DRN: the subject of scholarly enquiry in antiquity?'

Week 5 (14th February): Helen Kaufmann (Oxford) 'Hide and seek: the construction of meaning in Roman late antiquity'

Week 6 (21st February): Oliver Thomas (St. John's, Cambridge) 'Problemata and Commentary'

Week 7 (28th February): Giuseppe Pezzini (LMH) 'tela volantia: Caesar's De Analogia and the Latin linguistic debate in the late Republic'

Week 8 (7th March): Jane Lightfoot (New College) 'Between literature and science, poetry and prose, Alexandria and Rome: the case of Dionysius' Periegesis of the Known World'


Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

Prof. M Lauxtermann, Dr M. Whittow ; Wednesday 5 ; Ioannou Centre

Week 1 (16th January): David Gwynn (Royal Holloway)
"'If you enquire whether the bath is ready, the answer is that the Son was made out of nothing': Doctrinal Controversies and the Late Antique Historian."

Week 2 (23rd January): David Knipp (University of Freiburg)
"S. Maria Antiqua (Rome). The Pre-existing building and its last secular phase."

Week 3 (30th January): Aglae Pizzone (University of Durham)
"Readerships and readerly pleasure in Eustathios' Homeric Commentaries."

Week 4 (6th February): Ida Toth (Wolfson)
"The Making of the Byzantine Book of the Philosopher Syntipas."

Week 5 (13th February): Victor Walser (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich)
"Servants of God, Heretics, and Musicians. New Inscriptions from Germia in Central Anatolia."

Week 6 (20th February): Catherine Jolivet-Levy (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
"Byzantine Monumental painting and its audience: Cappadocian case-studies."

Week 7 (27th February): Daniel Reynolds (University of Birmingham)
"Christian iconoclasm in Umayyad Palestine: social and economic perspectives."

Week 8 (6th March): Philipp Niewöhner (Brasenose)
"The Porphyry Tetrarchs at Venice, the Last Obelisk of Antiquity, and the first Monument of Theodosius I at Constantinople."


Data last updated 23 January 2013 , 02:07 PM.