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Department of Classics and Ancient History

Past Events

Departmental seminars, Michaelmas term 2008

15th October 2008, 17:30 to 19:00, Department of Classics, Ritson room

SEMINAR PROGRAMME, MICHAELMAS TERM 2008 Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham Wednesday 15 October, 5.30pm [PG20] Professor Michael Silk (King's College London) Apollo and Dionysus Tuesday 21 October, 5.30pm [Ritson room] Professor Hans van Wees (UCL) Attic Vikings: society and state in archaic Athens Monday 27 October, 5.30 pm [PG20] Professor Christopher Gill (Exeter) What can we learn from the Stoics about what it means to be human? Wednesday 29 October, 5.30pm [Ritson room] Professor Christos Tsagalis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) CEG 594, Euripides' Erechtheus and the riddle of its anonymous author Saturday 1 November, 10am - 4.30pm [ER 141, registration in Department] Subject Centre: Workshop on Teaching Critical Visual Skills Wednesday 5 November, 5.30pm [Ritson room] Dr Maude Vanhaelen (Warwick) Man - hero - daimon: Marsilio Ficino and the revival of Plato in Renaissance Florence Wednesday 19 November, 5.30pm [Ritson room] Professor Matthew Dickie (St Andrews) The Sacred Laws of Antiochus I of Commagene: Persian or Greek? Wednesday 26 November, 5.30pm [Ritson room] Dr David Lambert (St Andrews) Salvian and the image of decline in the fifth-century West Wednesday 3 December, 5.30pm [Ritson room] Professor John Onians (University of East Anglia) Landscape and the mind: hidden neural origins of Greek art and culture Wednesday 10 December, 5.30pm [Ritson room] Dr Lena Isayev (Exeter) Contested meanings of homeland and belonging in ancient Italy Wednesday 17 December, 5.30pm [Ritson room] Professor Stephen Oakley (Cambridge) Rediscoveries of Latin texts in the Renaissance The lectures by Michael Silk, Christopher Gill and Maude Vanhaelen are part of the series 'Being Human - Classical Perspectives', which is co-sponsored by the Durham Institute of Advanced Study (http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/) and the Durham Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition (http://www.dur.ac.uk/classical.tradition/). Please contact Ingo Gildenhard (ingo.gildenhard@dur.ac.uk) for more information. All are welcome! ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk

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