Seminar Series
Thursday 21 October 2010, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
Professor Gillian Clark (Bristol), "Read My Book: Letters and the City of God"
Thursday 28 October 2010, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
Professor Harry Hine (St. Andrews), "Philosophical and non-philosophical communities in Seneca's Letters"
Thursday 18 November 2010, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
Dr Kurt Lampe (Bristol), “Aristippus in the Socratic Epistles”
Thursday 25 November 2010, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
Dr Sian Lewis (St. Andrews), “The Public Face of Tyranny”
Thursday 2 December 2010, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
Dr Miriam Griffin (Oxford), "Symptoms and Sympathy in Latin Letter-Writing"
Thursday 20 January 2011, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
Professor William Fitzgerald (KCL), Pliny the Younger
Thursday 27 January 2011, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
Dr Christopher Whitton (Cambridge), Pliny the Younger
Monday 31 January 2011, 4.15-5.45 pm, (Abbey House, Seminar Room C):
Prof David Horrell ( Exeter): "Race", "Nation", "People": Ethnic Identity-Construction in 1 Peter 2:9
Prof David Horrell ( Exeter): "Race", "Nation", "People": Ethnic Identity-Construction in 1 Peter 2:9
Thursday 10 February 2011, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmitz (Bonn), "On letters in the Second Sophistic"
Thursday 17 February 2011, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
Prof. Dr. Christian Tornau (Würzburg), On St. Jerome's letters
Thursday 24 February 2011, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
PD Dr. Bianca-Jeanette Schröder (LMU München), Topic TBC
Thursday 3 March 2011, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
Prof. Dr. Niklas Holzberg (LMU München), "Horace's last poetry book: The epistolary trilogy for Augustus, Florus and the Pisones"
Thursday 10 March 2011, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
Professor Ineke Sluiter (Leiden), "Letters of dedication in ancient technical texts"
Monday, 14 March 2011, 4.15-5.45 pm (Abbey House, Seminar Room C):
Dr Christina M. Kreinecker (Salzburg): "We command and exhort..." (2 Thess 3:12): Epistolary Conventions in Second Thessalonians, the Undisputed Pauline Epistles and Documentary Papyri.
Dr Christina M. Kreinecker (Salzburg): "We command and exhort..." (2 Thess 3:12): Epistolary Conventions in Second Thessalonians, the Undisputed Pauline Epistles and Documentary Papyri.
Thursday 17 March 2011, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
Dr Lieve van Hoof (KU Leuven) , On Libanius' letters
Thursday 28 April 2011, 11.30 am -1:00 pm:
Dr Ruth Morello (Manchester), "Writing to Caesar"
Wednesday 4 May 2011, 1:00-2:00 pm, room 108:
Dr Owen Hodkinson (Lampeter), "Dear Sirs: Writing to collectives in the Greek epistolary tradition"
Monday, 23 May 2011, 4.15-5.45 pm (Abbey House, Seminar Room C)
Prof. Annette Merz (Utrecht): "Looking at the Letter of Mara bar Sarapion in the Context of Ancient Epistolary Theory and Practice"
Thursday, 26 May 2011, 4.00-5.30 pm (Abbey House, Seminar Room B)
Prof. Catherine Hezser (SOAS, London): "The Role of Written Communication Amongst Palestinian and Babylonian Rabbis of Late Antiquity"
Monday, 30 May 2011, 4.15-5.45 pm (Abbey House Seminar Room C)
Prof. Jens Herzer (Leipzig): "The Narrative Characteristics of the Pastoral Epistles in the Light of Ancient Epistolography"
Prof. Catherine Hezser (SOAS, London): "The Role of Written Communication Amongst Palestinian and Babylonian Rabbis of Late Antiquity"
Monday, 30 May 2011, 4.15-5.45 pm (Abbey House Seminar Room C)
Prof. Jens Herzer (Leipzig): "The Narrative Characteristics of the Pastoral Epistles in the Light of Ancient Epistolography"