Past Events
Wednesday 4 September 2019

Roman Law and Literature
We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the forthcoming conference on Roman Law and Literature co-organised by Drs Ioannis Ziogas and Erica Bexley. Speakers include Durham Classics' own Dr Nora Goldschmidt and Professor Jennifer Ingleheart, and the keynote speakers are Michele Lowrie (Chicago) and Erik Gunderson (Toronto).
You can find out more about the conference and how to register here.
Please register to attend by AUGUST 15th 2019.
Contact ioannis.ziogas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 22 June 2019

‘Classical Encounters: Receptions of antiquity in the long nineteenth-century’
The Durham Centre for Classical Reception is pleased to invite you to a two day interdisciplinary conference to be held in Durham on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd June, 2019.
‘Classical Encounters: Receptions of antiquity in the long nineteenth-century’ brings together scholars from a broad range of disciplines to explore encounters with the ancient world in nineteenth-century visual, material, literary and political culture and the implications of these encounters on discourses such as nationhood, colonialism, race, religion, gender, sexuality and death. A roundtable will offer interdisciplinary interventions on classical receptions to discuss the future(s) of reception studies.
Confirmed contributors include Abigail Baker (Warwick), Athena Leoussi (Reading), Carrie Vout (Cambridge), Charles Martindale (York), Daniel Hartley (Durham), Edmund Richardson (Durham), Helen Slaney (Roehampton), Laura Jansen (Bristol), Liz Prettejohn (York), Rachel Bryant-Davies (Durham) and Shelley Hales (Bristol).
A full conference programme will be released shortly - please watch this space!
The event is free to attend and registration open to all. Postgraduate and early career researchers working on classical receptions are especially encouraged to attend.
To register please click here.
Contact seren.j.nolan@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 9 May 2019

Departmental Research Seminar - 9th May 2019
Our speaker this week is Thomas Biggs (University of Georgia) who will present on ''Iustitium', Sovereignty, and the Poetic “State of Exception” in Lucan’s 'Bellum Civile''
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 8 May 2019

WiP Research Seminar - Ilaria Ramelli
Our WiP paper this week comes from Ilaria Ramelli (Durham) who will speak on 'The Dialogue of Adamantius: new philological and philosophical findings with a view to a new critical edition and monograph.'
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 2 May 2019

WiP Research Seminar - Peter Heslin
All change this week as our Work in Progress Seminar takes place on Thursday 2nd May from 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in the Ritson Room.
Our speaker is Peter Heslin (Durham), who will present on: 'Did Virgil really think Lucretius was the better poet? The failure of Epicurean theology and poetics ('Georgics' 2.458-540).'
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 22 March 2019

“Fixing The Hairdryer*â€: Rewiring the Ancient World in Contemporary Drama
Justin Murray is a Durham Alumnus and theatre director, returning to Durham to give a session in the Department of Classics & Ancient History. Justin will be contributing to the module CLAS 2891 Classical Receptions and Contemporary Culture, which the complex interlinking between ancient and modern worlds. As part of this Justin will be talking about his new production: Ashurbanipal. The Last Great King of Assyria, an immersive production which invited audience members to step into the ancient Assyrian world. Justin will also discuss productions of Antigone and ‘The Complete Greek Tragedies’ as well as his own early career since leaving Durham, as Artistic Director of Catharsis, and Associate Director for Actors of Dionysus.
*On “Fixing The Hairdryer”, see: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/aug/23/robert-icke-director-oresteia-1984-interview
This event is sponsored by DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development), and is recommended for anyone with an interest in the classical, and to those interested to learn more about careers in creative arts.
N.B. Please register your interest to attend here.
Contact sarah.miles@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WCC - Wikipedia Editing Session at Durham
The Women’s Classical Committee (WCC) has an ongoing project to increase the visibility of female classical scholars on Wikipedia. Anyone can get involved – no previous experience or technical knowledge is necessary, just a computer and the willingness to learn!
There are monthly Wikipedia editing sessions and the next session is on Friday 22nd March from 1-3 p.m. This month we are excited to announce that we will be taking part, with Dr Stuart McKie leading the way. All staff, postdocs, and research PGs are welcome to participate. Just come along to the Ritson Room with a laptop and some enthusiasm and we'll take it from there.
If colleagues from other departments would also like to participate, they are welcome to do so and should email Stuart McKie to register their interest.
Contact stuart.n.mckie@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 15 March 2019

Classical Impressions in Contemporary Poetry: Katie Byford
Katie Byford is a Durham Alumna and poet, returning to Durham to give a session as part of the Durham Classics undergraduate module CLAS 2891 Classical Receptions and Contemporary Culture, which examines the complex links between ancient and modern worlds.
Comprising poetry readings and discussion, Katie will talk about poetic approaches to Classical past and her early poetry career since leaving Durham. You can read more about Katie here:
This event is sponsored by DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development), and is recommended for any student with an interest in the reception of the classical world, and for those interested to learn more about careers in creative arts.
Please register your interest to attend here.
Contact sarah.miles@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 14 March 2019

Departmental Research Seminar - 14th March 2019
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 13 March 2019

WiP Research Seminar - Bianca Falcioni
This week's Work in Progress seminar comes from Bianca Falcioni (Università degli Studi di Milano / Durham) who will speak on 'What is the cosmos according to Plutarch?'
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 8 March 2019

International Women’s Day: Ancient Voices, Modern Words
To mark International Women’s Day on Friday March 8th 2019, the Department of Classics & Ancient History proudly presents the following event:
Ancient Voices, Modern Words
Conversations on Dido, Medea and Medusa
This event showcases the work that some of our students are carrying out on women in antiquity:
• Cameron Argo: “Modern Medusa: An Ancient Protagonist in a Social Media Struggle”
• Georgia Greenburgh: “Medusa: 'a radical otherness' and the weaponisation of femininity in counterculture”
• Simona Martorana: “To be continued: When (Ovid’s) Dido rewrites Vergil”
• Sophie Ngan: “Bound to Break Boundaries: Memory and Identity in Seneca's Medea”
We shall be discussing questions such as:
• What do Dido, Medea and Medusa have to do with our contemporary society?
• How have they managed to make their voices heard throughout the centuries?
• In what ways have they cha(-lle-)nged societal gender norms across time?
This is an excellent opportunity to chat with our students and ask YOUR questions about gender and the ancient world!
Refreshments will be served.
ALL WELCOME!
Contact sarah.miles@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 7 March 2019

Departmental Research Seminar - 7th March 2019
This week's Research paper comes from Michalis Sialaros (Athens), who will speak to us on 'A quest for the best definition: Marinus’ Introduction to Euclid’s Data.'
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 6 March 2019

WiP Research Seminar: Stuart McKie
This week's Work in Progress Seminar paper will be given by the amazing Stuart McKie (Durham) who will speak to us on 'Curse Tablets and Votive Rituals in the Roman North-West'.
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 28 February 2019

Departmental Research Seminar - 28th February 2019
Sara Monoson (Northwestern University), on 'The Arc of the Argument of Plato’s Republic.'
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 27 February 2019

WiP Research Seminar: Edward Harris
Edward Harris (Edinburgh / Durham), on 'Manumission and Citizenship in Ancient Greece and Rome, or Avarice grecque et générosité romaine Revisited.'
This paper is linked to the IAS sponsored research project 'We the People'
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 21 February 2019

Departmental Research Seminar - 21st February 2019
This week's research paper comes from Yun Lee Too (Independent Scholar), who will present on 'Why Xenophon's Hiero is not a Socratic Dialogue.'
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 20 February 2019

WiP Research Seminar: Sarah Miles
For this week's work in progress seminar, we welcome Sarah Miles (Durham), who will speak on 'Platonicomic Business: Comedy and Platonic Dialogue in "Theages"'.
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 16 February 2019

Project Academy Workshop 1: Speusippus
Speakers and Chairs: Thomas Bénatouïl (University of Lille), Matilde Berti (University of Pisa), Mauro Bonazzi (University of Utrecht), Giulia De Cesaris (Durham University), Phillip Horky (Durham University), Emily Katz (Michigan State University), Irmgard Männlein-Robert (University of TÏ‹bingen), Federico Petrucci (University of Turin), Julia Pfefferkorn (University of TÏ‹bingen), Malcolm Schofield (University of Cambridge)
Contact Phillip.Horky@Durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 14 February 2019

Departmental Research Seminar - 14th February2019
This week's research seminar paper comes from Nicole Belayche (EPHE Paris), who will speak to us on '‘Kyrios’ and ‘despotes’ as divine onomastic attributes: an “oriental” specificity?'.
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 13 February 2019

WiP Research Seminar: Dawn LaValle Norman
Our WiP paper this week comes from Dawn LaValle Norman (Australian Catholic University / Durham), who will speak to us on 'From Dialogues to Debates? The Rise of Courtroom Rhetoric in Late Antique Philosophical Dialogues.'
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 8 February 2019

Departmental Research Seminar - 8th February 2019
Our Research Seminar paper this week will be given by Professor Richard Martin (Stanford),who will speak to us on 'What Color is the Pindaric Sacred?'
Please note that for this week only the seminar will take place on FRIDAY between 3-5 p.m.
All are welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 7 February 2019

Inaugural LGBT History Month Annual Public Lecture
Our speaker is Sebastian Matzner (King's College London) who will present on "Forgetting Plato: Classical Alternatives to Theorizing Male-Male Desire in Fin de Siècle Germany".
All are welcome and a drinks reception will follow in the Ritson Room, in the Department of Classics and Ancient History.
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 6 February 2019

WiP Research Seminar: Jennifer Ingleheart
This Wednesday the Work in Progress seminar paper will be given by our Head of Department, Professor Jennifer Ingleheart, who will speak to us on '"Amores Plural": homoeroticism in Ovid’s elegies'.
All welcome!
The image is: Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon (1849-1930) (=Mark Beard), 'Hercules Mourning the Death of his Cupbearer Hylas'.You can find out more about the extraordinary artist who painted this image here and here.
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 31 January 2019

Departmental Research Seminar - 31st January 2019
This week's Research Seminar paper will be given by Joris van Gastel (Zürich), who will speak to us on “Cosa più bella veder non si può”: The Agency of Antiquity in Baroque Naples'.
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 30 January 2019

WiP Research Seminar: Helen Roche
This week's Work in Progress Seminar will be given by Helen Roche (Durham), who will be speaking to us about 'Nazifying the Classics? Humanistic Education in Hitler’s German'.
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 24 January 2019

Departmental Research Seminar - 24th January 2019
This week's research paper will be given by Katherine Harloe (Reading) who will speak to us on 'Winckelmann’s love letters: epistolarity, sexuality and classical reception'.
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 23 January 2019

WiP Research Seminar: Blaz Zabel
This week's Work in Progress Seminar paper will be given by Blaz Zabel, one of our very talented PhD students, who will speak to us on 'Milman Parry and the challenge of world literature.'
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 13 December 2018

Departmental Research Seminar - 13th December2018
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 12 December 2018

WiP Research Seminar: Rachel Bryant Davies
This week's work in progress paper comes from Rachel Bryant Davies who will speak to us on 'Deidamia in disguise: transvestism and female agency in a Victorian children’s adaptation of the "Iliad".'
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 6 December 2018

Departmental Research Seminar - 6th November 2018
Our research paper this week will be by Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp (Cologne) who will speak on 'QUIRITES. The Meaning(s) of Addressing the People.'
This is part of the workshop on the Populus Romanus organised by Dr Amy Russell and Dr Ioannis Ziogas.
Please note the change of venue from our usual research seminar location!
Contact amy.russell@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 29 November 2018

Departmental Research Seminar - 29th November 2018
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 22 November 2018

Departmental Research Seminar - 22nd November 2018
Our speaker this week is Alexander Evers from Loyola University Chicago who will present on 'Gratian and the Pontifical Robe'.
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 21 November 2018

DUCS Workshop - Professor Serafina Cuomo
The Durham University Classics Society, our student-led society, will this week host Professor Serafina Cuomo in a workshop on "Chickens of the 6th indiction: reconstructing Greek and Roman numeracy".
They tell us:
We are very excited to invite Professor Serafina Cuomo give a workshop (a new experiment this year!) for the Society on Wednesday 21st November in the Ritson Room (Classics Department) at 4:00pm. The workshop is open to all and aimed especially towards maths, science and history students and lecturers. It will include many interactive activites ranging from fun board games and weird papyri, to first-hand interaction with abacuses and the chance to *actually* understand maths!
Abstract
"The workshop will be divided into two parts: in the first part, we’ll look at some of the basics of Greek and Roman numeracy, and together practise calculations with tokens/counters and also with the aid of arithmetical tables.
In the second part, we will try to go beyond the basics to look at numeracy ‘at work’ – the practices, rather than the systems. The focus will be on ancient household accounts: our examples will be the Kellis agricultural account book, some of the material from the household archive of the Aureliae of Hermopolis, and, if we have time, material from either the household archive of Tryphon the weaver (from Oxyrhynchus), or of Sokrates the tax-collector (from Karanis). This will also be an opportunity to have a look at digital resources for papyrology".
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This event is open to both members and non-members with plenty of alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages served before and after the workshop!
Become a member of our society by using this link! Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Contact james.hua@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 15 November 2018

Departmental Research Seminar - 15th November 2018
Our departmental Research Seminar paper comes this week from Kathryn Morgan (UCLA), who will speak to us on 'Butchers, Relish-Makers, and Chefs: Plato and Comic Cookery'.
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 14 November 2018

WiP Research Seminar: Myrthe Bartels
This week's Work in Progress Seminar features a paper by Myrthe Bartels (Durham) on 'Socrates on the baroque stage'.
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 8 November 2018

Departmental Research Seminar - 8th November 2018
Our research seminar paper this week will be given by Matteo Cadario (Università degli Studi di Udine), who will speak to us on 'Remarks on the Image and the Honorary Monuments of the Roman Ruling Class in the Age of the Civil Wars'.
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 7 November 2018

WiP Research Seminar: Anders Dahl Sørensen
This week's WiP paper comes from Anders Dahl Sørensen (Durham), who will speak to us on 'The Anonymus Iamblichi on Athenian Democracy'.
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 1 November 2018

Departmental Research Seminar - 1st November 2018
Our departmental seminar research paper this week comes from Laurel Bowman (Victoria) who will present on ''Aristotle’s Second-Best Plot: Literature and the cultivation of virtue?'.
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 31 October 2018

WiP Research Seminar: Edmund Thomas
Our next work in progress seminar paper comes from Edmund Thomas (Durham) on 'Spine, peg, or wedge: the instability of the Magna Porta in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the reception of Roman architecture.'
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 25 October 2018

Departmental Research Seminar - 25th October 2018
Our third research seminar paper of this term will be given by Wolfgang de Melo (Oxford) who will present on 'Varro's De lingua Latina: ancient etymology, morphology, and syntax.'
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 18 October 2018

Departmental Research Seminar - 18th October 2018
Our second research seminar paper of this term will be given by Elena Theodorakopoulos (Birmingham) who will present on 'Speech and writing in Catullus'.
All welcome!
Contact alberto.rigolio@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 6 July 2018

Ekphrasis and Greek Literature: From the Second Century CE to the Byzantine Era
The Greek word ekphrasis, which is attested quite late and starts appearing frequently only from the third century CE, is explained by the Greek sophist Aelius Theon (c. 1st century CE) as a piece showing in detail and "bringing what is portrayed clearly before the sight".
This conference, which has been generously supported by the British Academy's Newton International Fellowships Scheme and the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, aims to bring together and build up a network of scholars with a prominent interest in Greek ekphrasis and visual culture from the 2nd c. CE to the Byzantine Era, in order to focus on and explore ekphrastic literary texts from this period in a range of ways.
The conference is open to anyone and attendance is free, but online registration (by 20 June 2018) is compulsory. All conference attendees are welcome to join the speakers for the conference dinner on the evening of the 5th of July, but this is at their own expense.
To register for the conference (and for the dinner as well), and for additional information about the conference, please go here.
For further information or any queries, please email the organiser, Arianna Gullo.
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 26 April 2018

Departmental Research Seminar - 26th April 2018
Our second research paper of the week will be given by Fiachra Mac Góráin (University College, London), who will speak on “The ancient reception of Euripides’ 'Bacchae'”.
All welcome!
For more on Fiachra's work:
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 25 April 2018

Michael Griffin on Plato's 'Republic'
On Wednesday 25th April 2018, 1:00 p.m. (CL007), Michael Griffin (British Columbia) will speak to us on Plato’s 'Republic' with a talk entitled 'The Republic’s Analysis of Images as Dissuasion from Politics'
All welcome!
Contact g.r.boys-stones@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Michael Griffin on 'Neoplatonism and Buddhism'
On Wednesday 25th April 2018, 4:00 p.m. (PG28), Michael Griffin (British Columbia) will speak to us on ‘Learning to be Good: Platonist and Buddhist Perspectives on the Education of Virtue'.
All welcome!
Contact g.r.boys-stones@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 24 April 2018

Departmental Research Seminar - 24th April 2018
For our first research paper of Easter term, we welcome Constanze Güthenke (Oxford) who will speak to us on “Symphilology: individuality, sociability, communities of knowledge”.
All welcome!
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 22 February 2018

Metaphysics and Epistemology in Plato’s Academy
On behalf of the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, we are delighted to announce a workshop to be held in Durham on 21st-22nd February 2018:
'Metaphysics and Epistemology in Plato’s Academy'
Organized by Carlo Cacciatori (Durham University), Giulia De Cesaris (Durham University) and Emilio Zucchetti (Newcastle University).
This workshop is made possible by support from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, and the Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership. The workshop is free and open to the public, although registration is requested.
Through the generosity of Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership, we are able to offer small bursaries to support postgraduates and early career scholars who would like to participate in the workshop. Applicants are required to send (to the organizers via the email addresses linked to below) a brief description (max. 150 words) of why they are interested in taking part in the workshop and how their research relates to the topic of the workshop.
The deadline for submitting applications for these bursaries is Friday 12 January 2018. On Sunday 14 January 2018 we will communicate the outcome of the applications.
To register for the workshop or to attend the dinner on Thursday night, please contact Carlo Cacciatori or Giulia De Cesaris no later than Friday 16 February 2018. More information about dinner will be available closer to the conference date.
Please, note that the workshop is meant to coincide with the visits of Lloyd Gerson (Toronto) and David Sedley (Cambridge) to the newly-launched Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy on, respectively, the 20th and 22nd of February. See here for more information.
Contact giulia.de-cesaris@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 1 February 2018

Departmental Research Seminar - 1st February 2018
Our second research seminar paper of the term will be given by Professor Costas Panayotakis (Glasgow) who is going to speak to us on 'The collection of Latin moral maxims associated with Publilius'.
All welcome!
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 31 January 2018

WiP Research seminar - 31st January 2018
Our first WiP paper of the term is a joint paper by Dr Andrea Capra (Durham) and Professor Barbara Graziosi (Durham) who will be speaking to us about 'Greek love, female education, and the making of Italy. A new edition, translation, and commentary of Luigi Settembrini The Neoplatonists and Dialogue on Women'.
All welcome!
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 25 January 2018

Departmental Research Seminar - 25th January 2018
Our first research seminar paper of the term will be given by Dr Carol Atack (Oxford) who is going to speak to us on 'Temporality and argument in Plato’s "Protagoras"'.
All welcome!
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 13 December 2017

WiP Research seminar - 13th December 2017
Our final WiP paper of the term comes from Dr Phil Horky (Durham) who will be speaking on 'Xenophanes of Colophon on Truth and Predication'.
All welcome!
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 13th December 2017
Our final research seminar paper of the term will be given by Dr Tosca Lynch (Oxford) who is going to speak to us on 'Tuning the Lyre, Tuning the Soul: harmonía and the kósmos of the soul between Plato’s Republic and Timaeus'.
All welcome!
N.B. this week's Departmental Research Seminar will take place on Wednesday instead of Thursday.
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 9 December 2017

CAMNE Relaunch and Study Day
Keynote speaker: Alexandra Villing (British Museum), Greeks in Egypt: The Naukratis Project Results and Themes
CAMNE members' work-in-progress presentations, including Johannes Haubold (Classics and Ancient History), Penny Wilson (Archaeology), Jane Heath (Theology).
For more information and the full programme, go here.
All welcome (members and non-members alike)! To register, please email catherine.draycott@durham.ac.uk or kathryn.stevens@durham.ac.uk
Contact kathryn.stevens@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 7 December 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 7th December 2017
This week's speaker at the Departmental Research Seminar is Daniel Kapust (Wisconsin - Madison) who will be speaking to us "On Roman Exceptionalism: Mission, Example, and Empire". All welcome!
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 6 December 2017

DCCR Work-in-Progress Seminar: Futures of Reception
This week's WiP, which is held under the auspices of DCCR (the Durham Centre for Classical Reception), is an informal scoping conversation on the 'Futures of Reception' and will be led by Dr Ed Richardson. The session will take place as usual in the Ritson Room (CL007) within the department from 1-2 p.m. and all are welcome to attend and to participate.
Contact edmund.richardson@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 30 November 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 30th November 2017
This week's Departmental Research seminar speaker is Lauren Ginsberg from the University of Cincinnati who will speak on "Between History and Epic: Caesar and Lucan on Ilerda".
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 23 November 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 23rd November 2017
This week's departmental research paper will be given by Henriette van der Blom (Birmingham) who will be speaking on "Public Oratory in the Early Imperial Period”.
All welcome!
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 22 November 2017

WiP Research Seminar - 22nd November 2017
This week's WiP paper will be given by Professor Jennifer Ingleheart, hotfoot from her recent appearance on BBCFOUR. She will be speaking to us on "The place of sex in Ovidian elegiacs: Ars amatoria 2.703 ff.".
N.B. The change of venue for WiP this week.
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 16 November 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 16th November 2017
This week, in our fifth research seminar of term, Lucia Floridi from Milan will present on 'Early Hellenistic Epigrams: Themes and Subgenres'.
Please note that due to Lumiere, this talk will take place in PO004 in the Dept. of Politics (48 Old Elvet, DH1 3LZ).
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 15 November 2017

WiP Research seminar - 15th November 2017
It's time for our third WiP seminar of the term and we are very happy to announce that the speaker is Professor Serafina Cuomo (Durham) who will be speaking on 'Ancient Numeracy'.
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 9 November 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 9th November 2017
It's our fouth departmental research seminar of the term and we are delighted to welcome Christer Bruun from Toronto who will be presenting on 'Identities and Roman Names, in particular at Ostia and Portus.'
All welcome!
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 8 November 2017

WiP Research seminar - 8th November 2017
This week, it's our second WiP Seminar of the term with a paper from François Renaud (Université de Moncton)on 'Philosophical Criticism and Legitimation of the Poetic Tradition: Plato and Homer '. All welcome.
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 2 November 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 2nd November 2017
t's our third Research seminar of the term and this week's speaker is Georg Danek from Wien who will be presenting on 'Homeric Artistry in a Bosnian Oral Epic Poem'.
All welcome!
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 1 November 2017

WiP Research seminar - 1st November 2017
Our first Work in Progress research seminar of the academic year will take place on Wednesday 1st November 2017 at 1:00 p.m. in the Ritson room (CL007) within the Department of Classics. Our speaker is Liz Irwin (Columbia) who will be presenting on 'Thucydides' Delian Digression (3.104)'.
All welcome!
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 26 October 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 26th October 2017
This week sees the second Departmental Research Seminar of Michaelmas term which will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 26th October 2017.
Our speaker will be Dr David Hemsoll (Birmingham) who will speak on “Bramante and the Untidy Onset of the High Renaissance”.
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 19 October 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 19th October 2017
This week sees the first Departmental Research Seminar of Michaelmas term, and of the academic year, which will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 19th October 2017.
Our speaker will be Dr Aaron Kachuk (Cambridge) who will speak on “Virgil’s Trojan Horse and the Monstrous Birth of Latin Literature”.
Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 12 October 2017

Graduate Master Class with John Magee
Graduate Master Class on Calcidius (and Numenius)
During his visit to Durham, Professor John Magee (Toronto), author of a new translation of Calcidius, will lead a Graduate Master Class on Calcidius. Prof. Magee will lead close study of Calcidius, On Plato’s Timaeus chs. 172-5, read against chs. 295-9 (= Numenius fr. 52 des Places). Do these two passages cohere? Is Numenius the source for both?
The texts will be made available in advance of the class. Contact g.r.boys-stones@dur.ac.uk to register interest in attending and to be sure of receiving them.
Contact g.r.boys-stones@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 11 October 2017

John Magee to speak at launch of DCAMP
This coming week sees the official launch of DCAMP, the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy.
To launch the centre, there will be a inaugural event which will include a talk by Professor John Magee (Toronto) on:
In Search of the First Medieval Aristotle: The Text of Boethius’ Elementary De interpretatione Commentary
John Magee is Professor and Vice Dean at the University of Toronto, and a former Director of the Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy there.
The talk is free and open to all; it will be followed by a drinks reception to which everyone is invited.
If you wish to join Professor Magee for dinner after the reception, please contact George Boys-Stones by Monday 9th October.
Contact g.r.boys-stones@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Sunday 9 July 2017

Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greece and Beyond
The Department of Classics and Ancient History is pleased to announce a forthcoming international conference on 'Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greece and Beyond'. The conference will take place from July 7th-9th 2017, and more information can be found on the conference website.
Friday 23 June 2017

Visual Culture of the Classical World at Durham
This day of research conversations brings together a range of scholars at Durham University who are engaged in research pertaining to visual culture of the ancient world, including visual cultures of ancient groups and classical reception studies. Spread through various departments, their work finds a meeting ground in Durham’s Centre for Classical Reception, and the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture.
Contact catherine.draycott@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 21 June 2017

Joint ResSem in Archaeology & Classics: Tuna Şare Ağtürk
The Departments of Archaeology and Ancient History and Classics will be hosting a joint research seminar on Wednesday 21st June 2017, at 4:00 p.m. in the Ritson Room (CL007), Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 North Bailey, Durham.
Our speaker will be Dr Tuna Åžare AÄŸtürk, Associate Professor of Archaeology and Art History and Director of ÇukurbaÄŸ Archaeological Project (TÜBİTAK 115242) at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey, who will present on 'Painted Marble Reliefs from Tetrarchic Nicomedia'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 13 May 2017

Symposium on 'Philosophy in Cicero's Speeches'
The Department of Classics and Ancient History is delighted to announce that a Symposium on 'Philosophy in Cicero's Speeches' will take place on Saturday 13th May 2017 from 10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Contact nathan.b.gilbert@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 10 May 2017

WiP Research Seminar - 10th May 2017
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the second Work in Progress seminar of Easter term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 10th May 2017. This week's speaker is the wonderful Dr Jennifer Ingleheart who will be presenting on"Translation, sexuality, and identity in Burton and Smithers' Catullus".
Open to all!
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 4 May 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 4th May 2017
This week sees the second Departmental Research Seminar of Easter term, which will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 4th May 2017.
Our speaker will be Professor Gianpiero Rosati (Pisa) who will speak on '"Pauca meo Stellae…” Genres and poetic models in Statius’ "Silva" 1.2'.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 28 April 2017

Careers talk from alumnus and Goldman Sachs Managing Director Stephen Withnell
The Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University is committed to forging links with its alumni and to providing subject-specific careers support for its students. We are therefore delighted to welcome Stephen Withnell back to Durham to speak to our students.
Contact j.t.wolfenden@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 27 April 2017

Departmental Research seminar - 27th April 2017
This week sees the first Departmental Research Seminar of Easter term, which will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 27th April 2017.
Our speaker will be Gina White from Central European University (CEU) who will present on '"The Signs of the Astrologers": Looking at the Heavens in Cicero's Philosophy'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 26 April 2017

WiP Research Seminar - 26th April 2017
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the first Work in Progress seminar of Easter term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 26th April 2017. This week's speaker is the v. splendid Dr George Gazis who will be presenting on 'Voices of the Dead: Bacchylides' Ode 5 and "Odyssey" 11'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Monday 24 April 2017

CAMNE Research Seminar: Jeremy Hutton
Durham Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE) is pleased to announce that Professor Jeremy Hutton (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will be speaking in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) on Monday, 24th of April at 4 p.m.
Jeremy Hutton is directing the Wisconsin Palmyrene Aramaic Inscription Project (https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/classicalstudies/wpaip/), which performs so-called reflectance transformation imaging on Palmyrene inscriptions and studies stylistic variations of the Palmyrenean script, onomastics and prosopography. He is also currently co-authoring a monograph on translation and bilingualism at Palmyra.
He will be presenting on 'Modern Technologies, Ancient Texts: New Directions in the Study of Palmyrene Epigraphy', and will talk to us about how recent advancements in photographic imaging techniques have enabled reconsideration of Palmyrene Aramaic epigraphy and wider, net-based distribution of its results. He will then go on to discuss specific examples of re-readings to be gleaned through the use of such techniques, new possibilities for presentation and distribution among academics and the wider public, and future directions to be taken in study of the ancient world.
All are welcome!
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 31 March 2017
Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference
We are excited to announce that the 27th annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC), will be held at Durham University in Durham, England from 28 to 31 March, 2017. TRAC Durham, organized by the Departments of Archaeology and Classics, will be a multidisciplinary symposium of theoretical innovation in Roman scholarship. Located to the south of Hadrian's Wall in Durham City, conference goers will be surrounded by a nuanced and lively Roman landscape, which this conference aims to engage with and celebrate-2017 marks the 30-year anniversary of Hadrian's Wall as a listed UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Contact trac.2017@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 16 March 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 16th March 2017
This week sees the final Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term, which will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 16th March 2017.
Our speaker will be Professor Judith Mossman from Nottingham who will present on 'Male Speech in Euripides' "Trojan Women"'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 15 March 2017

WiP Research Seminar - 15th March 2017
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the final Work in Progress seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 15th March 2017. This week's speaker is the stupendous Dr Christopher Farrell who will be presenting on 'Xenophon on the political capacity of women'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 9 March 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 9th March 2017
This week is the penultimate Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 9th March 2017.
Our speaker will be Professor Dominic O'Meara from Fribourg who will present on 'Biographies of Pythagoras and Epicurus as Models of the Philosophical Life'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 8 March 2017

WiP Research Seminar - 8th March 2017
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the penultimate Work in Progress seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 8th March 2017. This week's speaker is our very own Dr Robin Nadeau who will be presenting on 'Pliny on Hellenistic food literature'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 2 March 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 2nd March 2017
It is time for the seventh Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 2nd March 2017.
A very warm welcome indeed this week to Professor Alessandro Schiesaro (Manchester) who will present on 'Virgil, Empedocles, and the Storm'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 23 February 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 23rd February 2017
A warm welcome to colleagues and visitors to the sixth Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 23rd February 2017.
Our speaker will be Dr Simon Corcoran from Newcastle who will present on 'The lives of the Justinianic Code from Constantinople to Cambridge'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 22 February 2017

DCCR Research Conversation - 22/02/17
The Durham Centre for Classical Reception is delighted to welcome Dr Nathan Gilbert, a COFUND Junior Research Fellow in the department, to speak at the second DCCR Research Conversation of Epiphany Term. Nathan will be presenting on 'No new pleasures under the sun: from Lucretius to Montaigne'.
The seminar will take place on Wednesday 22nd February 2017 at 1:00 p.m. in CL007, Ritson Room, Dept. of Classics and Ancient History.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 16 February 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 16th February 2017
A warm welcome to colleagues and visitors to the fifth Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 16th February 2017.
Our speaker will be Dr Filippo Carla from Exeter who will present on 'A Cup of Hemlock or a jump in the Barathron? Forms of Execution in Classical Athens'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 15 February 2017

WiP Research Seminar - 15th February 2017
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the third Work in Progress seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 15th February 2017. Our speaker is Dr Clemence Schultze who will be presenting on 'Dionysius of Halicarnassus: making muthoi into history'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 9 February 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 9th February 2017
A warm welcome to colleagues and visitors to the fourth Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 9th February 2017.
Our speaker will be Margherita Facella from Pisa who will present on 'The god Tourmasgades and new evidence on his cult'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 8 February 2017

WiP Research Seminar - 8th February 2017
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the second Work in Progress seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 8th February 2017. Our speaker is Dr Rebecca Usherwood who will be presenting on 'Providentia deorum quies: defining an "emeritus emperor"'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 2 February 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 02/02/17
A warm welcome to colleagues and visitors to the third Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 2nd February 2017.
Our speaker will be Selena Wisnom from Oxford who will present on ‘Intertextuality in Babylonian Poetry'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 1 February 2017

DCCR Research Conversation - 01/02/17
The Durham Centre for Classical Reception is delighted to welcome Professor Richard Hingley from the Archaeology department who will be introducing his new AHRC funded research project on 'Iron Age & Roman Heritages: Exploring ancient identities in modern Britain'.
The project involves research teams from Durham and UCL and it aims to understand how ideas and materials derived from the Iron Age and Roman past (c. 700 BC to AD 400) are drawn upon today in England, Scotland and Wales.
The seminar will take place on Wednesday 1st February 2017 at 1:00 p.m. in CL007, Ritson Room, Dept. of Classics and Ancient History.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 26 January 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 26th January 2017
A warm welcome to colleagues and visitors to the second Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 26th January 2017.
Our speaker will be Professor Bert Smith from Oxford who will present on ‘The lives of statues in Late Antique Aphrodisias: new research, new finds’.
Open to all.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 25 January 2017

WiP Research Seminar - 25th January 2017
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the first Work in Progress seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 25th January 2017. Our speaker is Dr Jenny Hilder who will be presenting on 'Challenging Quintilian: change and innovation in the Institutio Oratoria'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 19 January 2017

Departmental Research Seminar - 19th January 2017
We are absolutely delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the first Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 19th January 2017.
Our speaker is Professor Catherine Rowett from UEA who will present on ‘What happens on Agathon's couch in the "Symposium"’. Catherine is a highly eminent scholar and a very engaging speaker so you won't want to miss her!
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 15 December 2016

Departmental Research Seminar - 15th December 2016
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 14 December 2016

WiP Research Seminar - 14th December 2016
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the final Work in Progress seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 14th December 2016. Our speaker is Chiara Grigolin who will be presenting on ‘Pausanius of Antioch. A local historian in context’.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 10 December 2016

Scale in Ancient Astrology
9-10 December 2016
International workshop sponsored by the British Academy and the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham. Held under the auspices of the Durham Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East.
Contact kathryn.stevens@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 8 December 2016

Departmental Research Seminar - 8th December 2016
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the eighth Departmental Research Seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 8th December 2016.
Our speaker is Mr Richard Beniston (Durham) who will speak on ‘Seneca’s anti-Platonism in the "Natural Questions"’.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 7 December 2016

WiP Research Seminar - 7th December 2016
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to fifth Work in Progress seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 7th December 2016. Our speaker is Dr Jennifer Ingleheart who will be presenting on 'Sex, Latin, and Scholarship: A.E. Housman’s "Praefanda"'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 1 December 2016

Departmental Research Seminar -- 1st December 2016
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the seventh Departmental Research Seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 1st December 2016.
Our speaker is Charles Martindale (Bristol/York) who will speak on 'English Virgil? Surrey to Tennyson'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 24 November 2016

Departmental Research Seminar -- 24th November 2016
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the sixth Departmental Research Seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 24th November 2016.
Our speaker is Sebastiano Molinelli (Durham) who will be presenting on ‘The Place of Dissoi Logoi in Ancient Mnemonics’.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 23 November 2016

DCCR Research Conversation: Futures of Classical Reception
A panel discussion on the future of Classical Reception chaired by Professor Barbara Graziosi.
Contact edmund.richardson@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 17 November 2016

Departmental Research Seminar - 17th November 2016
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 16 November 2016

WiP Research Seminar - 16th October 2016
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to our fourth research Work in Progress seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 16th November 2016. Our speaker is Dr Anthony Hooper who will be presenting on 'Aristophanes' Hiccups and Pausanias' Sophistry in Plato's Symposium'.
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 10 November 2016

Departmental Research Seminar - 10th November 2016
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 9 November 2016

WiP Research Seminar - 9th October 2016
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to our third research Work in Progress seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 9th November 2016. Our speaker is Dr Ted Kaizer who will be presenting on "A new relief of the god Aphlad".
All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 4 November 2016

Ted Kaizer to speak on the cultural heritage of Palmyra
Contact p.j.gibson@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 3 November 2016

Departmental Research Seminar - 3rd November 2016
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 2 November 2016

WiP Seminar -- 2nd November 2016
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 1 November 2016

WiP Teach Seminar (01/11/16)
A forum for discussion of teaching and learning related practices within Classics.
Contact sarah.miles@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 27 October 2016
'Beyond the BA' Event
A special session for all final year undergraduates to offer advice on applying for the MA with us and to highlight careers support available from the university in choosing where to go next.
Contact j.t.wolfenden@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 26 October 2016
DCCR Research Conversation: Alexander the Great
Professor Elizabeth Archibald and Dr Ed Richardson set out together in search of Alexander the Great!
Contact edmund.richardson@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 20 October 2016
Departmental Research Seminar - 20th October 2016
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 15 October 2016

Dr Sarah Miles at the Durham Book Festival 2016
Contact j.t.wolfenden@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 13 October 2016
Departmental Research Seminar - 13th October 2016
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the first Departmental Research Seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 13th October 2016. Our speaker is Emma Buckley from St Andrews who will be presenting on "Beyond Translation: Christopher Marlowe and Lucan’s First Booke in Early Modern England". All are welcome to attend.
Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Sunday 25 September 2016
Daily Life in Ancient Lebanon (18th June - 25th September)
The people of ancient Lebanon played a fundamental role in shaping the history of the Mediterranean and yet, despite their importance in antiquity, they remain unknown to most people today. Based on the latest research, and including many artefacts which have never been displayed in the UK before, this student-led exhibition at the Oriental Museum provides an accessible introduction to the culture and society of Lebanon in the ancient world.
Contact mark.woolmer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Sunday 11 September 2016
Monuments Made of Words: Text and Architecture, from Antiquity to Modernity
From Horace’s odes to the sonnets of Shakespeare and beyond, the idea that the written word outlasts even the grandest of monuments has long been a literary topos. In the case of antiquity it rings particularly true. Despite their apparent vulnerability during centuries of transmission in manuscript form, classical accounts of architecture have almost always outlived their subjects; of brick and stone, often only words survive.
This conference seeks to explore the diverse content and legacy of ancient descriptions of architecture. Modern studies have tended to concentrate on specific accounts or periods. The present conference addresses a much broader selection of classical texts and the various ways they were perceived over a wider geographical compass and timeframe. It situates these accounts – such as Greek reports of architecture in the Near East and Latin poetry on the architectural wonders of Rome – within the intellectual and aesthetic discourse of their time but also, importantly, in the context of later ages, when they came to fire the imagination of new generations of architects, artists, writers and scholars.
With contributions drawn from an international group of scholars, ranging from classicists to architectural historians and specialists in other fields, the intention of this conference is to elicit a richer understanding of the contribution of these ‘literary monuments’ to thought and visual culture from antiquity onwards, as well as of the dialogues between these monuments over time.
All welcome - there is no fee for registration.
Contact peter.fane-saunders@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 25 June 2016
Keeping watch in Babylon: from evidence to text in the Astronomical Diaries
An International Conference sponsored by the British Academy, the Institute for Advanced Study Durham, the Department of Classics and Ancient History and the Durham Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East.
Contact kathryn.stevens@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 27 May 2016

Exegesis and Hermeneutics in Platonism
Exegesis and Hermeneutics in Platonism
Thursday 26 - Friday 27 May 2016
Ritson Room (CL007), Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3EU
Organized by Phillip Horky, Giulia De Cesaris, and Matteo Milesi
This workshop will investigate how philosophers within the Platonist traditions (from the Early Academy to late antique Neoplatonism) approached exegesis and hermeneutical activity by reference to the writings and ideas of ‘philosophical’ authorities from the past (from Homer to Plato). Our working hypothesis is that philosophers within the Platonist traditions exploited the textual and theoretical authority of wisdom figures from the past for the purposes of self-fashioning and legitimation of their own philosophical identities. An historical analysis of Platonist hermeneutics may result in a better understanding of the possible dialectical and appropriative strategies for reception of authoritative texts employed by later philosophers. Hence, study of Platonist hermeneutics encourages us to reflect with greater precision on more universal notions of authority in the ancient world.
This workshop is made possible by support from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. The workshop is free and open to the public, although registration is requested.
Contact giulia.de-cesaris@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 12 May 2016
Research Seminar: Reading the tone of (Roman) plebeian epigraphic self-expression
Prof. Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford) will talk on 'Reading the tone of (Roman) plebeian epigraphic self-expression' in the Ritson Room on 12th May, 2016 at 4 p.m.
Monday 9 May 2016
Research Seminar: A Sociological Approach to Ancient Greek Science.
Prof. Leonid Zhmud (Institute of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of the Sciences, St Petersburg and currently in residence as a Senior Fellow at the IAS) will talk on 'A Sociological Approach to Ancient Greek Science' in the Ritson Room on Monday, 9th May, from 5 p.m.
Contact p.s.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 5 May 2016
Research Seminar: Fragmentary texts as assemblages: the case of Ionian foundation myth
Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney (University of Leicester) will talk on 'Fragmentary texts as assemblages: the case of Ionian foundation myth' in the Ritson Room from 4 p.m. on Thursday, 5th May. All welcome.
Friday 22 April 2016
Relations and Relativity in Ancient Philosophy
How did ancient philosophers think that one thing relates to another? Precisely how do views about relations impact on metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics and political thought?
Contact mbduncombe@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Thursday 17 March 2016
Same Saint, Different Perspectives: Critical Distinctions among the “Lives†of Simeon the Stylite
Dr. Nathaniel Andrade will deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Same Saint, Different Perspectives: Critical Distinctions among the “Lives” of Simeon the Stylite’ at 4.00pm on Thursday 17th March in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.
Monday 14 March 2016
Clifford Robinson, 'Socratic Mourning and Melancholia'
The Ancient Philosophy Reading Group will be hosting Dr Clifford Robinson for a paper on "Socratic Mourning and Melancholia: Some Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Platonic Dialogues." All welcome! Please let Prof. Boys-Stones know if you would like to dine with the speaker after the talk.
Contact g.r.boys-stones@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 10 March 2016
Empedocles’ daimôn: cosmic wandering and cosmological inquiry
Dr Shaul Tor will give a talk on 'Empedocles’ daimôn: cosmic wandering and cosmological inquiry' at 5 p.m. on Thursday 10th March in the Ritson Room (CL007). (Please note that this is a change from the previously advertised time.) All are welcome.
Contact Phillip.Horky@Durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Oliver Stone to visit Durham
Oliver Stone will be 'in coversation with' Dr Ivana Petrovic, Dr Andrej Petrovic and Dr Ed Richardson about his film Alexander when he visits Durham next month. Booking is free, but essential: please go to the booking form here.
Thursday 3 March 2016
Paying attention to Ï€Ïοσοχή: an inquiry into pagan and Christian philosophy
Dr. Marcello La Matina will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Paying attention to προσοχή: an inquiry into pagan and Christian philosophy' at 4.00pm on Thursday 3rd March in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.
Thursday 25 February 2016
Rethinking protohistories: texts, material culture and the methodologies of using evidence
Prof. Lin Foxhall will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Rethinking protohistories: texts, material culture and the methodologies of using evidence' at 4.00pm on Thursday 25th February in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.
Thursday 18 February 2016
Error as Evidence for the History of Art
Dr. Carrie Vout will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Error as Evidence for the History of Art' at 4.00pm on Thursday 18th February in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.
Thursday 11 February 2016
Dr. Mark Wilson Jones research paper
Dr. Mark Wilson Jones will deliver a public lecture at 4.00pm on Thursday 11th February in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.
Thursday 4 February 2016
Digital modelling of Rome: a new way of exploring the ancient city
Dr. Matthew Nicholls will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Digital modelling of Rome: a new way of exploring the ancient city' at 4.00pm on Thursday 4th February in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.
Thursday 28 January 2016
Old and new interpretations of the nature of early prouinciae in the Middle Roman Republic
Dr. Simon Day will deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Old and new interpretations of the nature of early prouinciae in the Middle Roman Republic’ at 4.00pm on Thursday 28th January in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.
Thursday 21 January 2016
Tiberius in Space: Proxemics and the Portrayal of a Princeps
Prof. Rhiannon Ash will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Tiberius in Space: Proxemics and the Portrayal of a Princeps' at 4.00pm on Thursday 21st January in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.
Thursday 17 December 2015
Roman Noses: Smell and Smelling in Ancient Rome
Dr. Mark Bradley of the University of Nottingham will deliber a public lecture on Thursday 17th December at 3.00pm in the Ritson Room. All are welcome.
Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 10 December 2015
Literary Late Latin and Language Change – on Language Change, Ideological Change and History
Prof. Gerd Haverling of Uppsala Universitet will deliver a public lecture on Thursday 10th December at 3.00pm in the Ritson Room. All are welcome.
Thursday 3 December 2015
Rethinking the Spread of Citizenship in the Roman Empire
Dr. Myles Lavan of the University of St. Andrews will give a public lecture at 3.00pm on Thursday 3rd December in the Ritson Room. All are welcome.
Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 26 November 2015
Outdated Incivilities? Hugh Trevor-Roper and Classical Studies
Dr. Simon Malloch of the University of Nottingham will deliver a public lecture at 3.00pm on Thursday 26th November in the Ritson Room (CL007).
Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 19 November 2015
Questions of Evidence and Evidence from Questions in the Akkadian-speaking World
Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 10 November 2015
The Sparta Game
Prof. Josiah Ober of Stanford University will give a public lecture at 4pm on Tuesday 10th November at 4.00pm in PG28.
Thursday 5 November 2015
Cicero and the Ethics of Openness
Dr. Raphael Woolf of King's College London will give a public lecture this Thursday at 3pm in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.
Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 29 October 2015
'The Paradoxical Battle Narratives of Xenophon’s Hellenica'
Dr. Edith Foster of Case Western Reserve University will give a public lecture this Thursday entitled 'The Paradoxical Battle Narratives of Xenophon’s Hellenica'. All are welcome.
Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 22 October 2015
The Classical Tradition, Humanist Philology, and the Early Modern Lesbian Canon
This Thursday, 22nd October, at 3pm Dr. Marc Schachter of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham will give a public talk entitled ‘The Classical Tradition, Humanist Philology, and the Early Modern Lesbian Canon'. All are welcome.
Thursday 15 October 2015
Looking for Callimachus in Virgil and Propertius
For the first in our weekly departmental research seminar series, Dr. Donncha O'Rourke from the University of Edinburgh will give a public talk.
Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Sunday 21 June 2015
International Conference: Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 30 May 2015
Thursday 16 April 2015

Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy 2015 Annual Meeting
The Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University is pleased to host the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy, the oldest active ancient philosophy society in the world (founded in 1953 to promote the study of ancient philosophy in the UK through annual meetings hosted at Universities in the North of the country). The meeting will be held at the Department of Classics and Ancient History and St Chad's College on 15-16 April 2015.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 28 March 2015

Conference: Anglophone Translations of the Classics and The History of Sexuality
Contact jennifer.ingleheart@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 12 March 2015
Research Seminar: 'Translation and Adaptation in Ancient Near Eastern Literature'
Department of Classics and Ancient History, Research Seminar: 'Translation and Adaptation in Ancient Near Eastern Literature'
Thursday 5 March 2015
Research Seminar: 'Philosophers' Pets: Porphyry's Partridge and Augustine's Dog'
Department of Classics and Ancient History, Research Seminar: 'Philosophers' Pets: Porphyry's Partridge and Augustine's Dog'
Wednesday 4 March 2015
Work-in-Progress Seminar: 'In decent Latin': An Obscene Latin Dialogue
Department of Classics and Ancient History, Work-in-Progress Seminar: 'In decent Latin': An Obscene Latin Dialogue
Thursday 26 February 2015
Research Seminar: Dr Cristiana Franco
Wednesday 25 February 2015
Work-in-Progress Seminar: 'Solutions from Character'
Work-in-Progress Seminar, Department of Classics and Ancient History: 'Solutions from Character'
Thursday 12 February 2015
Research Seminar: 'Did She Jump or Was She Pushed? An Exploration of Greek Mythemes'
Wednesday 11 February 2015
Work-in-Progress Seminar: 'Spatialized Oaths: Betrayal and Sanctuary in Alcaeus 129 V'
Saturday 22 November 2014
Creating the Emperor's Image
A two-day international workshop at Durham University.
Saturday 15 November 2014

Ancient Republics: An International Workshop (Part 1)
This is Part 1 of a multi-year, international workshop on Ancient Republics, to be held in Durham 14-15 November 2014 under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East (CAMNE). The workshop is co-organized by Phillip Horky (Durham University), Monte Ransome Johnson (University of California-San Diego), and Grant Nelsestuen (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Part 1 is generously supported by a Global Engagement Facilitation Grant from the International Office at Durham University. Part 2, which will take place at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, is supported by the A.W. Mellon Foundation at the Center for the Humanities.
Confirmed Participants at the Durham Workshop include: Valentina Arena (University College London); Carol Atack (Oxford University); Roger Brock (Leeds University); Benjamin Gray (University of Edinburgh); Phillip Horky (Durham University); Monte Johnson (University of California-San Diego); Grant Nelsestuen (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Peter Rhodes (Durham University); Christopher Rowe (Durham University); Sydnor Roy (Haverford College); Amy Russell (Durham University); and Malcolm Schofield (Cambridge University). For further information, please see the CAMNE events page.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Sunday 12 October 2014
IAS debate: This House Believes That There Is Nothing New Under the Sun
Durham University’s Professor Barbara Graziosi and Dr Colin Macfarlane are joined by Sugata Mitra, professor of educational technology and winner of the prestigious 2013 $1 million TED Prize, for his innovative School in the Cloud project, and author, broadcaster, classicist and former stand-up comedian Natalie Haynes to debate whether there is really such a thing as novelty.
Roman Britain with Peter Jones and John Henry Clay
Discussion with Peter Jones, author of Veni, Vidi, Vici and John Henry Clay, author of The Lion and the Lamb. Chaired by Barbara Graziosi.
Natalie Haynes: The Amber Fury
Writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes introduces her debut novel, The Amber Fury, inspired by the Greek Medea myth.
Sunday 14 September 2014
Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Text and Material Culture
An international conference to be held at Durham University, 12th - 14th September 2014
Thursday 10 July 2014
Shedding Light on the Galilee
An evening of presentations at Prior's Hall, Durham Cathedral. Theatre on Durham Cathedral's Galilee Chapel. Entry is free but ticketed. Tickets are available from the Gala Theatre.
Dr Daniela Amadei, Dr Laura Bertuccioli, Prof. John Crook, Prof. Andy Monkman, Iain Ruxton, and Dr Edmund Thomas.
Contact e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Monday 7 July 2014
Classics in Extremis
An international conference in the Department of Classics and Ancient History and the Durham Centre for Classical Reception. For more details, see the conference website: http://classicsinextremis.wordpress.com/.
Friday 4 July 2014
Classicism and the East
An event in the Durham Centre for Classical Reception
Saturday 28 June 2014

Who was Homer? - a free, family-friendly event
He sang of gods and men, and of men and monsters, but who was the ancient poet Homer? Come and meet researchers from the Department of Classics and Ancient History and tell us who you think he really was!
Featuring mask-making, art activities, meet-the-researchers and competition prizes.
At 3pm, our very special guest, award-winning author Gillian Cross (The Demon Headmaster series, Wolf) will be reading from her book The Odyssey (reading suitable for ages 7+).
Contact f.m.richards@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Children's author Gillian Cross interviewed by Prof. Barbara Graziosi
How do you go about adaptating the Odyssey for children? Gillian Cross is a well-loved children's author, best known for her The Demon Headmaster series and winner of the 1990 Carnegie Medal and 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award (two of the most prestigious prizes in children's literature). This event sees her discuss issues in the process writing of her recent adaptation of the Odyssey with Professor Barbara Graziosi.
This event is free, but space is limited. Please email f.m.richards@durham.ac.uk to reserve a place.
Thursday 19 June 2014
Decadence in Petronius
A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar
Thursday 5 June 2014
Magical Amulets as Miniature Statues: The Evidence of the Greek Magical Papyri
A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar
Wednesday 28 May 2014
Translation and the homosexual canon: Lucian, Petronius, pseudo-Lucian in Thomas Cannon's 1749 'Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd'
A departmental work-in-progress seminar
Thursday 22 May 2014
The Sigh of Philhellenism
A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar in the Classics in Extremis series
Thursday 8 May 2014
Constructing ancient sex: Greek vases, museum display, and the sensory dynamics of reception
A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar in the Classics in Extremis series
Thursday 1 May 2014
Beyond the Pale: Classics in Ireland 1789-1845
A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar in the Classics in Extremis series
Friday 25 April 2014
The Near East between Seleucids, Parthians, and Romans
A workshop presented by the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East.
Friday 28 March 2014
Conference: Petrarch and Classical Reception
A conference organized by the Durham Centre for Classical Reception.
Thursday 20 March 2014
Tragedy and Revolution: Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx
A Durham Classics and Ancient History Seminar in the Classics in Extremis series
Tuesday 11 March 2014
Cicero and the Poets: A Prospectus
A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar
Wednesday 26 February 2014
Andreas Scholl or Florence Foster Jenkins? Orpheus' Singing in his Argonautika
A Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar
Thursday 20 February 2014
The Ancient Phonograph
A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar
Wednesday 19 February 2014
Disputed Memories: Plato's 'Symposium' on Socrates and Alcibiades
A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar
Thursday 13 February 2014
Celebrating the Centaury: or How Ancient Wisdom was Forgotten
A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar
Wednesday 12 February 2014
Popularising the tragic? Comedy and the Reception of Tragedy in 5th-4th c. BCE Athens
A Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar
Thursday 6 February 2014
Once Again, Can the Subaltern Speak?
A Durham Classics and Ancient History Seminar in the Classics in Extremis series
Wednesday 29 January 2014
The Cult Statues of the Pantheon
A Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar
Thursday 23 January 2014
Oleum uetus and noua fictilia: Regularity and Licence in the Placement of Latin Adjectives
A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar
Monday 9 December 2013
‘Literary aspects of Greek Inscriptional Poems in Late Antiquity’
A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Gianfranco Agosti (Rome, La Sapienza)
Thursday 5 December 2013
‘Eagles, Serpents and the Centaur of Ixmiquilpan: Classical learning and native traditions in sixteenth-century Mexico’
A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Andrew Laird (Warwick). Part of the Classics in extremis series.
Thursday 28 November 2013
‘Fiction and Wunderkultur’
A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Karen Ni-Mheallaigh (Exeter)
Thursday 21 November 2013
‘The 'Condottieri' of Classical Greece: military leaders within, beyond, and against the polis’
A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Polly Low (Manchester)
Wednesday 20 November 2013
‘Lucian on the Temple at Heliopolis’
A Work-in-Progress seminar given by Ted Kaizer
Wednesday 6 November 2013
Work-in-Progress seminar
A Work-in-Progress seminar given by Don Lavigne
Thursday 31 October 2013
'Aspirations and Mantras in Classical Reception Research: Can there really be dialogue between ancient and modern?'
A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Lorna Hardwick (Open University). Part of the Classics in extremis series.
Thursday 24 October 2013
‘Metafiction in Epistolary Narratives’
A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Owen Hodkinson (Leeds)
Thursday 17 October 2013
‘Language Attitudes in Jerome and Sidonius Apollinaris’
A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Tim Denecker (Leuven)
Wednesday 16 October 2013
'Classical Descriptions of Buildings and the Renaissance Vision of Lost Antiquity'
A Work-in-Progress seminar given by Peter Fane-Saunders
Friday 11 October 2013
'Animal Sacrifice between Pagans and Christians: The Decree of Decius Revisited'
A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by James Rives (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Wednesday 9 October 2013
'Lucian's views on Language, Rhetoric, and Education'
A Work-in-Progress seminar given by Thorsten Foegen
Sunday 22 September 2013
Ancient Cosmos: Concord Among Worlds
A CAMNE Conference at Durham University
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Sunday 23 June 2013
Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century
An international conference in the Department of Classics and Ancient History. Full programme and details available here.
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Public Lecture - Homeric Epic and the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Dr Jonathan Shay
For further information and to book a place, click here.
Thursday 30 May 2013
'Unpublished Epigrams from Thebes: Boeotian History Revisited in the Light of New Epigraphical Finds'
A departmental research seminar.
Thursday 23 May 2013
'All the World's a Stage: Contemplatio mundi in Early Roman Theater'
A departmental research seminar.
Thursday 16 May 2013
'Local Trends in Verse Inscriptions of Greece during the Imperial Period'
A departmental research seminar
Thursday 9 May 2013
'Democracy’s Impact on Warmaking in Ancient Athens and Today'
A departmental research seminar
Saturday 4 May 2013
Paradigm and Method in Ancient Historiography, Science, and Theology: A CAMNE Workshop
Fri. 3 May 2013, 4pm-8pm; Sat. 4 May 2013, 9am-2pm
Speakers: Thorsten Foegen (Durham), Lucas Herchenroeder (Durham), Phillip Horky (Durham), Chris Pelling (Oxford), Luke Pitcher (Oxford), Stefan Schorn (KU Leuven), Nicolas Wiater (St. Andrews)
A CAMNE event. For further information, visit workofmemory.wordpress.com.
Thursday 2 May 2013
The Cosmology of Archelaus and the Origins of Social Institutions
A 'Cosmos in the Ancient World' research seminar.
Thursday 25 April 2013
'Ordering the universe in speech : Kosmos and diakosmos in Parmenides' poem'
A 'Cosmos in the Ancient World' research seminar
Thursday 14 March 2013
'New Evidence for a Reconstruction of Aristotle's Protrepticus'
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 13 March 2013
'Toward a Typology of Greek Sacred Regulations: A Legal Approach'
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress Series.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 7 March 2013
'The Cosmos and Chaos of Silenus'
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 28 February 2013
'Prolegomena to a new edition of the Greek lyric poets'
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars Series.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 21 February 2013
'Archaic Trade ἀν’ ἐσχατιάς• From Hesiod to Pabuç Burnu'
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars Series.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 14 February 2013
'The Experience of Roman Sacrifice: Sensory Elements and their Ritual Uses’
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 6 February 2013
'Three Portraits of Homer'
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress Seminars.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 31 January 2013
'Dionysius and Horace. Composition in Augustan Rome'
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 24 January 2013
'Urban and rural developments in the post-classical Athenian polis: society, institutions and space'
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History's Research Seminars Series.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 17 January 2013
'Sublime Solace: Seneca's Lucretian Earthquakes in Naturales Quaestiones 6’
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History's Research Seminars Series.
Thursday 6 December 2012
'Cosmos and Musical Ethos in Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy'
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars series 'Cosmos in the Ancient World'.
Contact Phillip.Horky@Durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 5 December 2012
'Readerships, Entertainment, and Fictionality in Eusthatios' Homeric Commentaries'
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress series.
Contact Phillip.Horky@Durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 28 November 2012
'Pythagoreanism and the Early Academy'
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress series.
Contact Phillip.Horky@Durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 21 November 2012
'Athenaeus: the 'Walking Library'? On the Meaning of the Deipnosophistae'
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress series.
Contact Phillip.Horky@Durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 8 November 2012
'Re-invention in Terence's Eunuch'
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars 2012-13
Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 7 November 2012
'Aristotle on Perceptual Content'
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars 2012-13
Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 25 October 2012
'Socrates and the Speech of the Laws in the Crito'
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars 2012-13
Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 17 October 2012
'Memory and Movement in the Roman Fora from Antiquity to Metro C'
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminars 2012-13
Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 11 October 2012
'The Life of a Strange Poet: Plato and the Biography of Socrates'
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars 2012-13
Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 4 October 2012
'Plato's Republic and its Audiences'
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars Series
Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 26 September 2012

The Materiality of Text - placement, perception, presence
International Conference
Organizers:
Dr Edmund Thomas
Dr Andrej Petrovic
Dr Ivana Petrovic
Contact ivana.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 25 July 2012
Byzantine authorship: theories and practices
An international conference to be held at Durham University, 23th-25th July 2012.
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Bilateral Conference with Peking University
We will welcome scholars from the newly-formed Department of Western Classics at Peking University to Durham to inaugurate our partnership.
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Conflict and Consensus in Early Hexameter Poetry
Conference hosted by
the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History
and the Institute of Advanced Study
Contact l.g.fraser@durham.ac.uk; paola.bassino@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 7 June 2012
Invitation to the Dance: Choral Poetics, Poiêsis, and Graphology
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series 'The Materiality of Text'
Contact ivana.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 31 May 2012
Love as Visual Pathogen in Roman Erotic Poetry
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History CAG Seminar Series
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 24 May 2012
Sibyl(s) and Cave(s): New Thread for an Old Labyrinth
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History CAG Seminars
Contact paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 17 May 2012
Materiality, Text, and Graffiti
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History CAG Seminars
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 10 May 2012
Berossos: Standing at the Crossroads of Greek and Mesopotamian Traditions
Research seminar presented in the Department of Classics and Ancient History
Contact j.h.haubold@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
The Battle between Good and Evil in the Huarte Mithraeum (Syria): Local Influences in Mithraic Iconography
CAMNE-sponsored Talk in the Department of Classics and Ancient Philosophy
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 3 May 2012
The Epigraphy of Theoria: 500BC-200AD
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series 'The Materiality of Text'
Contact ivana.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 26 April 2012
Demeter as an Ophthalmologist? Eye Votives and the Cult of Demeter and Kore
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series 'The Materiality of Text'
Contact ivana.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 24 April 2012
Plato's Treatment of the Fallacy of Accident in the Euthydemus
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series
Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 18 April 2012
The Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities
The Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities
An international conference to be held at Durham University, 16th-18th April 2012, under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition.
Confirmed speakers include: Ralph J. Hexter (University of California), Caroline Vout (Cambridge).
More information is available here: http://romosexuality.wordpress.com/
Friday 23 March 2012
Classical beauty. Reflections on Ancient Aesthetics
An international conference sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics, the Institute of Advanced Study Durham, and the Department of Classics and Ancient History.
Contact e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 15 March 2012
Callimachus' Fifth Hymn: A Poetic Construction of Genealogies
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series
Contact ivana.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Ozymandias, Diodorus Siculus, and European Meditations on the History of Writing,ca. 1400-1800
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History CAG Seminar Series
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 7 March 2012
Is Memory of the Past? Aristotle on the Objects of Memory and Recollection
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress Series
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Proof-reading Aristotle's Rhetoric
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Ancient Philosophy Series
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 1 March 2012
The Barbarian Repertoire in Greek Culture
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 23 February 2012
Seminar in Greco-Roman Rhetoric and Poetics
Research Seminar on Greco-Roman Rhetoric and Poetics; with a presentation by Marcos Martinho dos Santos on 'On Dionysius' Terminology on the Genres of Style'
Contact p.j.heslin@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Pollution in Homicide Law: A New Approach
Work-in-Progress Talk
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Staging and Constructing the Divine in Menander
Work-in-Progress Talk
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 9 February 2012
Callimachus and the Hymns to Isis at Philae
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History 2011-12 Research Series 'The Materiality of Text'
Contact ivana.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 8 February 2012
Numenius versus Plutarch on What a Soul is
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress Series
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 1 February 2012
A New Palmyrene Altar in the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cult of Poseidon-Elqonera at Palmyra
Work-in-Progress Seminar
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 26 January 2012
Poets, Writers and Artists in Corinth after the Peloponnesian War
Research seminar
Contact andrej.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Marcus Aurelius: Philosophy and the Rest of Life
Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 19 January 2012
Entangled and Disentangled Inscriptions: Writing and Material Culture in Central Greece and Crete
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History 2011-12 Research Seminar Series 'The Materiality of Text'
Contact e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Galen on Void
Part of the Department of Classics Research Seminar Series
Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 8 December 2011
On the Materiality of the Orphic Gold Tablets
Research Seminar
Contact Ivana.Petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 1 December 2011
Lectional signs in Greek Verse Inscriptions: a Few Remarks
Research Seminar
Contact Ivana.Petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 24 November 2011
Aristotle on Natural Character and its Implications for Moral Development
Research seminar
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 17 November 2011
Pandora's Wretched Pithos
Research Seminar
Contact Barbara.Graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 12 November 2011
Conference: The Many Faces of a Hellenistic King
CAMNE-sponsored conference.
Contact hellenistic.kingship@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Conference: Fra Giovanni Giocondo 1511-2011: Celebrating 500 years of the first illustrated edition of Vitruvius's Ten Books on Architecture, the man, and his legacy
CSCT-sponsored event
Contact e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 10 November 2011
Towards a Non-Peripatetic History of Pythagoreanism
CAMNE Seminar.
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 4 November 2011
Was Aristotle a Virtue-Theorist?
Durham Philosophical Society Lecture.
Wednesday 2 November 2011
Romosexuality: Roman Vice vs. Greek Virtue
Work-in-Progress Seminar.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 26 October 2011
Greek Gods and Literary Criticism
Work-in-Progress Seminar.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 20 October 2011
Setting the Stage: Monumental Epigraphy and Architectural Space in Roman Asia Minor
Research Seminar
Contact E.V.Thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 13 October 2011
A Critique of the Prevailing Views of Greek Sacrifice
Research Seminar
Contact Edward.Harris@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 12 October 2011
Alexander and the Art of Deception: The Edges of Reception in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan
Work-in-Progress Talk.
Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 23 September 2011
Saturday 6 August 2011
Ancient Carthage: Models of cultural contact
Conference on Carthage and the Punic-Phoenician world, sponsored by the Department of Classics & Ancient History, to be held at St John's College, 5th-6th August 2011.
Contact mark.woolmer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 16 July 2011
Configuring Communities: The Socio-Political Dimension of Ancient Epistolography
An international conference, jointly organised by the departments of Classics & Ancient History and Theology & Religion (Durham), 14-16 July 2011
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Beyond Self-Sufficiency
ST. JONH’S COLLEGE, DURHAM UNIVERSITY, 2ND-5TH JULY 2011
Thursday 12 May 2011
'Booking lovers. Desire and design in Catullus'
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 5 May 2011
'The bad orator in republican Rome. Between clumsy delivery and political danger'
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 4 May 2011
'Dear Sirs: Writing to collectives in the Greek epistolary tradition'
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 28 April 2011
'Writing to Caesar'
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 17 March 2011
On Libanius' letters
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 10 March 2011
'Letters of dedication in ancient technical texts'
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 3 March 2011
'Horace's last poetry book: The epistolary trilogy for Augustus, Florus and the Pisones'
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 24 February 2011
Research Seminar (Topic to be confirmed)
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 19 February 2011
Receptions of Carthage and the Phoenicians
The first workshop in the series ANCIENT CARTHAGE: MODELS OF CULTURAL CONTACT
Contact carthage-conference@hotmail.co.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 17 February 2011
On St. Jerome's letters
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 10 February 2011
On letters in the Second Sophistic
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 3 February 2011
On Lucilius' Satires
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 27 January 2011
Pliny the Younger
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 20 January 2011
Pliny the Younger
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 19 January 2011
Entangled and Disentangled Inscriptions: Writing and Material Culture in Central Greece and Crete
Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History's Research Seminar Series 'The Materiality of Text'
Contact E.V.Thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 8 December 2010
The Role of Babylon in Ctesias' Persica
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 2 December 2010
Symptoms and Sympathy in Latin Letter-Writing
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 1 December 2010
Work-in-progress Seminar
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Human Sacrifice and the Ultimate Demand of Power
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 25 November 2010
The Public Face of Tyranny
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 24 November 2010
The Valerii Laevini. A Dynasty of Republican 'Greek Experts'?
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 18 November 2010
Aristippus in the Socrates Epistles
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 17 November 2010
Divine inspiration and Narrative Technique in the Iliad
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 11 November 2010
Picturing Socrates' daimonion
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 10 November 2010
Did Plato Believe in God?
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 3 November 2010
Some Unpublished Latin Writing Tablets from Vindolanda
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Poetics through poetry. The poetic dialogue of Callimachus and Apollonius Rhodius
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 28 October 2010
Philosophical and non-philosophical communities in Seneca's Letters
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Were There Business Agents in Classical Greece? The Evidence of Some Lead Letters
Contact thorsten.foegen@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 21 October 2010
Read My Book: Letters and the City of God
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 20 October 2010
The Sources for Nomothesia in Classical Athens. A new approach.
Contact thorsten.foegen@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 13 October 2010
Cicero's De officiis. Roman Republican Ethics in a Platonizing Key
Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 28 September 2010
Greek memories: theory and practice
Memory, and its correlate, forgetting, are at the centre of a recent surge of studies focused on the construction of collective identities. In the wake of Halbwachs, and more recently Assman, much work has been devoted to the relationship between cultural memory, intentional history (the invention of tradition), and identity, in ancient Greece and elsewhere. While these elements are bound to interact in any society, the specific ways in which they are conceptualized and function may differ significantly. We propose to reorient the discussion by focusing on how the theories and the practices of memory, recollection, and forgetting play themselves out in specific texts and authors from ancient Greece, within a wide chronological span (from the Homeric poems to Plotinus), and across the entire range of literary 'genres' (epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, historiography, philosophy and scientific prose treatises). In particular, we plan to explore two interrelated aspects: (i) explicit discursive reflections on memory, recollecting, and forgetting as divine and human experiences and (ii) the role of these reflections in shaping practices of thought, communication, and writing.
Contact luca.castagnoli@durham.ac.uk, paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 15 July 2010
Workshop: The Afterlives of Ancient Poets in Medieval and Renaissance Biography
Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 9 July 2010
The World of Berossos
For details and booking form please visit the conference web page.
Contact v.m.arbia@dur.ac.uk, j.h.haubold@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 7 July 2010
Dante: The Author and His Image
An event jointly organized by the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Musicon.
For further information, see the events section of the Centre for the Study of the Classical tradition here
Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 19 May 2010
Near Eastern Slaves in Classical Attica and the Slave Trade with Persian Territories
Work-in-progress seminar
Sandwiches welcome
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 12 May 2010
Work-in-Progress
Work-in-progress seminar, title to be confirmed
Sandwiches welcome
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Homeric questions: A late eighteenth-century priority dispute
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 28 April 2010
In spite of Isis: wordplay in Apuleius' Metamorphoses XI
Work-in-progress seminar
Sandwiches welcome
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Rudolph Agricola's De inventione dialectica (1479): a Renaissance humanist's contribution to dialectic and rhetoric
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 15 April 2010
Northern Asssociation for Ancient Philosophy 2010
The NAAP annual meeting this year takes the form of a two-day international conference to be held in Durham in honour of Christopher Rowe.
Contact g.r.boys-stones@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Water and Identity in the Ancient World: a workshop
The workshop, a joint venture of the Departments of Classics & Ancient History and of Archaeology sponsored by the IAS (Durham) and by the CAMNE, will focus on the ancient Mediterranean and the 'outer Atlantic', in a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective; the aim is to enhance our understanding of how water functions as a defining element of communal identity, from antiquity to the present.
Detailed programme here
Contact paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk, richard.hingley@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 17 March 2010
In search of a Hellenistic world: intellectual horizons in Greece and Babylonia
Work-in-progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
The Subtler Philosophers at Theaetetus 156a: their identity and doctrine
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 10 March 2010
Pining for the Fjords and the Last Spix's Macaw: Parrots, Personae and Immortality in Amores 2.6
Work-in-Progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Individuals, soul and memory in Plato's Philebus
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 3 March 2010
The Herodian advancement: political interaction between Rome and the Jewish State between 44 and 42 BC
Work-in-Progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Euripides the Antiquarian
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Parallel lives: Ovidian poetic 'autobiography' in Tristia 2
Work-in-Progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Muses, Memory and Myth in the Decline of Callipolis: Plato Republic 545d-e
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 17 February 2010
Troia (nefas!): Troy as a negative locus in Lucretius and Catullus
Work-in-Progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Plotinus on Memory, Recollection and Discursive Thought
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 10 February 2010
'I do not want to be a person': Anne Carson, Sappho, and the Sublime
Work-in-Progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Name-Dropping in Bosnian Epics and the Genealogy of Agamemnon's Sceptre
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 3 February 2010
The debate over Classics in Eighteenth Century Education
Work-in-Progress seminar. Sandwiches welcome.
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
In search of an Empire of Memory
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 27 January 2010
The Theoretical Rationale Behind Aristotle's Classification of the Linguistic Fallacies in the Sophistical Refutations
Work-in-Progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 20 January 2010
Memory in Demosthenes' Philippics
Work-in-Progress seminar. Sandwiches welcome.
Dialogic Memory
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Intelligence networks and the exchange of information in ancient Phoenicia
Work-in-Progress Seminar
Sandwiches welcome
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
In spite of Isis: word games in Apuleius 11
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 2 December 2009
Topical Identities
Work-in-Progress Seminar
Sandwiches welcome
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
ate in the Homeric poems
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 25 November 2009
Towards a new interpretation of Hellenstic historiography
Work-in-Progress Seminar
Sandwiches welcome
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Socrates Polutropos and the figure of Alcibiades in Plato's Symposium
Part of the Seminar Series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 18 November 2009
The grammar of the bard
Work-in-Progress seminar
Sandwiches welcome
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Remembering the Past in Achaemenid Iran: Reading Ctesias' Persica
Part of the Seminar Series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Women and memory in the Iliad and the Kossovo cyle
Work-in-Progress seminar
Sandwiches welcome
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
The lure of the past in Plato's Menexenus
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 4 November 2009
'As was my wish' - Darius and the crossing of the Bosporus
Work-in-Progress Seminar
Sandwiches welcome
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Some ancient thoughts on the hardware of memory
Part of the Seminar Series in Classics & Ancient History
Wednesday 28 October 2009
Objects, relics and memory in classical antiquity
Work-in-Progress seminar
Classical Association (Durham)
A talk to be given at 4.15pm on Wednesday 28th October.
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 21 October 2009
The Pyrrhonist's Attitude to the Modes of Agrippa
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Wednesday 14 October 2009
Work-in-Progress
Work in progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Memory games - Odysseus and Penelope
Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History
Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 3 September 2009
Call for Papers: TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF SOLITUDE: Exile After Ovid
Contact jennifer.ingleheart@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 16 July 2009
Conference announcement:The Olympian Gods: Local Representations, Universal Principles
The Olympian Gods: Local Representations, Universal Principles
5th - 7th July 2009, Department of Classics
This conference investigates how the local characteristics with which
the Greeks invested their gods related to the view that they operated as
universal principles within the cosmic economy. The speakers will be:
Fritz Graf, Barbara Graziosi, Liz Irwin, Sarah Iles Johnston, Julia
Kindt, Robin Osborne, Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, Marianne Schiebe,
and Shaul Tor. Together they will consider a wide range of evidence, and
approach the issue from several interrelated perspectives:
philosophical, literary, iconographical, political, archaeological.
Tuesday 14 July 2009
Congratulations: Prof. Rowe awarded an OBE
Congratulations to Christopher Rowe, Professor of Greek, who has
been awarded an OBE in the 2009 Birthday Honours List.
Saturday 28 March 2009
Viewing the Text, Reading the Image: a one-day workshop
Contact p.j.heslin@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Saturday 20 December 2008
Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 15 October 2008
Work-in-Progress seminars, Michaelmas term 2008
Saturday 27 September 2008
Myths of Transformation
Workshop to be held on 25-27 September 2008
Sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Study and the Durham Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition.
Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 4 July 2008
The Image of the Author
Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 26 June 2008
Mapping the world: a workshop on geography and explorers
held under the auspices of the Centre for the study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Contact paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk; j.h.hubold@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 6 June 2008
Thursday 29 May 2008
Alexander Jones (New York University): 'Many Transmissions: Mesopotamian Astronomy in Greek Science and Society'
Contact j.m.steele@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 21 May 2008
Dr Andrew Zissos (University of California, Irvine), 'Boreades and boar-hunters: tracing the Argonauts in Ovid's Metamorphoses'
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Dr Carry Vout (Christ's College, Cambridge), 'The art of damnatio memoriae'
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 14 May 2008
Professor Alison Sharrock: Ovid and epic
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 3 May 2008
Spring Colloquium of the British Epigraphy Society
Contact paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk; ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 12 March 2008
Work in Progress: Alessandra Zanobi, 'High and low: the influence of sub-literary genres on Latin literature'
Work in Progress Seminar.
All seminars begin at 1pm, unless stated otherwise.
Dr Lucia Prauscello (Trinity Hall, Cambridge), 'The cult of Demeter Chthonia (and its dithyrambic roots) at Hermione'
Departmental Seminar.
For further information, please contact Ted Kaizer at ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk.
Saturday 8 March 2008
Nabataean Culture - an interdisciplinary workshop
Under the auspices of the Durham Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 5 March 2008
Professor Christoph Ulf (Innsbruck): Rethinking Cultural Contact in the Ancient World
Contact j.h.haubold@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Professor Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck), 'Near Eastern Perspectives on the Greeks'
Departmental Seminar (in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East).
For further information, please contact Ted Kaizer at ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk.
Wednesday 20 February 2008
Work in Progress: Eleanor OKell, 'Sophoclean teaching strategy and the “lie-detector test” in Trachiniae'
Work in Progress Seminar.
All seminars begin at 1pm, unless stated otherwise.
Dr Bernard Collette (Honorary Research Fellow, Durham), 'Moral identity in Chrysippus: On self, parts and daimon'
Departmental Seminar.
For further information, please contact Ted Kaizer at ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk.
Wednesday 13 February 2008
Work in Progress: Jennifer Ingleheart, 'On reading Ovid's Homer: Tristia 2.371-80'
Work in Progress Seminar.
All seminars begin at 1pm, unless stated otherwise.
Dr Peter Thonemann (Wadham College, Oxford), 'Finding Toriaion: the rediscovery of an ancient city in central Anatolia'
Departmental Seminar.
For further information, please contact Ted Kaizer at ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk.
Wednesday 6 February 2008
Professor Tony Birley (Vindolanda & Durham), 'Religion at Vindolanda'
A Departmental Seminar.
All meetings are held in the Ritson Room and begin at 5:30pm (unless stated otherwise).
Wednesday 30 January 2008
Dr Margherita Facella (University of Pisa), 'Jupiter Dolichenus at home: news from the archaeological excavations at Dülük Baba Tepesi'
A Departmental Seminar.
All meetings are held in the Ritson Room and begin at 5:30pm (unless stated otherwise).
Friday 25 January 2008
Professor Erich Gruen (University of California at Berkeley), 'Tacitus and the Jews'
A Departmental Seminar - joint event with the Department of Theology.
All meetings are held in the Ritson Room and begin at 5:30pm (unless stated otherwise).
Wednesday 23 January 2008
Barbara Graziosi, 'Family dynamics in Iliad 6'
Work in Progress Seminar.
All seminars begin at 1pm, unless stated otherwise.
Professor Kai Brodersen (Mannheim University/St John's College, Oxford), 'aspici cognoscique dignissimum: viewing Pomponius Mela's text, reading his images'
A Departmental Seminar.
All meetings are held in the Ritson Room and begin at 5:30pm (unless stated otherwise).
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 16 January 2008
Clemence Schultze, 'The elder Pliny and the human past'
Work in Progress Seminar.
All seminars begin at 1pm, unless stated otherwise.
Friday 14 December 2007
Wednesday 12 December 2007
Performing Tears in Roman Elegy
Wednesday 12 December at 5.30 pm
Performing Tears in Roman Elegy
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 5 December 2007
Work-in-Progress seminar
Wednesday 5 December at 1.00pm
Professor Edward Harris
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Creating tradition in the study of Romanization
Wednesday 5 December at 5.30pm
Creating tradition in the study of Romanization
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 28 November 2007
Work-in-Progress seminar
Wednesday 28 November at 1.00pm
Georgios Kampalios
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
West and East in the Hellenistic World
Wednesday 28 November 2007 at 5.30pm
West and East in the Hellenistic World
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Monday 26 November 2007
Metics and the Athenian Phialai-inscriptions
Monday 26 November at 5.30pm
Metics and the Athenian Phialai-inscriptions
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 14 November 2007
The Body and the Mask
Wednesday 14 November at 1.00pm
The Body and the Mask across cultures
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 13 November 2007
The declining census rate of the fifth class in republican Rome
Tuesday 13 November at 5.30 pm
The declining census rate of the fifth class in republican Rome: proletarianization or antiquarian fiction?
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 7 November 2007
Berossos
Wednesday 7 November at 1.00pm
The text of Berossos
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 24 October 2007
Sophoclean teaching strategy
Wednesday 24 October at 1.00pm
Sophoclean teaching strategy and the "lie-detector test" in Trachiniae
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 19 October 2007
Tactile gods
Friday 19 October 2007 at 1.00pm
Tactile gods: touching and being touched by cult statues in the Roman world
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 10 October 2007
The Eleusinian Mysteries
Wednesday 10 October at 5.30pm
The Eleusinian Mysteries: programme and experience
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 25 September 2007
Classics in Translation. A Workshop
Monday 3 September 2007
Gesellschaft für griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte, Symposion 2007
Contact edward.harris@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Monday 9 July 2007
The Image as Boundary - an international conference
Contact polly.weddle@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 6 July 2007
CITIES AND GODS: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk, anna.leone@durham.ac.uk, e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk, r.e.witcher@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Monday 18 June 2007
Fields of vision. Inaugural workshop for the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Contact j.h.haubold@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 5 May 2007
Augustan Poetry: epic, elegy and metapoetics. A Workshop
Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Sunday 1 April 2007
Saturday 10 March 2007
Greek tragedy: ancient receptions
Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 21 February 2007
Media/Medea: the 2007 Classics Society play
written by Jessie Marshall, directed by Nick Nawrockyi
Contact juliamillerbakewell@yahoo.co.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 10 January 2007
Departmental Seminars Michaelmas term 2006
Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Sunday 10 December 2006

Antigone
Antigone by Sophocles (a new translation by Edward M. Harris)
Contact a.r.goy@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 27 July 2006
Plato and Hesiod Conference
An international conference to explore Hesiod’s presence in the works of Plato.
25th – 27th July 2006.
Contact g.r.boys-stones@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.