Past Events

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

Research Seminar: Dr Cristiana Franco

Work-in-Progress Seminar: 'Solutions from Character'

Work-in-Progress Seminar, Department of Classics and Ancient History: 'Solutions from Character'

Research Seminar: 'Did She Jump or Was She Pushed? An Exploration of Greek Mythemes'

Work-in-Progress Seminar: 'Spatialized Oaths: Betrayal and Sanctuary in Alcaeus 129 V'

Creating the Emperor's Image

A two-day international workshop at Durham University.

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.

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.

Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Text and Material Culture

An international conference to be held at Durham University, 12th - 14th September 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.

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/.

Classicism and the East

An event in the Durham Centre for Classical Reception

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.

Decadence in Petronius

A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar

Magical Amulets as Miniature Statues: The Evidence of the Greek Magical Papyri

A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar

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

The Sigh of Philhellenism

A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar in the Classics in Extremis series

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

Beyond the Pale: Classics in Ireland 1789-1845

A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar in the Classics in Extremis series

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.

Conference: Petrarch and Classical Reception

A conference organized by the Durham Centre for Classical Reception.

Tragedy and Revolution: Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Seminar in the Classics in Extremis series

Cicero and the Poets: A Prospectus

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar

Andreas Scholl or Florence Foster Jenkins? Orpheus' Singing in his Argonautika

A Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar

The Ancient Phonograph

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar

Disputed Memories: Plato's 'Symposium' on Socrates and Alcibiades

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar

Celebrating the Centaury: or How Ancient Wisdom was Forgotten

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar

Popularising the tragic? Comedy and the Reception of Tragedy in 5th-4th c. BCE Athens

A Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar

Once Again, Can the Subaltern Speak?

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Seminar in the Classics in Extremis series

The Cult Statues of the Pantheon

A Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar

Oleum uetus and noua fictilia: Regularity and Licence in the Placement of Latin Adjectives

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar

‘Literary aspects of Greek Inscriptional Poems in Late Antiquity’

A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Gianfranco Agosti (Rome, La Sapienza)

‘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.

‘Fiction and Wunderkultur’

A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Karen Ni-Mheallaigh (Exeter)

‘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)

‘Lucian on the Temple at Heliopolis’

A Work-in-Progress seminar given by Ted Kaizer

Work-in-Progress seminar

A Work-in-Progress seminar given by Don Lavigne

'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.

‘Metafiction in Epistolary Narratives’

A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Owen Hodkinson (Leeds)

‘Language Attitudes in Jerome and Sidonius Apollinaris’

A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Tim Denecker (Leuven)

'Classical Descriptions of Buildings and the Renaissance Vision of Lost Antiquity'

A Work-in-Progress seminar given by Peter Fane-Saunders

'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)

'Lucian's views on Language, Rhetoric, and Education'

A Work-in-Progress seminar given by Thorsten Foegen

Ancient Cosmos: Concord Among Worlds

 A CAMNE Conference at Durham University

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

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.

'Unpublished Epigrams from Thebes: Boeotian History Revisited in the Light of New Epigraphical Finds'

A departmental research seminar.

'All the World's a Stage: Contemplatio mundi in Early Roman Theater'

A departmental research seminar.

'Local Trends in Verse Inscriptions of Greece during the Imperial Period'

A departmental research seminar

'Democracy’s Impact on Warmaking in Ancient Athens and Today'

A departmental research seminar

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.

The Cosmology of Archelaus and the Origins of Social Institutions

A 'Cosmos in the Ancient World' research seminar.

'Ordering the universe in speech : Kosmos and diakosmos in Parmenides' poem'

A 'Cosmos in the Ancient World' research seminar

'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.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'Sublime Solace: Seneca's Lucretian Earthquakes in Naturales Quaestiones 6’

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History's Research Seminars Series.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'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.

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.

Byzantine authorship: theories and practices

An international conference to be held at Durham University, 23th-25th 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pollution in Homicide Law: A New Approach

Work-in-Progress Talk

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Staging and Constructing the Divine in Menander

Work-in-Progress Talk

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

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.

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.

Poets, Writers and Artists in Corinth after the Peloponnesian War

Research seminar

Contact andrej.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

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.

Galen on Void

Part of the Department of Classics Research Seminar Series

Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

On the Materiality of the Orphic Gold Tablets

Research Seminar

Contact Ivana.Petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Lectional signs in Greek Verse Inscriptions: a Few Remarks

Research Seminar

Contact Ivana.Petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Aristotle on Natural Character and its Implications for Moral Development

Research seminar

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Pandora's Wretched Pithos

Research Seminar

Contact Barbara.Graziosi@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.

Conference: The Many Faces of a Hellenistic King

CAMNE-sponsored conference.

Contact hellenistic.kingship@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Towards a Non-Peripatetic History of Pythagoreanism

CAMNE Seminar.

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Was Aristotle a Virtue-Theorist?

Durham Philosophical Society Lecture.

Romosexuality: Roman Vice vs. Greek Virtue

Work-in-Progress Seminar.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Greek Gods and Literary Criticism

Work-in-Progress Seminar.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

A Critique of the Prevailing Views of Greek Sacrifice

Research Seminar

Contact Edward.Harris@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

Ancient Fallacies - 21-23 September 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.

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

Beyond Self-Sufficiency

'Booking lovers. Desire and design in Catullus'

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'The bad orator in republican Rome. Between clumsy delivery and political danger'

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Dear Sirs: Writing to collectives in the Greek epistolary tradition'

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Writing to Caesar'

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

On Libanius' letters

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'Letters of dedication in ancient technical texts'

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'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.

Research Seminar (Topic to be confirmed)

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

On St. Jerome's letters

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

On letters in the Second Sophistic

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

On Lucilius' Satires

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Pliny the Younger

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Pliny the Younger

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

The Role of Babylon in Ctesias' Persica

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Symptoms and Sympathy in Latin Letter-Writing

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

The Public Face of Tyranny

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Valerii Laevini. A Dynasty of Republican 'Greek Experts'?

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Aristippus in the Socrates Epistles

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Divine inspiration and Narrative Technique in the Iliad

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Picturing Socrates' daimonion

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Did Plato Believe in God?

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

Philosophical and non-philosophical communities in Seneca's Letters

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

Read My Book: Letters and the City of God

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Sources for Nomothesia in Classical Athens. A new approach.

Contact thorsten.foegen@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Cicero's De officiis. Roman Republican Ethics in a Platonizing Key

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

Workshop: The Afterlives of Ancient Poets in Medieval and Renaissance Biography

Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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

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.

The Pyrrhonist's Attitude to the Modes of Agrippa

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

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.

Call for Papers: TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF SOLITUDE: Exile After Ovid

Contact jennifer.ingleheart@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

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.

Viewing the Text, Reading the Image: a one-day workshop

Contact p.j.heslin@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental seminars, Epiphany term 2009

Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Work-in-Progress seminars, Michaelmas term 2008

Departmental seminars, Michaelmas term 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.

The Image of the Author

Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

Barbara Graziosi on BBC Radio

'Greek and Latin Voices'

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.

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.

Professor Alison Sharrock: Ovid and epic

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Spring Colloquium of the British Epigraphy Society

Contact paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk; ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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).

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.

Clemence Schultze, 'The elder Pliny and the human past'

Work in Progress Seminar.

All seminars begin at 1pm, unless stated otherwise.

Perspectives on Ancient Classical Architecture today

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Berossos

Wednesday 7 November at 1.00pm
The text of Berossos

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

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.

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.

Classics in Translation. A Workshop

Gesellschaft für griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte, Symposion 2007

Contact edward.harris@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Image as Boundary - an international conference

Contact polly.weddle@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

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.

Augustan Poetry: epic, elegy and metapoetics. A Workshop

Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Seminars Epiphany Term 2007

Greek tragedy: ancient receptions

Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.

Departmental Seminars Michaelmas term 2006

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Antigone

Antigone by Sophocles (a new translation by Edward M. Harris)

Contact a.r.goy@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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.