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  1. Poverty Dynamics in the Long Late Antiquity, AD 300-800

    Poverty Dynamics in the Long Late Antiquity, AD 300-800

    Poverty was a defining element in late antique and early medieval societies, shaping economic structures, social relations, cultural values, and political...

  2. Land and Power in the Later Roman World

    Land and Power in the Later Roman World

    Land and landownership underpinned the socio-economic fabric of the late Roman world. Land played a defining role in the working of the state and secular...

  3. Volcano voices: from ashes to archives and art

    Volcano voices: from ashes to archives and art

    Hosted by the Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society Conference 2026

    Large volcanic eruptions can dim the Sun and change global climate, cooling the surface and reducing harvests. The impacts on food security have sometimes been...

  4. Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman Empire.

    Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman Empire.

    A Social and Cultural History (Trigger Warning below) Christian Laes (Manchester)

    Note: the lecture will contain some images (ancient artifacts) of what was considered as bodily deformity and references to Nazi-propaganda that referred to...

  5. School of Classics Research Seminar Series

    School of Classics Research Seminar Series

    Digging in the Crates: Sampling Epic, from Kae Tempest to Kendrick Lamar - Justine McConnell, King's College London

    This is a School of Classics Research Seminar Series event. To attend this seminar please subscribe to the Classics seminar mailing list, email...

  6. New trends in the Study of Eleatism
    Cancelled

    New trends in the Study of Eleatism

    The conference will be about the 'Eleatics', i.e three philosophers from Elea, in Southern Italy, who wrote in the fifth century BC: Permenides,...

  7. Brief Lives: The Case of Crispus

    Brief Lives: The Case of Crispus

    This is a School of Classics Research Seminar Series event. For further information please contact [email protected].

  8. Classics Symposia

    Classics Symposia

    Join us for two days dedicated to sharing exciting advances in postgraduate research. This event has been organised by the School of Classics postgraduate...

  9. Towards a more Inclusive Classics

    Towards a more Inclusive Classics

    Workshops over two afternoons with presentations on aspects of teaching.

  10. Blending in Diegesis ('Narrative')

    Blending in Diegesis ('Narrative')

    This talk will review aspects of conceptual blending that are consciously and explicitly put onstage during narration.