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  1. The current state of pre-modern environmental history

    The current state of pre-modern environmental history

    Speaker: Professor John Haldon (Princeton)

    A seminar for postgraduates on the current state of pre-modern environmental history and how this burgeoning field may develop in future. Professor Haldon will...

  2. Contemporary trends in Late Antique and Medieval history

    Contemporary trends in Late Antique and Medieval history

    Speaker: Professor John Haldon (Princeton)

    A second seminar for postgraduate students, on contemporary trends in Late Antique and Medieval history as well as lessons from Professor Haldon's career...

  3. Premodern Environmental History and Its Contemporary Relevance.

    Premodern Environmental History and Its Contemporary Relevance.

    A workshop on the contemporary relevance of pre-modern environmental history with a focus on the potential policy implications of this research. Andy Dugmore...

  4. Teaching Ancient War

    Teaching Ancient War

    Current approaches, what works well, what could be different?

    The Visualising War and Peace project is laying the foundations for a major five-year study of current practice and future approaches to teaching ancient war...

  5. How Aristotle Saves Plato's Soul: Common and Proper Pathē in the Philebus and De Anima

    How Aristotle Saves Plato's Soul: Common and Proper Pathē in the Philebus and De Anima

    Jason Carter (St Andrews)

    This is a School of Classics Event. --------- Abstract In the Philebus, Socrates argues that an affection (πάθος) of a living being may be...

  6. Who is the host? Ancient hospitality in research and practice.

    Who is the host? Ancient hospitality in research and practice.

    Elena Isayev (Exeter)

    Abstract The paper will consider the intersections between ancient research on contexts of asylum, and contemporary concerns in relation to people seeking...

  7. Friendship, Philosophy, Forgery: Greek letter collections 400 BC to AD 400

    Friendship, Philosophy, Forgery: Greek letter collections 400 BC to AD 400

    Andrew Morrison (Glasgow)

    The letter collections of Greco-Roman antiquity dwarf in total size all of ancient drama or ancient epic put together, but have not received anything like as...

  8. Unauthenticated letters in late Roman North African disputes: forgeries or negotiation strategies?

    Unauthenticated letters in late Roman North African disputes: forgeries or negotiation strategies?

    Becca Grose (St Andrews)

    Abstract In the letters of Augustine and other North African religious figures, we find multiple mentions of suspect letters --- letters missing...

  9. Teaching Ancient War's Aftermath

    Teaching Ancient War's Aftermath

    Current approaches, what works well, what could be different?

    The Visualising War and Peace project is laying the foundations for a major five-year study of current practice and future approaches to teaching ancient war...

  10. Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon

    Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon

    Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)

    Annual lecture of the St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity. Abstract There is nothing new about turning to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus...