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Networks in Late Antiquity
Workshop hosted by the project "Land and Loyalty: The Politics of Land in the Later Roman World" in association with the Centre for Late Antique...
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On societal leave
potential factors explaining the presence of harvest contractors in the Roman world
Speaker: Lluís Jerez i Bertolín (Birmingham) Seminar hosted by the project "Land and Loyalty: The Politics of Land in the Later Roman World", in...
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Plato's Laws
Two-day conference PROGRAMME Thursday 15 May 2-2.45pm: Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi 'Elpis in Plato's Laws' 2.45 -- 3.30pm: Antony...
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Cold War Classics
The Cold War Classics project explores the ways in which ancient Greco-Roman culture was selectively interpreted, appropriated or suppressed to advance...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Teaching Ancient Peace and Peacebuilding
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...
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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...
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Cancelled
Teaching Ancient War and Peace
Setting new agenda for primary, secondary and tertiary education.
Event to be rescheduled. The Visualising War and Peace project is organising a series of online consultations plus an in-person workshop in 2025 to explore...
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Cancelled
Learning about ancient and modern war and peace in dialogue
Event to be rescheduled. The Visualising War and Peace project is laying the foundations for a major five-year study of current practice and future approaches...
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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...
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'Voluntarium et naturale'? Slave onomastics in ancient Italy
Katherine McDonald (Durham)
This is a School of Classics Event. Abstract This paper turns a critical eye on the naming of enslaved people in ancient Italy, using Latin, Etruscan and...
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"Are we not men?" Animals and stigmatising assumptions in Ancient Rome
Jack Lennon (Leicester)
This is a School of Classics Event. Abstract This paper will consider the use of animal comparisons, especially those involving animals that were judged to...
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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...
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Tumultus Iudaicus: the diaspora revolts and the rebuilding of Cyrene
Caroline Barron (Durham)
This is a School of Classics Event. Abstract The outbreaks of violence amongst the Jewish communities of ancient Alexandria, Cyrene, Cyprus and Mesopotamia...
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Going beyond tools: Deep neural networks for ancient Greek epigraphic networks
Thea Sommerscheid (Nottingham)
This is a School of Classics Event. Abstracts Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence are transforming the study of ancient languages, enabling tasks...
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Ovid's ecological disasters: scalar zoom and the challenges of narrative time
Alison Sharrock (Manchester)
Annual lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies Abstract Although climate change seems to have speeded up in the last few years, it still...
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'Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province': Nero's liberation of Greece...
Line Girdvainyte (Edinburgh)
'Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province': Nero's liberation of Greece revisited. Abstract This paper focuses on a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
