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Trees and the anthropocene in Greek and Roman antiquity
Workshop followed by the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED SHORTLY
Morning Session 9.15 -- 9.30 Introduction 9.30 -- 10.15 Emma Bentley: Dionysus Dendritês: Wood and Carpentry in Greek Tragedy 10.15 -- 11.00...
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The Sentient Sponge: between natural history, art history and philosophy
Verity Platt (Cornell)
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English Research Seminar -- Dr Megan Leitch (University of Cardiff)
The Medieval Middlebrow: Romance and the Body Politic, 1300-1534
English Research Seminar featuring Dr Megan Leitch (University of Cardiff) -- "The Medieval Middlebrow: Romance and the Body Politic,...
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Alexander Berry and Colonial Legacies
A colloquium hosted by the School of English
In 1889 the University of St Andrews received a gift of £100,000 from David Berry fulfilling the intentions of his older brother Alexander who had been a...
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What a Waste! Representations of Waste in the Post-War (1945-1990)
What a Waste! is an interdisciplinary graduate conference platforming new critical work on the environmental humanities. Whether you're interested in the...
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The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 1)
The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy this year focuses on 'The Ideal Citizen'. Graduate students from the UK, the US, Canada,...
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The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 2)
The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy this year focuses on 'The Ideal Citizen'. Graduate students from the UK, the US, Canada,...
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The Discourse on the Ancestral Constitution in the Early Hellenistic Period
Laura Loddo (Milan)
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A Case Study of the Archaeology of Ancient Medicine: The Asklepieion of Paros Re-Study Project
Tomas Alusik (Charles University Prague)
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New approaches to the study of imperial historiography
Workshop organised by Christian Djurslev
Programme 1.00-1.10pm: Introduction by Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus) 1.10-2.10: Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews) 'Rethinking 'Style' in...
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New approaches to the study of imperial historiography
Programme 1pm to 1.10pm: Introduction by Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus) 1.10pm to 2.10pm: Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews) 'Rethinking 'Style'...
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How the Christians stole the past:
Greek chronology and Roman history in Theophilus of Antioch's Ad Autolycum - Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus)
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English Research Seminar -- Maureen McLane
Maureen McLane will be reading from her new collection of poems, What You Want (Penguin, 2023).
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English Research Seminar -- Dr Sonja Lawrenson (Manchester Metropolitan University)
The Supernatural 'At Home and Abroad:' Imperial Gothic in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda
English Research Seminar featuring Dr Sonja Lawrenson (Manchester Metropolitan University) discussing "The Supernatural 'At Home and Abroad:'...
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of Colonies and Queens: myths of Carthage in a contact zone
Jo Quinn (Oxford)
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Phillis Wheatley's Poems at 250 --- talk and exhibition launch
Join award-winning playwright Adeola Solanke for an introduction to Phillis Wheatley, one of the first published Black creative writers in English. 2023 marks...
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In conversation: Ade Solanke and May Sumbwanyambe
Major playwrights discuss dramatising Black experience in 18th Century Britain
Adeola Solanke is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, and founder of Spora Stories, telling the stories of the African diaspora. Her new play, Phillis...
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English Research Seminar --- Travis Mossotti (Washington University)
Travis Mossotti (Washington University) seminar and the UK book launch for his new poetry collection "Racecar Jesus"
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English Research Seminar --- Kaite O'Reilly
New Soup from Old Bones - on adaptation and reinvention
School of English Research Seminar featuring playwright Kaite O'Reilly. New Soup from Old Bones -- on adaptation and reinvention. From the earliest...
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English Research Seminar --- Dr Tamsin Badcoe (University of Bristol)
Writing Saltwater Experience in the Early Modern Literary Sea Voyage
School of English Research Seminar featuring Dr Tamsin Badcoe (University of Bristol) -- Writing Saltwater Experience in the Early Modern Literary Sea...
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Uninvited guests, unexpected passengers: Insects and past environments in the Eastern Mediterranean
Eva Panagiotakopulu (Edinburgh)
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Editing slaves: Unfree labour and textual revision in Rome (Trigger Warning below)
Talitha Keary
Note: Note: the lecture will involve discussion of slavery, rape and torture. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact...
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English Research Seminar -- Dr Katie Halsey (University of Stirling)
Books, Borrowing and New Versions of Scottish Literary History
Dr Katie Halsey (University of Stirling) -- "Books, Borrowing and New Versions of Scottish Literary History"
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Saints English Graduate Conference
An interdisciplinary conference run by and for postgraduate and early career researchers. This year's theme is 'Play and Pleasure'.
This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the dynamic relationships between play and pleasure in various literary and cultural contexts, while...
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A Queer Bestiary
Non/Humans in Contemporary US Literature
This talk outlines Dr Lloyd's forthcoming book, A Queer Bestiary: Non/Humans in Contemporary US Literature. Taking the Medieval bestiary as its starting...
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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...
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Untranslatability
Martin Revermann (Toronto)
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English Research Seminar -- Professor Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)
'Beowulf and the Wrath of God'
School of English Research Seminar featuring Professor Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford). Professor Leneghan will be discussing 'Beowulf and the...
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English Research Seminar -- Dr Edward Allen
Catch as Catch Can: Towards an Understanding of Literary-Sonic Pests
Dr Allen is Associate Professor in modern British and Irish Literature, and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. His primary focus is sound and media...
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The Persian empire and 'India', 522 -- 486 BCE
Rhyne King - St Andrews
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The Ladies at the bank: women and money at the end of the Second Punic War
Kristina Milnor - Columbia
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English Research Seminar --- Thijs Porck (Leiden University)
Old English is Dutch and Beowulf is ours! Appropriations of Early Medieval English in 19th-Century Europe
"In the 19th century, Old English poems were claimed as cultural heritage by various non-Anglophone nations, including Scandinavians, the Germans and the...
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Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Giacomo Savani (Visiting Scholar)
For further information and to register to join the seminar please follow the link.
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Rhetoric in Plato's Academy?: the lost Περὶ τέχνης of Xenocrates of Chalcedon
Phillip Horky - Durham University
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How Did Ancient Rome Shape India's Decolonization? -- Milinda Banerjee (St Andrews)
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Cancelled
St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity Annual Lecture -- Alena Sarkissian (Prague)
Launching the Cold War on Stage 1945--1956
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Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Panayiotis Christoforou (Oxford)
For further information and to register to join the seminar please follow the link.
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Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama --- Lyndsay Coo (Bristol)
The sisterhood of the Danaids
TRIGGER WARNING Will include mention of suicide, rape and sexual violence. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join...
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School of Classics Seminar -- Jason König (St Andrews)
Imagining the earth in ancient Greek and Roman literature: human-environment relations in Lucian's True Stories
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School of Classics Seminar -- Janja Soldo (Edinburgh)
Female addressees and letter writers in Latin letters and letter collections: first thoughts on a neglected corpus of women's writing
-As agreed please add the following link to the bottom of the Event Description: For further information please contact [email protected] Also please...
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English Research Seminar -- Professor Catherine Spooner
Gothic White: A Counter-History of the White Dress in Modern Literature and Culture
Women in white are ubiquitous in Gothic fiction and film, from the eighteenth-century illustrations to Ann Radcliffe's novels, to the folk costumes of...
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Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin: The Bruce (A Cathedral Opera)
Musicians and Singers from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Kazakh musician Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin's operatic depiction of Robert the Bruce. 'The Bruce: Cathedral Opera' is a 1-hour piece for church organ...
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'Aristotle's psychology and its reception' --- Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame) and Peter Adamson (LMU)
Neither Arche Nor CEPPA (NANC) Event
All are welcome.
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George Jack Lecture -- Professor Michael Kuczynski
Blake's Pilgrimage
In 1809, the visionary writer and artist William Blake exhibited a fresco painting (as he called it) of Chaucer's pilgrims from the Canterbury Tales....
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English Research Seminar -- Dr Swati Moitra
Toru Dutt and the Poetry of 'Improvement': English-Language Poetry and the Shaping of Calcutta in the 19th Century English-language poetry emerging...
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Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender and Sexuality
Inexplicable men of genius and what to do about them: a study in predicaments and alarms in the historiography of early Christian women
Blossom Stefaniw is Professor of Intellectual History at MF University College in Oslo where she teaches in the Religious Studies department. Her research...
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Violence and Social Bonds in Late Antique Egypt: Women as Victims, Perpetrators, and Adjudicators
Anna Kelley - St Andrews
TRIGGER WARNING Will include discussions of both domestic and sexual violence, abduction marriage and rape. This is a School of Classics Event. For further...
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Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture -- Speaker: Professor Ursula Coope (Oxford)
'Contingency and the Present'
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English Research Seminar -- Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki
English Research Seminar
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Jon Pineda -- a reading from his current work-in-progress
We're delighted to welcome Jon Pineda from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, who will be reading from his new novel, currently a...
