This month’s events

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  1. Ovid's ecological disasters: scalar zoom and the challenges of narrative time

    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...

  2. Department of Economics Seminar with Professor Mark Schaffer, Heriot-Watt University

    Department of Economics Seminar with Professor Mark Schaffer, Heriot-Watt University

    An introduction to conformal inference for economists

    Abstract: This paper introduces conformal inference, a powerful and flexible framework for constructing prediction intervals with guaranteed coverage in finite...

  3. 'Voluntarium et naturale'? Slave onomastics in ancient Italy

    '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...