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  1. Late Heaney
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    Late Heaney

    Book Launch and Talk with Nicholas Allen, Baldwin Professor in Humanities and director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia USA

    Late Heaney follows Seamus Heaney through the landscapes, friendships and events that shaped his last four collections, all set in conversation with his work at...

  2. English ModCon Research Symposium

    English ModCon Research Symposium

    School of English

    Join us for an afternoon showcasing some of the School's dynamic work-in-progress in Modern and Contemporary literature. We'll be grappling with all...

  3. First thoughts on pastoral names

    First thoughts on pastoral names

    Gail Trimble  (Oxford)

    This is a School of Classics event. For further information please email [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our...

  4. Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture: Professor Gábor Betegh, University of Cambridge

    Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture: Professor Gábor Betegh, University of Cambridge

    Plato on forgetting and re-understanding

    For further information please email [email protected].

  5. Catullus, Ennius and the end of Rome

    Catullus, Ennius and the end of Rome

    Jesse Hill  (Edinburgh)

    This is a School of Classics event. For further information please email [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our...

  6. Homeric narrative patterns in Plato's Republic

    Homeric narrative patterns in Plato's Republic

    Liz Scharffenberger (Columbia) 

    This is a School of Classics event. For further information please email [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our...

  7. Roman stoneworkers and their gods: cult at the quarry-face and beyond

    Roman stoneworkers and their gods: cult at the quarry-face and beyond

    Ben Russell (Edinburgh)

    This is a School of Classics event. For further information please email [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our...

  8. English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Professor Liz Losh, William and Mary, USA

    English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Professor Liz Losh, William and Mary, USA

    AI and Assessment Design

    AI and Assessment Design

  9. The shadowy Titinius and the elusive Fabula Togata

    The shadowy Titinius and the elusive Fabula Togata

    Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton)

    This is a School of Classics event. For further information please email [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our...

  10. Vox precantum: female prayer and oratory in the Roman Republic

    Vox precantum: female prayer and oratory in the Roman Republic

    Lewis Webb (Gothenburg)

    This is a School of Classics event. For further information please email [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our...

  11. Hidden in theory: rhetoric and the ethics of concealment

    Hidden in theory: rhetoric and the ethics of concealment

    Giulia Maltagliati (Cambridge)

    This is a School of Classics event. For further information please email [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our...

  12. English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Maisha Wester, Manchester Metropolitan University

    English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Maisha Wester, Manchester Metropolitan University

    Dr Maisha Wester is a Lecturer in the School of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research investigates racial representation in Gothic...

  13. Forms of the Flesh: Autochthonous Origins in Late Antiquity

    Forms of the Flesh: Autochthonous Origins in Late Antiquity

    Daniel Hanigan (Cambridge)

    This is a School of Classics event. For further information please email [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our...

  14. Peace, war and conflict in the ancient world

    Peace, war and conflict in the ancient world

    The workshop plans to examine the following questions: What theories of the origin of conflict, or suggestions for conflict-avoidance, do we find in the ancient...

  15. Explosive volcanism, Nile failure and political instability in Ptolemaic Egypt (305-30 BCE)

    Explosive volcanism, Nile failure and political instability in Ptolemaic Egypt (305-30 BCE)

    Francis Ludlow (TCD)

    This is a School of Classics event. For further information please email [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our...

  16. Symposium: 'The Chosen Ones? Character Groupings in Classical and Medieval Art and Literature'

    Symposium: 'The Chosen Ones? Character Groupings in Classical and Medieval Art and Literature'

    Plenary Speaker: Professor Eva von Contzen, University of Freiburg

    For updates and information on purchasing tickets please visit our website https://chosen-symposium-2026.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Fees

  17. English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Assistant Professor Connie Scozzaro, Brown University, USA

    English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Assistant Professor Connie Scozzaro, Brown University, USA

    'Speaking to Nobody in Late Shakespeare'

    Scozzaro is a specialist in Renaissance literature and culture, with a focus on law and the history of sexuality. She has also published work on contemporary...

  18. English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Jennifer Park, University of Glasgow

    English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Jennifer Park, University of Glasgow

    The elixir, the editor and the platonic lover: pathologising and calibrating asexuality in William Davenant's The Platonick Lovers

    What do early modern recipes for love and sex and modern editorial assumptions reveal about early modern asexualities and their pathologisations? In William...

  19. 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...

  20. Up the garden path: inscribing Ovid and reading reception in the garden art of Ian Hamilton Finlay

    Up the garden path: inscribing Ovid and reading reception in the garden art of Ian Hamilton Finlay

    Jo Paul (Open University)

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