UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS School of Classics
RESEARCH SEMINAR SEMESTER 2
Research seminars take place in Swallowgate 03 on Fridays at 4.15pm or Wednesdays at 2.15pm. The papers are followed by discussion. All are very welcome. Any queries to Myles Lavan, mpl2@st-andrews.ac.uk.
All seminars will also be streamed on Microsoft Teams. To get access to the seminar Teams link, please subscribe to our Classics seminar mailing list by emailing selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject line.
Wed, 29 January, 2.15pm – Jason Carter (St Andrews): How Aristotle saves Plato’s Soul: common and proper Pathē in the Philebus and De Anima
Wed, 5 February, 2.15 pm – Elena Isayev (Exeter): Who is the host? Ancient hospitality in research and practice. Impact seminar.
Fri, 14 February, 4.15pm – Andrew Morrison (Glasgow): Friendship, philosophy, forgery: Greek letter collections 400 BC to AD 400 and the AHRC Ancient Letter Collections Project
Weds, 19 February, 2.15pm – Becca Grose (St Andrews): Unauthenticated letters in late Roman North African disputes: forgeries or negotiation strategies?
Fri, 28 February, 4.15pm – Fiona Macintosh (Oxford): Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon. Annual lecture of the St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity
Vacation week
Fri, 14 March, 4.15ppm – Jack Lennon (Leicester): “Are we not men?” Animals and stigmatising assumptions in Ancient Rome
Fri, 21 March, 4.15pm – Alison Sharrock (Manchester): Ovid’s ecological disasters: scalar zoom and the challenges of narrative time. Annual lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies
Weds 26 March, 2.15 pm – Katherine McDonald (Durham): ‘Voluntarium et naturale’? Slave onomastics in ancient Italy
Fri, 4 April, 4.15pm – Line Girdvainyte (Edinburgh): ‘Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province’: Nero’s liberation of Greece revisited
Independent Learning Week
Wed, 16 April, 2.15 pm – Caroline Barron (Durham): Tumultus Iudaicus: the diaspora revolts and the rebuilding of Cyrene
Fri, 25 April, 4.15 pm – Thea Sommerscheid (Nottingham): Going beyond tools: Deep neural networks for ancient Greek epigraphic networks