Department of Classics, University of Edinburgh: Classics Research Seminar – Semester 1, 2021-2022: The alumni series
Meetings will be held on most Wednesdays from 6 October onwards at 17.00 for 17.10 UK time on the Microsoft Teams platform. All speakers in the series are Edinburgh alumni. If you would like to be added to the Classics Research Seminars Mailing List, or be registered for an individual meeting, please contact Dr Benjamin Harriman (Benjamin.Harriman@ed.ac.uk).
6 October 2021 (joint meeting with the Byzantine Seminar)
Mary Whitby (Merton and Regent’s Park Colleges, Oxford)
An Emperor and his Poet: George of Pisidia on the Emperor Heraclius (610-641 ce)
13 October 2021
Toph Marshall (University of British Columbia)
Ajax and the Stagecraft of Surprise
20 October 2021
Alexandre Johnston (University College, Oxford)
Irony and Theology in Sophocles
3 November 2021
Julia H. Gaisser (Bryn Mawr College)
Les Amours de Catulle and The Adventures of Catullus: Translating and Transposing Catullus in the Seventeenth Century
10 November 2021
Tamer Nawar (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Ancient Democracy: A Philosophical Analysis
17 November 2021
Alison John (All Souls College, Oxford)
Bilingual Poetry in Late Antiquity: Author, Audience and Reception
24 November 2021
Shane Wallace (Trinity College Dublin)
The Antigonids and their Hellenic Leagues: the case of Gonatas
8 December 2021
Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University)
Figures of Empire: Images of Aethiopian Boys and the Sexual Economy of Imperial Slavery