Classics and Ancient History seminars

For a full listing of departmental academic events, please see our Events Calendar.

Please find below and attached the department research/work-in-progress seminars programme for the Michaelmas Term. This year's theme is "Writing from the Margins: Decolonising Ancient Authorship".

All talks take place at 1-2pm UK time on Wednesdays unless stated otherwise (note the different time and room for Oct. 23rd). Talks marked “Hybrid” will be in person in CL108, followed by tea and biscuits, and online on Teams (unfortunately without tea or biscuits); seminars marked “Online Only” will be on Teams only. Registration is not required to attend in person, but to attend the seminar online, you will need to register using the Teams link provided. 

Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars: Michaelmas Term Card

October 8th (Work in Progress Seminar). Jacob Lollar (Durham), Tragic Riddles in the Margins: A Syriac Invocation of the Story of Oedipus. Hybrid.  Registration link

October 22nd. Ella Kirsh (Cambridge), Ipsissima verba? The limits of shorthand under the Roman empire. Hybrid. Registration link

October 23rd. Gwynaeth McIntyre (Otago), Searching for the “True” Likeness of a Caesar? Physical Appearance in Suetonius. Hybrid. Registration link  (Note: this event will start at 5 PM, hybrid and in person in CL007, Ritson Room)

October 29th. Candida Moss (Birmingham), Invisible Hands: Enslaved Secretaries, Shorthand, and Authorship. Hybrid. Registration link

November 5th. Annie Burman (Uppsala), Etruscans in the Archive: modern archival collections as a source in epigraphic research. Hybrid. Registration link

November 12th (Work in Progress Seminar). Francesca Salvatori (Durham), Pariter super aequora lata feremur. Alcyone’s transformative power in Ov. Met. 11.410-748. Hybrid. Registration link

November 26th (Work in Progress Seminar). Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham), Polari Catullus. Online-only. Registration link

December 10th. Steven Green (Singapore), Turnings, Misattributions, and Cultural Hybridity: The Poetics of Translation in the Ilias Latina. Hybrid. Registration link