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Lectures and Conferences
2023-24
Seminar series: Graeco-Aegyptiaca: Greece in Egypt and Egypt in Greece, from Homer to Rome and Byzantium (October 2023 - June 2024). An international collaboration.
Lecture: Housman Lecture (13 March 2024, 6:00-7:30pm). Victoria Rimell (University of Warwick): 'Seneca, consolation and the crisis of critique.'
Lecture: Stephen Instone memorial lecture (9 May 2024, 5:00pm). Armand D'Angour (University of Oxford): 'Socrates in Plato's Symposium.'
Workshop: Cosmic magic. Astronomy, astrology and Graeco-Egyptian cultural interactions (3rd-4th June 2024): UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, and on Zoom. Organised by Peter Agocs (UCL) and Jessica Lightfoot (Birmingham).
Workshop: Remembering Dionysus: Nonnus鈥� Monster (27 June 2024). UCL Institute of Advanced Studies.
- 2022-23
颁辞苍蹿别谤别苍肠别:听Classics, Love, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini听(14听March 2023, 4:00 pm鈥�7:00 pm)
Lecture: Housman Lecture (15 March 2023, 6:00-7:30pm). Richard Armstrong (University of Houston): 'Homer the Balladeer'.
Conference and Performance:听Memory and Performance: Classical Reception in Early Modern Festivals (15th-18th Century) (23 February 10:15am-5:15pm & 24 February 10:30am-5:15pm; Performance 23 February 6:00pm-7:00pm)
Seminar series: Graeco-Aegyptiaca: Greece in Egypt and Egypt in Greece, from Homer to Rome and Byzantium (October 2022 - June 2023). An international collaboration.
- 2021-22
Conference: Ancient and Modern Narratives of the Greco-Persian Wars (28th - 29th July 2022)听
贰惫别苍迟:听Cicero Awayday (19th May 2022, 10.45am-18.30pm)
Lecture: Housman 尝别肠迟耻谤别:听Prof Gregson Davis: 听in Aim茅 C茅saire's "Journal of a Homecoming. Bookings now open.听(18th May 2022, 6:00-7:30pm)
Workshop:听Practice Research in and out of Classics (3rd May 2022)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听Dr Mark Weeden's Inaugural Lecture (postponed to a later date)
Lecture: Housman Lecture: Susan A. Stephens (27th October 2021, 6:00-7:30pm).听
Seminar series: Graeco-Aegyptiaca. Greece in Egypt and Egypt in Greece, from Homer to Rome and Byzantium (January 2022).
Conference April 2022: Choosing your Words: Lexicalisation and Grammaticalisation in Greek and Latin (1-2 April 2022).
- 2020-21
Lecture: Housman Lecture 2020: Ellen Oliensis (28th October听2020, 6-7.30pm)
颁辞苍蹿别谤别苍肠别:听Baroque听Latinity - conference听organized by听The Society for Neo-Latin Studies & The Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies (17th 鈥� 18th September 2021).
Public lecture: - Dr Mair茅ad McAuley. Part of the听 蝉别谤颈别蝉.听
Play:听The Greek Play will take place听in the week 8 to 12 February听2021.听
- 2019-20
Lecture/comedy: Natalie Haynes, 'Troy Story', UCL, 6pm 30 April 2020.
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Lecture: Housman Lecture 2020 (20th May 2020, 5.30pm, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre). Postponed.
Symposium: Rewriting the Trojan War (6th March 2020, 5 pm, Gordon House 106).
Symposium: Calgacus in 2020 (25 January, 2020, 10am-6pm, UCL IAS Common Ground).听
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Conference: Greek Play 2020 - Aristophanes' Frogs (12-14 February 2020, Bloomsbury Theatre).
Conference: Freud and Egypt: Between Oedipus and the Sphinx (12 October 2019, 10am-5pm, University College School,听Frognal,听London,听NW3 6XH).听
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- 2018-19
Conference: UCL/BSA Teacher Study Day (6 February 2019, 10am-5.30pm)
Conference: Greek Play (6-8 February 2019, Bloomsbury Theatre)
Lecture: Housman Lecture 2018 (22nd May 2019, 5.30pm, Lecture Theatre and Cloisters). Registration required via .
Conference: Citizenship in classical antiquity (1-3 July, 2019)
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Conference: The Greeks & The Irrational, Revisited (9 July, 2019). Location; Chadwick Building room G09.
- 2017-18
International seminar: Sympathy (Mumbai, 5 and 6 July 2018)
Colloquium: UCL/Jagiellonian University Seminar 2018 (28th June 2018)
Seminar: Richard Whitaker, "The Odyssey of Homer: A Southern African translation" (27 June 2018)
Workshop: The Poetry of Greek Philosophy (21-22 June 2018)
Workshop: Digital Tools for Classicists (Thursday 14 June 2018)
Workshop: Sanskrit, teaching and learning (13 June 2018)
Symposium: The Tissue of the World: A round-table discussion with Brooke Homes (29 May 2018)
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Colloquium:听One-day teachers' colloquium: 'Recovering the past'.听(13 February 2018)
Workshop:听 (22 November 2017)
Conference: Narcissism: a one-day conference (17 November 2017)
Conference: Antiquity At Home and On Screen (19-21听October 2017)
Conference: Ancient Greek Poetry & Poetics: Interactions Between Theory & Practice (21-22 September 2017)
- 2016-17
Lecture: 8 February 2017:听Housman Lecture 2017: Judith Butler听 (webcast )
Lecture: Platonic dialogue and Plato's dialogues in medieval Arabic translations: Donna Shalev听 (22 February 2017)Colloquium:听One-day teachers' colloquium on Fifth-Century Athens (22 February 2017)
Workshop: The First European: A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire (1 March 2017)
Seminar: 14 March 2017: Popular songs, popular Sappho (fr. 168B V. = PMG 976): Prof. Massimo Magnani (Parma)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听18 March 2016:听Keeling Lecture 2017: Professor A.A. Long (University of California, Berkeley), 'Divinity in Plato's Politics' (4:30 pm)
Symposium: 30 June 2017: Edges of the Human: Embodiment, Enactment, and Materiality in Greek Tragedy: Professor Nancy Worman (Barnard/Columbia)
- 2015-16
Classical Reception Studies Network Workshop:听Revolutions and Classics (22 July 2016)
Conference: From Song To Book: Performance and Entextualisation in Ancient Greek Literature and Beyond听(29 June - 1 July 2016)
Conference: The Politics of Form in Greek Culture听(17 June 2016)
Conference: Erudition and Allusion in Theocritus听(27 May 2016)
Symposium:听听(21 May 2016)
Conference: Language in Style (18-20 May 2016)
Conference: Economics and Warfare (27-29 April 2016)
Event in collaboration with the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges听on听听(23 March 2016)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听18 March 2016:听Keeling Lecture 2015: Susanne Bobzien (Oxford), 'Did Frege plagiarize the Stoics?' (5 pm)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听23听February 2016:听Housman Lecture 2016: Maurizio Bettini
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听22 February 2016:听Housman Masterclass: Maurizio Bettini (2-4 p.m.)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听11 February 2016: Rosa And煤jar on Menander: A New Comedy for Athens
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听10 February 2016:听Gesine Manuwald on Ancient 'New' Comedy
Colloquium:听One-day course on Identities and gender in the Ancient World听(9 February 2016)
Conference: Intertextuality in Valerius Flaccus'听Argonautica听(18 December 2015)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听3 November 2015 at 6.30 p.m.听
- 2014-15
Conference:听Hannah Arendt and the Ancients (17-18 September 2015)
Conference: Dionysus in Rome (3-4 September 2015)
Postgraduate Student Event: . 听A workshop organised in conjunction with the听Postclassicisms听network.
Conference: Grattius in Contex(s): hunting an Augustan poet (25-26 June 2015)
颁辞苍蹿别谤别苍肠别:听The Poetics of War: Remembering Conflict from Ancient Greece to the Great War (17-19 June 2015)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听4 June 2015:听Housman lecture 2015: Leslie Kurke (6:00 pm)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听5 June 2015:听Housman Masterclass: Leslie Kurke (2:00 - 5:00 pm)
Postgraduate Student 贰惫别苍迟:听Early-Modern Texts and Digital Resources (29 May 2015)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听13 May 2015:听Keeling Lecture 2015: David Sedley "Socrates' Second Voyage (Plato,听Phaedo听99-101)" (5:00pm)
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Panel Discussion: Families and the Law in the Ancient World: A public discussion exploring family law in ancient Greece, Rome and Mesopotamia (Friday 24 April 2015, 18:00 to 19:30)
Conference: Aspects of Family Law in the Ancient World - a Cross-cultural Perspective (22-24 April 2015)
Colloquium:听UCL/British School at Athens Colloquium for Secondary School Teachers (16 February 2015)
Symposium:听Staging Greek Tragedy Today (13 February 2015)
Conference: Back to the Future: Varro, the State, and Antiquarianism (26-27 January 2015)
Conference:听Classics and the Great War, in an Age of Empire听(27 November 2014).听 Co-sponsored by the听Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms听and the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge.听 The conference was held in Cambridge.
Conference: Hellenism and Judaism in Modernity (19 November 2014)
- 2013-14
Conference: : collaboration with the English Department and the Warburg Institute.听 The conference will be held at the Warburg Institute.
颁辞苍蹿别谤别苍肠别:听Chris Carey (a celebration) 19 September 2014
Conference and Public Event:听Palladas and the New Papyrus (4-5 September 2014)
Training Day: Greek Epic and Lyric Fragments (2 July 2014)
颁辞苍蹿别谤别苍肠别:听Song Regained: Greek Epic and Lyric Fragments from the Archaic to the Imperial Era (2-4 July 2014)
Conference:听Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage (24-26 June 2014)听
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听28 April 2014: Professor John Moles (Newcastle): 'Virgil's Loss of Virginity and Related Matters.' 5.30pm. 2.18 Chadwick Building (UCL front quad). Reception to follow. All welcome.
颁辞苍蹿别谤别苍肠别:听: Gesine Manuwald
Conference:听New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics (3 - 4 April 2014)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听19 March 2014:听Housman Masterclass: Denis Feeney (4 pm)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听20 March 2014:听Housman lecture 2014: Denis Feeney (6pm)
Colloquium:听. Wednesday 12th March 2014, 2-7pm, Foster Court 307.
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听12 March 2014: Professor Gail Fine, 'Knowledge, belief, and perception in the Phaedo'.听 4-6pm, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre.听
Colloquium:听UCL/British School at Athens Colloquium for Secondary School Teachers(19 February 2014)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听11 February 2014:听UCL Classical Play Lecture. Dr Rosa And煤jar (UCL): 'Comedy and Caricature in Aristophanes' Theatre'.
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听12 February 2014:听UCL Classical Play Lecture. Dr Jenny Bryan (UCL): 'Socrates' search for wisdom.'
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听13 February 2014: UCL Classical Play Lecture. Bettany Hughes: 'Athens: the Theatre for Socrates' Ideas'.
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听29 January 2014: Prof. James Redfield (Chicago): 'The Socratic Dialogues as Historical Fiction' (5:30pm). Gordon House 106 (WC1H 0PP).听
Colloquium: Keeling Colloquium 4th to 6th November 2013听
Colloquium: : a is availble online.听
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听10 October 2013: Gesine Manuwald, 'Latin as a language of translation in Elizabethan England'. The听听Lectures: 6 to 7.30 pm; also in UCL events page.
- 2012-13
Conference:听Greek Literary Epigram: From the Hellenistic to the early Byzantine Era (11-13 September 2013)
Conference: The Platonic Letters: Readings and Receptions (2-4 September 2013)
Conference: The Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond (12-13 August 2013)
Panel discussion:听Myth and Mythology听(UCL Festival of Arts): 16 May, 1:00pm
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听8 May 2013:听Lecture: Dr Peter Meineck (NYU), 'The Theatre that Moved the Soul: Understanding the Power of Ancient Greek Drama through Modern Cognitive Science'
Conference:听Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts (16-18 April 2013)
Conference: Paths of Song: Interactions between Greek Lyric and Tragedy (11-13 April 2013)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听20 February 2013:听Housman lecture 2013: Eric Csapo (6pm)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听19 February 2013:听Housman Masterclass: Eric Csapo (2.30pm)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听5 February 2013:听UCL Classical Play Lecture. Professor Simon Goldhill (Cambridge): 'Tragedy and the Trojan Women.'
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听6 February 2013:听UCL Classical Play Lecture. Professor Chris Carey (UCL): 'In Search of Meaning: the World of the Trojan Women.
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听7 February 2013:听UCL Classical Play Lecture. Dr Rosa And煤jar (UCL): 'Good Grief: The Lamenting Women of Tragedy.'
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听16 November 2012: Lecture. Dr Maude Vanhaelen (Warwick), 'Renaissance scholars and their demons: on Ficino and Iamblichus' De Mysteriis' (5 pm)听
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听13 November 2012:听Lecture. 'Jumping to conclusions. Bull-leaping in Minoan Crete' Dr. Andrew Shapland (British Museum)听
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听10 October 2012:听Keeling Lecture 2012: Prof. Richard Sorabji听(6-8pm)
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听9 October 2012:听Keeling Graduate Masterclass (4-6pm)
- 2011-12
尝别肠迟耻谤别:听Housman Lecture 2012
颁辞苍蹿别谤别苍肠别:听Educating the Future Generation: teaching, learning, and antiquity 13-14 September 2012
颁辞苍蹿别谤别苍肠别:听Iambus and Elegy - 11-13 July 2012
颁辞苍蹿别谤别苍肠别:听Olympics: Sport and competition in Greece and Rome - 14-15 June 2012
颁辞苍蹿别谤别苍肠别:听Cicero Awayday - 30th May 2012
颁辞苍蹿别谤别苍肠别:听A Theatre of Justice: aspects of Graeco-Roman oratory and rhetorics 19-20 April 2012
Colloquium: Keeling Colloquium 7-9 November 2011.