PGF SEMINAR – 12TH MAY, 1-2 PM

We will be hearing from Yolanda Panou a second year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Yolanda’s research areas are classical tragedy (both Greek and Roman), classical mythology and, more specifically, the representations of infanticide and child killing in the ancient world and theatre. Alongside the tragic plays, her main sources also cover the legal, social and philosophical background of classical Athens, early Republican and Neronian Rome. 

She will deliver her paper entitled: “Becoming a victim of μανία: Representations of child killing on the Athenian stage”

For more information please contact Leanne – l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk

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PGF Seminar 5th May 1-2 pm

We will be hearing from Cathy Bishop a current student at Swansea University. Cathy has a BA in Classical Civilisations and Egyptology, and an MA in Ancient Egyptian Culture. Whilst undertaking these courses, she has volunteered with excavations such as the South Asasif Conservation Project, and museums, namely the Egypt Centre, and more recently, the CircArt project at the British Museum. Cathy will deliver her paper entitled: ‘Practicalities of incense in New Kingdom Egypt.‘

For more information please contact Leanne – l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk

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PGF Seminar 24th March 1-2pm

We will be hearing from Meena Menon a first year PhD student in the School of History at the University of Leeds. Meena’s research examines India’s development paradigm rooted in high modernism and gigantism, the emergence and leadership of social movements and their impact, and the nature of the state, both in colonial and post- colonial times. She will deliver her paper entitled: ‘Social Movements and Local Sovereignty in the Age of Transnational Capital and Ecological Devastation in Postcolonial India’. 

For more information please contact Leanne – l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk

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Pons Aelius 17 (Spring Edition: May 2025)

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In This Issue

Steve Kendall, Talking to a Whalebone Box about Poetry: The Franks Casket and the Creative Process.

s.kendall1@newcastle.ac.uk  

Zenia Duell, Classics in Prison.

zenia.duell@kcl.ac.uk 

Nina Büchner, Pandora and Eve: Women as the Origin of Evil in Creation Mythology.

ninabuechner0@gmail.com 

Sophie Norman, Vocalising Female Rebellion in Early Modern Finnmark’s Witch Trials.

sophiekhnorman@outlook.com 

T.N. Gibson, “All in the name of progress… and for a few lousy bob”: Brassed Off, Rebellion and Deindustrialisation.

t.gibson6@newcastle.ac.uk

Ally Keane, ‘It became a symbol of my incapacity and I hated it’: Resistance to High-Technology Augmentative and Alternative Communication, c. 1980-2020.

a.j.keane@newcastle.ac.uk

Bernardo Carvalho De Mello, Global South Narratives of Rebellion in International Human Rights Law.

b.carvalho-de-mello2@newcastle.ac.uk  

Barnaby Falck, The Bunny Game – A modern counter-cultural rebellious masterpiece of female empowerment and subversion of film-making norms.

bfalck@lincoln.ac.uk 

PGF Seminar 9th June, 1-2 pm

Our final PGF seminar will take place on Wednesday the 9th of June at 1 pm.

We will be hearing from Mihai Hotea a current third-year PhD student in International History at the University of Nottingham. Mihai’s thesis investigates Romania’s political, diplomatic and economic relations with the US, and the UK during the era of détente. It explores why the three states had a profound interest in working closely with each other, and how much they became involved in the general developments of détente, a process that seemed to loosen the bloc-based power structure in Europe and give medium powers, like Romania, more room for manoeuvre.

Mihai will deliver his paper entitled: “Should democratic leaders engage in bilateral summits with dictators? A case-study of the US, UK and communist Romania in the era of détente”.

For more information please contact Leanne – l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk

PGF Seminar 17th March 1-2pm

We will be hearing from Indigo Reeve a current Archaeology PhD student at the University of Edinburgh researching health in medieval Scotland and London. Indigo’s study aims to provide a greater insight into childhood heath that is often obscured in the historical and archaeological record.  Indigo will deliver her paper entitled: “A Stressful Life: Childhood Health in South-East Scotland“.

For more information please contact Leanne – l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk

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PGF Seminar 10th March 1-2pm

We will be hearing from Jamie Gemmell (University of Edinburgh). Jamie is currently undertaking a Masters degree under the supervision of Prof. Diana Paton and Dr. Richard Oosterhoof.  Jamie began working on conceptions of “African ethnicity” in 2019, beginning with a summer project, funded by a Carnegie Vacation Scholarship. For the project, Jamie produced an annotated and partially digitised transcript of James Knight’s The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica (1742), which was presented as part of the British Library’s “Summer Scholars Series.” Jamie will deliver his paper entitled: “Projects of Racialisation: Oroonoko and African Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World”.

For more information please contact Leanne – l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk

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PGF Seminar 3rd March 1-2pm

We will be hearing from Oded Haim a current student at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Oded gained both his BA in History and English linguistics and MA in History from the Ben-Gurion University. His MA thesis focused on the Second Punic War and the Battle of Zama and he will deliver his paper entitled: ‘From Defeat to Victory: Why did Rome win the Second Punic War?’. 

For more information please contact Leanne – l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk

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PGF Seminar 24th February 1-2pm

We will be hearing from Claire Heseltine a current MSt student in Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on issues of gender in the transmission of divine and mythological iconography from the Hellenistic to Roman period. She is currently funded by the Ertegun Scholarship. Claire will deliver her paper entitled ‘And her loveliness’: the wounding and death of Penthesilea in Roman art’. 

For more information please contact Leanne – l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk

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