{"id":872,"date":"2017-03-05T21:52:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T21:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/?p=872"},"modified":"2017-03-05T21:52:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T21:52:43","slug":"newcastle-classics-and-ancient-history-research-seminars-spring-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/2017\/03\/05\/newcastle-classics-and-ancient-history-research-seminars-spring-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWCASTLE CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINARS, SPRING 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
Please find below the programme for the Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars taking place this semester at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University. All seminars begin at 5.00 pm on the given day and, unless specified below, take place in Room 2.50 on the 2nd<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>floor of the Armstrong Building. (A campus map may be foundhere<\/span><\/u><\/a>.) Further details about the final session listed below, a commentary workshop on Hesiod\u2019sTheogony\u00a0<\/span><\/i>led by Profs Jenny Strauss Clay and Athanassios Vergados, will be circulated in due course. I or Micaela Langellotti will be sending out a weekly notice in advance of each seminar, along with contact details about that week’s dinner arrangements. Any enquiries may be directed us at\u00a0<\/span>john.holton@newcastle.ac.uk<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>micaela.langellotti@newcastle.ac.uk<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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All are very welcome to attend!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Wednesday 15th<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>February<\/span><\/div>\n
Young Research Panel (PhD candidates, Newcastle University)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Roberto Ciucciove:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Lex Marcia Atinia<\/i>: new strategies of communication and legislative productivity within the Romannobilitas<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>at the beginning of the II century BC<\/span><\/div>\n
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Chris Mowat: <\/span><\/strong>An Intersex Manifesto: Naming the non-binary constructions of the ancient world<\/span><\/div>\n
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James Mullen: <\/span><\/strong>Beyond Persianization: the adoption of Near Eastern traditions by Alexander the Great<\/span><\/div>\n
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Wednesday 22nd<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>February<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dr Rolf Strootman (Utrecht)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Global empire, local religion: Religious patronage and imperial integration in the Hellenistic Near East<\/span><\/div>\n
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Thursday 23rd<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>February (Room TBC)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dr Claudia Beltrao da Rosa (UNIRIO\/Newcastle)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Images of the Gods in Cicero<\/span><\/div>\n
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Wednesday 1st<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>March<\/span><\/div>\n
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Prof. Nicholas Purcell (Oxford)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Micro-global history puts the ancient Mediterranean in its place<\/span><\/div>\n
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Wednesday 8th<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>March<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dr Jamie Wood (Lincoln)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
From Cyprian to Priscillian: making and breaking bishops in late Roman Spain,ca<\/i>. 250-ca<\/i>. 400<\/span><\/div>\n
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Wednesday 15th<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>March<\/span><\/div>\n
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Prof. Costas Panayotakis (Glasgow)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
The collection of Latin moral maxims attributed to the playwright Publilius<\/span><\/div>\n
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Wednesday 22nd<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>March<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dr Caroline Vout (Cambridge<\/strong>)<\/span><\/div>\n
Classicism Meets Modernity: Greek and Roman Art in the Nineteenth Century<\/span><\/div>\n
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Wednesday 26th<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>April<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dr Katherine McDonald (Exeter)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Writing women: understanding the goddess Reitia<\/span><\/div>\n
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Wednesday 3rd<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>May<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dr David Lewis (Nottingham)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Occupational hazards: measuring the extent of the division of labour in the economy of classical Athens<\/span><\/div>\n
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Wednesday 10th<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>May<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dr Oliver Passmore (Newcastle)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Deixis<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>and Identity in the\u00a0<\/span>Odyssey<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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Wednesday 17th<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>May<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dr Lisa Hau (Glasgow)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Pathos with a Point. Reevaluating \u2018Tragic History\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n
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Wednesday 24th<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>May (Room 1.04, Armstrong Building)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Prof. Jenny Strauss Clay (Virginia) and Prof. Athanassios Vergados (Heidelberg\/Newcastle)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Workshop: Commentary on Hesiod\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Theogony<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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Please find below the programme for the Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars taking place this semester at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University. All seminars begin at 5.00 pm on the given day and, unless specified below, take place in Room 2.50 on the 2nd\u00a0floor of the Armstrong Building. (A campus … Continue reading NEWCASTLE CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINARS, SPRING 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-seminar-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}