Department of Classics & Ancient History
University of Manchester
Research Seminar, SECOND SEMESTER, 2006-7
All seminars take place in Humanities Lime Grove Building, Oxford
Road, Room S1.7 and begin at 5pm.
All welcome. For more information, contact ruth.morello AT manchester.ac.uk
1 February
Jamie Wood (Manchester), "Isidore of Seville and the history of Rome"
8 February
A.R. Birley (Emeritus, Duesseldorf) , 'Religion at Vindolanda'
15 February
Bella Sandwell (Bristol), 'Libanius and the Strategic Use of Religious
Allegiance'
22 February
Ursula Rothe (Manchester), Clothing and identity in the northwest of
the Roman Empire
1 March
Liz Potter (Bristol), "Ideas and Ideals of Athens in 19th-c. Britain"
8 March
Julia Shear (Glasgow), 'Polis, Demos, and Revolution: Responding to the
Four Hundred'
15 March
Henrik Mouritsen (KCL), 'The power of the Roman people revisited'
22 March
Ibrahim Amin (Manchester), "Spears & Suplexes: Grappling from the
Palaestra to the Battlefield"
19 April
David Fearn (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), 'Dithyramb, Paean, and
Epinician: The Politics and Diversity of Choral Performance on Greek
Islands of the 5th Century BC'.
26 April
Serafina Cuomo (Imperial), 'A Roman engineer's tales'
3 May
Esther Eidinow (Manchester), 'Magic on Trial'
10 May
Bill Allan (University College Oxford), 'Tragic politics: some myths
and some answers'
17 May
Emily Gowers (Cambridge), 'Trees and Family Trees in the Aeneid'
24 May
Guy Bradley (Cardiff), 'Romanisation: the end of the peoples of Italy?'
31 May
Tony Woodman (Virginia), 'A Covering Note: Catullus 65'
University of Manchester
Research Seminar, SECOND SEMESTER, 2006-7
All seminars take place in Humanities Lime Grove Building, Oxford
Road, Room S1.7 and begin at 5pm.
All welcome. For more information, contact ruth.morello AT manchester.ac.uk
1 February
Jamie Wood (Manchester), "Isidore of Seville and the history of Rome"
8 February
A.R. Birley (Emeritus, Duesseldorf) , 'Religion at Vindolanda'
15 February
Bella Sandwell (Bristol), 'Libanius and the Strategic Use of Religious
Allegiance'
22 February
Ursula Rothe (Manchester), Clothing and identity in the northwest of
the Roman Empire
1 March
Liz Potter (Bristol), "Ideas and Ideals of Athens in 19th-c. Britain"
8 March
Julia Shear (Glasgow), 'Polis, Demos, and Revolution: Responding to the
Four Hundred'
15 March
Henrik Mouritsen (KCL), 'The power of the Roman people revisited'
22 March
Ibrahim Amin (Manchester), "Spears & Suplexes: Grappling from the
Palaestra to the Battlefield"
19 April
David Fearn (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), 'Dithyramb, Paean, and
Epinician: The Politics and Diversity of Choral Performance on Greek
Islands of the 5th Century BC'.
26 April
Serafina Cuomo (Imperial), 'A Roman engineer's tales'
3 May
Esther Eidinow (Manchester), 'Magic on Trial'
10 May
Bill Allan (University College Oxford), 'Tragic politics: some myths
and some answers'
17 May
Emily Gowers (Cambridge), 'Trees and Family Trees in the Aeneid'
24 May
Guy Bradley (Cardiff), 'Romanisation: the end of the peoples of Italy?'
31 May
Tony Woodman (Virginia), 'A Covering Note: Catullus 65'