Research Seminars, Department of Classics, University of Glasgow

All seminars take place on Tuesdays at 5.00 p.m. in the Murray Room (410) in
the Department of Classics, 65 Oakfield Avenue, University of Glasgow.
Seminars are followed by wine and dinner with the speaker. Inquiries: Dr.
Julia L. Shear, convener (J.Shear AT classics.arts.gla.ac.uk).


Tuesday 2 October 2007
Dr. Paul Holloway, University of Glasgow
'Re-calling the Dead: Ancient Funerary Portraiture and the Early Quest for
the "Spiritual" Jesus'

Tuesday 16 October 2007
Dr. Gavin Kelly, University of Edinburgh
'Ammianus, Gibbon, and Christianity'

Tuesday 30 October 2007
Dr. Michael Williams, University of Cambridge
'Ambrose, De Fide, and the Uses of Ambiguity'

Tuesday 13 November 2007
Dr. Emma Buckley, University of St Andrews
'History in the Staging: The Pseudo-Senecan Octavia'

Tuesday 27 November 2007
Mr. Michael Scott, University of Cambridge
'Spot the Difference: Buildings, Sculpture, and Sculpture on Buildings. The
Politics of Ownership in Ancient Greece'

Tuesday 11 December 2007
Dr. Claire Taylor, Trinity College Dublin
'Politics of Public Space in Attica'

Tuesday 15 January 2008
Dr. Alex Long, University of St Andrews
'Plato's Political Models'

Tuesday 29 January 2008
Prof. Matthew Fox, University of Glasgow
'Viaggio in Italia'

Tuesday 12 February 2008
Dr. Eberhard Sauer, University of Edinburgh, presenting the work of Hamid
Omrani, Dr. Eberhard Sauer, Jebrael Nokandeh, and Prof. Tony Wilkinson
'Ancient Persia's Frontier Walls in Northern Iran: A Joint Fieldwork Project
of the Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research and the Universities of
Edinburgh and Durham'

Tuesday 26 February 2008
Dr. Luke Houghton, University of Glasgow
'Two Letters to Horace: Petrarch and Andrew Lang'

Tuesday 11 March 2008
Dr. Jon Hesk, University of St Andrews
'Meta-topoi, Para-topoi, and the Issue of Innovation in Greek Rhetoric'