ACCORDIA & INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
RESEARCH SEMINARS
SPRING 2008

NEW APPROACHES TO COLONIZATION: SETTLERS AND SETTLEMENTS IN ITALY AND SICILY



January 29: Guy Bradley (Cardiff): Latin colonisation in the mid Republic: a grand strategy?

February 5: Ed Bispham (Oxford): Colonists, kinship and pirates

February 26: Matthew Fitzjohn (Liverpool): Searching for Sikels and Greeks in the uplands of Sicily

March 11: Carrie Roth-Murray (Lampeter): Etruscan expansion or colonization into the Padana

April 22: Charlotte Greenacre (UCL): People and Places: Demography and Settlement

May 6: Edward Herring (NUI Galway): Does ethnicity matter in colonial relations? The case of South Italy

May 13: Tamar Hodos (Bristol): Greek Colonization from Sicilian Perspectives

May 20: Sarah McHugh (NUI Galway): Identity between truth and myth: The foundation stories of Magna Graecia

Tuesdays @ 17.15 in Room NG16, Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU, apart from April 22, which will take place in the Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H0PY. For further details, please contact Dr Kathryn Lomas, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY (email: K.Lomas AT ucl.ac.uk).