SEMINAR PROGRAM, EPIPHANY TERM 2008
Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham
Friday 18 January, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Giovan-Battista D'Alessio (King's College London)
The persuasion of songs
Wednesday 23 January, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Kai Brodersen (Mannheim University / St John's College, Oxford)
aspici cognoscique dignissimum: viewing Pomponius Mela's text, reading his images
Friday 25 January, 5.30pm [Ritson room] - a joint event with the Dept. of Theology
Professor Erich Gruen (University of California at Berkeley)
Tacitus and the Jews
Wednesday 30 January, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Margherita Facella (University of Pisa)
Jupiter Dolichenus at home: news from the archaeological excavations at Dülük Baba Tepesi
Wednesday 6 February, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Tony Birley (Vindolanda & Durham)
Religion at Vindolanda
Wednesday 13 February, 5.30pm [Seminar room] - Classical Association
Dr Peter Thonemann (Wadham College, Oxford)
Finding Toriaion: the rediscovery of an ancient city in central Anatolia
Wednesday 20 February, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Bernard Collette (Honorary Research Fellow at Durham)
Moral identity in Chrysippus. On self, parts and daimon
Wednesday 5 March, 5.30pm [Ritson room] - under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Professor Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)
Near Eastern perspectives on the Greeks
Saturday 8 March, 11am - 4.30pm [Ritson room] - under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Workshop on 'Nabataean culture' [details to follow separately]
Wednesday 12 March, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Lucia Prauscello (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
The cult of Demeter Chthonia (and its dithyrambic roots) at Hermione between the Archaic and Hellenistic period
For information, please contact Ted Kaizer at ted.kaizer AT durham.ac.uk
Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham
Friday 18 January, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Giovan-Battista D'Alessio (King's College London)
The persuasion of songs
Wednesday 23 January, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Kai Brodersen (Mannheim University / St John's College, Oxford)
aspici cognoscique dignissimum: viewing Pomponius Mela's text, reading his images
Friday 25 January, 5.30pm [Ritson room] - a joint event with the Dept. of Theology
Professor Erich Gruen (University of California at Berkeley)
Tacitus and the Jews
Wednesday 30 January, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Margherita Facella (University of Pisa)
Jupiter Dolichenus at home: news from the archaeological excavations at Dülük Baba Tepesi
Wednesday 6 February, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Tony Birley (Vindolanda & Durham)
Religion at Vindolanda
Wednesday 13 February, 5.30pm [Seminar room] - Classical Association
Dr Peter Thonemann (Wadham College, Oxford)
Finding Toriaion: the rediscovery of an ancient city in central Anatolia
Wednesday 20 February, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Bernard Collette (Honorary Research Fellow at Durham)
Moral identity in Chrysippus. On self, parts and daimon
Wednesday 5 March, 5.30pm [Ritson room] - under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Professor Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)
Near Eastern perspectives on the Greeks
Saturday 8 March, 11am - 4.30pm [Ritson room] - under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Workshop on 'Nabataean culture' [details to follow separately]
Wednesday 12 March, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Lucia Prauscello (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
The cult of Demeter Chthonia (and its dithyrambic roots) at Hermione between the Archaic and Hellenistic period
For information, please contact Ted Kaizer at ted.kaizer AT durham.ac.uk