UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER: CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY
DEPT RESEARCH SEMINARS AND CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION MEETINGS 2008-9, SEMESTER 1
All Thursday meetings begin at 5 pm in the Samuel Alexander Building (the old Arts Building), Room S. 1. 7.
CA meetings are on Wednesdays at 5.30 in Room A. 7 of the same building.
All are welcome at all meetings, also at drinks after the discussion and at the meal with the speaker later on.
Thurs. 2 October
Rhiannon Ash (Oxford)
The mutiny of the Usipi in Tacitus' Agricola
Thurs. 9 October
Costas Panayotakis (Glasgow)
Petronius and the Roman literary tradition
Thurs. 16 October
Lisa Hau (Bristol)
Nothing to celebrate? The lack or disparagement of victory celebrations in the Greek historians
CA Wed. 22 October, 5.30 pm, A. 7
Paul Holder (John Rylands University Library Manchester)
The newly discovered (and unusual) inscribed altar from Manchester
Thurs. 23 October
Luca Larpi (Manchester)
Mommsen the philologist: the case of Gildas Sapiens, De excidio Britanniae
Thurs. 30 October
Andy Fear (Manchester)
Numantia, a city for all seasons
CA Wed. 12 November, 5.30 pm, A. 7
John Prag (Manchester Museum)
Faces from Shaft Grave VI at Mycenae
Thurs. 13 November
Federico Santangelo (Lampeter)
Divinatio and prudentia between late Republic and early Principate
Thurs. 20 November
Giambattista D'Alessio (KCL)
Post-classical choral performances
Thurs. 27 November
Eleanor Dickey (Exeter)
How to say 'please' in Latin and Greek
CA Wed. 3 December, 5.30 pm, A. 7
Robin Osborne (Cambridge)
Bodily remains in an ancient Greek world full of anthropomorphic gods
Thurs. 4 December
Zosia Archibald (Liverpool)
Moving marble and the values of archaic Greek society
Thurs. 11 December
Ruth Morello (Manchester)
The letters of Pliny the Younger
Thurs. 18 December
Adrian Kelly (Oxford)
Aias in Athens: the two worlds of Athenian tragedy
David.Langslow AT manchester.ac.uk for inquiries about the research seminar;
Tim.Parkin AT manchester.ac.uk for inquiries about the CA meetings, including requests to dine with the speaker
DEPT RESEARCH SEMINARS AND CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION MEETINGS 2008-9, SEMESTER 1
All Thursday meetings begin at 5 pm in the Samuel Alexander Building (the old Arts Building), Room S. 1. 7.
CA meetings are on Wednesdays at 5.30 in Room A. 7 of the same building.
All are welcome at all meetings, also at drinks after the discussion and at the meal with the speaker later on.
Thurs. 2 October
Rhiannon Ash (Oxford)
The mutiny of the Usipi in Tacitus' Agricola
Thurs. 9 October
Costas Panayotakis (Glasgow)
Petronius and the Roman literary tradition
Thurs. 16 October
Lisa Hau (Bristol)
Nothing to celebrate? The lack or disparagement of victory celebrations in the Greek historians
CA Wed. 22 October, 5.30 pm, A. 7
Paul Holder (John Rylands University Library Manchester)
The newly discovered (and unusual) inscribed altar from Manchester
Thurs. 23 October
Luca Larpi (Manchester)
Mommsen the philologist: the case of Gildas Sapiens, De excidio Britanniae
Thurs. 30 October
Andy Fear (Manchester)
Numantia, a city for all seasons
CA Wed. 12 November, 5.30 pm, A. 7
John Prag (Manchester Museum)
Faces from Shaft Grave VI at Mycenae
Thurs. 13 November
Federico Santangelo (Lampeter)
Divinatio and prudentia between late Republic and early Principate
Thurs. 20 November
Giambattista D'Alessio (KCL)
Post-classical choral performances
Thurs. 27 November
Eleanor Dickey (Exeter)
How to say 'please' in Latin and Greek
CA Wed. 3 December, 5.30 pm, A. 7
Robin Osborne (Cambridge)
Bodily remains in an ancient Greek world full of anthropomorphic gods
Thurs. 4 December
Zosia Archibald (Liverpool)
Moving marble and the values of archaic Greek society
Thurs. 11 December
Ruth Morello (Manchester)
The letters of Pliny the Younger
Thurs. 18 December
Adrian Kelly (Oxford)
Aias in Athens: the two worlds of Athenian tragedy
David.Langslow AT manchester.ac.uk for inquiries about the research seminar;
Tim.Parkin AT manchester.ac.uk for inquiries about the CA meetings, including requests to dine with the speaker