*RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CLASSICS*

*UNIVERSITY** OF WALES**, LAMPETER*

*RESEARCH SEMINAR PROGRAMME LENT TERM*

All papers start at 6pm and are held in the Roderick Bowen research centre. For more information please contact Mirjam Plantinga (m.plantinga AT lamp.ac.uk ) or Owen Hodkinson (o.hodkinson AT lamp.ac.uk ). All welcome.

*Thursday 15 January*: Dr. Lynn Kozak (Nottingham), ‘The Constraints of Desire: the Persistence of Pederasty in Platonic Models of Love’.

*Thursday 22 January*: Prof. Roy Gibson (Manchester), ‘Problems with Pliny the Younger’, a CA paper.

*Thursday 29 January*: Dr. Elton Barker (Christ Church College, Oxford), ‘Homer’s Thebes’, a KYKNOS paper.

*Thursday 5 February*: Dr. Fiona Hobden (Liverpool), ‘History meets fiction in Dr. Who, The Fires of Pompeii’.

*Thursday 12 February*: Dr. James Thorne (Swansea), ‘The state(s) of Gaul at Caesar’s arrival’.

*Thursday 26 February*: Dr. Roger Brock (Leeds), ‘Political imagery in archaic Greece’.

*Thursday 5 March*: Evert van Emde Boas (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), TBC

*Thursday 12 March*: Dr. Altay Coskun (Trier & Exeter), ‘New work on Hellenistic and Roman Galatia’.

*Thursday 19 March*: Melanie Marshall (Brasenose College, Oxford), /Bella plus quam civilia/: Tacitus’ /Histories/ and /aemulatio/ of Lucan’s narrative passages’, a KYKNOS paper.

*Thursday 26 March* (*provisional date): Prof. David Konstan (Brown), ‘Before Forgiveness’, a CA paper.