Details of the programme of the research seminars and events at Bristol
University’s Department of Classics and Ancient History are listed below.
Tuesday seminars take place in room G37, access through 3-5 Woodland Road,
porters’ lodge.
School of Humanities Seminars take place in Link Rooms 1 and 2, access
through porters’ lodge 3-5 Woodland Road.
All are welcome to attend the sessions. Directions to the university and
maps to the precinct may be found here: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/university/maps
For other events see the BIRTHA website: http://bristol.ac.uk/arts/birtha
Contact Dr Silke Knippschild (clzsk AT bris.ac.uk).
January 27th
Ed Bragg (Oxford/Bristol)
Roman Seaborne Raids during the Mid Republic: Sideshow or Headline Feature?
February 3rd
School of Humanities Seminar, Theology and Religious Studies: Buddhist
Funeral Rites in Southeast Asia. Project
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/thrs/research/buddhist.html
February 10th
Ed Paleit (Exeter)
Lucan and the Early Modern Reader
February 17th
Martina Cuypers (Trinity College Dublin)
Look Who’s Talking Too: Intertextuality and Narrative Voice in Apollonius’ Argonautica
February 24th
Ika Willis and Robert Crowe (Bristol)
Penguin Classics: Reception, Translation, and the State of the Archive
March 3rd
School of Humanities Seminar Classics and Ancient History: Ellen O’Gorman and Vanda Zajko
Character
March 10th
Ian Rutherford (Reading)
Religion at the Interface: Anatolian Religion of the Late Bronze Age as a Model for Greek Religion
Further events at the department
March 19th-20th
International conference
Just for Show? Performing and Affirming Status in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Conference
March 21st-22nd
Workshop
Critical Approaches to Ancient Philosophy.
May 5th, 6th, 12th, 13th
Blackwell Lectures:
Greg Woolf
The Ancient Ethnographer
Blackwell Lectures 5.15-6.30 in room LT2, access through 3-5 Woodland Road, porters’ lodge
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