CONF: Durham Research Seminars 2010/2011

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RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/2011

Venue:
Durham University, Department of Classics & Ancient History, 38 North
Bailey, Durham DH1 3EU, Ritson Room (no. 007, ground floor)

MICHAELMAS TERM 2010:

Week 1 (Thursday 14 October 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
Dr Federico Santangelo (Newcastle)
“Divination and prediction in the Late Republic”

Week 2 (Thursday 21 October 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (1):  Professor Gillian Clark (Bristol)
“Read My Book: Letters and the City of God”

Week 3 (Thursday 28 October 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (2):  Professor Harry Hine (St. Andrews)
“Philosophical and non-philosophical communities in Seneca’s Letters”

Week 4 (Wednesday 3 November 2010, 5:30-7:00 pm):
Professor Annette M. Harder (Groningen)
“Poetics through poetry. The poetic dialogue of Callimachus and Apollonius
Rhodius”

Week 4 (Thursday 4 November 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
CANCELLED

Week 5 (Thursday 11 November 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
Professor Michael Trapp (KCL)
“Picturing Socrates’ daimonion”

Week 6 (Thursday 18 November 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (3):  Dr Kurt Lampe (Bristol)
Topic TBC

Week 7 (Thursday 25 November 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (4):  Dr Sian Lewis (St. Andrews)
Topic TBC

Week 8 (Wednesday 1 December 2010, 5:30-7:00 pm):
Professor Jasper Griffin (Oxford)
“Human Sacrifice and the Ultimate Demand of Power”

Week 8 (Thursday 2 December 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (5):  Dr Miriam Griffin (Oxford)
“Symptoms and Sympathy in Latin Letter-Writing”

Week 9 (Thursday 9 December 2010, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
Dr Dominic Berry (Edinburgh)
“Cicero and Greek Art”

EPIPHANY TERM 2011:

Week 1 (Thursday 20 January 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (6):  Professor William Fitzgerald (KCL)
Pliny the Younger

Week 2 (Thursday 27 January 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (7):  Dr Christopher Whitton (Cambridge)
Pliny the Younger

Week 3 (Thursday 3 February 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
Prof. Dr. Marcus Deufert (Leipzig)
On Lucilius’ Satires

Week 4 (Thursday 10 February 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (8):  Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmitz (Bonn)
On letters in the Second Sophistic

Week 5 (Thursday 17 February 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (9):  Prof. Dr. Christian Tornau (Würzburg)
On St. Jerome’s letters

Week 6 (Thursday 24 February 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (10):  PD Dr. Bianca-Jeanette Schröder (LMU München)
Topic TBC

Week 7 (Thursday 3 March 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (11):  Prof. Dr. Niklas Holzberg (LMU München)
“Horace’s last poetry book: The epistolary trilogy for Augustus, Florus and
the Pisones”

Week 8 (Thursday 10 March 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (12):  Professor Ineke Sluiter (Leiden)
“Letters of dedication in ancient technical texts”

Week 9 (Thursday 17 March 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (13):  Dr Lieve van Hoof (KU Leuven)
On Libanius’ letters

EASTER TERM 2011:

Week 1 (Thursday 28 April 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
LETTERS (14):  Dr Ruth Morello (Manchester)
“Writing to Caesar”

Week 2 (Wednesday 4 May 2011, 1:00-2:00 pm, room 108):
LETTERS (15):  Dr Owen Hodkinson (Lampeter)
“Dear Sirs: Writing to collectives in the Greek epistolary tradition”

Week 2 (Thursday 5 May 2011, 11.30 am-1:00 pm):
Professor Jakob Wisse (Newcastle)
“The bad orator in republican Rome. Between clumsy delivery and political
danger”

Week 3 (Thursday 12 May 2011, 11.30 am -1:00 pm):
Professor Gregory Hutchinson (Oxford)
“Booking lovers. Desire and design in Catullus”

Contact:
PD Dr. Thorsten Fögen: thorsten.foegen AT durham.ac.uk