Seen on the Classicists list:
Colleagues may be interested in the Classics and Ancient History seminars taking place this Semester at the School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University.
All seminars take place in the PG meeting room, on the second floor of the Armstrong Building, at 5pm (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/documents/Campus-Map-Print.pdf).
Wed 12 Oct: Malcolm Heath (Leeds), Lobsters’ claws, hairy chests, edible animals: Aristotle and the meaning of everything
Wed 26 Oct: Thilo Rising (Newcastle), Barbatuli iuvenes: Cicero and the gilded youth of Rome
Wed 09 Nov: Paola Ceccarelli (Durham), Athenaeus, the ‘walking library’? On the meaning of the Deipnosophistai
Wed 23 Nov: Andrew Erskine (Edinburgh), Polybius and the Hellenistic world
Wed 07 Dec: Hallie Marshall (UBC Vancouver), Poet, architect, sculptor: three case studies in classical reception
Wed 14 Dec: Jean-Sébastien Balzat (Oxford), Ancient and modern views on the distribution of the Roman citizenship
Note also a special event: Professor Jaap Wisse’s inaugural lecture, ‘Lest we forget: Tacitus on history-writing under a tyranny’, which takes place on Thurs 10 Nov at 5.30pm in the Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University.
For further information, please contact Dr Claire Taylor (claire.taylor AT ncl.ac.uk). All welcome.
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