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Edinburgh Classics Research Seminar: Semester 1 Programme
Seminars take place on Wednesdays, 5.10 pm, in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, Teviot Place, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, with drinks and dinner to follow.
ALL WELCOME!The programme for Semester 1 can also be found here:
http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/ClassicsResearchSeminars.htmProgramme:
Theme: Out of Africa
28/09/11
Dr Josephine Crawley Quinn (Worcester College, Oxford)
‘Capitolia in Italy and Africa’05/10/11
Dr Orietta Cordovana (Freie Universität Berlin)
‘Limes Africae’Theme: Reading Homer
12/10/11
Prof. Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh)
‘ate in the Homeric poems’19/10/11 (joint with CAS; 7 pm start)
Prof. Ruth Scodel (Michigan)
‘Mindreading in Odysseys’Theme: Writing (ancient) history
02/11/11
Prof. Neville Morley (Bristol)
‘Thucydides and the modern idea of history’09/11/11
Dr Timothy Duff (Reading)
‘Rethinking Plutarch’s Lives’Theme: Death and burial
16/11/11
Dr Markus Scholz (RGZM)
‘Beyond death: funeral monuments as new status symbols in the northern provinces of the Imperium Romanum (c. 1-3 c. AD)’23/11/11
Dr Maureen Carroll (Sheffield)
‘Too young for the funeral pyre! Infant death and society in Roman Italy’
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