CONF: Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar, University of Manchester

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Dept. of Classics and Ancient History, University of Manchester, Research Seminar Semester 1, 2012-13

The Classics and Ancient History Department at Manchester runs a series of research seminars through the year. Papers begin at 4.55pm on Thursdays in Samuel Alexander Building, S2.9.

Thursday, 4 October 2012
Jessica Dixon (Manchester): The language of adultery

Thursday, 11 October 2012
Stephen Todd (Manchester): Slave Sexuality

Thursday, 18 October 2012
Christy Constantakopoulou (Birkbeck): Semonides of Samos or Amorgos? The ‘Archaeology of the Samians’ and the question of the archaic colonisation of Amorgos reconsidered

Thursday, 25 October 2012, 5.30pm
David Scourfield (Maynooth): Exemplarity, Monumentality, and Self-Fashioning in Jerome’s Letters of Consolation

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Richard Alston (RHUL): Malthusian politics: reconsidering the political economy of Roman Italy

Thursday, 15 November 2012
Emma Griffiths (Manchester): What women want: Mythological strategies in Menander’s Samia

Thursday, 22 November 2012
Philip Hardie (Cambridge): For nation and empire: some uses of Virgil

Thursday, 29 November 2012
Peter Pormann (Manchester): ‘Life is short, the art is long.’ The Hippocratic Aphorisms in the Arabic exegetical tradition

Thursday, 6 December 2012
Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge): Re-reading the Augustan Marriage Laws.

Thursday, 13 December 2012
David Langslow (Manchester): oleum uetus ‘old oil’ and noua fictilia ‘new vessels’: regularity and licence in the placement of the adjective in Latin.

This semester’s programme can also be accessed on the Department’s website:

http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/classicsancienthistory/events/seminars/

In addition there are a number of meetings of the local branch of the Classical Association held on Wednesdays in Samuel Alexander A7 at 5.30 pm:

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Dr. Peter Jones (Friends of Classics)
Ancient Thoughts on Modern Problems

Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Dr. Peter Thonemann (University of Oxford)
Phrygia: An Anarchist History

Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Prof. Tim Cornell (University of Manchester)
Plutarch and Suetonius: Biographers in Historians’ Clothing?