Seminar Programs in Semester One 2013
RESEARCH SEMINARS IN CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY
Welcome to a new semester of the Sydney Classics and Ancient History seminar series, held in the conference room of CCANESA, level 4 of the Madsen Building (on Eastern Ave opposite the Carslaw Blg). CCANESA is at the top of the stairs located directly in front of you when you enter the Madsen Blg (i.e. one floor above the level of the main entrance to the building).
Papers are followed by light refreshments.
All are welcome.
Thursday 14 March 4.30 pm
Sulari Gentill in conversation with Alastair Blanshard
Notes from the battlefield: Classics and popular fiction
Thursday 21 March 4.30 pm
Geraldine Herbert-Brown (University of Sydney)
arguor obsceni doctor adulterii (Tr. 2.212). Would a poet ever lie? Ovid and the Ars Amatoria
Monday 25 March, 12.00 noon
Emma Park (University of Warwick)
Plato’s philosophical literature: images of beauty in the Phaedrus
EASTER BREAK
Thursday 11 April 4.30 pm
Peter Keegan (Macquarie University)
Previewing Graffiti in Antiquity: Scratching the Surface of the First Survey of Ancient Graffiti in English
Thursday 18 April 4.30 pm
Ioannis Ziogas (Australian National University)
Singing for Octavia: Vergil’s Life and Marcellus’ death
Wednesday 24 April 4.30 pm
David Hill (University of Sydney)
The Archaeological Study of the Ancient Greek City of Troizen: A New Opportunity for Australian Archaeology
Monday 29 April, 12.00 noon
Anne Rogerson (University of Sydney)
The too-many voices of Vegio’s Supplement
Monday 6 May, 12.00 noon
Daniel Irwin (University of Sydney)
Livy and the Translation of Polybius
Thursday 16 May, 4.30 pm
David Mattingly (University of Leicester)
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Monday 20 May, 12.00 noon
Victoria Jennings (University of Adelaide)
A troublesome bird: divination in popular literary texts
Monday 27 May, 12.00 noon
Liam Ahern (University of Sydney)
pareste te iste te panta: the authority of autopsy in early Greek poetic discourse
Thursday 6 June, 4.30 pm
Sarah Lawrence (University of New England)
How to be good: the virtues of the non-elite
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Enquiries:
Anne Rogerson
RESEARCH SEMINARS IN CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Seminars will be held on Tuesdays, 3.00-4.30, in the Board Room of the Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia. It is located on level four of the Madsen Building (on Eastern Avenue opposite the Carslaw Building). CCANESA is at the top of the stairs located directly in front of you when you enter the Madsen Building (i.e. one floor above the level of the main entrance to the building).
March 19
Prof. John Papadopoulos (UCLA)
Komai, colonies and cities: the failure of the polis and the rise of urbanism on the fringes of the Greek world
April 9
Dr. Nicola Harrington
Children in the mortuary sphere in pre-classical antiquity
April 16
Prof. Margaret Miller
Women at the Court of the King and Olympia’s Poulydamas Base
April 23
Kristen Mann
Accessing households: reassessing settlement data in the digital age, a presentation of preliminary doctoral research on Zagora at Andros
May 7
Ivana Vetta
Slags and Ores: Archaeometallurgy and the settlement site of Zagora
May 14
Dr Annette Kelaher
Plant Motifs of the Attic vase painters, ca. 725-400 BC
May 21
Dr Craig Barker and Prof. Richard Green
‘Allowing Ghosts to Rise’: What was the purpose of sub-orchestral tunnels in Hellenistic theatres?
June 4
Steven Vasilakis
An Archaeological Approach from the Sea
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Enquiries:
Dr Ted Robinson
RESEARCH SEMINARS IN NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY
Seminars are held on Mondays at 3.15 pm in the CCANESA Board Room (Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia), level 4, Madsen Building.
Monday 11th March: No NESS
Monday 18th March: Dr. Ross Burns
“Does the War for Syria's Future Threaten its Past?”
Monday 25th March: Prof. Philip Carl Salzman (McGill University, Montreal)
“Culture as a Strategic Asset in Adaptation to Environmental Niches and Changing Circumstances”
Monday 1st April: Easter No NESS
Tuesday 9th April: Dr. Cameron Petrie (Cambridge University)
“Local developments and long range interactions: the 4th Millennium BC in Mamasani, Fars, Iran”
NB. Change of day and time for this session to Tuesday at 1pm
Monday 15th April: Peter Woodley (The University of Sydney)
"Features without finds in the Mongolian Altai: the excavation of two prehistoric habitation sites. Or are they?"
Monday 22nd April: Archaeology Display Case 26th April - No NESS
Monday 29th April:
Monday 6th May: Rosemary Whitecross (The University of Sydney)
“Juggling a Porcupine: Self Evidence and Ambiguity in the Study of Sedentism”
Monday 13th May: Iona Kat McCrae, Ana Becerra & Amanda Dusting
3 papers Direct from Symposia Iranica, Scotland
Monday 20th May: Dr. Nicola Harrington (The University of Sydney)
“Darkness by day: an analysis of grief, loss, and despair as presented in ancient Egyptian sources”
Monday 27th May: Dr. Stephen Bourke (The University of Sydney)
"A report on the most recent season of excavations at Pella"
Monday 3rd June: Ghada Daher (The University of Sydney)
"Blowing the whistle, a glazed whistle from the Ottoman period found in Beirut”
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For enquiries and to be placed on the NESS mailing list, email Amanda Dusting
INSPIRED VOICES RESEARCH CLUSTER RESEARCH SEMINAR AND READING GROUP SCHEDULE 2011
Seminars in the Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia (CCANESA) 3.30-4.30 pm Wednesdays, unless specified otherwise.
TBA
Enquiries: Rick Benitez