Classics Events at Glasgow 2012-13

Events take place in the Murray Room (Room 410), 65 Oakfield Avenue, except where otherwise specified. All are very welcome to attend, and to join us and the speaker for drinks after the Classics Research Seminar; for further details please contact Luke Houghton

Semester 2

Monday 14th January 2013, 5 p.m.: Classics Research Seminar
Professor Jan Stenger (University of Glasgow)
First-rate Greeks: Libanius and the Construction of Hellenic Identity

Monday 28th January 2013, 5 p.m.: Classics Research Seminar
Professor Barbara Graziosi (Durham University)
Homeric poetry: from reception to composition

Monday 4th February 2013, 7:30 p.m.: Classical Association of Scotland, Glasgow & West Centre / Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
Professor Greg Woolf (University of St Andrews)
The Origins of Religious Pluralism in the Roman World and Beyond

Monday 18th February 2013, 5 p.m.: Classics Research Seminar
Dr Donncha O’Rourke (University of Edinburgh)
Love and Strife in Lucretius and the Elegists

Monday 4th March 2013, 5 p.m.: Classics Research Seminar
Dr Federico Santangelo (Newcastle University)
Roman Politics in the 70s BC: a Story of Realignments?

Saturday 9th March 2013, 12:30 p.m.: Classical Association of Scotland, Glasgow & West Centre [Woodlands Hall, Wellington Church, Southpark Avenue]
CAS Glasgow & West 40th Anniversary Lunch: tickets from the Secretary, Dr Marie Martin [marie.martin@glasgow.ac.uk]

Monday 18th March 2013, 5 p.m.: Classics and Archaeology Joint Research Seminar
Dr Gareth Sears (University of Birmingham)
Pagan strength? Augustine on violence at Calama and Sufes

Monday 15th April 2013, 5 p.m.: Classics Research Seminar
Dr David Pritchard (University of Queensland)
Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens

Thursday 18th April 2013, 7:30 p.m.: Classical Association of Scotland, Glasgow & West Centre [Professor Douglas MacDowell Memorial Lecture]
Professor Alex Garvie (University of Glasgow)
Loose endings in Greek tragedy: Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes and other plays

Semester 1

Monday 24th September 2012, 5 p.m.
Postgraduate welcome party 

Tuesday 2nd October 2012, 5 p.m.: Classics Research Seminar 
Dr Saskia Roselaar (University of Nottingham)
Pride and Prejudice in Cicero

Tuesday 23rd October, 7:30 p.m.: Classical Association of Scotland, Glasgow & West Centre / Scottish Hellenic Society [Assembly Hall, St Luke’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Dundonald Road] 
Professor Sandy Stoddart (Sculptor in Ordinary to The Queen in Scotland)
Apollo in Caledonia; Grecian Intimations in the Far North

Monday 29th October 2012, 5 p.m.: Classics Research Seminar
Gordon Howie (University of Edinburgh)
The Evangelist and the Playwrights. Matthew, Euripides, and the Christus Patiens

Monday 5th November 2012, 5 p.m.: Classics and English Literature Joint Research Seminar
Dr Katherine Heavey (University of Glasgow)
Why Does Medea Keep Killing Her Brother? The Fratricide in Early Modern English Literature

Monday 12th November 2012, 7:30 p.m.: Classical Association of Scotland, Glasgow & West Centre / Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
Professor Malcolm Heath (University of Leeds)
Aristotle’s Chimpanzees 

Monday 19th November 2012, 5 p.m.: Classics Research Seminar
Dr Nicolas Wiater (University of St Andrews)
Historical Explanation and Human Agency in Polybius’ Histories

Monday 26th November 2012, 7:30 p.m.: Classical Association of Scotland, Glasgow & West Centre 
Dr Lisa Hau (University of Glasgow)
Fragments of History