All are very welcome to join the Durham Classics and Ancient History seminars this term. Seminars are all either fully online or hybrid (in-person in CL108, Classics and Ancient History Department) – no registration is required for in-person attendance but you will need to register to attend the seminars via Zoom. If you would like to attend any of the seminars remotely or have any questions, please contact Liam Preston (liam.p.preston@durham.ac.uk) for details.

Durham Classics & Ancient History seminars, Michaelmas term (Wednesdays at 1-2pm in CL108 unless stated otherwise)

Oct 16^th Prof Edith Hall, “Aristotle in British Debates on the Constitution, Slavery and Women”. Hybrid.           

Oct 23^rd Prof Athanassios Vergados, “Etymologizing in Apollonius’ Argonautica: The Muses and their Avatars”. Hybrid.     

Nov 6^th Dr Sophia Connell, “'Aristotle, analytic philosophy and the birth of ‘virtue ethics’”. Hybrid.            

Nov 13^th Prof Jennifer Ingleheart, “Terence Hearsay in Shropshire: classical allusivity in A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad. Hybrid.      

Nov 20^th Dr Sofia Puchkova, “Power and ‘Otherness’: Situating Late Antique Near Eastern Biblical Exegesis in the Empire”. Hybrid.

Nov 27^th Dr George Gazis, “A dog’s justice and Euripides’ death”. Hybrid.

Dec 11^th (1pm, Hogan Lovells lecture theatre PCL048) Dr Alessandro Vatri, “Aristotle and the Orators in Margaret Doody’s Fourth-Century Athens”. Hybrid.