Classics and Ancient History seminars

For a full listing of departmental academic events, please see our Events Calendar.

Please find below and attached the department research/work-in-progress seminars programme for the Michaelmas Term.

The Durham Research and Work in Progress seminars are held on Wednesdays at 1-2pm in person in the Ritson Room and on Teams (unless stated otherwise). No registration is required for in-person attendance but to join the Teams webinars please register via the links below (please note that in order to attend online you must have a Teams account and register with the email address linked to the same account). 

Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars: Michaelmas Term Card

21st October. Chiara di Serio (Cyprus), The Tradition of Alexander the Great’s Letters. Hybrid.  Registration link

28th October. (Work in Progress Seminar) Edmund Thomas (Durham), Constructing the circle: designing round-headed arches in the Greek world. In-person only.

4th November. Dylan Bovet (Lausanne / Durham), Reaching Humanitas: Social and Cultural Claims in the Verse Inscriptions of Freed(wo)men. Hybrid. Registration link

11th November. Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (Cambridge), The Devil as motor of history in late ancient Christian martyr narratives. Hybrid. Registration link

18th November. Fiachra Mac Goraín (University College London), Mystery Cult in Aeneid 6. Hybrid. Registration link

25th November Bobby Xinyue (King's College London), Suetonius on The Lives of Others. Hybrid. Registration link

9th December. Myles Lavan (St Andrews), New evidence for the scale of the traffic of enslaved people to the city of Rome. Online-only. Registration link