Wellspring Series: Kaja-warnu-jangka / From the bush
Arts & entertainment
Kaja-warnu-jangka / ‘From the bush’Kaja-warnu-jangka / ‘From the bush’ brings stories from the remote Warlpiri communities of Australia’s Northern Territory to Canberra, offering insight into two Warlpiri elders’ life journeys, their continued resilience and their connection to Country.A…
The Enslaved Muse: Apostrophe and Authorship in Latin Literature
Seminar
The Muse is part of the furniture of classical poetry. By the time of Virgil, we barely notice she is there, and her importance as a repository of poetic tradition seems scaled back. But what difference does it make that Roman poetry tended to be composed with a 'real' muse in the room, an enslaved…
Film Screening of Agora (2009) followed by Q&A
Arts & entertainment
The Centre for Classical Studies would like to invite you to a free viewing of the acclaimed 2009 film Agora followed by a Q&A with our expert panel. Interested students, staff and community members all welcome. 5:15-7:30 Film Screening 7:30-8:30pm Q&A Speakers Dr…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - October
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength…
Plautus in space: comic discourse and the expansion of Rome
Seminar
It is well established that the defeat over Carthage in the 2nd Punic War marks a watershed moment for Roman and wider Mediterranean history. The centripetal force of Rome as the capital of a budding empire caused the remarkable creation of a literature in Latin by low-status non-Romans who…
Enacting Innovation: Science and Tech Objects in Performance
Symposium
Enacting Innovation will see national and international speakers come together to think about how technological and scientific objects were ‘animated’ in theatrical contexts, both as ideas in text and as realities in production, from Classical antiquity to the present day. This interdisciplinary…
Coming to see the temple of Djoser: making graffiti in ancient Memphis over three millennia
Seminar
The desert plateau of Saqqara, to the west of the ancient capital of Memphis in Egypt, is saturated with graffiti, stretching in date from the 3rd Millennium BCE and into the present day. These inscriptions offer a glimpse of the diverse communities who have lived and worked in this ancient capital…