Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - October 2024
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 include…
Dr Anthony Hooper (University of Wollongong) - ‘Epic kleos as a Model for Immortality in Plato’s Symposium’
Seminar
Epic kleos as a Model for Immortality in Plato’s Symposium The presentation of immortality in the Symposium persists as one of the most fraught topics in Plato studies, as scholars continue to struggle even to discern what model of immortality is at play. I seek to lend clarity to this issue by…
2024 Paul Bourke Award Public Lecture: Indigenous language landscapes
Lecture
Indigenous language landscapes: Why a fuller understanding of Indigenous peoples’ language contexts is important 2024 Paul Bourke Award Lecture The Paul Bourke Award is awarded annually by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. A lecture will be delivered by winner of the award in the…
Dr Sarah Lawrence (University of New England) - ‘The More Things Change: Exemplary Time in Valerius Maximus’
Seminar
The More Things Change: Exemplary Time in Valerius Maximus The way time functions in the short, didactic stories called exempla by the Romans is strange: simultaneously fixed and elastic, ancient and contemporary. In Valerius Maximus’ collection, the Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, the stories depend…
Eco-Crisis Poetry: Rae Armantrout in Conversation
Seminar
Eco-Crisis Poetry: Rae Armantrout in Conversation Join us for a session with poet Rae Armantrout as she explores the relationship between poetry and environmental crisis. Armantrout will read and discuss selected eco-poems from her collection Go Figure (2024) and recent unpublished works that…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - September 2024
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…
In conversation with Kate Lilley
Seminar
Join us for a very special event, a dialogue between Pulitzer Prize winning US poet Rae Armantrout and major Australian poet Kate Lilley, where they will discuss poetry and poetics. Rae Armantrout’s books include Finalists, Wobble, Partly: New and Selected Poems, Just Saying, Money Shot and Versed…