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Centre for Classical Studies Research Seminar Series 2026
Most seminars will be held in the AD Hope building Conference Room (Rm 1.28) Wednesdays at 3.15pm but please see individual event listings for more details, and in case of any changes.
Semester 1, 2026
25 February 2026
Dr Keren Hammerschlag (ANU) Daughters of Empire: Matchmaking across Racial Lines in Edwin Long’s Babylonian Marriage Market (1875)
Friends of the ANU Classics Museum AGM and Lecture (5.30pm Classics Museum, AD Hope building & RSSS Auditorium)
4 March 2026
Prof. Caillan Davenport (ANU) On the Trail of the Hittite Kings
18 March 2026
Prof. Nicola Aravecchia (Washington University in St. Louis)Life in a Desert City: New Discoveries from Ancient Trimithis (Egypt’s Western Desert)
1 April 2026
Rosemary Selth (Macquarie University) Local Myth on the Panhellenic Stage: Political Monuments at Delphi
22 April 2026
Prof. Edward Watts (University of California, San Diego) Why the Roman State Lasted for 2000 Years—and What We can Learn from It
Public Lecture presented in association with the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum (6.15pm RSSS Auditorium)
29 April 2026
Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Minchin (ANU) The Scar, the Bow, and the Bed: Embodied Engagements in—and with—Key Moments of
the Odyssey
13 May 2026
Kitty Smith (The University of Sydney) What Makes a Monster Horrible? Exploring the Sensory Experience of Monstrosity in Myth
through Disgusting and Aversive Language
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Contact
- Dr Simona Martorana
Upcoming Events
Why the Roman State Lasted for 2000 Years—and What We can Learn from It
Prof. Edward Watts (University of California, San Diego)
CCS Research Seminar 4 - Public Lecture presented in association with the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum During the two millennia that the…
The Scar, the Bow, and the Bed: Embodied Engagements in—and with—Key Moments of the Odyssey
Em. Prof. Elizabeth Minchin (ANU)
CCS Research Seminar 5The 4E approach to cognition—according to which our cognitive processes are thought to be embodied, embedded, extended, and…
What Makes a Monster Horrible? Exploring the Sensory Experience of Monstrosity in Myth through Disgusting and Aversive Language
Kitty Smith (The University of Sydney)
CCS Research Seminar 6Ancient Greek and Roman myths abound with vivid descriptions of giant, supernaturally powerful creatures with horrifying…
Past Events
The Emperor Writes Back: Changing Strategies of Political Communication from Augustus to Late Antiquity
Assoc Prof Caillan Davenport, Head of ANU Centre for Classical Studies
The appearance, character, and behaviour of Roman emperors were mocked and criticised in pamphlets, poetry, chants, and graffiti. The ideal ruler was…
The Political Bee: Apicultural Knowledge and Human Politics and in Ancient Greece
Julia Kindt, University of Sydney
My presentation revolves around a peculiar human habit that seems to have been popular in the ancient world but that is still with us today:…
A Hero for Our Times: The Emperor and Epic in Late Antiquity
Dr Catherine Ware (University College Cork)
There has always been overlap between epic and panegyric. The classical definition of epic, Vergil’s ‘kings and battles’ (Ecl. 6.3), just as…