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Centre for Classical Studies Research Seminar Series 2025
All seminars are held in the AD Hope building Conference Room (Rm 1.28) at 3.15pm but please see individual event listings for more details, and in case of any changes.
Semester 2, 2025
30 July 2025
Dr Louise Pryke (University of Sydney)Wet and Wild: Justice and Ecology in Ancient Flood Narratives?
13 August 2025
Dr Dan Zhao (ANU) The Politics of Freeing Slaves: Manumission Laws in Early Imperial Rome and China
29 August 2025
Prof. Alexander Mazarakis Ainian (University of Thessaly)What Shapes Our Understanding of the Past? Deconstructing Settlement and Cultic Models in Early Iron Age Attic
17 September 2025
Dr Alexander Free (LMU Munich) The Second Sophistic in the Egyptian Hinterland or How Can Papyri Contribute to Our Understanding of Graeco-Roman Intellectual Culture
24 September 2025
Dr Andrea Navarro Noguera (UNED, Madrid) Hidden Voices and Legacies: The Role of Silence in Ion
8 October 2025
Dr Sarah Corrigan (University of Melbourne) TBC
22 October 2025
Prof. Steven Green (National University of Singapore) Ovid in Homer: Ovidian Re-imaginings of Troy in the Ilias Latina
In person and online via zoom
Contact
- Dr Simona Martorana
Upcoming Events
Wet and Wild: Justice and Ecology in Ancient Flood Narratives?
Dr Louise Pryke (University of Sydney)
CCS Research Seminar 1 The destruction of most of humanity in ancient Flood narratives has understandably led to dominantly anthropocentric…
The Politics of Freeing Slaves: Manumission Laws in Early Imperial Rome and China
Dr Dan Zhao (ANU)
CCS Research Seminar 2During his principate, Augustus promulgated several perplexing laws that seemingly regulated and restricted manumission: Lex…
What Shapes Our Understanding of the Past? Deconstructing Settlement and Cultic Models in Early Iron Age Attica
Prof. Alexander Mazarakis Ainian (University of Thessaly)
CCS Research Seminar 3Our understanding of the past is always predicated on previous interpretations of evidence. This talk presents two case studies…
Past Events
Jemima McPhee (Australian National University)- ‘Fire, earth and astrologia: writing science under Augustan stars’
Jemima McPhee, Australian National University
What makes Roman science ‘Roman’? How did the Romans investigate natural phenomena? And how did changing institutions influence scientific discourse…
Dr Anthony Hooper (University of Wollongong) - ‘Epic kleos as a Model for Immortality in Plato’s Symposium’
Dr Anthony Hooper, University of Wollongong
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…
Dr Sarah Lawrence (University of New England) - ‘The More Things Change: Exemplary Time in Valerius Maximus’
Dr Sarah Lawrence, University of New England
The More Things Change: Exemplary Time in Valerius Maximus The way time functions in the short, didactic stories called exempla by the Romans is…