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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
Order and Disorder: Aspects of Homeric Hospitality
Fiona Sweet-Formiatti
Homeric hospitality is a total social phenomenon in which interactions with the ‘other’ are regulated to maintain social order and to confer mutual…
The Enslaved Muse: Apostrophe and Authorship in Latin Literature
Dr Tom Geue (ANU)
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…
Plautus in space: comic discourse and the expansion of Rome
Robin Kreutel (Cambridge)
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…