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Centre for Classical Studies Research Seminar Series 2025
Most seminars will be 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
28 August 2025
Prof. Alexander Mazarakis Ainian (University of Thessaly) Homer and Archaeology: Is the Quest Worth Pursuing?
(special event hosted by the ANU (Canberra) Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, see attached for more details)
8pm, Apollo Room, Hellenic Club Woden
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) Compilatory Innovation and Its Impact: Commentary on Exodus in the Glossae Floriacenses
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
7 November 2025 - Workshop
Organised by Dr Meaghan McEvoy (ANU) Women, gender and queenship through the ages
Lectorial Room 1.21, RSSS Building
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| FAAIA-Canberra---Prof-Ainian---28-August-2025.pdf(308.51 KB) | 308.51 KB |
Contact
- Dr Simona Martorana
Past Events
Tyla Cascaes(University of Queensland) - 'Roman Empress Meets Modern Temptress: Cinema’s Fascination with Rome’s Leading Ladies'
Tyla Cascaes, University of Queensland
Roman Empress Meets Modern Temptress: Cinema’s Fascination with Rome’s Leading Ladies From its conception, cinema has been captivated by the morally…
Dates-as-data for inscriptions: using summed probability analysis with Latin epigraphic databases to investigate population changes in the Roman Empire
Professor Shawn Ross, Macquarie University
Since the 1980s, archaeologists have used Summed Probability Analysis (SPA) of radiocarbon dates to reconstruct demographic trends. This ‘dates as…
Evaluating workplace relationships in the Homeric Iliad: bringing together digital approaches and social and cognitive theory
Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Minchin, ANU
In this paper I bring together a cluster of verbal behaviours in the Homeric Iliad, a recent psychological study of four interrelated modes of…