Classical Reception YouTube channel
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What is Law?* *(in the context of Roman trading ports)
15 December 2021
What is Law?* *(in the context of Roman trading ports)
Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz , University of Helsinki and Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Münster
Cycles of Civilization in Central Greece: the Case of Mitrou
8 December 2021
Cycles of Civilization in Central Greece: the Case of Mitrou
Aleydis Van de Moortel , Tennessee
ICS/BSA Lecture: New light on the Early Historical and Archaic Sanctuary of Poseidon Heliconius at Ancient Helike, Achaia: The Results of the 2021 Excavations
30 November 2021
Dr Anastasia Gadolou, Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sport and Dr Erofili-Iris Kolia, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Ilia
Beyond Fishing: Processing of Marine Resources and a Little-Known Aspect of Palatial Societies in the 2nd Millennium BC
10 November 2021
Dimitra Mylona, INSTAP/Crete
Visualizing and experiencing past cities in 3D: Methods, opportunities and challenges
8 July 2021
Visualizing and experiencing past cities in 3D: Methods, opportunities and challenges
Chiara Piccoli, University of Amsterdam
Missing, incomplete, biased. Priceless. The key role of documentation in the representation of historical buildings, from drawings to 3D models
7 July 2021
Valeria Vitale
Wood and Ceramic: Introducing digital methods with Classics Library special collections
1 July 2021
Wood and Ceramic: Introducing digital methods with Classics Library special collections
Joanna Ashe, Jen Baird, Gabriel Bodard, Aaron Fordwoh, Paul Jackson, Valeria Vitale, Alicia Walsh
Tools of the trade: wood and woodworking from the Kyrenia shipwreck
23 June 2021
Tools of the trade: wood and woodworking from the Kyrenia shipwreck
Roger Ulrich, Dartmouth University
Classical Archaeology seminar
16 June 2021
Damian Goodburn, ‘Evidence of early Roman timber building techniques from London, a technological revolution?'
Owen Humphreys, ‘Who worked wood? Tools, tradesmen and timber in Roman London’
Wooden furniture from Roman find contexts: from Herculaneum to the Rhine
9 June 2021
Wooden furniture from Roman find contexts: from Herculaneum to the Rhine
Stephan Mols, Radboud University
On Comparisons: Classics in the Era of Imperial Expansion
7 June 2021
On Comparisons: Classics in the Era of Imperial Expansion
Rama Mantena, University of Illinois at Chicago
Classical Archaeology seminar
26 May 2021
Anna Serotta, ‘Carpentry in Egypt in the First Millennium B.C.E’
and
Cristina Boschetti, ‘A 4th-century BC wooden coffin with syrens from Saqqara, Egypt’
'More helpful to the emperors than the soldiers': early Christians on physical and spiritual warfare
13 May 2021
'More helpful to the emperors than the soldiers': early Christians on physical and spiritual warfare
Benjamin Kolbeck, King's College London
Tales from Nestor's Crypt: Pylos 2015-2020
Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture
12 May 2021
Tales from Nestor's Crypt: Pylos 2015-2020
Sharon R. Stocker, Cincinnati, and Jack L. Davis, Cincinnati
The crimes of the Lemnian women in Middle Irish: an example of extreme Classical Reception
10 May 2021
The crimes of the Lemnian women in Middle Irish: an example of extreme Classical Reception
Michael Clarke, NUI Galway
The Archaeology of Pilgrimage in Ancient Italy
23 April 2021
Simona Marchesini: Rock inscriptions in the Alps and in Salento peninsula as evidence for defining pilgrimage
Nuccia Negroni-Catacchio, Massimo Cardosa, Christian Metta & Marco Romeo-Pitone: Evidence of pilgrimage in Bronze Age sanctuaries in Southern Etruria (Italy): caves, peaks, lakes and the natural mimesis phenomenon
Laura Carnavale & Daniela Patti, The pilgrimage and lived religiousness in Northern Apulia, Italy
Sonia Machause & Robin Skeates: Cave pilgrimage in Iron Age Iberia: a sensorial approach to pilgrimage
Women Disrupting the Patriarchy: What Took Us So Long
Keynote address for Women in Ancient Cultures 2021: ‘Women Disrupting the Patriarchy'
23 March 2021
Women Disrupting the Patriarchy: What Took Us So Long
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland
The birth of instantiation
22 March 2021
Anna Marmodoro, Durham
“But we’ve seen other walls.” Authority and erasure in graffiti practice at the temple of Amun at Karnak
17 March 2021
Elizabeth Frood, Oxford
Touch and the Tiresias Project in the Parthenon Galleries of the British Museum
11 March 2021
Touch and the Tiresias Project in the Parthenon Galleries of the British Museum
Ellen Adams, KCL
A contextual approach to 'scribblings' in Northern Iraq: The case of the North Palace at Hatra
17 February 2021
A contextual approach to 'scribblings' in Northern Iraq: The case of the North Palace at Hatra
Marco Moriggi (University of Catania) and Ilaria Bucci (Birkbeck)
Thinking about encroachment in the cities of the Roman west
BSR/ICS Lecture hosted online by the British School at Rome
3 February 2021
BSR/ICS Lecture 'Thinking about encroachment in the cities of the Roman west
Penny Goodman (Leeds)
Graffiti as a diary. The personal histories of a nomadic people through their graffiti and drawings.
3 February 2021
Graffiti as a diary. The personal histories of a nomadic people through their graffiti and drawings.
Michael Macdonald (Oxford)
'Great Expectations'. What can architecture tell us about the past?
Mycenaean seminar
13 January 2021
'Great Expectations'. What can architecture tell us about the past?
Clairy Palyvou (Thessaloniki)
Female Patrons in Roman Law
Keynote address for Women in Ancient Cultures 2021: ‘Women Disrupting the Patriarchy'
12 January 2021
Paul du Plessis (Edinburgh)
Linked Pasts 6 Keynote: To LOD or not To LOD? Linking events and named entities with NLP in Digital History projects
15 December 2020
Sara Tonelli (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento)
Linked Pasts 6 Keynote: Tanks, TNT and Triples: Using Linked Open Data and Semantic Technologies to Reconstruct Past Lives and Events
9 December 2020
Lizzy Jongma (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam)
Linked Pasts 6 Keynote: Linked Data Across Time and Space: The Challenge of Modelling Temporal Identities and Places
3 December 2020
Linked Data Across Time and Space: The Challenge of Modelling Temporal Identities and Places
Constance Crompton (Ottawa)
Of animals and humans on prehistoric Crete: interdisciplinary approaches to animal exploitation
Mycenaean seminar
2 December 2020
Of animals and humans on prehistoric Crete: interdisciplinary approaches to animal exploitation
Valasia Isaakidou (Oxford/Bristol)
Recent Research in Imaging and Archaeological Science: Herculaneum and Beyond
7 November 2020
In association with the Herculaneum Society
Virtual Unrolling of Herculaneum Fragments and Scrolls: Recent Results
Brent Seales, University of Kentucky
2020 Public Engagement Awards Event
10 September 2020
Public Engagement Awards Event
Thinking about the management of the Etruscan cities
Rome London Lecture in association with the British School at Rome
26 February 2020
Thinking about the management of the Etruscan cities
Maria Cristina Biella, La Sapienza, Rome
Invisible Herculaneum
Herculaneum Society Lecture
19 February 2020
Invisible Herculaneum (Audio only)
Michael Scott, Warwick
The ideal husband - the identity of Roman freedwomen’s husbands and the role of manumissio matrimonii causa
19 December 2019
Tatjana Sandon, Edinburgh
Gender and parenthood in the Roman Empire
12 December 2019
Gender and parenthood in the Roman Empire
Rebecca Flemming, Cambridge
Looking for Mr. or Mrs. Right: Making and Breaking Marriage Alliances in the Age of Theodora
21 November 2019
Looking for Mr. or Mrs. Right: Making and Breaking Marriage Alliances in the Age of Theodora
Michael Stewart, Queensland
Helena and the Women of the Tetrarchy
14 November 2019
Helena and the Women of the Tetrarchy
Julia Hillner, Sheffield
Towards a Cultural and Social History of Breastfeeding in Antiquity
24 October 2019
Towards a Cultural and Social History of Breastfeeding in Antiquity
April Pudsey, Manchester Metropolitan
Women and cultural change in the Roman West - New light on an old topic
17 October 2019
Women and cultural change in the Roman West - New light on an old topic
Louise Revell, Southampton
Octavia: First First Lady of Rome?
10 October 2019
Octavia: First First Lady of Rome?
Beth Severy Hoven, Macalester
ICS/BSA Lecture: Sacrificial rituals in the Mycenaean palatial centre of Kydonia (Khania, Crete)
3 October 2019
Sacrificial rituals in the Mycenaean palatial centre of Kydonia (Khania, Crete)
Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki, Hon. Secretary General, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture 'Recent Excavations at Gournia, Crete: New Archaeological Finds and Cultural Perspectives'
5 June 2019
Recent Excavations at Gournia, Crete: New Archaeological Finds and Cultural Perspectives
Vance Watrous, Buffalo
Dorothy Tarrant Lecture 'Antiquity, Abolition, and Activism in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Arts'
13 May 2019
Antiquity, Abolition, and Activism in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Arts
Margaret Malamud, New Mexico State University
J. P. Barron Memorial Lecture 'Forming/Informing the modern world? The role of classical scholarship'
8 May 2019
Forming/Informing the modern world? The role of classical scholarship
Charlotte Roueché, ICS/KCL
Dorothy Tarrant Lecture 'What is Plato's Republic About? Towards a Theory of Resilience'
13 March 2019
What is Plato's Republic About? Towards a Theory of Resilience
Sara Monoson, Northwestern University
Clerical exile and late antique communities
Ancient History seminar
7 March 2019
Clerical exile and late antique communities
Julia Hillner, Sheffield
Paestum - what new excavations and scientific analysis tell us about a Greek city in Italy
ICS/BSR Lecture presented in association with the British School at Rome
26 February 2019
Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director of the Archaeological Park of Paestum
Open Lecture in Digital Humanities 'Digital Humanities Communities: Research background and new activities in EpiDoc and Pelagios'
11 February 2019
Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Digital Humanities Communities: Research background and new activities in EpiDoc and Pelagios
Gabriel Bodard (ICS) and Valeria Vitale (ICS)
Thessaloniki, a Metro-polis through the centuries
ICS/BSA Lecture presented in association with the British School at Athens
28 November 2018
Thessaloniki, a Metro-polis through the centuries
Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Director General of Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports
British School at Athens Lecture
This lecture was presented in partnership with the British School at Athens at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
19 November 2018
The Prose of the World: Hegel, Plutarch, Herodotus
Phiroze Vasunia (UCL)
Brecht and Greek tragedy: radicalism, traditionalism, eristics
T.B.L. Webster Lecture
14 November 2018
Brecht and Greek tragedy: radicalism, traditionalism, eristics
Martin Revermann, University of Toronto
Ancient Magic
31 October 2018
Supported by the John Coffin Memorial Fund
Prof. Helen King (Open University) – ‘Green stones, red wool: colour and touch in ancient Greek magic and medicine’
Dr. Gabriel Bodard (Institute of Classical Studies) & Dr. Celia Sánchez Natalías (University of Zaragoza) – ‘Be careful! Magical figurines and written curses’
Dr. Sophie Page (UCL) – ‘Magic and the Medieval universe’
Poet and author Roz Kaveney reading from her novel Resurrections (Rhapsody of Blood Vol. III)
Stoicon 2018
sponsored by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Institute of Philosophy
29 September 2018
Socrates, Eros and Magic
J.P. Barron Memorial Lecture
6 June 2018
Angie Hobbs (Sheffield)
The Goddess and Damned Wrath: How a Linguist reads the Iliad
Dorothy Tarrant Lecture
8 May 2018
The Goddess and Damned Wrath: How a Linguist reads the Iliad
Joshua Katz (Princeton)
Public Engagement Workshop
22 March 2018
Zena Kamash (Royal Holloway), Remembering the Romans in the Middle East and North Africa
Laura Swift (Open University), Fragments
Michael Eades (School of Advanced Study), Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities
Jessica Hughes (Open University), Classics Confidential
Jen Grove (Exeter), Sex and History
January 14, 1506: the discovery of the Laocoon
Rome London Lecture in association with the British School at Rome
20 February 2018
January 14, 1506: the discovery of the Laocoon
Professor Rita Volpe
Earthquakes, Etruscan Priests and Roman Politics in the Age of Cicero
Dorothy Tarrant Lecture
24 January 2018
Earthquakes, Etruscan Priests and Roman Politics in the Age of Cicero
Professor Anthony Corbeill (University of Virginia)
British School at Athens Lecture
This lecture was presented in partnership with the British School at Athens at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
13 November 2017
Democracy, Demagoguery and Plato
Angie Hobbs (Sheffield)
Pella, The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom
ICS/BSA Lecture presented in association with the British School at Athens
31 October 2017
Pella, The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom
Dr Elisavet Bettina Tsigarida, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the County of Pella
Why do we need Monsters?
17 October 2017
Professor David Wengrow (UCL), Dr Dustan Lowe (University of Kent), Dr Liz Gloyn (Royal Holloway, University of London), Dr Valeria Vitale (Institute of Classical Studies)
Supported by the John Coffin Memorial Fund
Classicist Foremothers and Why They Matter
J P Barron Memorial Lecture
7 June 2017
Classicist Foremothers and Why They Matter
Professor Edith Hall (KCL)
Tiryns: from the rise of its palace to the post-palatial resurgence
Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture
17 May 2017
Tiryns: from the rise of its palace to the post-palatial resurgence
Professor Joseph Maran (University of Heidelberg)
Early History and Landscapes of Rome seen from the Palatine
Rome London Lecture in association with the British School at Rome
22 March 2017
Early History and Landscapes of Rome seen from the Palatine
Professor Paolo Carafa (La Sapienza, Rome)
Humans and Other Beings in Our Classical Past
Director's Inaugural Lecture
18 January 2017
Humans and Other Beings in Our Classical Past
Professor Greg Woolf (ICS)
British School at Athens/ICS Autumn Lecture
25 November 2016
The Archaic necropolis in Faliron Delta
Stella Chrysoulaki (Ephor of West Attica, Piraeus and the Islands)
British School at Athens Lecture
This lecture was presented in partnership with the British School at Athens at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
12 October 2016
Peisthetairos, Adventurer in Thrace: a New Reading of Aristophanes’ Birds
Edith Hall (KCL)
J.P. Barron Memorial Lecture
1 June 2016
What ever happened to the Barbarian?
Thomas Harrison (St Andrews)
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Global Philology, Greco-Roman Studies, and Classics in the 21st Century
17 May 2016
Global Philology, Greco-Roman Studies, and Classics in the 21st Century
Professor Gregory Crane (Tufts; Leipzig, ST Lee Fellow), Dr Imre Galambos (Cambridge), Professor Eleanor Robson (UCL), Dr Sarah Sarvant (Aga Khan University), Dr Sam van Schaik (British Library)
A.D. Trendall Lecture
10 May 2016
Italic Dionysos in 4th Century BC Apulia
Thomas Carpenter (Ohio)
T.B.L. Webster Lecture
4 May 2016
Two Reliefs and what they tell us about Athenian Comedy
Eric Csapo (Sydney)
Hercules Ovidianus in Augustan Rome: between literature and figurative repertory
Part of the Roman Art seminar series
21 March 2016
Hercules Ovidianus in Augustan Rome: between literature and figurative repertory
Isabella Colpo (Universit degli Studi di Padova)
Rome-London Lecture in association with the British School at Rome
This lecture was presented in partnership with the British School at Rome
9 March 2016
Grotte Scalina: a new monumental Etruscan tomb near Viterbo
Vincent Jolivet
Classics in Contemporary Women's Prose
Part of the Women Writing the Classics seminar series
8 December 2015
Classics in Contemporary Women's Prose
Elizabeth Cook and Salley Vickers, chaired by Efi Spentzou (RHUL)
Audio only
Classics in Contemporary Women's Drama
Part of the Women Writing the Classics seminar series
24 November 2015
Classics in Contemporary Women's Drama
Phyllis Brighouse (Liverpool), By Jove theatre company, chaired by Nick Lowe (RHUL)
Audio only
ICS Autumn Lecture in association with the British School at Athens
This lecture was presented in partnership with the British School at Athens
18 November 2015
New investigations and finds at the Mycenaean palace of Thebes (Boeotia)
Vassilis Aravantinos (Ephor Emeritus of Boeotia)
A good death?
This event was presented in collaboration with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and was supported by the John Coffin Memorial Fund
28 October 2015
Prof. Andrew Cooper (Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust), Dr Mary Bradbury (British Psychoanalytical Society), Prof. Michael Trapp (KCL), Prof. Eleanor Robson (UCL), chaired by Paul Jenkins, OBE (CEO of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust)
Women Translating the Classics
Part of the Women Writing the Classics seminar series
20 October 2015
Women Translating the Classics
Josephine Balmer and Clare Pollard, chaired by Lorna Hardwick (OU)
Audio only
Classics in Contemporary Women's Poetry
Part of the Women Writing the Classics seminar series
6 October 2015
Classics in Contemporary Women's Poetry
Tiffany Atkinson (UEA) and Erica McAlpine (Oxford), chaired by Maria Wyke (UCL)
Audio only
British School at Athens lecture
This lecture was presented in partnership with the British School at Athens at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
24 September 2015
The Greek East under Rome: art and cultural interaction
Professor Roland R R Smith
MA Intercollegiate Course Fair
22 September 2015
Introductions to the Intercollegiate MA, the ICS, the Hellenic and Roman Societies and the Combined Library.
MA Intercollegiate Course Fair
An interview with Prof. Greg Woolf
Greg Woolf was interviewed for Classics Confidential
Rome-London lecture
This annual lecture series is presented in partnership with the British School at Rome.
6 May 2015
The Mausoleum of Hadrian rediscovered: a new architectural study
Paolo Vitti (Rome)
The Afterlife of Plutarch
Conference at the Warburg Institute on 23-24 May 2015
Plutarch’s revival in late Byzantium: the case of Theodore Metochites
Dr Sophia Xenophontos (University of Cyprus)
From Francesco Barbaro to Angelo Poliziano: Plutarch’s Roman Questions in the fifteenth century
Dr Frances Muecke (University of Sydney)
John Whethamstede and Plutarch
Professor Marianne Pade (Danish Institute in Rome)
Additional Lives: Hannibal, Scipio and Epaminondas
Professor Judith Mossmann (University of Nottingham)
Dr Fred Schurink (Northumbria University)
Professor Ewen Bowie (University of Oxford)
Plutarco, Poussin e l’arte barocca
Dr Maddalena Sanfilippo (University of Siena)
After Exemplarity: a Map of Plutarchan Scholarship
Dr Constanze Güthenke (Princeton University)
Plutarch à la Russe: Ancient Heroism and Russian Ideology in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Dr Alexei Zadorojnyi (University of Liverpool)
Professor Edith Hall and Dr Rosie Wyles (King's College London)
Welcomed with open arms: Plutarch and the modern Prometheus
Professor Frances Titchener (Utah State University)
Professor Chris Pelling (University of Oxford)
The Afterlife of Ovid
Conference at the Warburg Institute on 7-8 March 2015
Professor John North (ICS)
Bernardo Moretti: A Newly Discovered Humanist Commentator on Ovid’s Ibis
Professor Frank Coulson (Ohio State University)
Dr Fátima Díez-Platas (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Ovid's Janus and the Start of the Year in Renaissance Fasti Sacri
Professor John Miller (University of Virginia)
Milton as Reader of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Professor Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge)
The transformation of Ovid in Cowley's herb garden: Books 1 and 2 of the Plantarum Libri Sex (1668)
Dr Victoria Moul (King's College London)
Translatio Studii, Translatio Ovidii
Professor Maggie Kilgour (McGill University)
The Io in Correggio: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of a Renaissance Painter
Professor Hérica Valladares (John Hopkins University)
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