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Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

Location:

Classical Association Joint Lectures

Meetings with Local Branches of the Classical Association

Members are advised to enquire locally about changes in time and place, particularly for meetings arranged several months in advance. Some of the lectures are suitable for schools; please contact the local branch for further details.

 

CHELTENHAM (Dean Close School)

Thursday 17th September 2009 at 7.30pm

Dr Ray Laurence
Pompeii: Skeletons, Disease and Death

 

NOTTINGHAM (C6 Department of Classics, University of Nottingham)

Tuesday 13th October, 2009 at 5.00pm

Professor Roy Gibson
The Villas of Pliny the Younger

 

READING (Classics Department (Room 44), Whiteknights Campus, Shinfield Road, University of Reading)

Thursday 12th November, 2009 at 7.30pm

Professor D.J. Mattingly
An Imperial Possession: Changing Perspectives on Britain in the Roman Empire

 

EDINBURGH (David Hume Tower, George Square)

Wednesday 13 January, 2010 at 7.00pm

Professor T.P. Wiseman
Ariadne in Ovid and Catullus

 

BANGOR (Lecture Room 3, New Arts Building, Bangor University)

Thursday 21st January, 2010 at 5.00pm

Dr Philip Freeman
Professor Francis Haverfield (1860-1919) and the Military Aspects of Roman Wales

 

LEEDS (Department of Classics, The University)

Thursday 21st January, 2010 at 5.30pm

Dr Andrew Poulter
Goths, Avars and Romans on the Danube in Late Antiquity

 

SOUTHAMPTON (Taunton’s College)

Wednesday 10th February, 2010 at 7.30pm

Professor Catherine Steel
Political cultures and written records: Cicero after his exile

 

STOKE-ON-TRENT (Wade Lecture Theatre, North Staffs Medical Institute, Hartshill Road)

Tuesday 16 February, 2010 at 7.30pm

Professor Helen King
Who needs doctors? Representing Roman medicine

 

GLASGOW (The Murray Room, Dept of Classics, The University, 65 Oakfield Avenue)

Monday 22 February, 2010 at 7.30pm

Professor Stephen Harrison
Victorianising Vergil

 

HULL (Graduate School, The University)

Thursday 25 February, 2010 at 7.30pm

Professor Alison Sharrock
Realism and anti-realism among the women of Roman comedy

 

CARDIFF (Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff)

Thursday 15 April, 2010 at 5.10pm

Professor Tim Parkin
All in the Family? – Ancient Grandparents

 

MANCHESTER (Samuel Alexander Building, Room A7, University of Manchester)

Wednesday 12 May, 2010 at 5.30pm

Professor Jonathan Powell
Horace and the Iraq War: Reflections of Augustus' Eastern policy in Horace's Odes and elsewhere