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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.

READING (Classics Department (Room 44), Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading)

Wednesday 16th November, 2011 at 7.30pm

Professor John North

Slaves and Religion in the Roman Empire

 

Southampton (Taunton's College)

Wednesday 23rd November, 2011 at 7.30pm

Carlotta Dionisotti

Ordering the Words in Aeneid IV

 

Hull (Graduate School, University of Hull)

Thursday 1st December, 2011 at 7.30pm

Dr Steven Green

Malevolent gods and Promethean birds: the dynamics of Roman religion and the case of augury

 

EDINBURGH (School of History, Classics & Archaeology, Doorway 4, Teviot Place)

Wednesday 18th January, 2012 at 7.00pm

Dr Ed Bispham

Rome, the Ardiaioi and the Adriatic in the third century.  A Contextual Re-Appraisal

 

BANGOR (Council Chamber, Old Arts Building, Bangor University)

Thursday 29th January, 2012 at 5.15pm

Professor Alison Sharrock

Male and Female Storytellers in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

 

SHEFFIELD (Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield)

Wednesday 22nd February, 2012 at 5pm

Dr Andy Fear

A Day at the Races

 

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

Monday 5th March, 2012 at 7.30pm

Professor William Fitzgerald

Varietas: Scenes from the History of a Word

 

LEEDS (Department of Classics, University of Leeds)

Tuesday 6th March, 2012 at 5.30pm

Professor Philip Hardie

Imperial Latin Epic (Ovid to Silius)

 

NOTTINGHAM (Department of Classics, University of Nottingham)

Tuesday 13th March, 2012 at 5.00pm

Professor Christopher Smith

Roman Kings

 

CARDIFF (Department of Ancient History, Cardiff University)

Monday 26th March, 2012 at 5.30pm

Dr Ida Östenberg

War and Remembrance: memoirs of defeat in ancient Rome

 

KEELE (Senior Common Room, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffs, ST5 5BG

Thursday 19th April, 2012 at 7.30pm

Professor Jonathan Powell

Cicero as an Advocate (and the branch will read the Pro Caelio, in translation, before then, on a date advertised in the branch programme)

 

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

Wednesday 25 April, 2012 at 5.30pm

Professor Greg Woolf

The Origins of Religious Pluralism in the Roman Empire and Beyond

 

CHELTENHAM (Seminar Room, Dean Close Senior School, GL51 6HE)

Thursday 26 April, 2012 at 7.30pm

Dr Ellen O’Gorman

Amores III