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