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London Meetings 2010-2011
Tuesday 9th November, 2010 at 5.30pm
Professor Roland Mayer: Roman Ruinmindedness
Tuesday 18th January, 2011 at 5.30pm
Professor Michael Crawford: Language, Geography and the Roman conquest of Italy
Tuesday 15th March, 2011 at 5.30pm
Dr Susan Walker: Rome in Oxford: new galleries at the Ashmolean Museum
Annual General Meeting 2011
Saturday 4th June, 2011
2.00 AGM
Frontier News: old friends and new discoveries from Vindolanda
The programme for the AGM celebrates the achievements of Alan Bowman (so far!) on the occasion of his retirement from the Camden Professorship of Ancient History.
2.30 Dr Ralph Jackson: Actuality and aspiration: curating the Vindolanda Tablets
3.00 Dr Andrew Birley: The landscape and archaeology of the Vindolanda writing tablets
3.30 Tea
4.15 Professor Alan Bowman: The Vindolanda Tablets and the Military Community
4.45 Professor David Thomas: Some observations on the palaeography of the Vindolanda Wiritng-Tablets
5.15 Dr Roger Tomlin: Not to mention the Tablets: Vindolanda's other inscriptions
6.00 Reception
London Meetings 2009-2010
Tuesday 10th November, 2009
Professor Stephen Harrison: Some Problems in Ovid's Poetic Career
Tuesday 19th January, 2010
Professor Kathleen Coleman: A Year in the Roman Empire: The Problem of Hindsight
Tuesday 16th March, 2010
Dr Josephone Quinn & Professor Andrew Wilson: Rome, Africa and Capitolia
Annual General Meeting 2010
Saturday 5th June
2.00 AGM & presentation of PGCE dissertation prizes
2.30 Dr Andrew Burnett (Presidential Lecture): Roman Anniversaries
3.00 Professor Mary Beard: "Perhaps our expectations were wrought up too high": visiting Pompeii in the nineteenth century
3.45 Tea
4.15 Dr Simon Esmonde Cleary: "Western Aristocracies and the Imperial Court": or why the fourth-century British elite looked the way it did
4.45 Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill: Herculaneum Revisited
5.15 Professor Timothy Barnes: The Election of Ambrose as Bishop of Milan
6.00 Reception
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