Lectures and Conferences
A programme of the Society's
meetings is circulated to members in September. The dates for the 2007-8
session are listed below.
Tuesday, 13 November 2007 at 5.30 pm
Professor Stephen Oakley
The Style of Tacitus
Tuesday, 22 January 2008 at 5.30 pm
M.V. Taylor Memorial lecture
Professor Erich Gruen
Punica Fides and the Roman Imagination
Tuesday, 18 March 2008 at 5.30 pm
Professor Barbara Borg
What's in a Tomb? Roman
death public and private
ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING 2008
Notice will be circulated to members in May 2008. Any resolution for the
AGM must be notified in writing to the Secretary at least four weeks before 7
June 2008. The AGM will be preceded by a buffet lunch and followed by two
lectures.
Saturday, 7 June 2008 at 2.30 and 4 pm
Professor Tim Parkin and Dr Mary Harlow
Where would we be without Cicero? The
historiography of the Roman family
Professor Michael Fulford
Presidential
Address
The Silchester Town Life Project: from Togidubnus
to Tebicatos
TRIENNIAL
MEETING OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN SOCIETIES
Monday, 28 July –
Friday, 1 August 2008
The Twenty-first Triennial Meeting of the Greek and Roman
Societies will be held in Oxford from Monday, 28 July to Friday, 1 August 2008.
Lectures will be held at the Examination Schools in the High Street;
accommodation will be in Wadham and Oriel Colleges.
The full programme and further details about the conference
– along with a downloadable booking
form – can be seen on the Triennial
website www.classics.ox.ac.uk/triennial.
However bookings cannot be accepted online. Enquiries: triennial@classics.ox.ac.uk
Printed programmes and booking forms will be enclosed with the
Roman Society’s September mailing.
LECTURES
WITH LOCAL BRANCHES OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION
You
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.
SOUTHAMPTON
(Taunton’s College)
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 at 7.30 pm
Professor Mary Beard
The Roman Triumph
EXETER (LT1,
Queen’s Building, The University)
Tuesday, 23
October 2007 at 5pm
Dr Shelley Hales
The Sydenham Strip: Antiquity and the
very modern Crystal Palace
KEELE (Senior
Common Room, Keele Hall, The University)
Thursday, 25 October 2007 at 7.30 pm
Professor Roger Wright
Was Romance really a new Language?
MANCHESTER
(Dept of Classics and Ancient History, The University)
Wednesday, 14 November 2007 at 5.30 pm
Dr Dominic Berry
Catiline the Man
LEEDS (Dept of Classics, The
University)
Wednesday, 21 November 2007 at 5.30 pm
Professor Vivian
Nutton
Healers and Healing in the
Roman Empire
HULL (Graduate School, The University)
Thursday, 22
November 2007 at 7.30 pm
Dr.
Stanley Ireland
Female portraits on Roman coins
CAMBRIDGE (Law Faculty, Sidgwick site, Cambridge)
(in
conjunction with the Cambridge Antiquarian Society)
Monday, 7 January 2008 at 6 pm
Professor Martin Millett
The archaeology of Portus: the
port of imperial Rome
SALISBURY (South Wiltshire Girls Grammar School)
Tuesday, 22 January 2008 at 5 pm
Mr John
Davie
Poetry
and Politics in Augustan Rome
BANGOR (Council Chamber, Old Arts Building,
University of Wales)
Thursday, 24 January 2008 at 5 pm
Professor David Langslow
Latin
and the Romance Languages
CARDIFF (Humanities Building, The University, Colum
Drive)
Monday, 4 February 2008 at 5.10 pm
Professor Greg Woolf
Religious Creativity in the Roman
Provinces
GLASGOW (The Murray Room, Dept of Classics, 65
Oakfield Avenue, The University)
Monday, 18 February 2008 at 7.30 pm
Dr Bob Cowan
Oops!
Accidental death and the limits of determinism in Roman epic
EDINBURGH
(David Hume Tower, The University, George Square)
Thursday, 21 February 2008 at 7 pm
Professor Stephen Oakley
Latin Manuscripts
NOTTINGHAM (C6 Dept of Classics, The University)
Tuesday, 11 March 2008 at 5 pm
Dr Jonathan Prag
Fighting
for the provinces: Republican auxiliaries
LINCOLN (St Hugh’s Hall,
Monks Road)
(in conjunction with FLARE, the Friends of Lincoln
Archaeological Research and Education)
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
at 7.30 pm
Professor Ian Haynes
Finding Bacchus in Transylvania: Excavating the sanctuary of
Liber Pater
DURHAM (Dept of Classics & Ancient History, 38 North Bailey)
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 at 5.30 pm
Professor
Alison Sharrock
Ovid
and Epic
Panel of Lecturers
The Roman Society's Panel of Lecturers for joint meetings with local
branches of the Classical association outside London is given below. Branch secretaries
should contact lecturers direct and let us know by 31 July - in writing or by
e-mail - whom they are inviting, together with details of the place, date and
time of the meeting.
If the lecture is included in the Society's Programme of Meetings, half
the lecturer's second-class travel expenses will be paid by the Society. This
does not mean that only those on the Panel may be invited to address joint
meetings.
Comments on the list are always welcomed. Please let us know of any
subjects in demand but not on the list, or of good lectures that could be
included.
Some lecturers have given a general subject or subjects, instead of a
specific title, since they prefer to discuss the exact topic with the local
body concerned. Subjects marked with an asterisk are suitable or can be adapted
for sixth-formers, and the lecturers can also speak on GCSE and AL topics.
The Panel for the 2007/8 Session is now
available.
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