Events Programme
The Scholarship of John North: a Roman Society Colloquium
Tuesday 10 March, 6-8pm
Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House
Professor John A. North (1938-2025) taught Ancient History at UCL between 1963 and 2003, where he was also twice Head of the Department of History. His influence as a teacher, colleague and mentor, and his historical vision of the Roman past, were celebrated by his former colleagues at a Memorial Day on 6th November 2025, held at UCL and at the ICS, where he served as Acting Director between 2011 and 2014.
John was also a major figure in the Roman Society, serving for a while as Review Editor of the Journal of Roman Studies. This colloquium, held under the auspices of the Roman Society, brings together four leading scholars to lead discussion of some of his key contributions to the study of Roman religion and the history of the Roman Republic more generally.
EMMA DENCH
• ‘Democratic Politics in Republican Rome’. Past & Present, 126 (1990), 3–21
GREG WOOLF
• "The Development of Roman Imperialism." Journal of Roman Studies 71 (1981): 1-9 (on Harris' War and Imperialism):
• "The Roman Counter-Revolution." Review of The Fall of the Roman Republic and Related Essays, P. A. Brunt. Journal of Roman Studies 79 (1989): 151-56.
JOHN SCHEID
• ‘Diviners and divination in Rome’. In: M. Beard, J. North, Pagan Priests. Religion and Power in the Ancient World, London, 1990, pp.49-71.
• ‘The Books of the Pontifices’. In: La mémoire perdue. Recherches sur l’administration romaine. Rome 1998, pp. 45-63.
MARY BEARD
• J.A. North, The Inter-relation of Roman State Religion and Politics in Roman Public Life from the Second Punic War to the time of Sulla. Chapter 2
• ‘Religious Toleration in Republican Rome’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 25 (1979) 85-103
All welcome. No booking required.
Join Event with the Hellenic Society
Tuesday 17 March, 6pm
Senate House, London
More details to follow
AGM and Colloquium: Letters and Landscapes
Saturday 6 June, 2pm
Senate House, London
2pm: AGM
Colloquium: Letters and Landscapes
2.30: Roy Gibson (Durham): The Contracting and Expanding Mediterranean: Latin Letters from Cicero to Augustine
3.00 Kathryn Tempest (ICS / Leicester): Locating the Landscape in Cicero’s Letters
3.45 Tea
4.15 Ruth Morello (Manchester): Being Nervous in Campania
4.45 James Corke-Webster (KCL): Letters of Refuge: From Ancient Lyons to Modern Calais.
5.30: Reception
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Reconnecting Roman Britain 2025, Nottingham
Date and time: Friday 7 November (16.00-19.00) & Saturday 8 November (09.00-16.30)
Location: Department of Music, Lakeside Arts Centre, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD
Following the continued success of the annual Reconnecting Roman Britain event, the Archaeology Committee of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, the Department of Classics and Archaeology and the University of Nottingham Museum will showcase the latest research and discoveries at an in-person event.
On Friday 7 November, there will be a pre-event tour of the University Archaeological Museum, drinks reception and an evening lecture, at which Dr Simon Elliott FSA will be presenting his work on Roman Britain’s Missing Legion (see box below). Papers, posters and presentations will take place on Saturday 8 November. There will be a combination of longer papers, as well as “lightning round” and poster presentations. There will be opportunities to view the Norton Disney dodecahedron and accompanying exhibition on both days.
Further information and registration is available here.
The Programme and Travel & Accommodation details are here, and the Book of Abstracts is here.
M.V. Taylor Lecture
Thursday 5 February, 5.30pm
Senate House, London
Professor Barbara Borg
Via Appia, Mile Three: Tracing Ethno-Religious Minorities in Imperial Rome
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