RESEARCH SEMINARS: SPRING 2007
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
UNIVERSITY OF READING

 

All lectures are at 4 p.m. in HUMSS 128, unless otherwise stated.
For maps and directions, please see: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/maps/
 
Wednesday      
24 Jan 2007
‘Colonial Matters: exploring the material dimensions of colonial cultures past and present’           
Peter van Dommelen, University of Glasgow

Wednesday           
31 Jan 2007
‘Iambic caricature and self-representation: an interpretation of internal references among red-figure vase-painters of the Pioneer Group’            
Guy Hedreen, Williams College

Wednesday           
7 Feb 2007   HUMSS 125
‘The Origins of/at Art History: Baron d’Hancarville and Sir William Hamilton’
Daniel Orrells, University of Warwick

Wednesday           
14 Feb 2007
‘Rome in Red, Green and Blue: Classifying Classicism in Video Games’           
Dunstan Lowe, University of Reading

Wednesday           
21 Feb 2007
‘Medicine and Empire in the Roman World’
Rebecca Flemming, University of Cambridge

Thursday           
1 March 2007  HUMSS 175
‘Hearing Voices: Winckelmann, the Library of Herculaneum, and the History of Classical Scholarship’
James Porter, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Wednesday           
7 Mar 2007
“TBA”           
Michael Squire, University of Cambridge

Wednesday           
14 Mar 2007
‘The Odyssey Continued: Patrick Leigh Fermor in the Caribbean’           
Emily Greenwood, University of St Andrews

For further information, please contact Phiroze Vasunia at p.vasunia AT reading.ac.uk.