READING UNIVERSITY CLASSICS DEPARTMENT: RESEARCH SEMINARS AND
CONFERENCES, SUMMER TERM 2008


Visitors are most welcome at all the events below. For enquiries and
further details: T.Rajak@rdg.ac.uk or Classics@rdg.ac.uk.



Wednesday 30 April, 4 pm, Carrington Building 201

Matthew Nicholls, Reading
Virtual Rome (on large screen).


Wednesday14 May, 4pm, Carrington Building 201

Virginia Lewis-Campbell, Reading
Stopping to Smell the Roses: Garden Tombs in Roman Italy.

Jo Brown, Reading
'No Harem Slave': the Construction of Athenian Women in Nineteenth
Century Social
Histories.


Wednesday 28 May, 4 pm, Carrington Building 201

Ittai Gradel, Reading
Imperial Portraits.


Wednesday 11 June, 4pm, Palmer 103

Michele Lucchesi, Lincoln College, Oxford
Plutarch and the Enigma of Lysander.


CONFERENCES

Thursday 8 May-Sat 10 May

Aphrodite Revealed: A Goddess Discolosed
(www.reading.ac.uk/ure/aphrodite)


Friday July 4-Sunday July 6

Perceptions of Polis-Religion: Inside/Outside:
A Symposium in Memory of Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
(http://www.rdg.ac.uk/humanities/conferences/PolisReligion/PolisReligion
InsideOutside.asp).