DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
CLASSICS RESEARCH SEMINAR, AUTUMN SEMESTER 2008-9

All seminars take place on Tuesdays, Room C6 Archaeology & Classics
Building, at 5.00pm. Tea at 4.30pm. All welcome!

30 September
Helen Asquith (Nottingham)
Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Hellenistic Kollektivgedichte

7 October
Margaret Malamud (New Mexico State University)
Translatio Imperii: America as the New Rome c.1900

14 October
Nottingham CA meeting
Paul Cartledge (Cambridge)
Aristophanes, democratic champion?

21 October
Richard Ned Lebow (Dartmouth College)
Fear, interest and honour: A theory of politics and international relations

11 November
Peter Stewart (Courtauld)
The materiality of Roman provincial sculpture

18 November
Chiara Thumiger (UCL)
Approaches to ancient madness

2 December
Neil McLynn (Oxford)
Augustine's Black Sheep: the case of Antoninus of Fussala
[joint seminar with the Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies]

9 December
Elena Isayev (Exeter)
Contested meanings of homeland and belonging in Ancient Italy (2-1c. BC)