Pompeii: A Series of Research Seminars Presented by the Department of Classics, University of Reading

Spring 2009

Dr. Katharina Lorenz (Nottingham) 'Rhetoric on the wall? Visiting a Pompeian house with Quintilian and Georges Didi-Huberman' 21st of January

Professor Michael Fulford (Reading)
'Pompeii: Recent Excavations in the House of Amarantus'
4th of February
Professor Henrik Mouritsen (King's College London)
'Writing and space in the Roman house'
11th of February

Virginia L. Campbell (Reading)
'Words, Words, Words: A Look at Pompeian Funerary Inscriptions'
and
Dave Newsome (Birmingham)
'Pompeii's Imperial Forum: Rome's Logica Chiusa'
25th of February

Professor Robert Fowler (Bristol)
'Herculaneum: Challenges and Prospects for Future Development'
4th of March


All seminars to be held at 4 pm in Palmer G04, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus

Contact: Dr. Phiroze Vasunia (p.vasunia AT reading.ac.uk)


Posters advertising the seminar series can be downloaded and printed from: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/classics/about/class-news.asp