The Classics research seminars provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and the promotion of new research and debate among the research community, both within and outside the University. All are welcome. Wednesday seminars take place at 5.10 pm, Thursday seminars at 2.10 pm. Please check details below. Everyone welcome! Semester 1 2025/26DateSpeakerTopicLocationWed 17 SepProfessor Andrew Burnett (British Museum)[Professor N. Keith Rutter Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Classical Association of Scotland]'The Greek context of the invention of Roman coinage' Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolThis event will be accessible online. Please email Calum Maciver if you would like to attend remotely: Calum.Maciver@ed.ac.uk. Wed 24 SepWelcome Event / Dr Donncha O’Rourke (Edinburgh)'Sorry not sorry: the ethics of wrongdoing in Virgil and Augustan culture'Sydney Smith Lecture Room, Doorway 1 Old Medical SchoolWed 1 OctProfessor Barbara Graziosi (Princeton University) [Leventis Professor Inaugural Lecture]'A Humanistic Approach to Artificial Intelligence'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 8 OctDr Lisa Eberle (Tübingen/Oxford) 'Disciplining Dominae. Sex, Slaves, and Stories in the Reign of Constantine'Sydney Smith Lecture Room, Doorway 1 Old Medical SchoolWed 15 OctDr Lucy Nicholas (Warburg Institute)'Cicero in Tudor England'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 22 OctDr Maria Mili (University of Glasgow)'Who was the Thessalian goddess Ennodia? Variations of the Thessalian Pantheon'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 29 OctProfessor Lucy Grig (University of Edinburgh) [inaugural lecture]'A Slow History of Late Antiquity'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolThu 30 OctProfessor Peter Wilson (University of Sydney)'Pindar of Thebes and the 470s: the awkward years?'1.312 (Doorway 1), Old Medical SchoolWed 05 NovDr Thomas Coward (University of Bristol)'The ending of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 12 NovDr Eve Macdonald (Cardiff University)'Carthage, Archaeology and Collective Memory'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 19 NovProfessor Gregory MacIsaac (Carleton University, Ottawa)'The Calculated Failure of the Wax Block in Plato’s Theaetetus'Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4 Old Medical SchoolWed 26 NovDr John Reid (Chair, Trimontium Trust, Melrose)'Presenting Early Scotland’s Experience of the Roman Empire to a 2020s Audience'Sydney Smith Lecture Room, Doorway 1 Old Medical School This article was published on 2024-08-01
