CAMBRIDGE CLASSICS RESEARCH SEMINARS
MICHAELMAS TERM 2013
These Seminars are open to all Graduates and Senior Members who are
interested in them. This list is also published on the website:
http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/faculty/research/seminars/
A: LITERATURE - Rhetoric and Ancient Literature
Seminars will be at 1715-1845 on Wednesdays, in Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics.
All welcome.
16th October
Chris Whitton: Pliny on/at length (Epistles 1.20)
23rd October
Casper de Jonge (Leiden): Sublime Sappho: Longinus (and other critics) on
Sappho as a rhetorical model
30th October
Michael Carroll: Aeschylus and the Rhetoric of Metaphor
6th November
Stephen Oakley: Speeches in Dionysius of Halicarnassus
13th November
Stephen Hinds (University of Washington): Petrarch’s letters to ancient authors
20th November
Malcolm Heath (Leeds): How do teachers and theorists of rhetoric use Homer?
27th November
Luigi Battezzato (Vercelli): Rhetorical Contests in Euripides
4th December
Jacob Wisse (Newcastle): Hidden Thoughts, Figured Speech: the dangers of
applying rhetoric to literature
B: PHILOSOPHY
The B Club
Meetings will be at 1700 in Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics. Tea/coffee/biscuits
will be served at 1630. All welcome.
28th October
Walter Cavini: ‘Ancient Logic and the Principle of Bivalence’. **CANCELLED**
11th November
Frisbee Sheffield: ‘Why Eros matters for Plato’.
Joint seminar with Faculty of Divinity:
2 December, 4:30 pm, Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity:
Prof. Emmanuel Bermon (Bordeaux): ‘Augustine and Neoplatonists on
omnipresence'.
Thursday Seminar
This term we will be reading ‘Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 10’ on Thursday
evenings, starting 17th October from 1715-1915, in Room 1.04, Faculty of
Classics (except 14th November and 5th December, when we begin at 1805 after
the Philological Society Meeting).
Graduate Seminar
Reading Plato, Republic, Book 10.
Tuesday afternoons in R.01, from 15 October, 2-4 pm. The primary participants
are the Ph.D. students in ancient philosophy, but M.Phil. students are welcome to
attend. Others who wish to attend should contact the convenor, Dr Robert Wardy
<rbw1001@cam.ac.uk>
C: ANCIENT HISTORY
Seminars will be at 1715 on Mondays in Room G.21, Faculty of Classics. Papers
are followed by discussion. All welcome.
14th October
Welcome Session: Drinks and Introductions
21st October
Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge): ‘Religious materialities in the ancient world:
overview with votives’
28th October
Ailsa Hunt (Cambridge): ‘Material divinities: “Direct and absolute tree-worship” in
Roman culture?’
4th November
Round table discussion: Brent Nongbri, Before Religion (2013)
11th November
Hannah Willey (Cambridge): ‘Inscribed materials in Greek sanctuaries’
18th November
Caspar Meyer (Birkbeck): ‘Between materiality and visuality: Greco-Scythian
metalwork and the modern invention of “ritual objects”’
25th November
Milena Melfi (Oxford): Title TBA
2nd December
Fay Glinister (Cardiff) and John North (UCL): ‘Writing Roman religious
materialities: the Lexicon of Festus’
D: ARCHAEOLOGY
Seminars will be at 1630 on Tuesdays in Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics (unless
otherwise stated). All welcome.
22nd October
Simon Stoddart (University of Cambridge): The invisible prehistoric majority;
beyond the (ostentatious) elite of Etruria. Old and new evidence
29th October
Valérie Huet (Université de Bretagne Occidentale): Images of women in
banqueting scenes on funerary reliefs in Rome and Italy
5th November
Alessandro Pierattini (Università degli Studi Roma Tre): On the atrium tuscanicum
26th November
Lars Karlsson (Uppsala Universitet): New light on Labraunda
3rd December
Friederike Fless (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut): The borders of Rome
E: PHILOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS
Meetings will be at 1630 on Wednesdays in Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics. Tea
will be served at 1615. All welcome. See also
http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/9831. Contact: James Clackson.
Indo-European and Linguistic Theory
23 October
‘The ab urbe condita construction in Latin - an LFG account’
Dag Haug
30 October
'Formal syntax and language phylogeny’
Pino Longobardi
6 November
‘An LFG analysis of the Latin reflexive'
Marius Johndahl
13 November
‘Reconstructing phonological change in Latin: reductionist versus structural diachronic
explanations’
Ranjan Sen
GRADUATE INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR
Fridays at 1715 in Room 1.11
All Graduates are warmly invited to attend the Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar
(GIS) series, which will be running on Friday evenings throughout the Michaelmas
Term. The Seminar format is usually two twenty-minute papers, each followed by
questions and discussion, or one paper followed by a ‘snippet’ (a shorter
presentation focusing on a more specific issue or problem, to be discussed at
greater length). The GIS provides an ideal forum for discussing new ideas and
developing presentational skills in a relaxed, friendly and supporting environment.
The Seminars are always followed by drinks and dinner at a nearby pub, to which
everyone is welcome.
For further information please contact the organisers:
Anna Judson: apj31@cam.ac.uk
Christina Tsaknaki: ckt29@cam.ac.uk
We look forward to seeing as many Graduates there as possible.
12th October
No GIS due to the “meet-and-greet” for new and returning graduates (1715 in
G.21) followed by a drinks reception (1830 in the Cast Gallery). All welcome!
18th October
Laura Viidebaum: Rhetorical performance: between ancient practice and ancient
reception
George Watson: Coin production technologies in 3rd-century Pamphylia (snippet)
25th October
Charles Northrop: Can Time Be a Character? Personification and Time in Ovid's
Metamorphoses
Max Leventhal: Virgil and Eratosthenes at the Limits of Intertextuality (snippet)
1st November
Josh Pugh Ginn: The Death of M. Claudius Marcellus
Elena Giusti: Persian Dido
8th November
Claire Jackson: Ancient Fiction and Forgery in Antonius Diogenes
Hannah Price: The archaeologist-mystic: Giacomo Boni and the Forum, 18981910
15th November
Robrecht Decorte: Latin legal syntax
Ruth Allen: Gemmed Gods
22nd November
Jenny Zhao: Comparative studies and Classics in China
Caroline Musgrove: Hymens and Integritas: the ‘Especially Closed’ Virginal Body
in Late Antique Medicine
29th November
Thesis proposal presentations: This is a chance for MPhils and first-year PhDs to
give a short explanation of their proposed thesis topic. More information to follow.
PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Meetings will be at 1630 in Room G.21, Faculty of Classics (unless otherwise
stated).Tea will be served at 1600. Enquiries about the Society should be directed
to ‘The Cambridge Philological Society, C/o The Faculty of Classics’
Michaelmas Term 2013
10th October
Shane Butler: The ancient phonograph
14th November
David Butterfield: Some episodes in the transmission and survival of Lucretius’
De Rerum Natura –
5th December
Adrian Kelly: Aias in Athens:the worlds of Athenian tragedy
Lent Term 2014
16th January
Myrto Hatzimichali: Theories of language in the ancient commentators on
Aristotle
6th February
Hannah Willey: Narratives of cult foundation
6th March
Yannis Galanakis: After Elgin: sourcing and trafficking antiquities in 19th Century
Greece
Easter Term 2014
24th April (Old Combination Room, Trinity College)
Stephen Colvin: The potential particle in Greek: a linguistic and literary history
15th May (AGM – Barbara White Room, Newnham College)
Professor John Dillery: Atys, Adrastus and Croesus’ great nemesis: Herodotus
and names