Calendar of Events in London

Most Institute events now take place in the South Block of Senate House (ground floor) although a few are held in Stewart House, 32 Russell Square (adjacent to Senate House).

Please note: a new Institute website is under development and should
go live later in the spring term. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
For further information about Institute events please contact:
admin.icls@sas.ac.uk
 

JANUARY 2012

Friday 13
4.30 pm Postgraduate Work-in-Progress
Aahamed Mohammed (KCL) - The third space: the demise of the Roman Republic
Senate House South Block G34

Monday 16
4.30 pm Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Jamie Dow (Leeds) - Proof-reading Aristotle's Rhetoric
Senate House South Block G34

Tuesday 17
5.30 pm Accordia Lecture
Mike Edwards (Trinity St David) - Isaeus the Greek and the Italian connection
Senate House South Block G22/26

Wednesday 18
3.30 pm Mycenaean Series
Lyvia Morgan (London) - The power of paint: Kea and beyond
Senate House South Block G22/26

Friday 20
4.30 pm Postgraduate Work-in-Progress
Janet Kroll (UCL) - Dreadful wish or casual remark? New interpretations of Cicero's letter
ad Atticus XII.45.2
Senate House South Block G34

Monday 23
4.30 pm Special Guest Seminar
Anthony Long (Berkeley) - Marcus Aurelius on the Self
Senate House South Block Room 102

5.15 pm Latin Literature Seminar
Henrik Mouritsen (KCL) - From meeting to text: the Contio and public persuasion in the
Late Republic
Senate House South Block G37

Tuesday 24
6 pm FBSA Lecture
George Huxley - Aristotle and the Oligarchs: the plight of contemplative scholarship
in market-driven universities
Senate House South Block G22/26

Wednesday 25
5 pm Classical Archaeology Seminar
Mark Hassall and Alan Johnston (UCL-ICLS) - Classical archaeology and the University
of London
Senate House South Block G22/26

Thursday 26
4.30 pm Ancient History Seminar
Kostas Vlassopoulos (Nottingham) - Slave dialectiques: an agenda for studying slave
agency in ancient Greece
Senate House South Block G22/26


Friday 27
4.30 pm Postgraduate Work-in-Progress
Katie East (RHUL) - Sic superstitionis stirpes omnes ejiciendae: John Toland, Cicero and
the fight against superstition
Senate House South Block G34

Monday 30
4.30 pm Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Mike Trapp (KCL) - Honey or arrows: philosophic logos and the problem of hedonistic
listening
Senate House South Block G34

5.15. Latin Literature Seminar
Ingo Gildenhard (Durham) - A Republic in letters: Cicero's correspondence with exiled
Familiares
Senate House South Block G37

FEBRUARY

Wednesday 1
5 pm - Classical Archaeology Seminar
Olga Palagia (Athens) - Bernard Ashmole's studies of Greek reliefs and the three Graces
on the Acropolis
Senate House South Block G22/26

Thursday 2
4.30 pm Ancient History Seminar
Kyle Harper (Oklahoma) - From Roman to medieval slavery, with Karl and Max
Senate House South Block G22/26


Friday 3
4.30 pm Postgraduate Work-in-Progress
Adam Lecznar (UCL) - Soyinka's Nietzschean Bacchae: can we find 19th century continental
philosophy in a 20th century postcolonial tragedy?
Senate House South Block G34


Monday 6
5.15. Latin Literature Seminar
C. W. Marshall (UBC) - Livy's census numbers and the audience of Plautus
Familiares
Senate House South Block G37

Thursday 9
4.30 pm Ancient History Seminar
Linda Newson (KCL) Bartering for slave on the Upper Guinea coast in the early
seventeenth century
Senate House South Block G22/26


Friday 10
4.30 pm Postgraduate Work-in-Progress
Helen Slaney (Oxford) - Schlegel, Shelley and the 'Death' of Seneca
Senate House South Block G34

Monday 13
4.30 pm Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Tobias Rheinhardt (Oxford) - Uses of Plato in Cicero's philosophical works
Senate House South Block G34

Latin Literature Seminar - NO MEETING - READING WEEK

Tuesday 14
5.30 Accordia Lecture
Gert-Jan Burgers (Dutch Institute Rome) - Greeks and Indigenes at L'Amastuola,
southern Italy
Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, Room G6

Wednesday 15
3.30 pm Mycenaean Series
Colin Renfrew & Michael Boyd (Cambridge) - The settlement at Dhaskalio, Keros, and the
later Early Bronze Age in the Cycladic Islands
Senate House South Block G22/26

Thursday 16
4.30 pm Ancient History Seminar
Edith Hall (RHUL) - The baggage train of the Ten Thousand in Xenophon's Anabasis
Senate House South Block G22/26

Friday 17
4.30 pm Postgraduate Work-in-Progress
Becky Littlechilds (KCL) - Lucta, fugum and voluntas: ghosts of the persecuted age in
Adversus Jovianum 2.20-31
Senate House South Block G35

Monday 20
5:15 pm Latin Literature Seminar
Monica Gale (Trinity Dublin) - Property, status and social relations in the poetry of Catullus
Senate House South Block G37

Tuesday 21
5 pm Special Guest Lecture
Dyfri Williams (BM) - Up close and personal: revisiting the Parthenon's East Pediment
Senate House South Block G22/26

Wednesday 22
5 pm Classical Archaeology Seminar
Jennifer Grove (Exeter) -  Henry Wellcome's Classical Erotica: sexually related antiquities
collected for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in the early 20th Century
Senate House South Block G22/26

Thursday 23
Ancient History Seminar - READING WEEK

Friday 24
4:30 pm Postgraduate Work-in-Progress
MA Sesssion
Senate House South Block G35

Monday 27
4.30 pm Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Christof Rapp (Munich)   The dialectical turn of rhetorical theory
Senate House South Block G34

5:15 pm Latin Literature Seminar
Carole Newlands (Boulder) Representations of Nero and Domitian as builders
Senate House South Block G37


Tuesday 28
5 pm T.B.L. Webster Lecture
C. W. Marshall (UBC) - Masks of Pompeii
Senate House South Block G22/26

Wednesday 29
5 pm Classical Archaeology Seminar
Amelia Dowler (BM) - The hoard diary of ESG Robinson
Senate House South Block G22/26

Please note: a new Institute website is under development and should
go live later in the spring term. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
For further information about Institute events please contact:
admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

page update 19 January 2012

For further information about the re-location of the offices and Library see: www.sas.ac.uk/icls/institute/index.html