Calendar of Events in London

This electronic listing replaces the Meetings List previously published each term in printed form by the Institute of Classical Studies.

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).

APRIL 2010
Saturday 24
3 pm - Virgil Society
Robin Sowerby - Night Attacks: Iliad X and Aeneid IX through Dryden, Pope and Byron
Senate House South Block G 22 / 26

Tuesday 27
5 pm - ICLS Guest Lecture
Michael Gagarin - The performance of Athenian law
Senate House South Block G 22 / 26

5.15 pm Accordia Research Seminar
Robin Skeates - Death and the underworld in prehistoric Sardinia
Stewart House ST 273

MAY 2010
Tuesday 4
5.30 pm Accordia Lecture
Eleanor Betts - Cubrar matrer: goddess of the Picenes?
Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square

Friday 7
4.30 pm Postgraduate Work-in-Progress
TBA
Senate House South Block G 34

Tuesday 11
5.15 pm Accordia Research Seminar
Giulia Saltini Semarari - Giving voice: social change seen through mortuary remains
in Early Iron Age Basilicata
Stewart House ST 273

Wednesday 12
3.30 pm Mycenaean Series
Irene Lemos - Recent excavations at Lefkandi
Senate House South Block G 22 / 26

Thursday 13
4.30 pm Ancient History - Classical Archaeology Seminar
Errietta Bissa and Thomas Brisart - Ancient Trade - Textual and Material Evidence:
Archaic Greece
Senate House South Block G 22 / 26

Friday 14
4.30 pm Postgraduate Work-in-Progress
TBA
Senate House South Block G 34

Tuesday 18
6 pm ICLS - IES Guest Lecture
William St Clair - Looking at the Acropolis in the Age of Enlightenment
Senate House South Block G22/26

Thursday 20
4.30 pm Ancient History - Classical Archaeology Seminar
Robin Osborne and Alan Johnston: Ancient Trade - Textual and Material Evidence:
Classical Greece
Senate House South Block G 22 / 26

Friday 21
4.30 pm Postgraduate Work-in-Progress
TBA
Senate House South Block G 34

Saturday 22
Virgil Society
11.30 am - A reading of Virgil's Muse, a play by Oliver Chadwick (d. 2009)
3 pm Harry Eyres - Virgil and Horace - Friendship and Differences
Senate House South Block G 22 / 26

Tuesday 25
6pm ICLS- FBSA Lecture
Michael Wright - The Antikythera Mechanism: A Hellenistic Planetarium
Senate House South Block G 22 / 26

Thursday 27
4.30 pm Ancient History - Classical Archaeology Seminar
Tim Cornell and Gabriele Cifani : Ancient Trade - Textual and Material Evidence:
The central Mediterranean 600 - 300
Senate House South Block G 22 / 26

Friday 28
4.30 pm Postgraduate Work-in-Progress
TBA
Senate House South Block G 34

JUNE
Friday 4
4.30 pm Digital Classicist Seminar
Leif Isaksen - Reading between the lines: unearthing structure in Ptolemy's Geography
Stewart House STB9

Thursday 10
4.30 pm Ancient History Seminar
Senate House G22/26

Friday 11
4.30 pm Digital Classicist Seminar
Hafed Walda - Towards a national inventory for Libyan archaeology
Stewart House STB9

Monday / Tuesday 14 -15
Annual Byzantine Colloquium - for further details click here
Senate House G22/26

Wednesday 16
5 pm John Penrose Barron Memorial Lecture
Chris Pelling - Herodotus and Samos - for futher details click here
Senate House G22/26

Friday 18
4.30 pm Digital Classicist Seminar
Timothy Hill - After prosopography? Data amodelling, models of history and
new directions for a scholarly genre
Stewart House STB9

Friday 25
4.30 pm Digital Classicist Seminar
Matteo Romanello - Towards a tool for the automatic extraction of canonical references
Stewart House STB9

JULY
Friday 2
4.30 pm Digital Classicist Seminar
Mona Hess - 3D colour imaging for cultural heritage artefacts
Stewart House STB9

Friday 16
4.30 pm Digital Classicist Seminar
Annemarie La Pensee - Non-contact 3D laser scanning as a tool to aid identification
and interpretation of archaeological artefacts: the case of Middle Hittite Bronze Age dice
Stewart House STB9

Friday 23
4.30 pm Digital Classicist Seminar
Mike Priddy - On-demand virtual research environments: a case study from the humanities
Stewart House STB9

Friday 30
4.30 pm Digital Classicist Seminar
Monica Berti and Martco Bucler - Fragmentary texts and digital collections of fragmentary
authors
Stewart House STB9

AUGUST
4.30 pm Digital Classicist Seminar
6 Kathryn Piquette - Material mediates meaning: exploring the artefactuality of writing
using qualitative data analysis software
Stewart House STB9

4.30 pm Digital Classicist Seminar
13 Lina Spinazze - Musisque deoque. Developing new features: manuscripts
tracing on the net
Stewart House STB9

Events in the Autumn Term will be added in due course

(page updated 3 June 2010)

 

 

 

 

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