The Department of Classics’ Autumn 2020 seminar series will take place on Wednesdays at 4pm, via MS TEAMS. To request a link to attend one or all of the following sessions, please email a.c.smith@reading.ac.uk
7 October: Prof. Thorsten Fögen (Durham), Rival or ally? Competition, controversy and polemics in ancient technical discourse
14 October: Dr Maria Pretzler (Swansea), The Beginning of the Peloponnesian League – not quite as Herodotus tells it?
21 October: Dr Chris Stray (Swansea), Uncovering Kenneth Dover: A scandalous eminence.
28 October: Dr Jennifer Cromwell (Manchester Metropolitan), The use of indigenous languages in conquest societies: the case of Coptic in early Islamic Egypt
11 November: Prof. Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford), Archiving and Interpreting Performance
18 November: Dr Jack Hanson (Reading), Cities, temples, and scale: A comparative approach
25 November: Dr Julia Hamilton (Leiden), Secondary epigraphy in Old Kingdom Saqqara