We are pleased to announce the launch of our Reading Classics Seminar Series for Semester 1 2025, which will boost our Wednesday afternoons with constructive and stimulating lectures and discussions on various aspects of Classics research!

In this series of lectures, starting on 15 October 2025, we welcome a diverse group of speakers in our Departmental seminars. Our Semester 1 seminar series will explore a variety of topics and periods of Classical studies. All seminars are hybrid and will be livestreamed on MS Teams. No registration is required. Attendance is free and open to all!

For more information, contact e.m.m.aston@reading.ac.uk.

Below you can find a poster with all titles:

Figure 1: Reading Classics Semester 1 2025 Seminar Schedule

15 October – 16:30-18:00 (EM 125)

Dylan James & Stephen Harrison (eds), Liverpool University Press, Theorising Comparative History for the Ancient Mediterranean launch.

29 October – 16:00-17:30 (Online only)

Dr. Ashley Lance, Brown University, Race, Empire, and Decoloniality Seminar – ‘Indigenising Classics’.

19 November – 16:00-17:30 (EM 125)

Bettina de Guzman, University of Reading, Muse of musician?: Female lute players in art and text during the late
Classical and Hellenistic periods.

3 December – 16:00-17:30 (EM 125)

Dr. Andreas Gavrielatos, University of Reading, Taking the off-beaten path: Persius as a Foucauldian truth-teller and
the satirist’s non-conformity.

10 December – 16:00-17:30 (EM 125)

Prof. Luiz Henrique Milani Queriquelli, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil), Which Hyginus Wrote the Fabulae? Linguistic Evidence for a Second-Century Anonymous Author Rather Than Suetonius’ Scholar.