Monday 29 February
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
‘Callimachus and the Pleasure of Knowledge (Aetia, fr. 43.12-17)’
Daniele Iozzia (Catania)
Senate House - Room 243
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
Graduate presentations
Senate House - Room 349
Tuesday 1 March
17:30 Accordia Lecture
Supplying Rome between the 4th and 6th centuries AD: results of recent excavations at the Portus Romae
Simon Keay (Southampton/British School at Rome)
Senate House - Room G22/26
Thursday 3 March
The Afterlife of Apuleius (2 day conference 3rd-4th March)
Organised by the Warburg Institute and the Institute of Classical Studies the two-day conference will investigate the legacy of Apuleius’ literary and rhetorical works, focusing on the Ancient and Early Modern period. Lectures will be delivered by internationally renowned specialists in the fields of Classics, Renaissance studies and Comparative Literature, and a specific workshop will be devoted to discussions about Apuleianism in Renaissance rhetoric.
16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
More than Money: Commemoration and Visual Communication in the Black Sea Coinage
Vladimir Stolba (Aarhus)
Senate House - Room 349
Friday 4 March
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
A comparative reassessment of the Arab conquests of the 7th century: Ethnogenesis and the enemy within
James Moreton Wakeley (Oxford)
Senate House - Room 246
Saturday 5 March
14:30 ICS Virgil Society Lecture
Virgil and Neptune: Defying Homer?
Anton Powell
Senate House - Room G22/26
If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Saturday, 20 February 2016
ICS and other events this week: 22nd-27th February 2016
Monday 22 February
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
Eudocia's Martyrdom of St Cyprian between Pagan Vision and Christian Voice
Pavlos Avlamis (KCL)
Senate House - Room 349
17:30 Roman Art Seminar
The 'Horti' of ancient Rome: New research
Chrystina Häuber (Ludwig-Maximiliens-Universität München)
Senate House - Room 243
Thursday 25 February
13:00 Rome in Bloomsbury Seminar
Zena Kamash, Royal Holloway
Photographic Memories: Learning about Roman Syria through Photographs
28 Russell Square, 2.02
19:15 Hellenic Society Spring Lecture
‘PADDY LEIGH FERMOR AND FRIENDS: explorations in his archive’
Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith
The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, London W1U 5AS
Friday 26 February
Current Archaeology Live! (26th-27th Feb)
Tickets available here
14:30 ICS Early Career Seminar
Strangers in the Night: Indo-European Perspectives on Iliad 10 and the Rhesus Attributed to Euripides
Almut Fries
Senate House - Room 243
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Comedy of the absurd or absurd philosophy?
Claudio Garcia Ehrenfeld (KCL)
Senate House - Room 246
If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf).
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
Eudocia's Martyrdom of St Cyprian between Pagan Vision and Christian Voice
Pavlos Avlamis (KCL)
Senate House - Room 349
17:30 Roman Art Seminar
The 'Horti' of ancient Rome: New research
Chrystina Häuber (Ludwig-Maximiliens-Universität München)
Senate House - Room 243
Thursday 25 February
13:00 Rome in Bloomsbury Seminar
Zena Kamash, Royal Holloway
Photographic Memories: Learning about Roman Syria through Photographs
28 Russell Square, 2.02
19:15 Hellenic Society Spring Lecture
‘PADDY LEIGH FERMOR AND FRIENDS: explorations in his archive’
Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith
The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, London W1U 5AS
Friday 26 February
Current Archaeology Live! (26th-27th Feb)
Tickets available here
14:30 ICS Early Career Seminar
Strangers in the Night: Indo-European Perspectives on Iliad 10 and the Rhesus Attributed to Euripides
Almut Fries
Senate House - Room 243
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Comedy of the absurd or absurd philosophy?
Claudio Garcia Ehrenfeld (KCL)
Senate House - Room 246
If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf).
Friday, 12 February 2016
ICS Events this week: 15th-20th February 2016
15th-17th February
10:00 - 18:45 10th London Ancient Science Conference
See conference programme here
Senate House - Room G37
Monday 15th February
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Lucretius' Reception of Plato's Metaphors for the Body and Soul
Matthew Johncock (Wellington College)
Senate House - Room 243
Wednesday 17th February
15:30 ICS Mycenaean Series
Digital Nestor: Aegean scripts in the 21st century
Dimitri Nakassis (Toronto)
Senate House - Room G22/26
Friday 19th February
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Denouncement, slander, imperial harangue and the decline of oratory in Roman Empire: Power, rhetoric and oratory in the work of Tacitus
Juan Carlos Barrasús (Madrid)
Senate House - Room 243
Saturday 20th February
10:00 - 17:30 ICS Workshop
Cognitive approaches to classical literature
(booking is now closed for this event)
Senate House - Room G35
If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf).
10:00 - 18:45 10th London Ancient Science Conference
See conference programme here
Senate House - Room G37
Monday 15th February
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Lucretius' Reception of Plato's Metaphors for the Body and Soul
Matthew Johncock (Wellington College)
Senate House - Room 243
Wednesday 17th February
15:30 ICS Mycenaean Series
Digital Nestor: Aegean scripts in the 21st century
Dimitri Nakassis (Toronto)
Senate House - Room G22/26
Friday 19th February
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Denouncement, slander, imperial harangue and the decline of oratory in Roman Empire: Power, rhetoric and oratory in the work of Tacitus
Juan Carlos Barrasús (Madrid)
Senate House - Room 243
Saturday 20th February
10:00 - 17:30 ICS Workshop
Cognitive approaches to classical literature
(booking is now closed for this event)
Senate House - Room G35
If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf).
Saturday, 6 February 2016
ICS and other Events this week: 8th-13th Feburary 2016
Monday 8 February
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
The Most Democratic play of All Time? Revisiting Aristophanes' Knights
Edith Hall (KCL)
17:30 Roman Art Seminar
Ephebic iconography in Late Roman Art. The case of Endymion and Jonah
Nicoletta Bonansea (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome)
Tuesday 9 February
17:00 ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar
Pots, Past, Present, and Future: Translating the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Lucy Shipley (Southampton)
Thursday 11 February
13:00 Rome in Bloomsbury Seminar
(28 Russell Square, 2.02)
The Floating Rocks of Tyre: Local Identity and Civic Coins
Olivia Webster (Nottingham)
16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
The Foundation of Olbia Pontica. New Evidence on the Greek Colonisation of the North-Western Black Sea Littoral
Alla Buyskikh (Kiev)
Friday 12 February
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Exploring phasma: A cultural and semiotic analysis of one aspect of the uncanny in ancient Greece
Flaminia Beneventano della Corte (Siena)
ICS events page
Rome in Bloomsbury Seminar Series
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
The Most Democratic play of All Time? Revisiting Aristophanes' Knights
Edith Hall (KCL)
17:30 Roman Art Seminar
Ephebic iconography in Late Roman Art. The case of Endymion and Jonah
Nicoletta Bonansea (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome)
Tuesday 9 February
17:00 ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar
Pots, Past, Present, and Future: Translating the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Lucy Shipley (Southampton)
Thursday 11 February
13:00 Rome in Bloomsbury Seminar
(28 Russell Square, 2.02)
The Floating Rocks of Tyre: Local Identity and Civic Coins
Olivia Webster (Nottingham)
16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
The Foundation of Olbia Pontica. New Evidence on the Greek Colonisation of the North-Western Black Sea Littoral
Alla Buyskikh (Kiev)
Friday 12 February
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Exploring phasma: A cultural and semiotic analysis of one aspect of the uncanny in ancient Greece
Flaminia Beneventano della Corte (Siena)
ICS events page
Rome in Bloomsbury Seminar Series
Monday, 1 February 2016
ICS Events this week: 1st-6th February 2016
Monday 1 February
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Temporality and Genre in Early Greek Literature
Barbara Sattler (St Andrews)
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
The Economic Strategies of Plautus
Matthew Fox (Glasgow)
Wednesday 3 February
17:30 Roman Society- M.V. Taylor Lecture
Scaevola, politics and ideology on the eve of the Social War: sixty years after Badian
Professor Jean-Louis Ferrary
Woburn Suite, Senate House
Thursday 4 February
16:00 ICS Ancient History Seminar
From the City's Second Foundation to the Creation of the West-Pontic Koinon: the Gerousia of Istros Revisited
Valentin Bottez (Bucharest)
NB 16:00 start time, rather than usual 16:30
Friday 5 February
14:30 ICS Early Career Seminar
The late success of early Hellenism: some observations based on the pottery from Priene
Lars Heinze
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
"They dig up from the bowels of the earth hoards buried in time of war" (Sil. Ital., Punica II.606-607): Storage pits in NE Iberia, from hilltop oppida to the Roman domination (ca. 225 BC to AD 50)
Mateo González-Vázquez (Barcelona)
ICS Events page
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Temporality and Genre in Early Greek Literature
Barbara Sattler (St Andrews)
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
The Economic Strategies of Plautus
Matthew Fox (Glasgow)
Wednesday 3 February
17:30 Roman Society- M.V. Taylor Lecture
Scaevola, politics and ideology on the eve of the Social War: sixty years after Badian
Professor Jean-Louis Ferrary
Woburn Suite, Senate House
Thursday 4 February
16:00 ICS Ancient History Seminar
From the City's Second Foundation to the Creation of the West-Pontic Koinon: the Gerousia of Istros Revisited
Valentin Bottez (Bucharest)
NB 16:00 start time, rather than usual 16:30
Friday 5 February
14:30 ICS Early Career Seminar
The late success of early Hellenism: some observations based on the pottery from Priene
Lars Heinze
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
"They dig up from the bowels of the earth hoards buried in time of war" (Sil. Ital., Punica II.606-607): Storage pits in NE Iberia, from hilltop oppida to the Roman domination (ca. 225 BC to AD 50)
Mateo González-Vázquez (Barcelona)
ICS Events page
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