Library opening hours over the Christmas period

Evening opening (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays until 8pm) will end on 17th December and begin again on 12th January.

 

The last Saturday opening will be 19th December, and the first in the new year will be 9th January.

 

The library will close on Wednesday 23rd December (late afternoon) and open again on Monday 4th January.



ICS Events this week: 7th - 12th December 2015

Monday 7 December
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Aristotle and the poets on the ethics of wealth
Kleanthis Mantzouranis (St Andrews)

17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
Does opsis do justice to the Visual in tragedy?
Oliver Taplin (Oxford)

Tuesday 8 December
18:00 Women Writing the Classics
Classics in Contemporary Women's Prose
Elizabeth Cook and Salley Vickers, chaired by Efi Spentzou (RHUL)

Thursday 10 December
16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
Monarchies and Republics in Etruria: Myths, Objects, and Political Theory
Corinna Riva (UCL)

Friday 11 December
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
τὸ ἴδιον: Literary contexts for hellenistic definitions of poetry
Spencer Klavan (Oxford)
 
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ICS Events this week: 30th November - 5th December 2015

Monday 30 November
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
Senses of presence: Vision, spaciality and embodiment in Greek literature and rhetoric.
Ruth Webb (Lille)

Tuesday 1 December
17:00 ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar
Drawing towards Reconstruction: Illustration Projects at the British Museum
Kate Morton (British Museum)

17:30 Accordia Lecture
Sanctuaries and states in the archaic Mediterranean and beyond
Greg Woolf (ICS)

Wednesday 2 December 
15:30 ICS Mycenaean Series
Mycenaean iconography and agency
James Wright (Athens)

Thursday 3 December
16:45  ICS Ancient History Seminar
Zela, acclamations, Caracalla – and Parthia?
Andrew Burnett (BM)

Friday 4 December
14:30 ICS Early Career Seminar
Dynasts in Action. Art and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean under Persian Rule
Alessandro Poggio

16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
'How to praise the emperor inoffensively': Representation of power, or self-representation in the writings of Julian the Emperor
Lea Niccolai (Pisa)

Saturday 5 December
14:30 ICS Virgil Society Lecture
Fatum and fortuna: religion and philosophy in Virgil's Aeneid
Calypso Nash
 
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Early closure of the Library on 25th November 2015

 

Please note that the ICS/Joint Library will close at 1:45pm on 25th November 2015.

 

This is due to the closure of Senate House for the University of London Foundation Day.

 

We apologise for any inconvenience this will cause.

 

 

 

ICS events this week: 16th-21st November 2015

Monday 16 November
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
Elegiac perspectives on the visual arts, from antiquity to the Renaissance
Luke Houghton (Reading)

Wednesday 18 November
17:00 ICS Autumn Lecture in association with the British School at Athens
New investigations and finds at the Mycenaean palace of Thebes (Boeotia)
Vassilis Aravantinos (Ephor Emeritus of Boeotia)

Thursday 19 November
16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
Aspect and agency in epigraphic signatures
Stephen Colvin (UCL)

Friday 20 November
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Financial crisis and Demosthenes' political début
Robert J. Sing (Cambridge)

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ICS events this week: 9-14th November 2015

Monday 9 November
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Intentionality and the Transparency of Cognitive Activities in Damascius
Péter Lautner (Pázmany Péter University, Budapest)

17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
Rewriting Greek Myths on Roman Sarcophagi
Zahra Newby (Warwick)

Tuesday 10 November
18:00 ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens
FBSA Lecture: Ceramic production in the Northeast Peloponnese: a view from the Berbati Valley, Greece
Dr Ian Whitbread
The chair will be taken by Prof. Ian Freestone of the Institute of Archaeology, London.

Thursday 12 November
16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
Ancient Texts and Objects in the Late Renaissance: Questions of Chronology
William Stenhouse (Yeshiva University, NY)

Friday 13 November
14:30 ICS Early Career Seminar
Narrative Time in Three Epistles of Sidonius Apollinaris
Michael Hanaghan

16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
A drunken windbag: Maecenas in Sen. Epist. 19.9
Janja Soldo (Birkbeck/LMU Munich)

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ICS events this week: 2nd - 7th November 2015

Tuesday 3 November
17:00 ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar
Interpreting Troy in London: Objects, Illustrations and Photographs in Schliemann's Exhibition
Abigail Baker (Birkbeck)

Thursday 5 November
10:00 Digital Classics Workshop
Structuring and visualising data: A training workshop for postgraduate students and researchers on structuring and visualising historical data.
The workshop will be taught by Silke Vanbeselaere (KU Leuven) and Gabriel Bodard (ICS).

16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
The Stuff of the Gods: The Material Aspects of Religion in Ancient Greece
Robin Osborne (Cambridge)

Friday 6 November
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
The strange case of BPG 80: An unedited manuscript containing Greek letters
Roberta Berardi (Bari)

Saturday 7 November
14:00 Women Writing the Classics
'My safety lies with other poets/ who've shown the way they took through shadows': Gwyneth Lewis and the Classics
Gwyneth Lewis with Elena Theodorakopoulos (Birmingham), Fiona Cox (Exeter) and Ruth MacDonald (RHUL), chaired by Elena Theodorakopoulos 

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