ICS and other events 21st-23rd March 2016

Monday 21st March
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar EVENT CANCELLED
Milgram and the disobedient hero
Ineke Sluiter (Leiden)
Senate House - Room 349

17:30 Roman Art Seminar
Hercules Ovidianus in Augustan Rome: between literature and figurative repertory
Isabella Colpo (Universit degli Studi di Padova)
Senate House - Room 243

Tuesday 22nd March
17:00 Classical Archaeology Seminar
Illustrating Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century: Historicism and Visuality
Daniel Orrells (KCL)
Senate House - Room 349

Wednesday 23rd March
20:00 Library closes for Easter.
We will re-open on Wednesday 30th March.
Evening opening will recommence on Tuesday 26th April (when term starts).

Wishing everyone a good break!


If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

ICS and other events 14-19th March 2016

Monday 14th March
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Between the Dionysia and the Dialogues: Plato's use of comedy
David Preston (Royal Holloway)
Senate House - Room 243

17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
Between democracy and autocracy: patterns in the spread of theatre through Classical Greece
Eric Csapo (Sydney)
Senate House - Room 349

Tuesday 15th March
18:00 ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens Lecture
Hellenic Studies in Tudor England: presenting an online interactive edition of an unpublished Greek encomium on Henry VIII.
Chair: Elizabeth Jeffreys
Charalambos Dendrinos, Philip Taylor, Christoper Wright
Senate House - Room G22/26

Wednesday 16th March
15:30 ICS Mycenaean Series
Kakovatos in Tryphilia (Peloponnese): rise and fall of an early Mycenaean site
Brigitta Eder (Vienna)
Senate House - Room G22/26 

18:00 2016 Rumble Lecture in Classical Art
Queering Classical Art
Whitney Davis (Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art at the University of California at Berkeley and Visiting Professor of History of Art at the University of York)
King's College London - Great Hall, King's Building, Strand

Thursday 17th March
16:30  ICS Ancient History Seminar
Herakles and the challenges of colonial environments in the Black Sea
David Braund (Exeter)
Senate House - Room 349

Friday 18th March
14:30  ICS Early Career Seminar
‘Well-played, Fluttershy…’: Defeating Discord and Dragons in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Ellie Mackin
Senate House - Room 243

16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
The myth of Heracles in Diodorus' Bibliotheke: Variety of sources and traditions
Victoria Rotar (Trinity St David)
Senate House - Room 246

If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

Easter closure 2016

The Library will close on Wednesday 23rd March at 8.00pm and will re-open on Wednesday 30th March at 9.30am.

Easter is early this year, so when the library re-opens on 30th March there are 3 weeks before evening opening re-starts (to coincide with term-time). The first day of evening opening will be on Tuesday 26th April.

ICS and other events this week 7-12th March 2016

Monday 7th March
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
The Cultural Politics of Plautine Topography
Sophia Papaioannou
Senate House - Room 349

17:30 Roman Art Seminar
Looking like Caesar. A case-study of assimilation in late Republican portraiture
Nigel Spivey (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
Senate House - Room 243

Tuesday 8th March
17:00 Classical Archaeology Seminar
Photographs in the Antiquities Trade
Vinnie Nørskov (Aarhus)
Senate House - Room 349

17:30 Roman Society Lecture
Dura Europos
Introduced and Chaired by Professor Simon James
Professor Pierre Leriche: The new image of Europos-Dura on the Euphrates in the light of 25 seasons of archaeological research
Dr Jen Baird: Yale's Dura Archive: new excavation histories
Senate House - Chancellor's Hall

Wednesday 9th March
17:00 Rome-London Lecture
Grotte Scalina: a new monumental Etruscan tomb near Viterbo
Vincent Jolivet (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
Senate House - Room G22/26

Thursday 10th March
13:00 Rome in Bloomsbury Seminar
“Location, Location, Location”? Some thoughts on the Religious Topography of Dura-Europos
Ted Kaizer, Durham University
28 Russell Square, 2.02

16:00-20:00 SAS Open Day
Senate House
Free registration here

16:30  ICS Ancient History Seminar
Colonising Bosphorus: the Creation of the Bosphoran Kingdom in the Archaic Period
Catherine Morgan (Oxford)
Senate House - Room G22/26

Friday 11th March
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Revisiting pollution for homicide at Athens: A rhetorical perspective
Christine Plastow (UCL)
Senate House - Room 243


If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

ICS Events this week: 29th Feb-6th March 2016

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.

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).

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).