About this Event
This is the series of research seminars hosted by the department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham in the Autumn Term of 2024-25. Research presentations are open to everyone to attend, and will be in person. Zoom link will be provided for anyone unable to join in person upon registering for a ticket.
CAHA and CBOMGS Seminars
2024-25 Semester 1
Wednesdays at 4 pm, in Lecture Room 7
All Seminars will be in person events,
zoom links will be provided for anyone who cannot be on campus
Week 2: 9 October
Professor Lin Foxhall (Liverpool) ‘Entrepreneuring women: the spaces of textile manufacture in classical Greek cities’
Week 3: 16 October
Dr Emily Hauser (Exeter) ‘The World of Penelope’
Week 4: 23 October nb: this will be in Lecture Room 1
New voices: recent graduates of CBOMGS
Dr Laura Clark (Bham) ‘Death by numbers: a data-driven exploration of early Christian burials in the Near East’
Dr Lluis Lluís Jerez i Bertolín (Bham) ‘The harvest contractor in Byzantium: absence of evidence or evidence of absence?’
Week 5: 30 October
Dr Jane Masseglia (Leicester) ‘The Rutland Trojan War Mosaic: How a Greek story came to Roman Britain’
Week 6 and Week 7 no seminar
Week 8: 20 November CBOMGS Seminar
Dr Alex Feldman (Madrid) ‘Mercantilism: from the Byzantine Commonwealth to the Commonwealth of Independent States’
Week 9: 27 November
Dr Justine McConnell (King’s College, London) 'Tragedy Refigured in Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings'
Week 10: 4 December
Professor Richard Buxton (Bristol) 'Peril at the pool: Narcissus and other mythical adolescents'.
Week 11: 11December (joint CAHA and CBOMGS seminar)
Dr Victoria Leonard (Coventry) ‘Letters, Resource Distribution, and Gender in the Late Antique Mediterranean’
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Arts Building, Edgbaston Campus, Birmingham, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00