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SEMESTER 2 2012 SPRING PROGRAMME

 

Friday, 27 April School Event

HCA before HCA

Prof. Robert Anderson (Edinburgh), 'Teaching not research: Richard Lodge and Edinburgh History'

 

Prof. Charlotte Roueché (KCL), 'From Edinkillie to Afyon to Edinburgh: tracing William Calder'

 

Prof. Ian Ralston (Edinburgh), 'Gordon Childe at Edinburgh, 1927-1946: from the field in Scotland to international synthesis'

 

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Friday, 4 May

Young Research

Anthony Ellis, 'Herodotus' Muse'

 

Pavlina Saoulidou, 'Callimachus' landscape: an ideologically-charged view of the world'

 

Miriam Bisset, 'Abduction and performance? A re-interpretation of scenes depicting satyrs carrying maenads in black-figure vase-painting'

 

Peter Morton, 'Nicomedes, P. Licinius Nerva and Sicily: the origin(s) of the so-called Second Sicilian Slave War?'

 

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Friday, 18 May

Classicism, Nazism and Facism

Ian Garden, 'Classicism, Nazi film propaganda, and the 1936 Olympia'

 

Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, 'Hollywood's widescreen propaganda: ancient Rome and the European dictators'

 

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Thursday, 24 May; 4 pm start!

Book Launch of:

J. G. Howie, Exemplum and Myth, Criticism and Creation: Papers on Early Greek Literature,  Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd., 2012.

 

Speakers at the event include:

 

M. W. Dickie (Edinburgh), 'Celebrating the Victories of Friends: Pindar's Moral Universe'


A. F. Garvie (Glasgow), ‘The End of Septem: Closure or Indeterminacy?'


A. Hardie (Edinburgh), 'Ibycus, Pindar, and the Muses of Helicon'

 

Copies of the volume will be available for purchase, at a 30% discount (RRP £80), on the evening.

 

 

Friday, 25 May

Late Roman Letters

 

Sigrid Mratschek (Rostock), ‘The Unwritten Letters of Augustine'

 

Timothy Barnes (Edinburgh), ‘Letter Collections in Late Antiquity'

 

Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh), ‘tba'

 

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