Lectures and Events

Each year a programme of all the Society's lectures and other meetings is circulated to UK based members in September. It is also available on request to any interested parties.

On this page you will find the following sections:

London Meetings and Events 2008-09
Joint Meetings with Branches of the Classical Association

Please download a programme here.
Please download a panel of speakers here.

LONDON MEETINGS AND EVENTS 2008-2009

Thursday 20 November 2008 at 6pm, room 212 Roberts Building UCL (Torrington Place, entrance opposite Waterstones)

Professor Richard Buxton
How Medea moves: versions of a myth in Apollonius and elsewhere
 

Monday 24 November 2008 at 6.30pm, Great Hall, Strand Campus, Kings College London

Hannah Rosenfelder (Mezzo-soprano), with Jennie-Helen Moston (piano) & Anneke Hodnett (harp)
Sirens: the seductive lure of the female voice

In conjunction with the Onassis Programme for the Performance of Greek Drama and the Dept. of Classics, Kings College London.
 

Tuesday 10 February 2009 at 5pm, room 336 Senate House (third floor, north block)

Professor Alan Sommerstein
The rugged Pyrrhus: the son of Achilles in tragedy

In conjunction with the Institute of Classical Studies
A Drinks reception follows the lecture.
 

Tuesday 10 March 2009 at 6pm, Great Hall, Strand Campus KCL

Professor Sir John Boardman
Persia, Greece & Britain

In conjunction with the Centre for Hellenic Studies Kings College London and the Society for Hellenic-Iranian Studies.
 

Saturday 13 June 2009   SPHS AGM, room 336, Senate House (third floor, north block).

2.00 pm            Professor Robert Parker
Why believe without revelation? The evidences of Greek Religion

3.00 pm Annual General Meeting, 3.45pm Tea

4.15pm             Dr Serafina Cuomo
Children of Prometheus - technicians in ancient Greece?

5.15pm Drinks Reception

Please note that this location will change if the North Block of Senate House is closed for renovation.

JOINT MEETINGS WITH THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION & LOCAL GROUPS

The following meetings have been arranged in collaboration with local branches of the CA and other groups. Members are advised to enquire locally about changes in time/place. Some lectures are suitable for schools: contact the local branch or group for further details.

North Staffordshire Branch of the CA
Thursday 23 October 2008 at 7.30 pm, NCHS - The Science College, Newcastle-under-Lyme, (Gallowstree Lane entrance)

Dr Jason Crowley
The closer you get the better I feel (or everything you always wanted to know about the psychology of Hoplite combat but were afraid to ask)

 
Leeds & District Branch of the CA

Monday 3 November 2008at 5.30pm, room 101 Dept. of Classics, University of Leeds.

Professor Roderick Beaton
Literature and the ‘Imagined Community’: the Making of Modern Greece
 

Bangor and North Wales Branch of the CA

Thursday 13 November 2008 at 5pm, Bangor Council Chamber, Old Arts Building, Bangor University.

Professor Stephen Todd
Putting the Hype into the new Hypereides: Deciphering an Ancient Barrister’s Brief
 

Hull and District Branch of the CA

Thursday 20 November 2008 at 7.30 pm, Graduate School University of Hull

Professor Stephen Todd
Justice or mob rule: the law courts of ancient Athens

Please check venue details with Secretary, Margaret Nicholson, M.Nicholson@hull.ac.uk               

 

Leicester & Rutland Branch of the CA

Tuesday 25 November 2008 at 5.30pm, Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 1, University of Leicester

Dr Mary Harlow
Dressing to impress: Roman female dress – rhetoric and reality

In conjunction with the Dorothy Buchan Memorial Trust.

 

South West Branch of the CA

Thursday 27 November 2008 at 5pm Amory Building, room 417, University of Exeter.

Professor Nick Fisher
Festivals, the Charities and Social Cohesion in Greek City States
 

Nottingham Branch of the CA

Friday 28 November 2008 at 6.00pm, Nottingham University Adult Education Centre, Shakespeare St.

Dr. Peter Jones
What the ancients have done, and might still do, for us?
 

Cardiff & District Branch of the CA

Monday 8 December 2008 at 5.10pm, Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff

Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
An Empire of Pleasure? Masculinity, Reproduction and the Harem in Ancient Persia and the Near East.
 

Edinburgh & South East Branch of the CA

Wednesday 10 December 2008 at 7pm, Conference Room, David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh

Dr Amy Smith
Persianising pots in Classical Athens.
 

Manchester Branch of the CA

Wednesday 4 February 2009 at 5.30 p.m. Samuel Alexander Building, Room A7

Dr Patrick Finglass
Sophocles at Leiden
 

Queen’s University of Belfast Annual Lecture

Friday 13 February 2009 at 1pm, Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, The Queen’s University of Belfast.

Professor Oliver Taplin
Tragic life-journeys and real-life journeys
 

Aberdeen Scottish Hellenic Society

Tuesday 17 February 2009

Professor Roderick Beaton
A Greek novelist in search of the meaning of life --Kazantzakis's 'Zorba' and 'Christ Recrucified’
 

Northumberland & Durham Branch of CA

Wednesday 4 March 2009, at 5.30pm, seminar room, Dept. of Classics & Ancient History, 38 North Bailey, Durham.

Professor Tom Harrison
History as Myth: the memorialising function of Herodotus’ history
 

Glasgow and West Branch of the CA

Monday 16 March 2009 at 7.30pm, The Murray Room, Dept. of Classics, 65 Oakfield Avenue, University of Glasgow.

Professor Chris Carey
Constructing Drakon

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