Lectures & Events
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LONDON
MEETINGS (Please download a programme here) |
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The Annual General
Meeting of the Hellenic Society will be held on Saturday 12th June 2010 The Agenda can be downloaded here. The 2009 Accounts have been agreed on behalf of Council and are being
posted on the website so members can examine them prior to the Annual General
Meeting. To view the accounts, please click here. |
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Thursday 28th
January 2010 6pm Helen Dorey FSA, Deputy Director Private candlelit tour of Sir John Soane’s
Museum, London (Tickets at £10.00 limited to 30 members) In conjunction with
the Roman Society |
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Saturday 27th February 2010 2.00-4pm Dr. Lucilla Burn - Greece and Rome at the
Fitzwilliam Museum: the new gallery and a
chance to go behind the scenes. Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge (Tickets at £10.00 limited to 30
members) In conjunction with the Roman
Society |
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Saturday 24th April 2010 2.00pm Dr. Susan Walker – private tour of the new Antiquities galleries
Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Tickets at £10.00 limited to 30 members) In conjunction with the Roman Society |
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Thursday 20th May 2010 6.00-8pm Greece & Rome:
behind the scenes tour with Dr. Lesley
Fitton and colleagues. British Museum London (Tickets at £10.00 limited to 30 members) In conjunction with the Roman Society |
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The Annual General
Meeting of the Hellenic Society will be held on Saturday 12th June 2010 2.00pm Prof. Alan Sommerstein Sophocles the Sensationalist, or Tragic One-Upmanship 3.00pm Annual General Meeting 3.45pm Tea 4.15pm Prof. Barbara
Goff ‘Greek is simply another language’:
classics in the education of Africans
under British colonial government Wine reception to follow
afternoon lecture. |
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Autumn 2010 (date tbc) Socrates: an evening with Professor Paul Cartledge and Bettany Hughes. Athenaeum Club Pall Mall tbc External Event: Study Day – Ancient Cyprus: new discoveries, new ideas. Saturday
9th October 2010. For
details please click here. |
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JOINT MEETINGS WITH
THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION & LOCAL GROUPS |
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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. Please download a panel of speakers here. |
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October 2009 Southampton CA Wed. 7th 7.30pm Mr. Robin Lane Fox Euripides’ Bacchae:
Drama and Reality Winchester College Science Lecture
Theatre. |
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Reading CA Wed. 21st
7.30pm Dr. Richard Woff Friezes, Fragments, Cups and Cuckolds: Greek Art at the British Museum. Classics Department (Room 44) Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading |
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Leicestershire & Rutland CA Tues. 27th 5.30pm.
Dr. Lynette Mitchell Queens and
consorts: securing the succession in archaic and classical Greece? Ken Edwards Building,
University of Leicester. |
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November 2009 North Staffs CA Thurs. 26th 7.30pm Prof. Patrick Finglass Sophocles’
Elektra Senior Common Room, Keele Hall, University of Keele. |
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Bangor & North Wales CA Thurs 5th 5pm. Dr. Polly Low Democracy and Demosthenes: political speeches in and beyond the Athenian
assembly,
Council Chamber, Old Arts Building Bangor University. |
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December 2009 Nottingham
CA Thurs. 3rd 6pm. Prof.
Edith Hall Greek
Tragedy
Wiedermann Lecture, Nottingham
University Adult Education Centre |
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Cardiff & Dist. CA Mon. 8th 5.10pm Prof. Robert
Parker The varieties of Greek religious
experience. Humanities Building,
Colum Dr. Univ. of Cardiff. |
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Manchester CA Wed. 16th Dr. Simon Trépanier, Empedocles’ section of
the Strasburg papyrus: death or salvation? A101 Samuel Alexander Building. University of Manchester |
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January 2010 Glasgow & West CAS Mon. 18th 7.30pm Prof. Ken Dowden The Origins of Greek Mythology the Murray room, Dept. of Classics, University of Glasgow. |
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March 2010 Belfast HS Fri. 5th 1pm Dr. Fiona Machintosh Tragic
heroes: the Sophoclean inheritance Council Chamber, Lanyon
Building, QUB. |
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Leeds CA Mon. 8th 5.30pm Prof.
Matthew Leigh Vergil’s Second Eclogue and the Class Struggle, Dept.
of Classics, Leeds University. |
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April 2010 Edinburgh CAS Wed.21st7pm Prof. C.J. Tuplin Marsyas meets the Great King: the mythic language of classical Celaenae, David Hume Tower,
George Square |
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May 2010 Aberdeen Scottish Hellenic Society Thurs. 20th
7.30pm Prof. Edith Hall, Some Recent Profession Productions of
Greek Drama Aberdeen University Chaplaincy Centre. |