Lectures & Events 

 

 

LONDON MEETINGS AND EVENTS 2010

 

(Please download a programme here) 

 

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.

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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.

Please download a panel of speakers here.

 

 

October 2009

Southampton CA Wed. 7th 7.30pm

Mr. Robin Lane Fox Euripides’ Bacchae: Drama and Reality Winchester

College Science Lecture Theatre.

 

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

 

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.

 

November 2009

North Staffs CA Thurs. 26th 7.30pm

Prof. Patrick Finglass Sophocles’ Elektra Senior Common Room,

Keele Hall, University of Keele.

 

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.

 

December 2009

Nottingham CA   Thurs. 3rd 6pm. Prof. Edith Hall 

Greek Tragedy Wiedermann Lecture, Nottingham University

Adult Education Centre

 

Cardiff & Dist. CA Mon. 8th

5.10pm Prof. Robert Parker The varieties of Greek religious experience.

Humanities Building, Colum Dr. Univ. of Cardiff.

 

Manchester CA Wed. 16th

Dr. Simon Trépanier,

Empedocles’ section of the Strasburg papyrus: death or salvation?

A101 Samuel Alexander Building. University of Manchester

 

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.

 

March 2010

Belfast HS Fri. 5th 1pm

Dr. Fiona Machintosh Tragic heroes: the Sophoclean inheritance

Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, QUB.

 

Leeds CA  Mon. 8th 5.30pm

Prof. Matthew Leigh Vergil’s

Second Eclogue and the Class Struggle, Dept. of Classics, Leeds University.

 

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

 

May 2010

Aberdeen Scottish Hellenic Society Thurs. 20th 7.30pm

Prof. Edith Hall, Some Recent Profession Productions of Greek Drama

Aberdeen University Chaplaincy Centre.