Classics and Ancient History Seminars

The seminars of UQ's Discipline of Classics and Ancient History are held on Fridays at 4 pm.

Their format is in person and live on online.

The physical venue for all seminars is room E302 of the historic Forgan-Smith Building (building no. 1) on UQ's St Lucia campus in Brisbane.

For the online link please contact the seminar convenor Associate Professor David M. Pritchard (d.pritchard@uq.edu.au).

Seminars 2-3 and 6-7 will be recorded for subsequent publication as open-access podcasts.

Professor Maria Wyke (Seminar 2) is the 2026 Visiting Professor of UQ's Centre for Western Civilisation.

Dr Roslyne Bell comes to Brisbane as a guest of UQ's Friends of Antiquity. She will be delivering the keynote address at the 2026 Ancient History Day on Saturday 21 March.

Upcoming sessions
Past sessions

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Age before Beauty: Pliny the Younger and the Art of Growing Old

20 March 2026 4:00pm

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Dr Roslynne Bell (The University of Melbourne)

Dogs, Death and the Damned: The Role of Canines as Guardians of the Dead in the Ancient Roman World

20 March 2026 5:00pm

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Nero in the Early Years of Cinema

13 March 2026 4:00pm

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Professor Maria Wyke, University College London

“Parce opus hoc, Scriptor”: Contextualising Inscriptions Prohibiting Graffiti in Ancient Rome

6 March 2026 4:00pm

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Georgia Lyell, The University of Queensland

Speaking Statues: Voice and Presence in Hellenistic Epigram

24 October 2025 4:30pm–5:00pm

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Matthew Walmsley (Queensland)

Ethics in Classical Greek Commercial Activity

24 October 2025 4:00pm–4:30pm

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Stephen O'Brien (Queensland)

Do You Believe Me Now?" Taylor Swift, "Cassandra" and the Reception of Sexual Violence - Dr Maxine Lewis (Auckland)

10 October 2025 4:00pm–5:15pm

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The Professional and Working Hellenistic Women of Independent Delos (314-167 BC)

29 August 2025 4:30pm–5:00pm

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Ethel L. Clark-Kistowski

Alexander the Greatly Traumatised: Was the Irrational Behaviour of Alexander the Great Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?

29 August 2025 4:00pm–4:30pm

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Dr Carlos Robinson (Macquarie)

A Dewy Pregnancy: The Pearls of Roman Women

15 August 2025 4:00pm–5:15pm

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Professor Kelly Olson

Design and Decoration of Wooden Personal Items from the Roman Imperial Period

27 June 2025 4:30pm–5:00pm

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Ms Kyla Duffy

The Professional and Working Hellenistic Women of Independent Delos (314-167 BC)

27 June 2025 4:00pm–4:30pm

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Miss Ethel L. Clark-Kistowski

Early Archaic Athens at War (c. 630-546 BC)

30 May 2025 4:00pm–4:30pm

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Mr Mischa Piekosz

Dr Ulrike Ehmig, Berlin–Brandenburg Academy of Sciences ‘New in the Old: What There is Still to Discover in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum after 170 Years’

9 May 2025 4:00pm–5:00pm

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The Triumphator's Prayers: Towards a Reception History

11 April 2025 4:00pm–5:00pm

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Ms Frances Muecke (Sydney)

A Socio-Technical Archaeology of Roman Glassmaking

28 March 2025 4:30pm–5:30pm

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Dr Thomas J. Derrick (Macquarie)

Alexander the Greatly Traumatised: Was the Irrational Behaviour of Alexander the Great Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?

28 March 2025 4:00pm–4:30pm

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Dr Carlos Roninson (Macquarie)

Professor Philipp Stockhammer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) ‘Athenian Society in the 1st Millennium BCE from a Bioarchaeological Perspective’

16 August 2024 4:00pm–5:30pm

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Prof. Mirko Canevaro, Edinburgh University, Milns Visiting Professor

Friends of Antiquity 2024 Milns Visiting Scholar Lecture

5 May 2024 2:00pm–4:00pm

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Chloe Thomas - ‘Fourth-Century Athens at War: The Reform of the Conscription of Hoplites for Campaigns’ & Dr Yvette Hunt ‘Tying One On: An Archaeological Re-examination of Pliny’s Attitude toward ‘Medical Amulets’’

3 May 2024 4:00pm–5:15pm

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Representations of Watery Disasters in Archaic Epic Greek Poetry: A Comparison of Hesiod and Homer (MPhil Progress Review 2) Louise Fuller

8 September 2023 4:00pm–4:30pm

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Qld Friends of the AAIA - Olympia: Competing and Feasting in the Sanctuary of Zeus Recent excavations and research of the German Archaeological Institute

3 September 2023 11:30am

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Aphrodite, Protectress of Sea Travel in Archaic Miletus. Results of the excavations in her sanctuary in the Ionian Metropolis - Gale Visiting Prof. Reinhard Senff

1 September 2023 4:00pm

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Hellenistic Goddesses, Warrior Queens, & Confident Prophetesses: Lifting Up What Was & Asking What's Next - Dr. Ashley Bacchi (UC Berkeley)

3 August 2023 5:00pm

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Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series: Prof. Josiah Osgood (Georgetown University, 2023 Milns Visiting Professor), ‘Political Rivalries in the Late Roman Republic’

26 March 2023 2:00pm

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QFAAIA Sunday Series Dr. Kyriaki Psaraki (AAIA Visiting Archaeologist), ‘Two Films on Dr. Psaraki’s Excavations on Kythera, with QnA’

19 March 2023 11:30am

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Ancient History Day (sponsored by the Friends of Antiquity), Theme: ‘Art and Politics in the Ancient World’

18 March 2023 9:00am–4:00pm

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Ancient Piraeus: The fortified harbour and cornerstone of Athenian democracy, Dr Kyriaki Psaraki (Director of Excavations at Piraeus)

17 March 2023 5:00pm

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Progress Review: ‘The Aims and Methods of the Foundation for Imperium Research Project’ - Rory McLennan

10 March 2023 4:30pm

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Progress Review: ‘Natural Disasters in Hesiod’s Typhonomachy’ - Louise Fuller

10 March 2023 4:00pm

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