Classics and Ancient History Seminars
Semester 2, 2016
All Friday seminars held in room 201, Michie Building (9), unless indicated otherwise. Each seminar is normally followed by a wine-and-cheese reception ($2 coin donation suggested). Enquiries may be made to Associate Professor Tom Stevenson.
| Date | Time | Title | Presenter |
| Friday, 22 July | 3.30pm |
(held in E356, Forgan Smith Building (1))
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Professor Nancy Worman (Barnard)
RD Milns Visiting Professor for 2016
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| Friday, 29 July | 3.30pm |
(held in E356, Forgan Smith Building (1))
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Professor Nancy Worman (Barnard)
RD Milns Visiting Professor for 2016
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| Friday, 5 August | 3.30pm | New Approaches to Geographical History: Sicily and Landscape in the Classical World |
Dustin McKenzie
(Confirmation seminar)
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| 4.00pm | Mapping the Uncharted Waters of Ptolemaic Maritime Religion and Naval History |
Carlos Robinson
(Confirmation seminar)
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| Friday, 12 August | 3.30pm | How Eugen Sandow Brought the Classically Muscular Body to Life |
Sonny Ali
(Confirmation seminar)
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| 4.00pm | Casting a Long Shadow: Seleukos Nikator in India |
John McTavish
(Confirmation seminar)
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| Friday, 19 August | 3.30pm | Pitying Oedipus |
Dr Patrick Finglass (Nottingham)
Leverhulme Fellow
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| Friday, 26 August | 3.30pm | The Emperor Julian’s Religious Policies in Context – Traditionalist or Innovator? |
Nicola Holm
(Thesis review seminar)
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| 4.00pm | Deification in the Late Republic |
Tim Hamlyn
(Thesis review seminar)
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Thursday, 1 September
QFAAIA Public Lecture
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5.00pm |
(held in 212, Sir Llew Edwards Building (14))
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Professor Katja Sporn
(German Archaeological Institute at Athens)
AAIA Visiting Professor 2016
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| Friday, 2 September | 3.30pm | Sanctuaries and Cults in Ancient Phokis |
Professor Katja Sporn
(German Archaeological Institute at Athens)
AAIA Visiting Professor 2016
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| Friday, 9 September | 3.30pm | Domitian’s German and Dacian Wars on Provincial Coinage |
Dr Caillan Davenport and Charlotte Mann (UQ) |
| Friday, 16 September | 3.30pm | Preservation and Safety: Where did Cicero really Stand on the Office of Dictator? |
Gerardine Hoogland
(Confirmation seminar)
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| 4.00pm | Society and the 'Epigraphic Habit' in Roman Olisipo |
Susan Edmondson
(Mid-candidature review seminar)
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| Friday, 23 September | 3.30pm | Scipio Africanus: A Roman Alexander? |
Stephanie Golding
(Mid-candidature review seminar)
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| 4.00pm | The Cow Jumped Over the Nile: Representations of Io as the Egyptian Goddess Isis |
Amy van der Boor
(Thesis review seminar)
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| Friday, 7 October | 3.30pm | Gods on the Comic Stage: Aristophanes’ Peace |
Rachel Dowe
(Thesis review seminar)
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| 4.00pm | The Herodes Atticus Affair | Dr Jennifer Manley (UQ) | |
| Friday, 21 October | 3.30pm | Tyrants and Tyrannicides in Roman Declamation |
John Hajek
(Thesis review seminar)
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| 4.00pm | Venus 'Genetrix': the Power of Ancestry in the Rise of Caesar |
Catherine Smallcombe
(Thesis review seminar)
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Friday, 28 October |
6.00pm |
Interns Exhibition
(held in RD Milns Antiquities Museum, Level 2, Michie Building (9))
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Semester 1, 2016
All Friday seminars held in room E356, Forgan Smith Building (1), unless indicated otherwise. Each seminar is normally followed by a wine-and-cheese reception ($2 coin donation suggested). Enquiries may be made to Associate Professor Tom Stevenson.
All Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series seminars held in room E302, Forgan Smith Building (1), unless indicated otherwise. Suggested cost for Sunday Series seminars, $10 (includes afternoon tea).
| Date | Time | Title | Presenter |
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Sunday, 6 March
Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series
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2.00pm |
A Lost Roman Town: Ammaia in Portugal
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Susan Edmondson
(UQ)
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| 2.30pm |
Reconstructing Society in a Prehistorical Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus
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Dr Andrew Sneddon
(UQ)
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| Friday, 11 March | 3.30pm | The Corinthian War (395/4-387/6 BC): Ships, Walls and Money |
Annabel Florence
(Mid-candidature review)
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| 4.00pm | Diocletian and the First Tetrarchy (AD 293-305): Romanitas and Religion |
Nicola Holm
(Mid-candidature review)
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Wednesday, 16 March |
6.00pm |
(Joint Seminar with Princeton)
(held at UQ Art Museum)
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A roundtable discussion - moderated by Alastair Blanshard |
| Friday, 18 March | 3.30pm | "Isis is a Greek name": Reinventing the Cultural Origins of Isis and Osiris from Diodorus Siculus to Plutarch |
Amy van der Boor
(Mid-candidature review)
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| Friday, 1 April | 3.30-5.00pm | Wronging Sempronia: An Act of Bastardy and the Rumour Mills of the Gracchan Era |
Dr J. Lea Beness
(Macquarie University)
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Sunday, 3 April
Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series
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2.00pm | Festinans Lente: The Role of Time in the “Augustan Achievement” |
Associate Professor Tom Hillard
(Macquarie University)
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| Friday, 8 April | 3.30pm | "Here there be Dragons": The Origins of the Medieval Dragon-slaying Legend in Greek Mythology |
Elicia Penman
(Mid-candidature review)
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| 4.00pm | Gods on the Comic Stage: Aristophanes' Wealth |
Rachel Dowe
(Mid-candidature review)
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Wednesday, 13 April |
TBA |
A Celebration of Medicine Ancient and Modern
(held at Customs House)
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Launch of the 80th Anniversary Celebrations of the UQ Medical School, featuring the Roman Medical Kit recently acquired by the RD Milns Antiquities Museum - details to come |
| Friday, 15 April | 3.30pm | Each Man Kills the Thing he Loves - Cassandra takes Aim at the Greeks |
Charles Pry
(Mid-candidature review)
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Saturday, 16 April |
9.00am-4.30pm
(registration open from 8.00am)
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(held in room 212, Sir Llew Edwards Building)
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Honorary Professor Trevor Bryce
Emeritus Professor Bob Milns
Professor Alastair Blanshard
Dr Brad McCall
Dr Janette McWilliam
Ms Pamela Rushby
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| Friday, 22 April | 3.30-5.00pm | In Search of the Bush Elephant in Antiquity |
Associate Professor Michael Charles
(Southern Cross University)
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| Friday, 29 April | 3.30-5.00pm | Graduate Study in the USA |
Dr Amelia Brown
(UQ)
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Sunday, 1 May
Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series
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2.00pm | Megalithic Monuments of the Orkney Islands | Jack Taylor |
| 2.30pm | When is a Tyrant not a Tyrant? Mary Stocks' Hail, Nero! |
Dr Shushma Malik
(UQ)
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| Friday, 6 May | 4.00pm | The Military and Political Significance of Venus Victrix in the Theatre of Pompey |
Catherine Smallcombe
(Mid-candidature review)
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| 6.00pm |
(Cost: $25 per person, $20 per student)
(held at RD Milns Antiquities Museum)
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An evening of Cypriot food, music and festivities
Closing night of the Cyprus: An Island and a People exhibition
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| Friday, 13 May | 3.30-5.00pm | The Epitaphic Habit: Tombs and Imperial Greek Appropriation of Cultural Memory |
Dr Estelle Strazdins
(UMelb)
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| Friday, 20 May | 3.30pm | Egyptian Religious Cults and Roman Identities |
Rachel O'Malley
(Mid-candidature review)
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| 4.30pm | Hall lecture in Archaeology | TBA | |
| Friday, 27 May | 3.30-5.00pm | The Religious World of Juvenal's Satires |
Dr James Uden
(Boston University)
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| Friday, 3 June | 3.30pm | Tyrants or Heroes? Discourses on The Praemium in Roman Declamation |
John Hajek
(Mid-candidature review)
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Sunday, 5 June |
2.00pm |
(in connection with The Delighted Spirit: Shakespeare at UQ 2016 series of events, and the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death)
(held in E109, Forgan Smith Building (1))
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Professor Alastair Blanshard and Dr Shushma Malik
(UQ)
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Friday, 10 June |
6.00pm |
(Cost: free)
(held at RD Milns Antiquities Museum)
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An evening of Roman merriment
Launch of the Museum's latest exhibition Useless Beauty: Luxury and Rome
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