School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Classics and Ancient History Seminars

The seminars of UQ's Discipline of Classics and Ancient History are held on Fridays at 4pm in Forgan Smith (01) E215 on UQ's St Lucia campus in Brisbane.

Most seminars will be presented in person and online. For inquiries or access to the Zoom link please contact Tyla Cascaes (t.cascaes@uq.edu.au).

 

How do we tell the history of 18th century Vasemania?

21 August 2026 4:00pm
 
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Prof Alastair Blanshard

Athens after the Defeat: Financing Wars from 399 to 369

22 May 2026 4:00pm
 
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Dr Annabel Florence

Translating Catullus

8 May 2026 4:00pm
 
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Professor Stephanie McCarter (Sewanee)

Against the Grain: Children’s Wooden Toys, Social Status and Identity in Ancient Rome

24 April 2026 4:00pm
 
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Kyla Duffy

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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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)

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)

Afternoon of Postgraduate Seminars in Classics

18 October 2024 3:00pm–4:45pm
 
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Innovation in Democratic Athens - Professor Armand D'Angour (Oxford)

16 September 2024 4:00pm–5:30pm
 
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Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series: Greek tragedy and the Australian psyche

8 September 2024 2:00pm–4:00pm
 
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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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Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series: the funeral oration in classical Athens

11 August 2024 2:00pm–4:00pm
 
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Interpreting Climate and Water Management Limestone Archives in Rome's Aqueducts - Dr Keenan-Jones

2 August 2024 4:00pm–5:30pm
 
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Servius’s Daughter Sulpicia: Life, Love and Literature in Ancient Rome - Prof Alison Keith, The University of Toronto

17 May 2024 4:00pm–6:00pm
 
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Honour(s) for Citizens: Egalitarianism and Social Distinction in Democratic Athens

10 May 2024 4:00pm–6:00pm
 
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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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Mischa Piekosz 'Relations between the Chief Archons and the Elite in Early Archaic Athens (c. 630-550 BC)'

19 April 2024 4:00pm
 
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Friends of Antiquities: Ancient History Day

16 March 2024 9:00am–4:00pm
 
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Dr Sabine Neuman (Marburg) `Imaginary Gods: The Cults of the Graeco-Egyptian Deities in Ancient Athens'

15 March 2024 4:00pm–6:00pm
 
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Josephine Carroll-Walden (UQ) ‘Syrian or Roman? Syncretism in the Venus Caelestis Coinage of Julia Soaemias’

1 March 2024 4:00pm–4:30pm
 
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Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series: Heyworth-Smith Memorial Lecture

4 February 2024 2:00pm–4:00pm
 
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Intaglios: Imprints of Identity - Exhibit & Seminar by Josephine Carroll-Walden

27 October 2023 4:00pm
 
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Progress Review: ‘Monotheism and Military Strength on the Borders of the Later Roman Empire’ - Emily Blackwell

13 October 2023 4:00pm
 
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The Reception of Queen Artemisia I (MPhil Progress Review 2) Matthew Pearce

8 September 2023 4:30pm–5:00pm
 
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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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Progress Review: ‘Problems in the Sources pertaining to Pyrrhus of Epirus, particularly in the Pyrrhic War 280-275 BC’

18 August 2023 4:00pm
 
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Progress Review: Family Life in the North: The Women and Children of Housesteads - Paige Maunder

4 August 2023 4:30pm
 
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Progress Review: Peace and Public Discourse in Classical Athens: Evidence from the Ekklēsia - Gordon Chadwick

4 August 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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Progress Review: ‘Casting Cleopatra in the Shadow of the Vamp’ - Tyla Cascaes

19 May 2023 4:00pm
 
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Progress Review: ‘What’s in a Name? Tracking the Development of the Senaculum’ - Josephine Carroll-Walden

12 May 2023 4:30pm
 
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Progress Review: ‘Reception of the City of Halicarnassus’ - Matthew Pearce

12 May 2023 4:00pm
 
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Progress Review: 'Archaic Athens at War: The Evidentiary Issues' - Mischa Piekosz

21 April 2023 4:00pm
 
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Milns Visiting Professor, Professor Josiah Osgood Guest Lecture: 'Women as Witnesses in Roman Criminal Trials'

31 March 2023 4:00pm
 
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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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