Seminar Programme

Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminars / Lecture by Prof. Vivan Nutton / Translating Cultures Colloquium/ Postgraduate Colloquium / Inventive Inscriptions Colloquium / IAS Fellowship Events

Postgraduate Work-in-Progress

Term 1: Tuesdays 5–6.30 p.m in R1.13

  • Week 2: Aileen Das: ‘Galen's Timaeus in ar-Rāzī’s Comprehensive Book: Problems and Prospects.’
  • Week 4: Ersin Hussein: ‘“A Very Orderly Affair”: The Roman Annexation of Cyprus’
  • Week 6: Jack Nurpetlian: ‘Numeral letters on Roman provincial coins of Syria: an enigma’
  • Week 10: Rebecca E Taylor: ‘The Use of Opposites in Hippocratic Medicine and Ancient Meteorology’

Term 2: Tuesdays 12-1.30, rooms as below

  • Tuesday 24th January 2011 (wk 3): H246
    Caroline Freeman-Cuerden: Roman Animal Epitaphs
  • Tuesday 31st January 2011 (wk 4): H001: *This seminar will run from 11 - 12.30*
    Clara Hiskey: 'Nietzsche and Greek Culture'
    Joanna Kemp: 'The Dissemination of Augustan Ideology'
  • Tuesday 28st February 2011 (wk 8): H103
    Abigael Flack: 'How biographical were Suetonius' Lives?'
    Tim Pearson: 'The Symbol of the Divine Child as logos in Plato, St Paul and Jung.'
  • Tuesday 6th March 2011 (wk 9): H246
    Judith Blackwell: 'The effect of the army on local economies'
    Elena Marchis: 'Roman coins and the military '

Term 3:

  • Tuesday 24th April 2011 (wk 1), 12-1.30: H148
    James Wright: Struggling with Masculinity: Wrestling and Manliness from Antiquity to Modernity
    Ghislaine Van der Ploeg: 'The Emperors and Asclepius: Imperial Dedications to the God of Healing'
    Madelaine Burrows: 'The concept of blood in 1-2nd C Rome.'

All welcome

Vivian Nutton Lecture - 'The new Vesalius'

To welcome Prof Vivian Nutton to Warwick as an Honorary Fellow, we are pleased to announce that he will be speaking on Wed 14th March at 5 pm in MS.05 at a lecture jointly presented by the Dept of Classics/Ancient History and the Centre for the History of Medicine. All welcome.

Translating Cultures - A Joint Colloquium between Depts of Classics and History of Art

Wed 25th January 2012: Institute of Advanced Study Seminar Room, Milburn House

  • 2.00 pm Welcome
  • 2.10 Zahra Newby: Using Greek myths to assert Roman values
  • 2.40 Alison Cooley: Punic, Libyan, and Roman cultural interactions in Roman Tripolitania
  • 3.10 Tea
  • 3.30 Louise Bourdua: The reception of Roman sculpture in fourteenth-century Italian art
  • 4.00 Donal Cooper: Venetian cultural assimilation and appropriation across the Mediterranean
  • 4.30 Roundtable discussion
  • 5.00 Close and drinks

All welcome.

For further information, please contact Zahra Newby (zahra.newby@warwick.ac.uk)

INVENTIVE INSCRIPTIONS: EPIGRAPHY AND THE ORGANISATION OF KNOWLEDGE

BES Spring colloquium, University of Warwick.

Registration form - click on link in top menu. Please register by Friday 4th May 2012. Tues 29th-Wed 30th May 2012

Tues 29th May 2012

  • 11.00-11.30 Coffee & registration
  • 11.30-12.30 Keynote lecture: Mary Beard (Cambridge) (Chaired by Daniel Orrells)
  • 12.30-14.00 Lunch

Displaying and collecting inscriptions

Chaired by Zahra Newby

  • 14.00-14.45 Lawrence Keppie (Glasgow) 'The Hunterian collection and its museum'
  • 14.45-15.30 Alison Cooley (Warwick) 'Displaying inscriptions in museums and on archaeological sites'
  • 15.30-16.00 Tea
  • 16.00-16.45 Thorsten Opper (British Museum) 'Inscriptions from Ephesos'
  • 16.45-17.30 Fabienne Marchand (Warwick) 'Inscriptions from Boeotia'
  • 17.30-18.00 Panel discussion
  • 19.00 Colloquium dinner (at participants' expense)

Wed 30th May 2012

  • 9.30-10.30 Keynote Lecture, John Bodel (Brown) (Chaired by Alison Cooley)
  • 10.30-11.00 Coffee

Recording and Publishing inscriptions

Chaired by Alison Cooley

  • 11.00-11.45 Ginette Vagenheim (Rouen) 'Mommsen and Ligorio'
  • 11.45-12.30 Glenys Davies (Edinburgh) 'Approaches to epigraphic publication in the 19th century: inscriptions as texts and objects'
  • 12.30-13.45 Lunch
  • 13.45-14.30 Peter Liddel (Manchester) 'Inscriptions and historiography in the 19th century'
  • 2.30-15.15 Irene Polinskaya (KCL) 'Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences and the Inscriptiones antiquae Orae Septentrionalis Ponti Euxini'
  • 15.15-15.45 Tea

Chaired by Daniel Orrells

  • 15.45-16.30 Phil Freeman (Liverpool) 'Mommsen, Haverfield and CIL VII'
  • 16.30-17.15 Charlotte Roueche (KCL) 'William Ramsay, epigraphy, and exploration'
  • 17.15-17.45 Concluding discussion
Further details from Alison Cooley (a.cooley{at}warwick.ac.uk), Dan Orrells (d.orrells{at}warwick.ac.uk)
Sponsored by the British Epigraphy Society, Humanities Research Centre (Warwick), IAS (Warwick), Dept of Classics & Ancient History (Warwick)

IAS Visiting Fellow - Prof. John Bodel

Prof John Bodel (Brown University) will be at Warwick as a Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies for two weeks in May/June 2012. In addition to acting as a keynote speaker for the colloquium on Inventive Inscriptions, the following events are planned.

Wed 6th June 2012 - Research seminar 5 pm

  • Hosted by Prof Paul Smith, Dept of History of Art: 'High culture in low places: the popular reception of elite taste at Pompeii' - 5 pm in F37, History of Art dept, Millburn House

Thurs 7th June 2012 - Training workshop on Roman history and epigraphy

  • This training workshop is directed towards postgraduate and postdoctoral students in the Dept of Classics and Ancient History, particularly students taking the Taught MA programmes in Ancient Visual and Material Culture/ Visual and Material Culture of Ancient Rome, and PGR students in the department. Participating students: Will Berry; Molly Tollitt; Stephanie Lane; Abigael Flack; Judi Blackwell; Ghislaine van der Ploeg; Ersin Hussein; Caroline Freeman-Cuerden; Joanna Kemp; Elena Marchis.

Fri 8th June 2012 - ‘Comparative Approaches to Slavery in Worlds Old and New’

  • Workshop hosted by School of Comparative American Studies (Tim Lockley). Room H.303. Supported by the Centre for Global History and the History Department

Programme:
11-12.30 – Current research at Warwick on slavery & unfree labour
David Doddington “‘My daddy was much of a man, yessir’: Sex and Masculinity among slaves in the Antebellum South.”
Meleisa Ono-George. '”Washing the Blackamoor White': Intimacy, Power, and Race in Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica.”
Bronwen Everill "From 'slave' to 'refugee': The Italo-Abyssinian crisis and the rhetorical shift in British humanitarian discourse"

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30-3 Roundtable: Future Research Trends on Slavery & Unfree Labour

Participants: Tim Lockley (chair) – US South; David Lambert (Warwick) – Caribbean / Africa; Gad Heuman (Warwick Emeritus) - Caribbean; David Hardiman (Warwick) – India; John Bodel (IAS Fellow) – Classical Slavery; Bronwen Everill (Warwick) - Africa


Thu 14th June 2012: Postgraduate Workshop on 'Approaches to the History of Medicine'

Call for papers: Papers are invited for a one day researcher workshop with keynote speaker Professor Vivian Nutton on June 14, 2012, jointly hosted by the Centre of the History of Medicine, Department of Classics and Ancient History, and the Department of History. Professor Nutton will kindly be speaking on the development of the study of the History of Medicine in the 20th Century and also on hand to review/feedback papers given. This is an excellent opportunity!

Papers are open to any postgraduate students in these departments, and should be for 20 minutes with additional time for questions. Papers may address any aspect of the History of Medicine from antiquity to the 20th Century. Additional participants for a roundtable discussion are also invited.
Should you wish to be considered, please submit a title and 200 word (maximum) abstract to Aileen Das (Aileen.Das@warwick.ac.uk) or Collin Lieberg (C.Lieberg@warwick.ac.uk) by 23 May.
Please be advised that spaces are limited.