Online Seminars
Local Traditions in the Ancient World
Autumn term 2021
The seminars will take place every week on Wednesdays at 1500 BST (GMT from October 31st onwards),
hosted on Zoom, and will be under 1 hour, including questions.
Programme Outline
September 15th: Laura Bevilacqua (University of Chicago) – “Dice oracles, polytheism and the mechanisms of decision-making in imperial Asia Minor”
September 22nd: Ansh Sharma (Jawaharlal Nehru University) – “Cooking the Corpse:Cremation and Funerary Ritual in the Gṛhyasūtra Literature of Early India.”
September 29th: Justin Biggi (University of Edinburgh) – “Death and the Maiden:Commemoration as an Athenian Tradition”
October 6th: Evangelos Skoupas (King’s College London) – “Recontextualizing the importance of the Heraion of Perachora”
October 13th: Catherine Bishop (Swansea University) – “The Kerman Bucrania tradition”
October 20th: Chandra Giroux (McGill University/Carleton University) – “Plutarch’s Chaironeia: The Local Horizon of World Empire”
October 27th: Marijn Visscher (Durham University) – “Local Traditions in the Ancient World”
November 3rd: George Allen (University of Liverpool) – “Boeotian identity formation”
November 10th: Trisha (Jawaharlal Nehru University) – “Prognostication as a Social Practise in Early India: Insights from the Jaina Aṅgavijjā”
November 17th: Kimberley Watt (University of Cambridge) – “Patterns in the form of secondary epigraphy: a comparison from Nubia and Egypt in the New Kingdom”
Please click on presenter's name to view abstracts
All are welcome to attend! Please drop us an email at newclassicistsconference@gmail.com if you wish to be added to our mailing list to receive updates and seminar links.
Conferences
Collaboration and/or New Techniques in the Classics
December 7, 2019
King’s College London - Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Programme Outline
0930 Welcome
0940 Guest Speaker: Dr Abigail Graham (ICS) - Carrying the past into the future: The role of the
Ephebes in Salutaris' procession at Ephesus
1020 Paul Kelly (KCL) - Risk and return in Roman Egypt
1055 Break
1110 Konstantin Schulz (HU Berlin) - CALLIDUS: A database of exercises for learning Latin
1145 Benjamin Wilck (HU Berlin) - Hidden messages in Greek mathematics: Results of a statistical
analysis of linguistic regularities in Euclid's Elements
1230 Lunch & Poster Presentations
1340 Giulia Frigerio (Kent) - The impact of the laurel on Apolline divination: Affecting the mind
without the use of drugs
1415 Noga Erez-Yodfat (Ben-Gurion) - Senses and the embodied mind of the mystes in ancient
mystery cults
1450 Mark McCahill (Glasgow) - The ancient senses and Roman ritual: Considering imagines as
memory objects in an interdisciplinary context
1525 Break
1540 Greg Gilles (KCL) - Fulvia and Octavia: How social networks can aid us in identifying female
agency
1615 Vivienne McGlashan (Bristol) - The Bacchants are silent: Applying cognitive approaches to
explore ritual maenadism
1650 Nathalie Choubineh (Reading) - Kinetography: A methodological framework for reading kinetic
motifs in the Greek vase-painting
1730 Drinks Reception
Please click on presenter's name to download abstract
Handouts for the conference: Paul Kelly Giulia Frigerio
We are also inviting PG students to present posters on any work that relates to our conference themes. Posters should be up to 36" x 48" (91.4cm x 121.9cm) in size. These will be presented during lunch, afternoon break and the drinks reception, where attendees will be able to view the posters and discuss them with the presenters, if they are present.
Posters presented at conference (Click on the name to view a pdf of the poster)
Allison Smith - Cosa Excavations: New Techniques in Research and Outreach
Gianmarco Bianchini - Lucretius on Stone
Ioannis Mitsios - Interdisciplinary Approaches on Greek Mythological Motifs
Nathalie Choubineh - The Krétiké: So One Day Cretan Girls Danced
Benjamin Wilck - What's Odd about Euclid's Definitions of Even and Odd?