Research seminars - Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology

24th April - Speech Difference and Disability Gain in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200

20th March - Ἀλέξανδρος θεοειδὴς (Iliad 3, 16): the gifts of Aphrodite and the meaning of heroism in the third book of the Iliad

13th March - Towards Understanding Contemporary African Diasporas: Bringing Race and Decolonisation In

13th March - A Strategic Approach to Heritage and Wellbeing Policy

13th March - The Meaning of Jewellery in Byzantium: An Archaeological Perspective

6th March - Outsourcing Curiosity: From Cicero's Meddlesome Divinity to Virgil's Fama

6th March - Harbours and ships in the Hellenistic and Roman seas of Greece: An intricate and problematic relationship

6th March - Authorial Metadata and the Global History Archive: trips, traps and tricks

28th February - The Legacies of Ancient Theatre in Middle Byzantium

7th February - Keeping Time: Temporal Imagery and Thought in the Calendars of Later Byzantium

7th February - Colonies, Companies, and Crossings: Presentations in Honour of Dr Margaret Small

31st January - Rationality, scepticism and myth: on the motivations of the Peri Apiston of Palaephatus

24th January - Commerce & Crisis in the Eleventh-Century Empire of New Rome: The View from Ani

17th January - Magicians and Maggots: Receptions of Ancient Egypt in Heavy Metal Music

6th December - Nature in Palaiologan Romances

22nd November - Dictating and Interpreting of Greek Notarial Documents in Late Medieval Venetian Crete. The Case of Nicolaos Agiostefanitis

8th November - Seeing Paintings with the Touch: Inclusion and Accessibility in the Church of S. Ambrogio, Montecorvino Rovella, Salerno

1st November - "Scenes Revolved in the Mind": Allusion and Exegesis in Byzantine Gospel Illustration

18th October - Byzantine Sicily and Sardinia

4th October - Pan-Mediterranean Dialogues of Power and Prestige: Byzantine Architecture in Context (1330-1500)

20th June - Graduate workshop

19th June - Bring Back the Bodies

5th June - Plantation Metaphors and Intellectual History

24th May - Cancelled - The harbor of Khufu on the Red Sea Shore: on the footsteps of the workers who built the Great Pyramid

22nd May - Ecologies of Resistance

17th May - Ennius' Euhemerus, Lactantius, and the case against fragment reconstruction

9th May - Colonialism in Global Perspective

3rd May - Healing texts: bodies and grammar in Gellius and Galen

19th April - 'Debating benefactions, democracy and tyranny in the later Hellenistic world

22nd March - Byzantium and its classics: the case of beauty

15th March - Virgil's Aeneid and the politics of grief in Augustan Rome'

8th March - Rewriting history in the Muscovite Rus

22nd February - Classics in the Classroom

8th February - Nunc Roma est, nuper magna taberna fuit. Retail trade, the occupation of public space and the senses in the Roman World'

7th December - New Voices from CBOMGS

7th December - BRIHC In Public Event: What is housing poverty, who does it affect and how?

23rd November - Identifying patronage networks in rural communities in early Islamic Egypt

16th November - "Non-political classes" between Republic and Principate

12th November - Inventing Slavonic: cultures of writing between Rome and Constantinople.

9th November - Archaeology, history, and the videogame industry

26th October - Athens and the Antigonids

19th October - Theophrastus' Object Lessons

5th October - Structural and Physical Violence at the Birth of Democracy: A Bioarchaeological Perspective

28th September - Travellers' Tales

16th May - Historiography as worldmaking: a new approach to historical writing in Byzantium

11th May - The Work of Objects: Imagining Things in Roman Writing

4th May - Aegean seal-engravers: their materials, tools, techniques and the evolution of skills

27th April - Kleanthis Mantzouranis (Edinburgh): Aristotle on philotimia

30th March - Dan Reynolds (Birmingham): Making Deserts Bloom: Byzantium and the British Empire in Mandate Palestine, c.1922-c.1948

9th March - Karin Schlapbach (Fribourg): "Sensing Religion": Contextualizing Servius' views on dance

16th February - David Ricks (Kings/Birmingham): Haunted by Missolonghi: Revolution and nostalgia in two Greek poets

9th February - Pramit Chadhuri (Texas Austin) and Joseph Dexter (Harvard): Computational differentiation of genre and speaker styles in Latin literature

2nd February - Siren Çelik (Marmara): Writing a new biography of Manuel II Palaiologos

8th December - Romans, Egyptians, and the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople (717/8)

1st December - Leisure, Luxury, Austerity, and Citizenship in Archaic and Classical Sparta

24th November - Keleusate: Ceremony and Architecture in the Great Palace of Constantinople

17th November - Sinuhe, Sex and Snow: What Egyptology does with Poems

27th October - Editorial Power: Galen and his Manipulated Canon

20th October - Looking for the Poor in Byzantium

13th October - Seeing Incarceration in Antiquity: Two Case Studies

6th October - Greek Manuscripts in Birmingham: A New Catalogue

20th May - Questioning the accuracy of the Origo Constantini imperatoris

6th May - Encountering Ottomans and Mamluks in Late 15th-century Italian Painting

5th May - Early urbanism in Europe?: the case of the Ukrainian Trypillia megasites

28th April - Plato and Lyric Memory

22nd April - Byzantium and its islands

21st April - The Ending of Roman Britain: new thinking on an old conundrum

24th March - Prehistoric Mesopotamian figurines - first attempts at archaeological context. The Power of Convention: A Middle Kingdom Group Statuette in Context

18th March - New voices

17th March - Becoming-Eurydice in 21st century rock opera.

11th March - Breadstamps: Imprinting the Sacred

24th February - State Concept and State Experience in the Ancient Near East

10th February - The Power of Convention: A Middle Kingdom Group Statuette in Context

4th February - Between text and image, between writing and orality

28th January - The Great Church which is called Sophia

8th December - Migration and Mobility within the ancient Mediterranean world. Question of scale and structure

3rd December - Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks

25th November - "The Sphinx's seamless veil": Exploring the Religious Reception of Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

19th November - The Palaiologan Inscriptions of Venetian Crete: interpretative contradictions.

13th November - Ben Salisbury: Public opinion and the public sphere in the late Roman Republic

11th November - Early urbanism in Europe?: the case of the Ukrainian Trypillia megasites

29th October - String theory: order and disruption in Byzantine interlace

27th October - Building God's empire: archaeology, religion and the Byzantine reconquest of Africa

20th October - Dancing in the streets of Constantinople

14th October - Back through Byzantium: textual transmission, global history and the journey of a travel account

8th October - Quarantine Tales

26th March - Cancelled: Questioning the accuracy of the Origo Constantini imperatoris

25th March - State Concept and State Experience in the Ancient Near East

18th March - "The Sphinx's seamless veil": Exploring the Religious Reception of Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

11th March - Contemporary reworkings of the myth of Eurydice

5th March - Title to be confirmed

26th February - "Can I just say that this has been the most disturbing paper I've read?" – re-thinking the bog bodies of later prehistoric Europe

13th February - 'Augustine's women'

12th February - Identifying and interpreting fake inscriptions from the 18th century

6th February - Living heritage in Greece: perceptions of traditional settlements

5th February - The analysis of human skeletal remains and the work of the forensic anthropologist

30th January - Female agency in Mystras: fashion indices in late Byzantine art

23rd January - The view from the edge: Byzantium and post-Roman Hispania

16th January - Approaching the 'Macedonian Dynasty': family and gender

11th December - The challenges of building a state anew: Egypt in the early Middle Kingdom

5th December - Approaches to the Byzantine novel

4th December - Building God's empire: archaeology, religion and the Byzantine reconquest of Africa

27th November - For Themistocles of Phrearrhioi, for the sake of honour'. A new perspective on the Athenian institution of ostracism

21st November - Morale and discipline in the Ottoman army,.c.1450-c.1600

20th November - Lachares and Menander: a theatre-historical look at POxy 1235, col. iii, 103-12

14th November - Institutionalising citizenship in Ancient Greece

14th November - Byzantium and Africa: a new frontier

13th November - Magistrates' accountability and epigraphic documents in the Greek cities: accounts and inventories

31st October - Byzantium: commonwealth, empire or nation-state?

24th October - Bridging the Gap: processions in early medieval Constantinople

23rd October - Debating Tiberian political discourse

17th October - English chaplains and the Greek Church in 18th-century Aleppo

16th October - A report on the 2019 Bays of East Attica Regional Survey (BEARS) Project

10th October - Islamisation and Sufism in Mongol Anatolia and beyond

9th October - Tom Irson's head: a case study in the reception of Lucian of Samosata

21st March - Flavius Josephus in medieval Greek and Latin Histories: some cross-cultural approaches

20th March - Making Time: Physical Manifestations of Time in Ancient Art

14th March - Francis Bacon in Ancient Greek. Nikolaos Mavrokordatos (1680-1730) and cultural mobility

7th March - Consular networks, shipping routes, and the Ottoman world in the late 19th century

6th March - Medicine, Empire and Difference in the Roman World

28th February - Greek Adoptees Anonymous: adoption, memory and Cold War Greece

27th February - Recasting the Chorus: Non-citizen choral performers in fifth and fourth-century Attic drama

14th February - 'Remnants of Byzantium': the uses of the past by the expatriated Greeks of Turkey

7th February - Kantakouzenos' daemon: providence and persuasion in late Byzantine historiography

6th February - Winckelmann's love letters: epistolarity, sexuality and classical reception

31st January - Unlikely migrants: slavery, emancipation, and race in the Reform-Era Ottoman Mediterranean

30th January - Dido: Reclaiming a Carthaginian Queen

24th January - Interpreting the Constantinopolitan landscape: A Rus traveller in Byzantium

23rd January - Ovid's Metamorphic Roman Cycle: Epic after Ardea Burns

17th January-17th February - Environment, economy and landscape in early modern Cyprus

16th January - Wearing Rome: the toga and the Roman man

5th December - Spaces of contestation and diplomatic danger at Rome

28th November - Pride of Place and the Greek polis and island histories: why write a local history?

21st November - Sensing Divinity: Smell, Society and the Gods

14th November - Shameful kisses: a potted history of the reception - and rejection - of Catullus' lover Juventius

24th October - On Translating Sappho

17th October - Horace's Ode 1.12: Subterranean Lyrics

21st March - Herculaneum. From excavation archives to 3D digitization of houses

7th March - Women and the foundation of Greek colonies

28th February - The chorus in fourth-century revivals of Greek tragedy

21st February - Desire & Virtue: Valerius Maximus' Handling of Philosophical Ideas

13th February - Medical Humanities and Medieval Literature? Voices, Breath, Feeling

7th February - Defacing the enemy: punishment, order, and visual representation in Assyria

31st January - The long lives of ancient statues: new finds, new research at Aphrodisias

24th January - Annual Medieval and Early Modern lecture

17th January - Competitive Worship? Greek Gods between Hellenistic Rulers and Republican Rome

6th December - Making canon out of nothing, or the peculiar history of a few Mesopotamian objects, and a few odd comments about Sumerian literature

23rd November - When the "I" becomes "we": From personal to collective memories. Reflections from locals in Greek traditional settlements.

15th November - Faking it in Antiquity: The Letters of Marcus Brutus and Mithridates

9th November - Title to be confirmed

8th November - Politics of Collecting in nineteenth century Greece

26th October - Exploring perceptions of heritage in Greek traditional settlements

18th October - How do Egyptian hieroglyphs and other images both work together and stay apart?

10th October - Title to be confirmed

10th October - 'I am Antony yet': Reading Mark Antony's Mail

10th October - Title to be confirmed

5th October - Title to be confirmed

4th October - Making sense of Sulla: memory, recovery and Cicero's early speeches

28th September - Constructing an ontology of the historic battlefield (or, some of what we did on our holiday)

27th September - Is it a farm? The archaeology of farmsteads in mainland Greece

15th March - The unsayable in Ovid's Remedia Amoris

14th March - Online Ovids: the exiles of Marie Darrieussecq and Saviana Stãnescu

8th March - The imperial senate and the city of Rome

28th February - Antinous and the Lerna mysteries: A marble statue from the sanctuary of Demeter Prosymna and Dionysus

22nd February - 'And there was no one who would remember it': technologies of remembrance and the materialisation of social memory in Middle Kingdom Egypt

7th February - The Canopus conundrum: statuary from the underwater excavations in Abu Kir, Egypt

31st January - Bad art? What can we learn if we dare discuss quality in Roman provincial sculpture from Moesia Superior

25th January - The Tiburtine Sibyl at the Villa d'Este: Oracular Encounters & Prophetic Locales

17th January - Preserving the hidden seeds: what happened to Celtic art in Roman Britain?

11th January - The religious life of Dura-Europos in twenty-five (relatively unknown) objects

10th January - The Aphrodite of Emesa: Marble statuettes and religious life in Roman Syria

30th November - Nature and Fiction in Hellenistic and Roman Landscape Painting

23rd November - I just can't wait to be king: fathers and rulers in Seneca

16th November - The painted tombs of Bulgaria between the Late-Classical and Early Hellenistic period. Figurative programs, local models, and external influences

9th November - 'Whenever you dream that we're going to be saved, then we just sink further': Dream divination in Graeco-Roman Egypt

26th October - The Archaeology of Colours: New Research on the Polychromy of Greek Painting and Sculpture

12th October - "Mixing Colours": Native Tradition and Roman Power in South Italian Funerary Painting

5th October - Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic: the case of Pompeius Magnus

28th September - One step too low: A reinterpretation of the Procession Fresco at Knossos

23rd March - Fear, honour and profit? Revisiting the 'Balance Sheet' of Greek imperialism

16th March - The port-city of Delos and its commercial cityscape

9th March - His native home deep imag'd in his soul': Reimagining Nostos

24th February - Royal City of Sais and its Antecedents

10th February - Middle Kingdom ritual reflected in writing. A case-study from Asyut

2nd February - The King-Priest Quarrel in the Ādiparvan (Mahābhārata 1) and the Iliad (Bk 1)

27th January - Everyman's Automaton? Who was the audience of Hero of Alexandria's treatise "On Making Automata"?

25th March - Writing in the Mansion of Gold: Inscriptions from the Egyptian alabaster quarries at Hatnub

11th March - Identities in the Roman Empire: Discrepancy and Heterogeneity in Provincial Societies

25th February - Herodotus' travels in Britain (and beyond)

4th February - Archaic Greek society, politics and slavery: assumptions and evidence

28th January - Lycurgus in Leaflets and Lectures: The Weiße Rose and Classics at Munich University 1941-45

14th January - Classical Sparta: An Exceptional Domination of State over Society?

10th December - The late Roman Gentry: whence and whither?

26th November - Narratives of occupation in The Eagle

12th November - Classicising modernity: performances of Greek tragedy and the cultural poetics of Fascism

22nd October - Aristotle and the dialektos of the public speaker in Athens

8th October - Classical Sparta: an exceptional dominance of state over society?

26th March - The Yenikapı 14 Shipwreck and Constantinople's Maritime Traffic in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

19th March - Sailing to Naukratis: Sappho on her Brothers

12th March - Cicero the historian

26th February - CAHA research seminar (title to be confirmed)

12th February - Antiquity in Silent Cinema

29th January - The idea of the classical in classical antiquity

15th January - A world of choice: taking archaic Greek diversity seriously

27th November - Reassembling the fragments in a digital age

13th November - Sibyls, goddesses and women in republican Rome

13th November - New maps of Classics: Oxbridge, metropolis and provinces 1850-1920

30th October - Rethinking Ancient Literacy. Words, numbers and social complexity in the Near East and the Mediterranean world

16th October - The monkey tablet and the dangers of not treating cuneiform tablets as archaeological objects

2nd October - Family honour: the long life of Roman tombs