The Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Annual Postgraduate Colloquium

The Colloquium is an opportunity for postgraduate students, from both the University of Birmingham and elsewhere, to present papers drawn from their own research within the fields of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology.

Free refreshments will be available both before and during the colloquium, for any enquires please do not hesitate to get in contact.

We are pleased announce the schedule for the CAHA Postgraduate Colloquium. Refreshments will be available throughout the day.

Programme

09:30-10:00:  Registration and refreshments

10:00-10:15: Welcome from Dr Gareth Sears and Dr Andrew Bayliss

10:15-10:30: Opening Address from Dr Theodora Hadjimichael

10:30-12:05: Panel 1 

• Tim Elliot (University of Birmingham) Constructing the Populus – questions about the Attalid bequest.
• Tyler Broome (University of Birmingham) Narratio and Political Role-playing in Cicero’s Letters.
• Martina Cofano (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) Let Justice be done! Ennod. dict. 21 [=363 V.], an antilogy to Pseudo-Quintilian's Maior 5.
• Gabrielle Viola (University of Pisa) Vitruvius’ Symmetria: an open status quaestionis. (online)
• Questions

12:05-13:05: Lunch Break

13:05-14:20: Panel 2 

• Sam Powell (University of Birmingham) Cloaked in Mystery: cloaked figures as part of ancient Egyptian tomb models.
• Cannon Fairbarn (University of Birmingham) The Nursing Hathor-Cow and the Tomb of Paser: use of the Cow-Goddess nursing motif in the decorative program of TT106.
• Jacapo Dolci (University of Nottingham) Christian Reappropriation of Pagan Religious Buildings in Levantine Cities between the Fourth and the Sixth Century
• Questions