2011 - 2012

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Semester 2

Wednesday, 18 January, 5.15 pm, Distinguished Lecture, Darwin Lecture Theatre 2
Professor Vincent Gaffney, University of Birmingham
‘Batteries not Included – Digital Humanities: in Archaeology, at Birmingham and Beyond!’

Tuesday, 24 January, 1.00 pm, Woolf Seminar Room 5
Staff work-in-progress seminar:
Dr Anne Alwis: ‘Mutilation and Power in Byzantine Christianity: adapting the tales of virgin martyrs’
Dr Dunstan Lowe: ‘The Clawing of Faces in Roman Love Elegy’

Tuesday, 31 January, 1.00 p.m., Woolf Seminar Room 5
Mark Harrison, English Heritage
‘Policing the past, protecting the future: tackling crime and anti-social behaviour in the historic environment’

Tuesday, 7 February, 1.00 pm, Woolf Seminar Room 5
Dr David Shaw, University of Kent
‘Theodoor Poelman: a sixteenth-century editor of Latin poetry working in the printing house of Christophe Plantin in Antwerp’

Tuesday, 14 February, 1.00 pm, Woolf Seminar Room 5
Student work-in-progress seminar:
Jay Ingate: ‘Roman bridges with a native view: An exploration into how traditionally ‘Romanised’ elements of the town interacted with meaning-laden pre-historic waterscapes’

Catherine Holtham-Oakley: ‘The Folkestone Roman Villa and Iron Age Settlement’

Tuesday, 21 February, 1.00 pm, Woolf Seminar Room 5
Dr Kris Lockyear, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
‘The devil is in the detail: politics, economics and the study of Roman Republican coin hoards’

Tuesday, 28 February: Reading Week

Tuesday, 6 March, 1.00 pm, Woolf Seminar Room 5
Dr Christina Deter, University of Kent
‘Human Dietary reconstruction for Southeast England: The Anglo-Saxon Period 5-7th century’

Tuesday, 20 March, 1.00 pm, Woolf Seminar Room 5
Dr Jake Weekes, Canterbury Archaeological Trust
Title TBC

Tuesday, 27 March, 1.00 pm, Woolf Seminar Room 5
Simon Smith, University of Kent
‘Catullus: modern and/or Modernist?

Semester 1

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Theme: Movement and migration, Spatial Archaeology, Spatio-Landscape

Tuesday, 4 October, 1.00 p.m., Staff work-in-progress seminars, Woolf Seminar Room 5
Dr Francesco Trifilo, Title TBC
Dr Luke Lavan, ‘Tasting the Patriarch's Intestines: Street Rituals in the Late Antique City’

Tuesday, 11 October, 1.00 p.m., Staff work-in-progress seminars, Woolf Seminar Room 5
Dr Ellen Swift, ‘Object biography, re-use and recycling at the end of Roman Britain’
Dr Steve Willis, ‘A lost landscape revealed: mapping society and economy on the Lincolnshire Wolds in the Roman era by fieldwork and geo-resources’

Tuesday 18 October, 1.00 p.m., Woolf Seminar Room 5
Prof. Kostantinos Vlassopoulos, University of Nottingham
‘Greeks and Barbarians: Connected Histories’

Theme: Greek texts

Tuesday, 1 November, 1.00 p.m., PG seminars, Woolf Seminar Room 5
Gina May, University of Kent
‘Alcibiades at the Thesmophoria’

Tuesday, 15 November, 1.00 p.m., Woolf Seminar Room 5
Dr Anna Foka, Umeå University, Sweden
‘Cherchez la femme: prostitutes, psychological manipulation and humour in late antiquity’

Tuesday, 22 November, 1.00 p.m., Woolf Seminar Room 5
Dr James Robson, The Open University
'Slipping One In: Aristophanes and his Dirty Words'

Tuesday, 29 November, 1.00 p.m., Woolf Seminar Room 5
Dr Vasiliki Zali, University College London
'The use of speech in Herodotus' Histories'

Tuesday, 6 December, 1.00 p.m., Woolf Seminar Room 5
Prof. Phil Perkins, The Open University
Title TBC

All welcome.