Blackwell Bristol Lectures in Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition
Under the auspices of the Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition, Wiley-Blackwell is proud to sponsor a prestigious series of annual lectures which will subsequently be published in book form. The first two in the series, Danielle Allen's Why Plato Wrote and Greg Woolf's Tales of the Barbarians, have recently been published.
Other series have been given by Professor Ian Morris of Stanford on The Athenian Empire and Professor Erika Fischer-Lichter of the Freie Universität Berlin on Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides' Bacchae in a Globalizing World.
The Blackwell Bristol Lectures 2012 will be given by Bettina Bergmann (Mount Holyoke) : 'Worlds on the Wall: the Experience of Place in Roman Art' (May 1st, 2nd, 8th and 9th, 2012). Lecture theatre 1, 43 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UU. 5.15 p.m.
Future lecturers include Mark Vessey (University of British Columbia), Andrew Feldherr (Princeton University), Susan Alcock (Brown University), and Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa).