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Seminars

Research Seminars 2011-2012

• When: Tuesdays from 4.10 - 6.00pm unless otherwise stated. Seminars will start promptly at 4:10, so please don't be late.
• Where: LINK room 2 , 3-5 Woodland Road, unless otherwise noted.
• Attendance: All postgraduates and other members of the University (with their guests) are most welcome.
• Further information: Please contact Ellen O'Gorman at e.c.ogorman@bristol.ac.uk.

Full details of forthcoming research seminars and conferences, including the Bristol Blackwell Lectures, can be found on the website of the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA).

Teaching Block 2

• 7^th February: Elena Lombardi, Department of Italian: “How to rewrite a mandatory episode. Virgil, Dante, Ariosto, Tasso”
• 14^th February: Professor Yoshinori Sano, International Christian University, Tokyo: “The Ode on Man in Sophocles’ Antigone, Comparison with Texts on the Development of Civilization”
• 21^st February: Reading Seminar: “Beyond the Literary." Lambros Malafouris,  “The Cognitive Basis of Material Engagement: Where Brain, Body and Culture Conflate” available from http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?lm243
• 28^th February: School Seminar: Attitudes to the past. (Lecture Room 1)
• 6^th March: Professor Ann-Louise Schallin, P.M. Warren visiting Professor in Aegean Prehistory: “Agamemnon’s neighbors – expressions of regional identities in the Mycenaean core area”
• 13^th March: Robert Fowler: “Mythography and the Intellectual Landscape of Fifth-Century Greece”
• 20^th March: First Hour: Ben Earley “The rediscovery of Thucydides in the French Revolution”; Second hour: MA presentations
• 11^th-14^th April: Classical Association Conference, University of Exeter,
• Week starting 23^rd April: There will be MA presentations throughout this week. Times and locations TBC.
• 1^st May, 2^nd May, 8^th May 9^th May: Bristol Blackwell lectures by Bettina Bergman, titles TBC

Teaching Block 1

• 11^th October: Pantelis Michelakis “The tragedy of history in film adaptations of Greek tragedy”
• 18^th – 20^th October: Inside Arts festival events: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/festival/programme/
• 25^th October: Genevieve Liveley “Time, narrative and nostalgia in Tibullus”
• 1^st November: Heather Crawley “Taking Home the Sensory Experience of Pilgrimage: The Phenomenological Context of the Monza-Bobbio Ampullae”
• 8^th November: Colin Elliott “Obscurum Per Obscurius: Quantity Theory and the Crisis of the Third Century AD”
• 15^th November: reading week – no seminar
• 22^nd November: Ideas Seminar: What is academic discourse? Discussion will take as its starting point Chapter 12 from Anthony Grafton Worlds made by words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West (to be circulated)
• 29^th November: School Seminar:
• 6^th December: Nico Momigliano “Minoans and Modernism: primitive Greece in early 20th-century performing arts”
• 13^th December: TBC
• 17^th January: Richard Seaford, University of Exeter “On the Genesis of the Subject in Greece (and India)”
• 24^th January: Reading Seminar: The Blackwell Lectures Revisted. Greg Woolf, Bristol Blackwell lecturer 2009, will participate in discussion of chapter 2 from the published lectures: Tales of the Barbarians. Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West (to be circulated)

Past Years' Seminars