Divine Metal from Early Rome, Imagination, and Anxiety for Empires without End

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Seminars will take place on Tuesdays in 1.04 in the Faculty of Classics and begin at 16:30. All are welcome.

The schedule for Lent is as follows:

Jan 24 Anastasia Christophilopoulou (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) Interdisciplinarity and the Islands’: Looking Back at 3 years of the Cambridge ‘Being an Islander’ Project

Jan 31 No Seminar Job talks are being held in the afternoon for the Faculty’s Assistant Professorship in Greek Archaeology/Greek History: the whole D Caucus community is warmly encouraged to participate.

Feb 7 Eva Mol (York) Divine metal from Early Rome, Imagination, and Anxiety for Empires without End

Feb 14 Daphne Martin (Cambridge) Subalternity at Sparta: Material Expressions of Non-elite Religious Experience

Feb 21 Sebastian Marshall (Cambridge) “Savage, yet Classic, Picturesqueness”: Visualising Greek Landscapes in Victorian Illustrated Travelogues

Feb 28 Jessica Hughes (Open University) Religion as a Chain of Memory in Pompeii (6th Century BCE to 19th Century CE)

Mar 7 Hugo Shakeshaft (Oxford) The Axis of Change: Lifelikeness and the Art of the Viewer in Archaic and Classical Greece

Mar 14 Lambros Malafouris (Oxford) Art, Aesthetics and Material Engagement: Reflections at the Intersection of Archaeological and Anthropological Enquiry