Trinity College Dublin Classics Department Research Seminars

Wednesdays, 17:30
The in-person seminars will take place in the TCD Classics Seminar room (Arts Building, B6002)

Please use this link to register for the series https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/9e-BvRcXROilE5_byBdXLw
Contact kahanea@tcd.ie with any enquiries.

5 February 2025 (in person and Zoom)
Edith Hall (Durham University)
Classical Greeks Scripting Slavery in Two Lead Letters from Berezan and Athens
19 February 2025 (in person and Zoom)
Double Bill
Yuan He (Trinity College Dublin)
Reconsidering Josephus' Relationship with His Readers in Bellum Judaicum 1.1-16
and
Samantha Sink (Trinity College Dublin) Where to Draw the Line? Conceptual Boundary Lines and Theoretical Practices in Eratosthenes’ Geographika
March 12 2025 (in person and Zoom)
Ella Kirch (Christs College, Cambridge University)
‘They Write Fast, but Have No Intellect’: Shorthand and Its Victims in the Later Roman World
March 26 2025 (in person only)
Andrew Laird (Brown University)
From Roman Letters to Aztec Writing: Latin Grammar and Alphabetization in a Colonial World
April 9 2025 (by Zoom)
Candida Moss (University of Birmingham)
Stenographic Escape: Textual Accommodations and Shorthand

18 September 2024 (Zoom)
Glynnis Fawkes (Center for Cartoon Studies, Vermont) and Eric H. Cline (George Washington University, Washington DC)
Drawing on History: Creating the Graphic Adaptation of 1177 BC
2 October 2024 (in person and Zoom)
Nora Goldschmidt (Durham University)
Dionysus in Theresienstadt: Gertrud Kantorowicz’s “Greek-work”
16 October 2024 (in person and Zoom)
Anastasia Vergaki (Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens)
A ‘Retualised’ World: Theory, Semiotics and the Impact of Ritual on Everyday Life in Minoan Crete
30 October 2024 (Zoom)
Emmanuel Folorunso Taiwo (University of Ibadan)
Reception of Classical Antiquity in Postcolonial “Write Backs”: British Colonial Nigeria and James Joyce's Victorian Dublin
13 November 2024 (in person and Zoom) – Double Bill
Jeremy Lam (Trinity College Dublin)
The Shadow of Apollo: Sibling Rivalry and Intertextuality in Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis
AND
Dermot Grant (Trinity College Dublin)
Sailing to Sanctuaries: Aegean Trade and Sanctuary Networks and Navigation Routes from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period
27 November 2024 (in person and Zoom)
Michael Carroll (University of St Andrews)
Greek Tragedy and the Theatrical Imagination: Sophocles' Ajax as Case Study