Linguistics Seminar

E Caucus: Philology and Linguistics

Seminars take place on Wednesdays, 4.30 (tea from 4.15), room 1.11, Faculty of Classics building.

Michaelmas Term 2026

4 November: Prof. Katherine McDonald, 'Slaves as language learners: the language of enslaved and freed characters in the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana'

11 November: Prof. David Langslow, 'Leek Gratin Ravennate: further instances of language contact in sixth-century medicine'

25 November: Prof. Mark Weeden, 'War in Heaven, war on earth. The new Hurrian texts from Büklükale and the function of mythology'

Mycenaean Seminar

18 November: Alessandro Greco and Lavinia Giorgi, 'Scribes treated as criminals: forensic handwriting analysis and Mycenaean palaeography'

2 December: Giorgos Bourogiannis, 'Title TBC'

VIEWS Seminar

28 October: Chunfeng Zhang, 'When Dongba Writing Meets Chinese: How a Writing System Adapts to a New Language'