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Postdoc Work-in-Progress Seminars

The PostDoc Work-in-Progress Seminars (PWiPS) will be held fortnightly on Friday lunchtimes (12:00–1:30) over Zoom. Each speaker will pre-circulate a piece of writing around a week in advance, which they will briefly introduce at the beginning of the session. The majority of the seminar will then be used to discuss and offer feedback on the work.

The seminar is intended for the Classics postdoc community in the first instance, interpreted broadly to encompass all Early Career Researchers, including individual/project postdocs, JRFs, teaching associates, temporary lecturers, recent PhD alumni. By default, work will only be circulated to and discussed by the Classics postdoc community, but each speaker can invite along and share their work with other members of the Faculty/University. If you are not a Classics Postdoc but would like to attend a specific session, please contact the relevant speaker for an invitation and copy of their work.

For further information, or to express interest in presenting, please contact the seminar co-convenors: Giulia Maltagliati (gm716@cam.ac.uk) and Thomas Matthews Boehmer (tjm69@cam.ac.uk).

Programme of Talks EasterTerm 2023

The Postdocs Work-in-Progress Seminar (PWiPS) this term will be held on the 12th and 26th of May, and 9th of June. All will be held at 12 — 1pm on the relevant Friday and in R.01.

This is our exciting line-up:

12th May: Konogan Beaufay,
‘Mosaic inscriptions in the Roman bath buildings of Italy’

26th May: Ben Kolbeck,
'Iudex quia dominus: reading Christian eschatology as Roman trial literature'

9th June: Michael Loy,
'Coinage networks and the fifth-century gap in Ionia’

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