C: ANCIENT HISTORY
Easter Term 2026
All Welcome.
30 April, 3.15 pm, Classics Faculty, room 1.04
Demetra Kasimis (POLIS) and Giulia Maltagliati (Classics)
Theorising Opacity, Politicising the Oikos: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
A conversation that will explore the ways in which the household (oikos) operates as a site of anxiety that resists straightforward narratives and transparent readings.
Tea from 3 pm.
A CLAWS Event.
11 May, 4-6 pm, English Faculty, room G-R 06/07
Walter Scheidel (Stanford)
Ancient History as Universal History
(Joint CLAWS/Global Middle Ages Event)
26 May, 2-6 pm, Classics Faculty, room G.21
The Futures of Antiquity: a panel discussion with Walter Scheidel (Stanford) and Joy Connolly (ACLS)
Commentators: Peter Frankopan (Oxford), Philipp von Rummel (FU Berlin), Amy Russell (Brown) & Greg Woolf (ISAW)
To be followed by a reception.
A CLAWS Event
4-5 July, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, rooms 8/9 & 10
Empires & Ecologies of Afro-Eurasia at the end of Antiquity.
An AMES/CLAWS/Classics Conference
Programme and Registration:
https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/events/empires-ecologies-afro-eurasia-end-antiquity
And to note:
28 May, 7 pm, Palmerston Room, St John's College
The Newell Classical Event
Joy Connolly (American Council for Learned Societies), with Shushma Malik (Classics)
Meeting the conditions of freedom: Roman political thought in an age of tyranny and greed