Reception Seminars: Lent 2025
Seminars will take place in the Faculty of Classics.
Tuesday 28th January, 12.30-2.00pm (1.11)
Josey Parker (Classics PhD) & Ava Wilson (MML MPhil)
'Renaissance Woman: reading Latin with Isotta Nogarola and Hélisenne de Crenne'
Friday 31st January – Saturday 1st February (G.21)
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Classics Beyond the Canon
Sign up here: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/44331/
Thursday 13th February, 5.15-6.30pm (G.21)
Professor Sarah Annes Brown (ARU)
'Mind the Gap: Ovid, Contemporary Poetry and the Anthropocene'
Followed by pub trip and dinner with speaker
Tuesday 18th February, 12.30-2.00pm (1.11)
Davide Salmoiraghi (ASNAC JRF) & Albert Koch (Classics undergraduate)
'Classical heroes: from Medieval Iceland to Renaissance Italy'
Thursday 27th February
Theatre trip!- details tbc
Thursday 6th March, 5.15-6.30pm (G.21)
Professor Jane Draycott (Glasgow)
'Cleopatra VII and the problem(s) with women in classical video games'
Followed by pub trip and dinner with speaker
Tuesday 11th March, 12.30-2.00pm (1.11)
Marie-Gabrielle Pélissié du Rausas (Visiting student in History and Classics, Université de Tours) & Alex-Jaden Peart (Classics MPhil)
Free Thinkers: from Plato’s Republic to Phyllis Wheatley
Tuesday 18th March, 12.30-2.00pm (1.11)
Workshop: Setting the Record Straight: Queering the Archive (and Classics!)
In collaboration with the Newnham Queer Archive.
Thursday 20th March, 5.15-6.30pm (G.21)
Professor Simon Goldhill (Cambridge)
“On Historicity”
Followed by end of term pub trip