Classical Archaeology Seminars

D Caucus: Classical Archaeology

Seminars take place on Tuesdays in Room 1.04 in the Faculty of Classics, and begin at 16:30.

Please note the different time and place for the 'afternoon tea' on Tuesday 13 October.

All, from within the Faculty of Classics and beyond it, are warmly invited -  and for drinks and conversation afterwards, too.

13 October: D Caucus Start-of-Year Afternoon Tea
15:30-17:00, Museum of Classical Archaeology
Join new and returning postgraduate students, along with postdoctoral research students and University and College staff, for a start-of-year social event: all from within the Faculty of Classics, as well as those from other Faculties, Departments, Centres and Colleges, are warmly invited. Tea will be provided by Fitzbillies, and there will be an opportunity to find out about the collections in the Museum of Classical Archaeology.

20 October: Jaś Elsner (Oxford/Chicago), 'Coinage as a Discursive System in the Roman World'

27 October: David Saunders (British Museum), 'Beyond Picture Worlds: Looking again at Greek, Maya and Moche Pottery'

3 November: James Whitley (Cardiff/Cambridge), 'Personhood, Agency and Transmateriality in the Earliest Greek Alphabetic Inscriptions'

*Shared lecture with the Later European Prehistory Group [LEPG], Department of Archaeology / McDonald Institute 

10 November: Gunnel Ekroth (Uppsala), 'Temenos as a space for divine-human interation: demarcations and dinners'

17 November: Lucy Audley-Miller (King's College London), 'Death Masks and Plaster Casts: The Materiality of Plaster in North African Funerary Commemoration'

24 November: Sedef Cokay Kepce (Istanbul), 'Recent Discoveries in Perge, Pamphylia: The 2020-2025 Excavation Seasons'

1 December: Evan Levine (Copenhagen/Cambridge), 'Ionic Architecture on a Diachronic Islet: New Work at Palatia, Naxos'