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Faculty of Classics

 

D: CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

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

All are warmly invited to join us - and for drinks and conversation afterwards, too.

 

6 May
Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St Andrews / Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies)
Intimacy and Diversity in Classical Collecting*
*Co-organised in partnership with the ‘
Greek Dialogues’ series of the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies.

13 May - NO SEMINAR
The 2025 Gray Lectures, delivered by Prof. Helen Morales (University of California, Santa Barbara) on ‘Modern Art, Race and Ancient Fiction’.
The series begins on 13 May at 17:00 in G.19 – with a lecture on ‘Re-encountering Antiquity with Harmonia Rosales: Classical Education and Aesthetic Dissent’.

20 May
Hariclia Brecoulaki (Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens)
The Aigai Hunt Frieze Revealed: An Interdisciplinary Investigation and Digital Reconstruction
Followed by end-of-year drinks reception in the Museum of Classical Archaeology.

 

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