D: CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 16:30 in 1.04 in the Faculty of Classics. All are warmly invited to join us – and for drinks and conversation afterwards, too.
LENT TERM 2024
30 January Elizabeth La Duc (Cambridge)
Coal, Iron, and Innovation in Roman Britain
6 February Min Lin (Cambridge) - CANCELLED
Constructing the gendered body: a comparative study of the corporeality in the Early Iron Age and Eastern Zhou burials
13 February Albert Bates (Cambridge)
Orestes Sarcophagi and the Philosophy of Phantasia
20 February Valeria Amoretti (Pompeii)
Recent research from the laboratory of the Parco Archeologico di Pompei
27 February Dominique Goddard (Cambridge)
What’s cooking? A foodways approach to central Tyrrhenian Italy
5 March Nina Bizziocchi (Cambridge)
Roman housing in London: a ‘provincial’ architecture?
12 March* Aidan Gray (Cambridge)
The Convergence of the Sphinx: How Art & Literature Got On the Same Page
EASTER TERM 2024
30 April Luca Giuliani (Berlin)
The problem of Roman copies: a transatlantic dissent
7 May Maureen Carroll (York)
Archaeological and visual evidence for women's dress and identity in southwest Italy in the 4th century B.C.
14-16 May (precise timings to be confirmed)
2024 GRAY LECTURES
Gabriel Zuchtriegel (Director of the Archaeological Excavations at Pompeii)
- Tuesday 14 May at 5pm (Little Hall, Sidgwick Site): Lecture 1 - The dark night of the soul: Pompeii and early Christianity
- Wednesday 15 May at 2pm (room G.21, Faculty of Classics): Seminar - New light on the lives of enslaved people and freedmen from current excavations in Pompeii
- Thursday 16 May at 5pm (Little Hall, Sidgwick Site): Lecture 2 - Pompeii: an archaeology of the kingdom of heaven
21 May Georg Gerleigner (Erlangen)
Collecting and provenance in the Nazi era: Georg Dehn and the Antikensammlung Erlangen
*Seminar followed by end-of-term D Caucus reception in the Museum of Classical Archaeology