E: PHILOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS
All talks will take place on Wednesdays in the Faculty of Classics building.
LENT TERM 2026
28 January, 4.30 pm, room 1.11
Helen Sims-Williams (Surrey), Analogy, frequency and efficiency in Greek morphological change (talk originally scheduled for 3 December 2025)
4 February, 5.15 pm, room G.21
Joint Literature and Linguistics Seminar
Luuk Huitink (Amsterdam), Oblique Constructions: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Greek Stylistics?
11 February, 5.15 pm, room G.21
Joint Literature and Linguistics Seminar
Stephen Oakley (Cambridge), When does factus est become est factus?
18 February (Mycenaean Seminar), 4.30 pm, room 1.11
Joanna Day (Dublin), Smoke, Scent and Social Life in Bronze Age Crete
25 February, 5.15 pm, room G.21
Joint Literature and Linguistics Seminar
Nick Zair (Cambridge), Literary effects of linguistic features in Virgil and Catullus
4 March
Joint Literature and Linguistics Seminar
Jo Willmott (Cambridge): seminar now postponed until Easter Term because of presentations for Greek literature assistant professorships.
11 March, 5.15 pm, room G.21
Joint Literature and Linguistics Seminar
Peter Barrios-Lech (UMass Boston), 'Prohibitives' in a Ciceronian Corpus: Observations on Register and Politeness
18 March (Mycenaean Seminar), 4.30 pm, room 1.11
John Bennet (Sheffield), Sniffing out Aromatics in Ayios Vasileios Lakonias