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Faculty of Classics

 

E: PHILOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS

All talks will take place on Wednesdays between 4.30 pm and 6 pm, in room 1.11, in the Faculty of Classics building.

29 January
IE Seminar
Prof. Mark Janse
'The development of agglutinative noun and verb inflections in Cappadocian Greek'

5 February
Mycenaean Seminar
Merten Wiltshire
'The Archanes Sequence of Signs'

12 February
IE Seminar
Dr Simona Marchesini
'Grotta poesia in Apulia: hermeneutics and textuality of one of the richest epigraphic complexes in the ancient Mediterranean'

19 February
Mycenaean Seminar
Hannah Lewis
TBC

26 February
VIEWS Seminar
Avraham Faust
'The Locus of Writing: Viewing Literacy in Iron Age Israel and Judah'

Hannah Bash
'Writing, Materiality, and Orality in the Deir Alla Plaster Inscriptions'

5 March
IE Seminar
Dr Afra Pujol i Campeny
TBC

12 March
VIEWS Seminar
Theo Nash
'Regionalism in Mycenaean Writing: Comparing Writing practices at Mycenae and Thebes'

19 March
IE Seminar
Prof. Patrick Honeybone
'What can Laryngeal Realism tell us about Indo-European stops?'

 

 

 

 

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The Faculty is delighted to announce that both Dr Lea Niccolai and Dr Henry Spelman have been awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes in the 2024 competition. Professor Anna Vignoles, Director of the Leverhulme Trust, said: “Now in its twenty-third year, this scheme continues to attract applications from extraordinarily high...

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The new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Paris 1924: Sport, Art, and the Body , Co-curated by Classics' Carrie Vout has been awarded 5 stars by the Guardian. "Timed to coincide with next week’s return of the Olympics to the French capital – is a revelation from first to last. You soon begin to realise that those Games...