GRADUATE INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINARS
The seminar meets on Fridays at 16:30 in Room 1.11, this term the seminars will be held virtually. This term’s coordinators are: Sofia Greaves (srg55@cam.ac.uk) and Zoe Audra (za274@cam.ac.uk).
The schedule will be updated on a weekly basis and the joining details available here and in the event notification on the Faculty home page.
Friday 1 May
Melissa Jones
Flowers, Forests, and Foliage: Setting and the Pastoral in Plato’s Phaedrus
Sarah Sheard
A shield for a hand-mirror: images of Thetis and the armour of Achilles
Friday 8 May
Brian Theng
Revisiting economic rationality: an embedded transaction in Pliny the Younger
Thomas Kelly
Geometrical diagrams in Greek ‘scribal’ mathematics
Friday 15 May
Jacob Andersen
Madness and Teleological Unity in Plato's Phaedrus
Sofia Greaves
Covid 19 and Naples in the 19th century
Friday 5 June
Martin Szoke
[[De]]constructing memory: rethinking memory sanctions and damnatio memoriae
Alessio Santoro
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Aristotle and Plato on the definition of beauty
Both papers and scripts will be made available for download via Topica. https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/classics-in-time-of-corona
Here is the Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91650602050
