GRADUATE INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINARS
The seminar meets on Fridays at 16:30 in Room 1.11. This term’s coordinators are: Nir Stern (nys21@cam.ac.uk) and Matas Kersys (mk899@cam.ac.uk). All graduates welcome.
GIS Lent Term 2020 - Friday 16:30, Room 1.11
17 January
Tom Langley
The Emperor Julian and Constantinople
Krishnan Ram-Prasad
What is Generative Linguistics and Why Should You Care?
24 January
Thomas Kelly
Literary Doctors: Greek Medicine and Poetry in the Imperial Period
Joe Grimwade
How to Remember a Poem: Method versus Emotion
31 January
Melissande Tomcik
Breaking the Barriers of Time: Failing Dawn and Dusk in Statius' Thebaid
Sarah Sheard
Breast is Best: Power and Gender in Frescoes of Pero and Micon
7 February
Melissa Jones
From Sensation to Syllogism: How Aristotelian is Ibn Sina's Account of Cognition?
Anna Athanasopoulou
Framing Presence in Lucianic Ecphrasis
14 February
Aliza Ashraf
TBC
Konstantinos Lygouris
TBC
21 February - Postponed
28 February
Arthur Harris
TBC
Alessio Santoro
Greek and (Judeo-)Arabic Commentators on Existential Verbs (Aristotle, De Interpretatione 3)
6 March
Georgios Koukovasilis
Becoming Roman, Staying Greek: The Portraits of Herodes Atticus
Marc Bonaventura
Late Antique Christianity and the Roman Rhetoric of Moral Decline: Augustine's use of Sallust in the De Civitate Dei
13 March - Postponed
