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We pride ourselves on the regular
research seminars which are held during each
semester. It is a forum for staff and honours and postgraduate
students to present their research in progress, and visitors from
abroad address the group as a matter of course. Many published
papers have their first appearance at this venue, and the
friendly and constructive criticism which is encouraged is a
considerable help in refining and improving the arguments.
Presentations are usually given by members of staff, visiting
academics and postgraduate students. Honours students have also
found it very helpful to present aspects of their dissertations
as short discussion papers. The seminar is seen as a model of
research methodology and presentation, and for that reason
regular attendance is required for Honours and postgraduate
students.
Every year several scholars come
as visitors from universities and other academic institutions in
Australia and overseas. Most are here for at least a few days and
enrich our activities through the opportunity for personal
interaction. More specifically, it is common for visitors to
share their current work with staff and research students at
seminars, as mentioned above, and with the wider community
through a public lecture usually for either the Classical
Association or the Western Australian Friends of the Australian
Archaeological Institute at Athens. All staff and students (undergraduate and postgraduate), as
well as members of the community, are welcome to attend our
seminars.
Seminars will take place on Fridays at 11.30 am in Arts : LR9
(1.61)
unless otherwise indicated.
Semester 2 2009
Friday July 24:
Dr Chris Matthew (Macquarie University)
‘When Push comes to Shove: What was the Othismos of Hoplite
Combat?’
Friday August 7:
Karen Henderson
The Works of the Old Men in Arabia: Spatiality, Forms, Chronology
and Function of ‘Kites’, ‘Wheels’ and
Associated Structures
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME:
1pm, not 11.30 am. Venue remains ALR 9.
Friday August 14:
Prof. Rita Copeland (University of
Pennsylvania)
"Horace's Ars poetica in the Medieval Classroom and Beyond: The
Horizons of Ancient Precept." Friday August 28:Prof. Yasmin Haskell
'From gondolas to good-time girls: Why did an eighteenth-century Dutch doctor write up his Italian journey in Latin?' Friday September 4:
Dr Judith Maitland
ΜΗΝΙΝ ΑΕΙΔΕ
ΘΕΑ: Alexander the Great and the Anger of
Achilles'
Friday September18
Dr Andrew Stone
Theatron in Euthymios Malakes
Friday October 2
Michael Champion
Title to be advised
Friday October 16
Robert Sing
Title to be advised
Please contact the seminar convener, Lara O'Sullivan,
with questions or offers of future papers.
Previous speakers include:
Dr John Dickson. "'Gospel' from Aristophanes to the Apostle
Paul"
Jay McAnally, on *The date of the transfer of the Delian League
treasury*
Kevin O'Toole, on *The Archon Basileus: the archaeological and
epigraphic evidence*
Dr Neil O'Sullivan (title to be confirmed)
Leonard Goulds, *Marsyas: The evolution and problems of an
unusual musician*
Fabian Lee, 'Alexander's campaign against Porus: the literary
and numismatic evidence'
Jay McAnally, 'The Salmakis Inscription and Halicarnassian
Coinage'
Lara O'Sullivan, 'History from comic hypotheses: the case of
P.Oxy. 1235'
Neil O'Sullivan, 'The future optative in Greek documentary and
grammatical papyri'
Judith Maitland, 'Who or what was Aiakos?'
David Kennedy, 'Thapsacus and Zeugma'
Smadar Gabrieli, 'The economy of a theatre in Hellenistic &
Roman Cyprus. The excavations of the University of Sydney in Nea
Paphos.'
Graeme Miles, 'Philosophy and Myth in Porphyry, Plotinus and
Philostratus'
Steven Hughes, 'The public buildings of the Athenian Democracy: A
tour of the Agora's west end'
Dr Judith Maitland, 'Peleus and Thetis: the plot thickens'
Lara O'Sullivan, '
Courtesans, Wives & Ruler-Cult: Some observations on divine
honours in the age of Demetrius Poliorcetes'
Marta Kurpisz: 'Greeks and their heroes - Athletes and their
social role in Greek cities of Asia Minor under Roman rule' Professor Ernst Badian (Harvard)
and Professor Keith Hopkins (Cambridge), the art historians
Professor John Barron (Institute for Classical Studies, London),
Professor John Boardman (Oxford) and Professor Erika Simon
(Würzburg), and the archaeologists Professor Olga Palagia
(Athens) and Professor Hermann Kienast (Athens), Professor George
Bass (Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas) and Dr Mark
Spigelman (University College, London), Professor Rosemary Morris
and Dr John Papadopoulos (California) and Professor Richard Green
(Sydney).
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