Sheffield Classical Association
Events 2018-19


Classical Association AGM
Wednesday 8 May 2019
3:15pm
Humanities Research Institute, Seminar Room
Classical Association Invited Speakers
Wednesday 13 March 2019
4:15pm, Humanities Research Institute
Owen Hodkinson (Leeds) – “She’s not deadly. She’s beautiful.” Reclaiming Medusa for Millennial Tween and Teen Girls?
 
Wednesday 8 May 2019
4:15pm, Humanities Research Institute
Ian Haynes (Newcastle): Recent research on Hadrian’s Wall

Tuesday 16 October, 1pm
Prof Ergün Lafli (Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir): Archaeology and history of Lydia from the early Lydian period to late antiquity (8th century B.C.-6th century A.D.
 
Tuesday 19 February 2019, 1pm
Anna Moles (UCL and British School at Athens Ambassador): Human health and diet at Knossos, Crete: changes from the Hellenistic to Late Antique periods
 
Venue details will be posted here: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/archaeology/events/lunchtime-lectures

Other Talks of Interest
 
 Medieval and Ancient Research Seminars
Humanities Research Institute (unless otherwise specified)
4:15pm paper begins
5 December 2018 – Jessop West G03
Ulriika Vihervalli (Hist), ‘Gender-based violence and royal women in late Roman Italy’
 
13 February 2019
Chris Mowat (Hist), ‘Neither priest nor priestess: Interpreting the Galli priesthood of ancient Rome through queer and non-binary gender perspective(s)’


27 February 2019
Paul Johnson (Arch): ‘Conceptual geographies: exploring the articulation of social space in Roman Lusitania’
 
27 March 2019 – PGR Session
Sarah Poniros (Arch) – ‘Experiencing Migration and Diversity in Roman Britain: A Multidisciplinary Approach’
Lewis Dagnall (Hist) – ‘Tribute in Late Antiquity’
 
You can find the full MARS programme here:
http://marcus.group.shef.ac.uk/events/mars/

​All talks begin at 4.15pm, in the HRI, unless otherwise indicated.

Term 1, 2018-19.
10 September, 5pm, Diamond Lecture Theatre 8 – co-sponsored with SCEMS
Barbara Rosenwein (Loyola University Chicago), ‘What is the history of emotions?’
26 September (week 1) [38 Mappin Street Workroom 2]
Sarah Greer (St Andrews): ‘Hrotsvitha the historian: rewriting the past in the Primordia Gandeshemensis‘
17 October (week 4)
Paul Oldfield (Manchester): ‘Remembering innovation: Laity and Urban Commune in Twelfth-Century Southern Italy’
24 October (week 5) – venue TBC
Francisco Diaz Marcilla (Lisbon), ‘The Church and the Crown in Late Medieval Iberian Context: Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology and Sources’
14 November (week 8) – PGR Session [HRI Seminar room] 
Richard Gilbert (Hist) – ‘Late medieval and early modern South Yorkshire’
Emma Hook (Arch) – ‘Oblates and the disadvantaged: quasi-monastic care in later medieval society’
28 November (week 10)
Linne Mooney (York), ‘More Light on Thomas Hoccleve, Clerk of the Privy Seal, Londoner, and Friend of Chaucer’
5 December (week 11) – Jessop West G03
Ulriika Vihervalli (Hist), ‘Gender-based violence and royal women in late Roman Italy’
12 December (week 12)
Mattia Chiriatti (Alcalá/Sheffield): ‘Visual Display and the Construction of Memory in Gregory of Nyssa’s Hagiographic Homilies’

Term 2
13 February (week 2)
Chris Mowat (Hist), ‘Neither priest nor priestess: Interpreting the Galli priesthood of ancient Rome through queer and non-binary gender perspective(s)’
27 February (week 4) – Hunter Society Session
Paul Johnson (Arch): ‘Conceptual geographies: exploring the articulation of social space in Roman Lusitania’
13 March (week 6) – Classical Association Session
Owen Hodkinson (Leeds) – ‘”She’s not deadly. She’s beautiful.” Reclaiming Medusa for Millennial Tween and Teen Girls?’
27 March (week 8) – PGR Session
Sarah Poniros (Arch) – ‘Experiencing Migration and Diversity in Roman Britain: A Multidisciplinary Approach’
Lewis Dagnall (Hist) – ‘Tribute in Late Antiquity’
1 May (week 9) [venue tbc]
Brigitte Resl – ‘Thinking about Noah’s ark in the Middle Ages’
8 May (week 11) – Classical Association Session
Ian Haynes (Newcastle): ‘Recent research on Hadrian’s Wall’