The Department has two seminars which take place weekly during term time:
Work-in-progress seminars: Wednesdays, 1-2pm, room CL102 (38 North Bailey) and on Zoom
Research seminars: Thursdays, 5-6.30pm, room PG21 (Pemberton Building, Palace Green) and on Zoom
All seminars are open to everyone, whether students, members of the public, or academics, and unless otherwise specified can be attended either in person or on Zoom. No registration is required for in-person attendance, but to receive the Zoom link, please sign up via each seminar's event on the Department Eventbrite (these will be made available by the Friday before each seminar).
Accessibility information: Pemberton Building (PG21 is on the ground floor, with step-free access); 38 North Bailey (CL108 is on the first floor, accessed via stairs)
If you have any questions, please contact the seminar co-ordinator, Dr Anna Judson.
Jan 12 Oliver Baldwin “Sapphic Bacchae: Butch(er)ing Section 28”
Jan 19 Cora-Beth Fraser “Classics in the North-East: Cathedral Classicism: a Roman Claudia in Newcastle Cathedral”
Jan 26 Ellen Adams “Blindness, deafness and new approaches to landscapes, monuments and objects” (online only)
Feb 2 Thornton Lockwood “Non-human animals in Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics”
Feb 9 cancelled due to strike action
Feb 16 cancelled due to strike action
Feb 23 cancelled due to strike action
Mar 2 cancelled due to strike action
Mar 9 Evan Jewell “Transphobia and the trans* man in the tribas”
Mar 16 cancelled due to strike action
11 Jan Edith Hall, "Achilles in Green: Reading the Iliad Ecocritically"
25 Jan Martina Piperno, "Etruscan Places on Page: Archaeology and Memory"
22 Feb cancelled due to strike action
01 Mar cancelled due to strike action
15 Mar Edward Harris, "Freedom and Slavery as Political Slogans"