Seminars and Events
Speakers for this year 2011-2012 have now been confirmed--and with more exciting events to follow...
Tuesday 11th October 2011
Opening Party & Membership registration
5:30-7:00 in the Classics Library
Tuesday 1st November 2011
The Making of "Body Bags"
Prof. Robert Crawford (St. Andrews)
Tuesday 29th November 2011
Emotions in Early Plato
Prof. Robert Zaborowski (University of Warmia and Mazury) *Co-Sponsored by St Andrews Classics Department
Thursday 8th December 2011
Knossos & Crete in the Roman Empire
Dr. Rebecca Sweetman (St. Andrews) **Joint talk with Archaeology Society, School 1, 8:00 pm
Tuesday 17th April 2012
C.P. Cavafy and the Not-So-Naughty Nineties
Prof. David Ricks (Kings College London)
Tuesday 8th May 2012
The Role of Greek Linguistic and Cultural Analysis in Queer Readings of the Bible
Dr. Keith Sharpe
Time and Place:
All events for the soceity are held on Tuesdays at 5pm in Swallowgate 11, School of Classics, unless otherwise specified.
If you are interested in seeing what types of past activites we had, please look at some of our past programs and lectures:
2010-2011
2009-2010
2007-2008
2006-2007
2005-2006
2004-2005
2010-2011
Tuesday 5th October 2010
Opening Party & Membership registration
Tuesday November 16th
An Empire of Pleasure? Concubinage and the Royal Harem in Ancient Persia
Dr. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Edinburgh)
Tuesday 7th December
Warfare in the Byzantine World
Dr. Frank Trombley (Cardiff)
Tuesday 22nd February
Heroic Manoeuvres in the Dark: Vision and Perception in Iliad 10.
Dr. Jon Hesk (St. Andrews)
Tuesday 15th March
Sir James Frazer, Greece and Pausanias
Prof. Robert Fraser (Open University)
Tuesday April 12th
The new Prometheus: why Byron went to fight in the Greek Revolution
Prof. Roderick Beaton (King's College) *SPHS speaker for 2011
Tuesday May 10th
The Crying Game: Tears in Greek and Roman Oratory
Prof. Jon Hall (University of Otago) **Co-Sponsored by St Andrews Classics Department
2009-2010
Tuesday 20th
October
Opening Party & Membership
registration
Tuesday 3rd November
‘To the Island’. Writer Meaghan
Delahunt
will read from her work and discuss the importance of Greece to her
creative
life
Meaghan Delahunt (University of St Andrews)
Tuesday 1st December
God’s Chronicle and Man’s Story:
Christian
and Secular Narrative in Byzantium
Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Tuesday 9th
February 2009
New Year’s Party
Tuesday 6th
March
Vestigia Dei: Divine Feet,
Footprints and
Footwear as signs of divine visitation
Georgia Petridou (University of St Andrews)
Tuesday 23rd
March
The Role of Byzantium in the Ottoman
World
Dimitris Kastritsis (University of St Andrews)
2007-2008
Tuesday 9th October 2007
Opening Party & Membership registration
Tuesday 16th October
Who needed Pausanias' Periegesis? The significance of a description of Greece in the second century AD.
Dr. Maria Pretzler (Swansea University)
Tuesday 30th October
Greek Dancing
Tuesday 20th November
The Constantinople Water Supply
Professor Jim Crow (University of Edinburgh)
Tuesday 11th December
Greek Movie
Tuesday 19th February 2008
Demosthenes and Athnian Politics
Dr. Polly Low (University of Manchester)
Tuesday 11th March
Greek Movie
Tuesday 25th March
Greek Dancing
Tuesday 15th April
Eastern Approaches: Byzantium and Armenia 600-1045.
Dr. Tim Greenwood
2006-2007
Tuesday 10th October 2006
Opening Party & Registration
Tuesday 17th October
Late Antique and Byzantine Constantinople in the light of recent archaeological work
Professor Paul Magdalino (University of St Andrews)
Tuesday 21st November
Crossing National Borders: Greek Literature today
Professor Dimitris Tziovas (University of Birmingham)
Tuesday 28th November
Greek Movie
Tuesday 12th December
Between the cultural landscape and the excavation trench: site-wide geophysical usrveys in Greece
Dr. Michael Boyd (University of Sheffield)
Tuesday 20th February 2007
True Portraiture? Reconstructing Ancient Faces
Dr. John Prag (University of Manchester)
Tuesday 27th February
Greek Movie/Dancing
Tuesday 13th March
The psychology of victimhood in classical Athenian judicial curses
Dr. Ralph Anderson (University of St Andrews)
Tuesday 10th April
Greek Dancing
Tuesday 17th April
Private History: Documenting War in Film (movie & discussion)
Professor Dina Iordanova (University of St Andrews)
2005-2006
Tuesday 4th October 2005
Opening Party & Registration
Tuesday 18th October
Greek Athletics in the Roman Empire
Dr. Jason König (University of St Andrews
Tuesday 25th October
Greek Dancing
Tuesday 15th November
The Villa Dionysos at Knossos
Sara Paton (British School at Athens)
Tuesday 29th November
Greek Movie
Tuesday 6th December
The Ancient Churches of Syria
Professor Hugh Kennedy (University of St Andrews)
Tuesday 13th December
Greek Dancing
Tuesday 21st February 2006
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi: Fourth-Century Developments and Meanings?
Dr. Judith Barringer (University of Edinburgh)
Tuesday 28th February
Greek Movie
Tuesday 14th March
Living in the mountains: ancient Arkadia
Professor James Roy (University of Nottingham)
Tuesday 11th April
Byzantine Travellers
Dr. Ruth Macrides (Birmingham University)
Tuesday 18th April
Greek Movie
2004-2005
Tuesday 5th October 2004
Opening Party & Registration
Tuesday 12th October
Happy Families: Athenian vase-painting and social history
Dr. Sian Lewis (University of St Andrews)
Tuesday 26th October
Greek Dancing
Tuesday 23rd November
The undesirability of the desirable: antiquities collections
Dr. Neil Brodie (University of Cambridge)
Tuesday 30th November
Superficial Spartans: Intensive Survey in Lconia, Greece
Professor Chris Mee (University of Liverpool)
Tuesday 14th December
Greek Dancing
Tuesday 15th February 2005
Between two worlds: Greek Painting in the 19 & 20 centuries [AD]
Dr. Robin Barber (History of Art, University of Edinburgh)
Tuesday 8th March
A continent as big as China: Hellenism in the life and work of George Seferis
Professor Roddy Beaton (Kings College London)
Tuesday 19th April
Drinking in Ancient Greece
Clare Kelly (University of Leicester)