Below you will find the programme of events for the autumn term research seminars in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology and the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies of the University of Birmingham.
All meetings are in person on Wednesdays at 4 pm, in Arts Lecture Room 7.
Zoom links will be provided for anyone who wishes to attend remotely: please register via eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
9 October
Professor Lin Foxhall (Liverpool) ‘Entrepreneuring women: the spaces of textile manufacture in classical Greek cities’
16 October
Dr Emily Hauser (Exeter) ‘The World of Penelope’
23 October nb: this will be in Lecture Room 1
New voices: recent graduates of CBOMGS
Dr Laura Clark (Bham) ‘Death by numbers: a data-driven exploration of early Christian burials in the Near East’
Dr Lluis Lluís Jerez i Bertolín (Bham) ‘The harvest contractor in Byzantium: absence of evidence or evidence of absence?’
30 October
Dr Jane Masseglia (Leicester) ‘The Rutland Trojan War Mosaic: How a Greek story came to Roman Britain’
20 November CBOMGS Seminar
Dr Alex Feldman (Madrid) ‘Mercantilism: from the Byzantine Commonwealth to the Commonwealth of Independent States’
27 November
Dr Justine McConnell (King’s College, London) ‘Tragedy Refigured in Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings’
4 December
Professor Richard Buxton (Bristol) ‘Peril at the pool: Narcissus and other mythical adolescents’.
11December (joint CAHA and CBOMGS seminar)
Dr Victoria Leonard (Coventry) ‘Letters, Resource Distribution, and Gender in the Late Antique Mediterranean’
