Ancient World Seminar 2024

2024 Programme

26 February

Paula Phillips, The University of Melbourne

Project Fara: Revisiting an Ancient Tell Settlement in southern Israel/Palestine from the Middle to early Late Bronze Period (c. 1850– 1550 BCE)

4 March

Dan Zhao, Cambridge University

Freeing Slaves and Freed Slaves: The Law and Politics of Manumission under Augustus

11 March

Sarah Corrigan, The University of Melbourne

Ancient Oceans in Early Medieval Contexts: Faith and Experience at Play

18 March

Matthew Crawford, Australian Catholic University

“Defending the Glory of God”: Cyril of Alexandria’s Interactions with the Theodosian Court

25 March

Aleksandra Michalewicz, The University of Melbourne

Present and Future Pathways at the University of Melbourne for Ancient World Studies

8 April

Christian Hjorth Bagger, The University of Melbourne

Fulvia vs. Octavia: feminae principes in the Age of Civil War

15 April

Christopher Dart, The University of Melbourne

Triumphal Petitions of the Second Punic War: A Reappraisal of Livy’s triumphal narrative

22 April

Christopher Davey, The University of Melbourne

Encountering Ancient Lives by Visualising the Structures and Decoration of Death

6 May

Laura Pisanu, The University of Melbourne

Social Complexity and Maritime Connectivity in Nuragic Sardinia: south Montiferru and north Campidano

20 May

Margaret Cameron, The University of Melbourne

Why depict Phyllis, Alexander’s lover, riding Aristotle as a horse?

29 July

Margaret Cameron, The University of Melbourne

Aristotle redux

5 August

Ron Ridley, The University of Melbourne

The great Livy delusion, August 1924

12 August

Heather Jackson, The University of Melbourne

The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Project for the National Gallery of Victoria - a presentation given in honour of the late Dr. Elizabeth Pemberton

19 August

Ben Nagy, Institute of Polish Language (Krakow) and Rebecca Menmuir, Queen Mary University of London

A Stylometric Reassessment of the (Pseudo?) Ovidian Nux

26 August

Philip Stockhammer, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens guest speaker

Family and Migration in Bronze Age Greece: New archaeogenetic insights

2 September

Andrew Jamieson and Claudia Sagona, The University of Melbourne

The 2024 season and the shape of growing social complexity: Evidence from Rabati settlement and burial grounds

9 September

David Feeney, The University of Melbourne

The expedition of Hamilcar Barca and the Carthaginian hegemony in the Iberian Peninsula, 237-218 BC

16 September

Tamar Hodos, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens

Eggstraordinary Objects: ostrich eggs as luxury items in the ancient Mediterranean

30 September

Emily Hulme, The University of Sydney

Was Diotima Real?

7 October

Kit Morrell, University of Queensland

Legislation, innovation, and commemoration in the Roman republic

14 October

Konstantine Panegyres, The University of Melbourne

Egyptian Treasures: Some New Christian Papyri from the Bodleian Library