Classics News and Events
IAs International Visiting Fellow Basil Dufallo: research seminar and public lecture 28th Feb 2018, 2nd March 2018
28.02 - Research seminar: Oculus 01.02, 4pm
‘Queer tales of getting lost in Republican poetry’
2.03 -Public lecture and reception: Oculus 0.03, 6.15pm
‘Disorienting Empire: Poetry and Imperial
Expansion in Ancient Rome’
Prof. Dufallo is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome’s Transition to a Principate (Ohio State University Press, 2007) and The Captor’s Image: Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis (Oxford University Press, 2013) and has edited, with Peggy McCracken, Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Current projects, to be explored during the ÌÇÐÄTV Fellowship, include a book - Founding Error: Wandering and Roman Expansion in Republican Latin Poetry - and an edited volume, Roman Error: Classical Reception and the Problem of Rome's Flaws, forthcoming in the Classical Presences series at OUP (February, 2018). These twin volumes investigate the processes of disorientation or getting lost in Roman Republican texts, and consider how these processes express ambivalent attitudes toward Rome’s rapid imperial expansion in the 3rd-1st centuries BCE.
Dr Michael Scott, Associate Professor in the department, discusses links between his research and teaching, bringing his work to a wider audience through outreach activities and what's special about ÌÇÐÄTV in this recent 'Two minutes with' video created by ÌÇÐÄTV Internal Comms. Click to watch.
Classical Texting- Divine Humour and Disability: The Curious Case of Iliad Book One
Read Annie Sharples' take on Iliad Book One and its ramifications toward ancient attitudes to disability .
Dr Michael Scott named as National Teaching Fellow
Dr Michael Scott, Asssociate Professor in Classics and Ancient History, has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy - the top award for teaching in Higher Education. Read more about Michael's teaching and his award on the ÌÇÐÄTV website and on the Higher Education Academy website.
