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This colloquium is an opportunity for current PhD and MA research students to share their current research interests with their departmental peers and academic staff, and the wider university community. The primary aim of the colloquium is to pull together the extremely wide variety of topics currently being investigated by Classics and Ancient History postgraduates in order to celebrate the diversity and importance of our discipline.

It is also hoped that the event will be a useful platform to consider the wider acadmeic and social impact of research in the ancient world; a theme that has been at the forefront of the minds of aspiring scholars and university departments across the UK in recent years. Consequently, for the first time the colloquium has been structured to include a discussion panel comprising four members of the departmental staff. This discussion panel will explore in depth why classics and ancient history are relevant in the 21st century, and will be comprised of four presentations of five minutes on set topics followed by an opening up of the debate to the floor.

All papers and refreshment breaks, including lunch, will be in rooms 2 and 3 of the Wolfson Research Exchange, University of 糖心TV Library. Abstracts can be accessed by clicking on the titles of papers below.

Programme

9.30–10.00 Registration, Tea, and Coffee

10.00–10.10 Welcome and Introduction

10.10–11.00 Discussion Panel: “The Future of Classics in the 21st Century”

Panel: Dr Alison Cooley, Dr Clare Rowan, Dr Michael Scott, Dr Ian Fielding
Chair: Ersin Hussein (Third Year PhD Student).
Panellists statements for 20 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of general discussion.

11.00–11.15 Tea and Coffee Break

11.15–13.15 Panel One: The Enduring Power of the Classical World

Chair: Elena Marchis (Second Year PhD Student). Papers of 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.

Paper One – Rocco Di Dio: Marsilio Ficino and his Scriptorium: Three Cases of Renaissance Close Readings 
Paper Two – Sofia Guthrie: Tisiphone on the battlefield: Poetic and Historical Truth in Antoine Garissoles’ Adolphid
Paper Three – James Wright: Stiff Upper Bodies: The Use of Greek Combat Sport in Early Victorian Art
Paper Four – Desiree Arbo: 'You say I imitate the classics without cease; who then should I imitate, the wise or the ass?' Francisco Acuña de Figueroa and the Classical Tradition in Uruguay, 1810-1850

13.15–14.25 Lunch

14.25–15.55 Panel Two: Powerful Names, Big Egos, and Monetary Matters

Chair: Rebecca Taylor (Second Year PhD Student). Papers of 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.

Paper One – Ghislane van der Ploeg: Names of Power: Asclepieian Epithets
Paper Two – Alexander Peck: Ornator Patriae, Ornator Sui: The Patria as an Epigraphic Tool of Self-Promotion
Paper Three – Elena Marchis: Intended use and audience - coin supply in the Roman provinces of Pannonia, Dacia, and Moesia

15.55–16.10 Tea and Coffee

16.10–17.40 Panel Three: Plague, Prediction, and Mystery

Chair: Alexander Peck (First Year PhD Student), Papers of 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.

Paper One – Paul Grigsby: Plague and Prophecy: The role of disease in ‘many-voiced’ Boeotia
Paper Two – Rebecca Taylor: Prediction in medicine and meteorology
Paper Three – Saffi Grey: The Mithraic Mysteries: a religious manifestation of Platonic soteriological cosmology

17.40 – 17.50 Closing Remarks

17.50 onwards Drinks receptions

19.15 Post-Colloquium Dinner at Le Gusta Oven and Bar