This year, the department engaged with domestic and international public organisations leading to impactful and open-source contributions.
Leading the way, Dr. Erica Rowan discussed sustainability and olive oil production in, 'Using Olive It: Sustainable Fuel Production in the Ancient Mediterranean with Erica Rowan’, with the Peopling the Past podcast.
Only last week, Dr. Zena Kamash explored the reconstruction and digitisation of Tadmor-Palmyra (Syria), with a cornucopia of open-source resources provided in support. Moreover, Dr. Kamash is today (12:30pm-13:15pm) presenting at the UrbNet conference, 'Shaping Archaeological Archives: Best Practices for the Dissemination of Knowledge from Digital Resources’. This presentation will discuss digital colonialism and who can access ’the past’. Join in the discussion by signing up here.
Dr. Liz Gloyn presented Medusa and other 'monsters' to the Manchester Classical Association in 'Meeting Medusa: Why Does the Ancient Monster Survive in the Modern World?', with a bountiful schedule of upcoming seminars and events on mythology and the ancient family. Of particular interest is the philosophical double-punch on Seneca (24 Feb - contact josephine.carr@rhul.ac.uk) and on Musonius Rufus (28 Apr, contact thomas.phillips@manchester.ac.uk).
Leverhulme Early Career Scholar, Samuel Agbamu, wastes no time in presenting at an international roundtable, ‘Classics and 'The Other’’, discussing the relationship between Classics, social and political identities, and national cultures (23 Feb).
The departmental research centres are very active over the coming months. The Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome (CRGR) invites all to the online book launch of Prof. Robert Eaglestone’s new book, ‘Truth and Wonder: A Literary Introduction to Plato and Aristotle’. The launch will take place on 3rd March at 1pm-3pm. To register follow this link.
As part of Get Togethers 2.0, RHUL’s Centre for Oratory and Rhetoric (COR) and the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) announced seven virtual events, which will take place on Zoom every Thursday from the 17th of February to the 31st of March at 5pm (UK time).
And, last but not least, Dr. Siobhan Chomse gave a talk for the Virgil Society on 22 Jan, which asked whether Virgil's Aeneas experiences the sublime. The paper will be published as part of her upcoming book.
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