All seminars take place 12-2; rooms are listed below.

Wednesday 1 October 2025
in the School of Humanities Research Suite, 1 University Gardens
Owen Rees, Birmingham Newman, ‘Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: An Ancient Greek Case Study in Retrospective Diagnosis’

Wednesday 8 October 2025
Room tbc
Lilah Grace Canevaro, Edinburgh: ‘‘William Morris: Art, Labour and Classical Reception’

Wednesday 15 October 2025
in the School of Humanities Research Suite, 1 University Gardens
Internal work-in-progress seminar
Alex Antoniou: ‘Playing by the Rulebook? Worshipping the Emperor in the Italian Peninsula'
Costas Panayotakis: ‘‘Traces of theatrical “voices” from Pompeii and Herculaneum, and their implications’

Tuesday 21 October 2025 **at 5pm**
In the Jebb room, 65 Oakfield Avenue
Professor Richard Janko (Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, USA)
New light on the ancient library from Herculaneum
The talk is aimed at a general audience and will be of particular interest to those working on damaged texts, manuscripts or similar. Prof. Janko has been at the forefront (for over twenty-five years) of reconstructing, deciphering and interpreting the texts on the carbonised papyri found at Herculaneum (left in that state because of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79).

Wednesday 12 November 2025
In the Murray Room, 65 Oakfield Avenue
Lene Rubinstein, Royal Holloway, University of London, ‘Displaced civilians in fourth-century Athens: Social repercussions and political challenges’ 

Wednesday 19 November 2025
In the School of Humanities Research Suite, 1 University Gardens
Juliette Harrison, Birmingham Newman: ‘'Reception, time, and space in Terry Pratchett's Discworld'

Wednesday 3 December 2025
In the School of Humanities Research Suite, 1 University Gardens
Ruth Morello, Manchester, ‘Experiments in time and history in 46 BC: a new world?’

First published: 22 September 2025

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