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Trinity College Dublin Classics Department Research Seminars

In person seminars will take place in the TCD Classics Seminar room (Arts Building, B6002) on Wednedays at 15.30 pm

Zoom link for the series to follow; contact kahanea@tcd.ie with any enquiries.

October 1, 2025 (in person)
Cilian O’Hogan (University of Toronto)
Fifth-foot spondees in later Latin poetry
October 15, 2025 (in person, double bill)
Amy O’Keeffe (TCD)
Heads or Tales: Cranial Modification in Ancient Cyprus
and
Mia Pancotti (TCD)
Breaking and Regathering Alphabetic Ensembles: the Materiality of Reading in Classical Greece
November 5, 2025 (in person)
Maria Mili (University of Glasgow)
Who was the Thessalian goddess Ennodia? Variations in the Thessalian Pantheon
November 19, 2025 (online, Zoom)
Gregory Anderson (Ohio State University)
Athens in a World of Many Worlds: Comparative History Reimagined
November 26, 2025 (IN PERSON)
Charlotte Roueché (Kings College London)
Exploring Performers and Audience: The Epigraphic evidence

5 February 2025 (in person and Zoom)
Edith Hall (Durham University)
Classical Greeks Scripting Slavery in Two Lead Letters from Berezan and Athens
19 February 2025 (in person and Zoom)
Double Bill
Yuan He (Trinity College Dublin)
Reconsidering Josephus' Relationship with His Readers in Bellum Judaicum 1.1-16
and
Samantha Sink (Trinity College Dublin) Where to Draw the Line? Conceptual Boundary Lines and Theoretical Practices in Eratosthenes’ Geographika
March 12 2025 (in person only)
Ella Kirch (Christs College, Cambridge University)
‘They Write Fast, but Have No Intellect’: Shorthand and Its Victims in the Later Roman World
March 26 2025 (in person only)
Andrew Laird (Brown University)
From Roman Letters to Aztec Writing: Latin Grammar and Alphabetization in a Colonial World
April 9 2025 (by Zoom)
Candida Moss (University of Birmingham)
Stenographic Escape: Textual Accommodations and Shorthand

18 September 2024 (Zoom)
Glynnis Fawkes (Center for Cartoon Studies, Vermont) and Eric H. Cline (George Washington University, Washington DC)
Drawing on History: Creating the Graphic Adaptation of 1177 BC
2 October 2024 (in person and Zoom)
Nora Goldschmidt (Durham University)
Dionysus in Theresienstadt: Gertrud Kantorowicz’s “Greek-work”
16 October 2024 (in person and Zoom)
Anastasia Vergaki (Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens)
A ‘Retualised’ World: Theory, Semiotics and the Impact of Ritual on Everyday Life in Minoan Crete
30 October 2024 (Zoom)
Emmanuel Folorunso Taiwo (University of Ibadan)
Reception of Classical Antiquity in Postcolonial “Write Backs”: British Colonial Nigeria and James Joyce's Victorian Dublin
13 November 2024 (in person and Zoom) – Double Bill
Jeremy Lam (Trinity College Dublin)
The Shadow of Apollo: Sibling Rivalry and Intertextuality in Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis
AND
Dermot Grant (Trinity College Dublin)
Sailing to Sanctuaries: Aegean Trade and Sanctuary Networks and Navigation Routes from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period
27 November 2024 (in person and Zoom)
Michael Carroll (University of St Andrews)
Greek Tragedy and the Theatrical Imagination: Sophocles' Ajax as Case Study