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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 17.30 pm

Enquiries, please contact papantg@tcd.ie

30 September 2026 (in person and Zoom)
From Text to Stone: Exploring Ancient Greek Harbour Terminology
Judith Gatt (University of Malta) and George Apeitos (University of Oxford)
14 October 2026 (in person and Zoom)
Mind the Gaps: Ancient and Medieval Supplements to the Half-Lines of Virgil's Aeneid
Nicolò Campodonico (University College London)
4 November 2026 (in person and Zoom)
Greek Sanctuaries, Hellenistic Networks, and the Rise of Rome
Annelies Cazemier (University of Southampton)
18 November 2026 (in person and Zoom)
Dressed to Kill: The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme and Coming-of-Age Rites in Ancient Crete
Giorgos Papasavvas (University of Cyprus)
2 December 2026 (in person only) – Double Bill
Pray, Offer, Feast: Ritual Space, Practice, and Experience in Iron Age Cypriot Sanctuaries
Elena Loizou (Trinity College Dublin)
AND
Floriferis ut apes in saltibus: Lucretius and Plato on Poetic Inspiration
Pietro Gabriele Tozzi (Trinity College Dublin)

Previous Seminars

Feb 4
The Minotaur and Me: on Myth and Metapolitics in Uncertain Times
Evelien Bracke (UCD) (now online only)
Feb 18
Torch Races in Athens of the 5th and 4th Centuries BCE: Religious Rite, Civic Ideology, Educational Institution
Andrzej Chankowski (Poitiers)
March 11
Minoan Culinary Tradition(s): Understanding Bronze Age Cooking Practices through an Interdisciplinary Study of Cooking Vessels from North-Eastern Crete
Jenny Tsafou (Université catholique de Louvain-de-neuve) (now online only)
March 25
The Languages of the Werewolf: Linguistic Illusionism in Petronius
Giuseppe Pezzini (Oxford)
April 1 (Double Bill)
Approaching Prosody Through Metre: Left-Edge Fronting in the Latin Elegiac Pentameter’ Brian Cluyse (TCD)
AND
Rustic Words in Virgil's Georgics Miguel Mangini (TCD)

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