Manchester Classical Association

Welcome

Upcoming events

Unless otherwise specified, meetings take place in room A7, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester (campus maps). Lectures are followed by questions, informal discussion over a glass of wine, then dinner at a local restaurant with the speaker.

Date: Wednesday 19th October 2011
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Dr Jean Turfa (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Etruscan Divination - It's not just sheep livers anymore!

Date: Wednesday 9th November 2011
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Professor Angie Hobbs (University of Warwick)
Title: Plato and Atlantis

Date: Wednesday 30th November 2011
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Dr Joanna Paul (Open University)
Title: Screening the End of the Classical World in Alejandro Amenabar's Agora

Date: Friday 20th January 2012
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: TBC
Annual General Meeting, followed by party.

Date: Wednesday 15th February 2012
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: TBC
Speaker: Dr Stephen Colvin (UCL)
Title: Women, Foreigners, and the start of the Koine in Greek Comedy

Date: Wednesday 14th March 2012
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: TBC
Speaker: Professor Judy Barringer (University of Edinburgh)
Title: A Cultural History of Olympia
Joint meeting with the Hellenic Society

Date: Wednesday 25th April 2012
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: TBC
Speaker: Professor Greg Woolf (University of St Andrews)
Title: The Origins of Religious Pluralism in the Roman Empire and Beyond
Joint meeting with the Roman Society