Manchester Classical Association

2011/12 Programme

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