Maynooth Classics Seminar - Semester 2 2022-2023

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 16:00

As part of the Maynooth Classics Seminar series the Department of Ancient Classics is pleased to host the following speakers this semester (S2: 2022-23):
 

24 February 2023  Dr Alexandra Madela (Trinity College, Dublin) 
‘Can Homer be defeated? Poetic Ambitions in the late antique Argonautica by Orpheus?’
08 March 2023
Wednesday 16:30
*online only*
Dr Quentin Broughall (Independent Scholar) 
‘Historical friction: classical past and American present in Gore Vidal’s Julian (1964)?’
21 March 2023
*Rescheduled*
Tuesday @16:00 in JHL4
Professor Douglas Cairns (University of Edinburgh)
‘Honour, Trust, and Social Cognition’
 
31 March 2023 Dr John Curran (Queen’s University Belfast) 
‘Pilate, Barabbas, and the Privilegium Paschale’
21 April 2023    Dr Catherine Ware (University College Cork) 
‘The Sailor and the witch: Jason and Medea in Dracontius’

 
 All hybrid seminars will be held on Fridays at 16:00 in John Hume Lecture Theatre 7, unless otherwise stated, and broadcast online to registered participants.
Please register your interest to: classics@mu.ie 
 
This is a open public event, all most welcome!