Lectures & AGMs

Listed below are evening lectures and AGMs (held at Senate House, unless stated otherwise).
See also: conferences, and exhibition/site visits.

10 June: AGM & Colloquium - Ancient Enslavement: fresh perspectives
22 February: Dr Peter Sarris: 'Justinian: Holy Emperor and Demon King'
2 February: Dr Yannis Galanakis: 'The antiquities trade in late 19th century Greece – stories of people & objects'. Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House. (video)
13 January: Gina Coulthard Memorial Lecture: 'Sinope in a Black Sea World' delivered by Dr Jane Rempel. Hosted with the British Institute at Ankara and the Hellenic Society.

6 December: Dr Emilio Zucchetti (Roman Society Germanicus Scholar 2020-2022): 'Were Private Debts Publicly Recorded in the Late Republic? Tabulae novae, the Multitude, and the Leader in the Debt Crisis of 48-47 BCE'
19 November: Remembering Joyce Reynolds - A joint online event with the British Epigraphy Society to remember Joyce Reynolds (President of the Roman Society, 1986-1989)
8 November: Presidential Lecture - Professor Tim Cornell: ‘The Consular Fasti and the early history of the Roman Republic’
19 October: Natalie Haynes: Stone Blind - in aid of the Hellenic and Roman Library (HARL)
7 June: Joint event with the Hellenic Society and Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies - Professor Judith Herrin: Rethinking Late Antiquity as Early Christendom
21 May: AGM & Colloquium on Hadrian
26 April: M. V. Taylor Lecture - Professor Ida Östenberg: Death and Dynasty. Commemorating Gaius and Lucius Caesar
29 March: Being an Islander

23 April: Joint event with the Hellenic Society - Race: Antiquity and its Legacy
9 March: Joint event with the Hellenic Society - Domesticity and Domestic Life

10 November: Online lecture - Dr Guy Bradley: Rome and the sea: rethinking early Roman history from a Mediterranean perspective (video)
10 March: Joint Event with the Hellenic Society - Animals in the Ancient World
28 January: M. V. Taylor Lecture - Professor Mireille Corbier: Fêter les anniversaires à Rome / Celebrating anniversaries in Rome (video)

12 November: Book Launch of Peter Wiseman's The House of Augustus, with Peter Wiseman, Mary Beard, Penny Goodman and Henry Hurst. Generously sponsored by Princeton University Press.
16 October: Homer Today - in aid of the Hellenic & Roman Library and Classics for All
4 June: Professor Ian Haynes and Dr Thea Ravasi: Enriching the soldiers, scorning the rest? New evidence for the impact of Septimius Severus' restoration of Rome (with the British School at Rome)
1 June: AGM & colloquium: Roman Dictators and Dictatorship
5 March: Joint Event with the Hellenic Society: ‘Memorialisation’

13 November: Joan Pye Lecture - Professor Simon Esmonde Cleary: Chedworth: excavations and reimaginings at a Roman villa 1864-2018
6 November: Dr Christopher Whitton: The arts of imitation in Latin prose: Pliny’s Epistles / Quintilian in Brief
2 June: AGM & colloquium: Nero: art, politics, culture
15 May: Professor Simon Keay: Navigating the Harbours and Canals of the Portus Romae: new approaches
24 March: A celebration of the life of Alan Cameron
6 March: The Culture of the Greek Cities in the East
27 February: Professor Roger Bagnall: Papyrology and Ancient History: a changing relationship

12 November: Charlotte Higgins, Boudicea on the Caledonian Road
22 October: The African Frontiers book launch
8 June: AGM & Virgil Colloquium
27 March: Cotswold Archaeology Annual Public Lecture - Professor Ray Laurence: Childhood in Roman Pompeii
12 March: Professor Duncan Kennedy - Does Augustine put his finger on time?
15 January: Professor Werner Eck - Augustus' "Brave new world": Roman Society's reaction to the so-called social legislation

London 2012 Olympics special events
29 November: Joan Pye Lecture - Dr Roger Bland: How coin finds are changing the face of Roman Britain: the contribution of the Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme
13 November: Dr John Creighton - Silchester: Mapping the urban landscape from the 17th to 21st century
16 June: AGM, Olympics lectures & Ancient Sports Family Day at the British Museum
3 April: Oxyrhynchus: the city and its texts
17 January: The M.V. Taylor Lecture - Professor Hannah Cotton: The Necropolis of Jaffa and the intriguing history of the Baron Plato von Ustinov: Hunting for inscriptions

29 November: Professor Barry Cunliffe - The Brading Villa: the story emerges
4 June: AGM & Frontier News: old friends and new discoveries from Vindolanda
15 March: Dr Susan Walker - Rome in Oxford: new galleries at the Ashmolean Museum
18 January: Professor Michael Crawford - Language, Geography and the Roman conquest of Italy

9 November: Professor Roland Mayer - Roman Ruinmindedness
5 June: 2010 AGM
16 March: Dr Josephone Quinn & Professor Andrew Wilson - Rome, Africa and Capitolia
19 January: Professor Kathleen Coleman - A Year in the Roman Empire: The Problem of Hindsight
Special events celebrating the Society's Centenary:
Lectures

10 November: Professor Stephen Harrison - Some Problems in Ovid's Poetic Career

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