Above: A Work-in-Progress Riddle by Edward A. S. Ross.
Last Updated: March 2024
This work-in-progress seminar series is organized by postgraduates at the University of Reading in the Classics and History departments. Seminars are held every second Thursday from 5 – 6 PM during the academic year. If you are interested in attending or presenting, please send an email to e.a.s.ross@pgr.reading.ac.uk.
2023-2024 Series
Organizing Committee: Graham Moore, Edward A. S. Ross, Abbie Tibbott
Autumn Term 2023
October 12, 2023
“One Nation under Cod: pirates, fisheries, and seafaring labour in the early seventeenth century”
Graham Moore (History, PhD)
October 26, 2023
“Blurred Lines: Asylums, workhouses and stigma in the 1920s”
Abbie Tibbott (History, PhD)
November 9, 2023
“Indifference and Obsession: An Examination of Andromache’s Familial Relationships in Seneca’s Troades“
Ellie Goddard (Classics, PhD)
November 23, 2023
“Female striking tenants’ use of theatricality during the 1939 municipal rent strikes in Britain”
Fiona Lane (History, PhD)
December 7, 2023
“Socialist-feminism and conceptualising the workplace”
Amy Longmuir (History, PhD)
Spring Term 2024
January 25, 2024
“Women and the Cluniac Monastic Houses in England”
Caroline Johnson (History, PhD)
February 8, 2024
“‛Pro Anima Mea’ – Pathways through Purgatory – Religious Networks of Late Medieval London Artisans”
Julia Birt (History, PhD)
February 22, 2024
“Estates of the Knights Templar in South-West England: Patronage, property and political machination”
Oliver Lewis (History, PhD)
March 7, 2024
“Post-Antique Engraved Gems in Medieval Britain”
Adél Ternovácz (Classics and Archaeology, PhD)
March 21, 2024
“From Western Shores: Irish Migrants in Early Medieval Oxfordshire”
Summer Courts (Classics, PhD)
Summer Term 2024
April 18, 2024
“Kings, Hyparchs & Satraps: The Limits of Achaemenid Control in the Indus Valley”
Daniel Bartle (Classics, PhD)
May 2, 2024
“The King of All Sacred Animals: The Apis Bulls of Memphis from Psammetichus I (664–610 BCE) to Julian the Apostate (361–363 CE)”
Nenad Marković (Classics, PhD)
May 16, 2024
“The Starry-Eyed Goddess: Ištar’s astral aspect in Old Babylonian poetry”
Tom Patel (Classics, PhD)
May 30, 2024
“The Land of the Translators: Locating the Western Regions in Shi Huijiao’s Biographies of Eminent Monks”
Edward A. S. Ross (Classics, PhD)
2022-2023 Series
Organizing Committee: Graham Moore, Edward A. S. Ross, Abbie Tibbott
February 23, 2023
“Active or Passive? An outline of citizenship in 1920s Britain”
Abbie Tibbott (History, PhD)
March 9, 2023
“‘Once We Were Mortals’: An Exploration of How Greek Religion and Myth Influenced Nordic Legends”
Harry Aboud (Classics, MA)
March 23, 2023
Research Sharing Workshop
Attendance to this event is restricted to students.
April 20, 2023
“The Homeric Angle: Fishing’s Poetic Potential in the Iliad and the Odyssey”
Beren-Dain Delbrooke-Jones (Classics, PhD)
May 4, 2023
“Murder, Mutilation, or Mistake?: The Case of the Lowbury Lady”
Summer Courts (Classics, PhD)
May 18, 2023
“The Age of Migration and Its Legacies: A study of Medievalisms, Public perception, and the Challenges of Heritage Interpretation”
Seongmee Yoon (Classics, PhD)
June 1, 2023
“Pirates of the Thames: crime and community in early modern London”
Graham Moore (History, PhD)
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