Conferences – Lectures – Workshops

CLASSICS

2024

15 October 2024  ✦   Lecture "Οἱ ἐν τῷ φανερῷ θάνατοι: ένα πρόβλημα της αριστοτελικής Ποιητικής στη θεατρική διαχρονία του, θεωρητική και πρακτική"  ✦   Speaker: Dr Michail Paschalis (University of Crete)  ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

24 September 2024   ✦   Lecture "Martial on the Porticus Divorum? A Proposal"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Ana Maria Lóio (University of Lisbon)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

23 April 2024   ✦   Lecture "Κατεστραμμένα Όνειρα: Η Καταδικασμένη Ερωτική Σχέση στους Σκυρίους του Ευριπίδη"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Anastasia-Stavroula Valtadorou (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

9 April 2024   ✦   Lecture "Όψεις της διακειμενικότητας στη λογοτεχνική και μη λογοτεχνική παραγωγή της μετακλασικής αρχαιότητας"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Katerina Koroli (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

26 March 2024   ✦   Lecture "Traversing the countryside of the Greek city: three itineraries"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Hans Beck (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

12 March 2024   ✦   Lecture "From mythology to history: new approaches to Roman religion"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Charles Guittard (Université Paris-Nanterre)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

13 February 2024   ✦   Lecture "Κραδίη δέ οἱ ἔνδον ὑλάκτει: Οδυσσέας και σκυλιά στην Οδύσσεια"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Flora Manakidou (Democritus University of Thrace)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

6 February 2024   ✦   Lecture "Nero in Corinth"   ✦   Speaker: Prof. Tassilo Schmitt (University of Bremen)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

2023

7-8 December 2023   ✦   Seminars "Places and τόποι: Geography and Encomium in Statius’ Silvae"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Antonino Pittà (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)   ✦   Organised in the context of the MSCA research project «Literary Reflections on Geography, Politics, and Propaganda in Neronian and Flavian Poetry», funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant agreement No 101034403 / University of Cyprus – “Onisilos Cofund” Fellowship programme 

28 November 2023   ✦   Lecture "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: ἐλπίζω, νομίζω and δοκέω in Herodotus"   ✦   Speaker: Dr. Luuk Huitink (University of Amsterdam)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

24 October 2023   ✦   Lecture "Corinna’s singing mountains (PMG 654): why Ϝελικών?"   ✦   Speaker: Assistant Professor Alexander Nikolaev (University of Cyprus)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

10 October 2023   ✦   Lecture "The Agrippina plots: history and intratext in Tacitus Annals 14"   ✦   Speaker: Professor Chris Whitton (University of Cambridge)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

19 September 2023   ✦   Lecture "Numberplays in Latin Poetry: Between Iconicity and Allusion"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Adalberto Magnavacca (Université de Genève, Boursier d’excellence de la Confédération Suisse)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

29 June 2023   ✦   Lecture "Lyric, Tragedy and History in Horace Odes 2.1"   ✦   Speaker: Professor Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford)

2 June 2023   ✦   International workshop "Constructing Space in Greek and Latin Epistolography"   ✦   Organised by Assistant Professor Margot Neger

6 April 2023   ✦   Lecture "Civil War, Lucan, and Trauma in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica"   ✦   Speaker: Associate Professor Mark Heerink (University of Amsterdam)

4 April 2023   ✦   Lecture "On the Psychogram of the Tyrant in Plato"   ✦   Speaker: Christoph Riedweg (Universität Zürich)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

21 March 2023   ✦   Lecture "Ένα ανέκδοτο πτολεμαϊκό αρχείο από την παπυρολογική συλλογή της Κολωνίας"   ✦   Speaker: Charikleia Armoni (University of Cologne)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

17-19 March 2023   ✦   International conference "Greek and Latin carmina minora in Context"   ✦   Organised by Assistant Professor Margot Neger and Dr Chiara Di Serio

21 February 2023   ✦   Lecture "Le débat sur la loi Oppia (Tite-Live XXXIV, 1-8,3): les femmes, le luxe et la loi"   ✦   Speaker: Michèle Ducos (La Sorbonne, Université de Paris)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

7 February 2023   ✦   Lecture "Sinon and Cicero: Deceptive Oratory and Anti-Ciceronian Propaganda in Vergil and Late Rhetorical Tradition"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Giuseppe La Bua (Sapienza University Rome)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

24 January 2023   ✦   Lecture "Ικεσία και νόμος στην Αρχαία Ελληνική τραγωδία"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Edward Harris (University of Durham)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

2022

25 November 2022   ✦   Lecture "Ἄρχει μὲν ἀγών / τῶν καλλίστων […]: Some Remarks on the Insertion of Greek Poems in The Caesars of Julian the Apostate"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Boris Hogenmüller (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt / Karl-Rehbein-Gymnasium Hanau)  ✦   Organised in the context of the research programme “Shorter Poems in Prose Contexts: From the Roman Republic to Late Antiquity”

22 October 2022   ✦   International workshop "In utraque disciplina satis institutus auctor: Mixing Prose and Verse in Late Antique Literature"   ✦   Organised by Assistant Professor Margot Neger

18 October 2022   ✦   Lecture "Inscriptions of Libya: philological encoding, object biography and digital standards for historical epigraphy"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Gabriel Bodard (Institute of Classical Studies / Digital Humanities Research Hub University of London)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

27-28 August 2022   ✦   International conference "The Art of Reconciliation in Classical Antiquity"   ✦   Organised in the context of 'Onisilos' funding scheme by postdoctoral researcher Dr Gabriel Evangelou and Associate Professor Spyridon Tzounakas

4 June 2022  ✦  International online conference "Fragmentary Hesiodic Epic"  ✦  Organised in context of the programme "MELAMPODIA: INTRODUCTION, TEXT AND COMMENTARY" of the University of Cyprus by postdoctoral researcher Dr Irini Kyriakou

23-27 May 2022  ✦   International workshop "Digital Humanities Introductory Workshop"  ✦  Organised in the context of the programme HIPPONAX (POST-DOC/0718/0119), funded by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation and hosted by the University of Cyprus, Department of Classics and Philosophy. Programme Coordinator: Professor Georgios A. Xenis; and the research project MedCyprus: A Digital Corpus of Painted Greek Inscriptions from Medieval Cyprus (10th–13th centuries AD), funded by the University of Cyprus and implemented by the Department of History and Archaeology and the Archaeological Research Unit (UCY). Project Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Maria Parani.

9 April 2022   ✦   International workshop "Νarrative Strategies, Intertextuality and Generic Innovations in Late Antique Literature"   ✦   Organised by Assistant Professor Margot Neger

2021

9 November 2021   ✦   Lecture "Commemorating Men of Letters in Late Antique Gaul: The letters of Sidonius Apollinaris on Claudianus Mamertus and the rhetor Lampridius (Ep. 4.11 and 8.11)"   ✦   Speaker: Margot Neger (Assistant Professor, University of Cyprus)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

26 October 2021   ✦   Lecture "Η αρπαγή της Ευρώπης: από τον Ηρόδοτο, τον Αισχύλο και τον Μόσχο έως τα Διονυσιακά του Νόννου"   ✦  Speaker: Michael Paschalis (Emeritus Professor, University of Crete)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

12 October 2021   ✦   Lecture "Φόβος και μνήμες πολέμου στα Καρχηδονιακά του Σιλίου Ιταλικού"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Angeliki-Nektaria Roumpou (Department of Classics and Philosophy, Teaching Special Scientist)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

24 - 25 September 2021   ✦   International online conference "The Bible in Hexameters: Poeticizing Scripture in early Christian East and West"   ✦   Organised in the context of the programme "Studies in the Greek Bible Epic" (EXCELLENCE/1216/0400) of the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation by Associate Professor Maria Ypsilanti

2 - 4 September 2021   ✦   International online conference  "Constructing Gender in the Comic Mode"    ✦   Organised in the context of the programme  IAMBICA (OPPORTUNITY/0916/MSCA/0009) of the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation by postdoctoral researcher Dr Margarita Alexandrou (University of Cyprus) and Associate Professor Antonis Petrides (Open University of Cyprus)   ✦   You can watch the lectures of the conference here

18 May 2021   ✦   Online lecture "Interpreting the theology of Orphism through Orphic texts"   ✦   Speaker: Dr Anthi Chrysanthou (University of Leeds)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

20 April 2021   ✦   Online lecture "Αριστοφανικά ίχνη στον Καρυωτάκη"     ✦   Speaker: Dr Dimitrios Kanellakis (Research collaborator, University of Oxford)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

13  April 2021   ✦   Online lecture  "The Epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus (AP 8):  Form, Content and Themes between Paganism and Christianity"   ✦  Speaker: Dr Federica Scicolone (Research collaborator, University of Cyprus)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

6  April 2021   ✦   Online lecture "Η ρητορική της ποιητικής στη Μετάφρασιν τοῦ Ψαλτῆρος: παρατηρήσεις στις παραφραστικές τεχνικές του Ψευδο-Απολλιναρίου"   ✦ Speaker: Dr Constantinos Melidis (research collaborator on the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation's programme "Studies in Greek Bible Epic", University of Cyprus)   ✦   Organised in the context of the Classics Colloquium of the Department

26 - 27 February 2021   ✦   International online conference  "The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture"   ✦   Organised in the context of the identically titled programme of the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation (EXCELLENCE/1216/0525) by Associate Professor Spyridon Tzounakas and postdoctoral researcher Dr Stella Alekou