• Research in the Department
• Departmental Research Events
• Dabis Lecture and other special events
• Research Students day

The Classics Department is committed to research of international significance across a vast range of disciplinary areas and periods. We provide staff and students with a collegial and multi-discplinary research environment and are part of the London Classics community based around the Institute of Classical Studies.

• Institute of Classical Studies
• Postgraduate research opportunities
• Royal Holloway Graduate School

Research in the Department

Staff have a wide range of research activities, reflecting our varied interests. Inevitably the post-graduate community study topics which reflect the interests of members of staff. These interests are discussed on staff pages. We have certain "clusters" which represent areas in which several members of staff have interests and research groups which have had specific funded, or partially funded projects. These include:

• Ancient Rhetoric (Prof. Powell, Dr. Rubinstein, Dr. Kremmydas)
• Literary Theory, Ancient and Modern (Dr. Sheppard, Dr. Hawley, Prof. Kahane, Dr Spentzou)
• Reception and the Classical Tradition (Prof. Hall, Prof. Kahane, Dr Lowe, Dr Spentzou )
• Roman and Byzantine Military (Prof. Alston, Prof. Rankov)
• Greek Drama (Prof. Hall, Dr. Hawley, Dr. Lowe)
• Greek Religion, Greek Music (Dr. Kowalzig)

Research groups that have had been recipients of recent funding include:

• Laurentine Shore Project (in progress)
• Kalavria Research Project (in progress)
• Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome (CRGR)

Within the context of University of London we contribute to the research culture in innumerable areas. There are particularly strong concentrations of interest in

• Ancient Philosophy
• Greek Law
• Egypt in the Greek and Roman periods
• Archaeology and history of Italy
• Byzantine studies

 

Departmental Research Events

The Department holds a variety of research-related events. Events may be in collaboration with other organisations or held within the Department. In addition to special events such as this term's HARC seminar series, we also hold as part of our normal activities:

• Dabis lecture
• Inaugural Lecture
• Departmental seminar
• Research Students day
• MA research day

Dabis Lecture

Dabis Lecture 2009 new date: Monday 9th November 2009

Dr Margaret Reynolds (Broadcaster and Reader at QMUL): "'George Eliot and the Classics"

Symopsis: 2009 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of *Adam Bede*, the first novel by George Eliot, who studied at Bedford College. This lecture addresses the inspiration which she found in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, especially Greek tragedy.

Departmental Research Seminar

The Departmental research seminar operates with a mix of invited outside speakers and Departmental members. The programme of lectures for the Autumn Term of 2009 is as follows:

- Tuesday 6th October Amanda Claridge (RHUL) ‘The House of Augustus’

- Tuesday 13th October Jo Strong (RHUL) ‘Cicero and Catullus: Rome or Home?

- Tuesday 20th October Edith Hall (RHUL) ‘Dream houses: domestic architecture in the ancient oneirocritical tradition’

 

- Tuesday 17th November Ahuvia Kahane (RHUL ‘Homeric houses: the oikos as a place of danger'

 

- Tuesday 1st December Shelley Hales (Bristol) Living with Arria Marcella: Novel Interiors in the Maison Pompéienne’

 

- Tuesday 8th December Janett Morgan (RHUL) – title t.b.c.

All lectures take place at 6pm in the Management Building (Room 03).

 

Special events

The Annual Hellenic Institute Lecture 2009: Thursday 25th March 2010 NEW

Baroness Greenfield will give the Ninth Annual Hellenic Institute Lecture on “The Greek Mind and the Modern World”, or alternatively “The Greek Mind in the Modern World”. Further information to follow.

 

Research Students Day

This is an opportunity for students to present their work in front of fellow students and staff. Details about the next Research Students Day to follow.

 

MA Research day

We also hold an annual research day for current MA students, which allows students to give short presentations to fellow students and staff on material from their MA dissertations in progress. Details about this year's MA Research day will be announced in the Spring Term.