UCL/Jagiellonian University Seminar 2018 - 28/06/2018, London (England)

The Departments of Greek and Latin and History at UCL, and the Departments of Classics and Ancient History at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, with the generous support of the A.G. Leventis Foundation, are happy to announce a day of research talks on various topics in Classical studies on 28th June, 2018 (starting at 9:30 AM and ending about 6 PM). The intention of the conference is to showcase the research ongoing in the two departments, and to open avenues of dialogue and research collaboration between our two institutions and more generally between scholars in various disciplines of Classics based in Poland and the United Kingdom.

FECHA /DATE/DATA: 28/06/2018

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Room 347 of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL’s Bloomsbury campus (London, England)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Peter Agócs

INFO: LINK - p.agocs@ucl.ac.uk

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis / free / gratuito [LINK]

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

9:30-10:30 Joanna Janik, ‘Libanius and the Death of Julian (Lib. XVII, XVIII)’.

11:00-12:00 Hans van Wees, ‘The first Greek mercenaries in Egypt: myths and realities’.

1:30-2:30 Rosie Harman, ‘Politics and Form in Xenophon’.

2:30-3:30 Aleksandra Kleczar, ‘Alexander the Great at the End of Time’,

4:00-5:00 Dariusz Piwowarczyk, ‘A computational approach to Latin historical phonology’.

5:00-6:00 Peter Agócs, ‘Sending songs in Pindar and Bacchylides’.