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Spring-Summer Programme 2020

Please note (except where specified) all meetings will take place in
The Cork Educational Support Centre (opposite the main gates of UCC)
                                
February
Date:Monday, 3rd at 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr. David Woods, Dept of Classics, UCC
Title: "Commodus, Coins and an Ovidian Surprise"

March
Date: Monday 2nd at 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr. John Curran, School of History, QUB
Title: "Was Judea Rome's Northern Ireland"
This lecture is provided with the kind assistance of Dept of Classics, UCC

Date: Tuesday 24th at 7.30pm Lecture in O'Rahilly Building - Room 1.45 UCC
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Davies, Maynooth University
Title: "Josephus, the Historian"

Date: Monday 30th at 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr. Crystal Addey, Dept of Classics, UCC
Title: "Female Philosophers in the Platonic Tadition"

May
Date: Monday 11th at 7.30pm
Speaker:  Members’ Papers, a diverse set of talks from branch members


Autumn-Winter Programme 2019

Please note (except where specified) all meetings will take place in
The Cork Educational Support Centre (opposite the main gates of UCC)

October
Date: Monday, 7th at 7.30pm
Speaker: Rebecca Usherwood (Dept of Classics, TCD)
Title:  'How to retire if you are a Roman Emperor'
(This lecture is provided with the kind support of the Department of Classcs, UCC)

November
Date: Monday, 4th at 7.30pm
Speaker: John Ware (School of History, UCC)
Title: ‘Legio Patria Nostra’

December
Date: Monday, 2nd at 7.30pm
Speaker: Jeroen Wijnendaele (University of Ghent, Belgium)
Title:  'Political Murder in the Late Roman Empire'
(This lecture is provided with the kind support of the Department of Classcs, UCC)

Spring-Summer Programme 2019

Please note (except where specified) all meetings will take place in
The Cork Educational Support Centre (opposite the main gates of UCC)
                                
January
Date:Tuesday, 29th at 7pm Lecture in O'Rahilly Building - Room 2.02 UCC
Speaker: Prof. Clare Rowan, University of Warwick
Title: "Token Images of the Julio-Claudians"

February
Date: Monday 4th at 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr Meredith Cutrer, Dept of History, UCD
Title: "From Secular to Sacred: The transformation of the Peregrinus from Agustus to Agustine"
This lecture is provided with the kind assistance of Dept of Classics, UCC

March
Date: Monday 4th at 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Farrell, Dept of Classics, UCD
Title: "Democract and Athenian Imperialism."
This lecture is provided with the kind assistance of Dept of Classics, UCC

April
Date: Monday 1st at 7.30pm
Speaker: Tom Seaver, CAI Limerick, President of the Classical Association
Title: "A Century of Classics in Ireland (1908-2018)"
This lecture is provided with the kind assistance of Dept of Classics, UCC
                                   
May
Date: Monday 6th at 7.30pm
Speaker:  Members’ Papers, an eclectic mix of short papers from branch members

Autumn-Winter Programme 2018

Please note (except where specified) all meetings will take place in
The Cork Educational Support Centre (opposite the main gates of UCC)

October
Date: Monday, 1st at 7.30pm
Speaker: Stephen Boyd (Dept of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, UCC)
Title:  'The Feast of Bacchus' based on Velázquez's painting

November
Date: Monday, 5th at 7.30pm
Speaker: David Woods (Department of Classics, UCC)
Title: ‘The Emperor Gallienus, the Young Jupiter, and some alleged gender-bending!’

December
Date: Monday, 3rd at 7.30pm
Speaker: Patrick Ryan (CAI, Limerick)
Title:  'Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto' (‘I am human, I consider nothing human alien to me.’) The Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer

Spring-Summer Programme 2018

Please note (except where specified) all meetings will take place in
The Cork Educational Support Centre (opposite the main gates of UCC)

January
Date:Tuesday, 23rd at 7pm Lecture in O'Rahilly Building - Room 2.02 UCC
Speaker: Dr Thomas Kontges
Title: "Platonic Thoughts and Ideas in the Latin Literature of Late Antiquity: A Digital Approach"
                                     
February
Date: Monday 5th at 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr Joop van Waarden
Title: "We are our brains: How Mamertus invented the Rogations, or did he?"
This lecture is provided courtesy of Dept of Classics, UCC

Date: Tuesday 6th at 7pm Lecture in O'Rahilly Building - Room 2.02 UCC
Speaker: Dr Joop Van Waarden
Title:  "’You’ and ‘I’ in the Letters of Sidonius Apollinaris: A Case for Pragmatic Linguistics."

March
Date: Monday 5th at 7.30pm
Speaker: Carmel McCallum-Barry, President of the Classical Association
Title: "Women in Classics: Some landmark achievements from the renaissance to the 20 th Century."

April
Date: Monday 9th at 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr Stephan Faust, Department of Classics, UCC
Title: "Fun with Achilles: Late Roman perspectives on the life of a Greek hero."
                                   
May
Date: Monday 14th at 7.30pm
Speaker:  Members’ Papers, an eclectic mix of short papers from branch members

Autumn-Winter Programme 2017

Please note (except where specified) all meetings will take place in
The Cork Educational Support Centre (opposite the main gates of UCC)

October
Date: Monday, 2nd at 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr Daragh O'Connell (Dept. of Italian, UCC)
Title: ‘Virgilian Hauntings: Dante and Heaney, Reading Aenid VI’

Date: Monday, 9th at 7pm
Speaker: Prof. Andrew Burnett (formerly British Museum)
Venue: Boole Lecture Theatre 2, Main Campus
Title: ‘Coinage and Regional Identity in the Roman Empire’

Date: Monday, 23rd at 7pm
Speaker: Dr. Fraser Hunter (National Museum of Scotland)
Venue: Westwing 5
Title: ‘From Roman pay-offs to Pictish treasures: the lives of Roman liver beyond the northern frontiers’

November
Date: Tuesday, 14th at 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Cassidy
Venue: O'Rahilly Building, Room 2.02
Title: ‘From Roman pay-offs to Pictish treasures: the lives of Roman liver beyond the northern frontiers’

Date: Monday, 6th at 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr Michael Williams (Dept of Ancient Classics, Maynooth University)
(This lecture is provided with the kind support of the Dept. of Classics, UCC)
Title: ‘The representation of gender in Argonautica’

December
Date: Monday, 4th at 7.30pm
Speaker: Mr John Ware (Dept. of History, UCC)
Title: ‘Hero and Hoplite: the Evolution of Warfare in the Greek World’


Spring-Summer Programme 2017

Some lectures are held in conjunction with Dept. of Classics, UCC
Those marked with ** are held in UCC

January
UCC Lecture **
Date: Tuesday, 17th at 7pm
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Dawson (QUB)
Title: 'The contribution of the Archive of Celtic Latin Literature to a study of the Patrician text in the Book of Armagh'
This lecture takes place in G27 (CACSSS Seminar Room) ground floor O'Rahilly Building, UCC

UCC Lecture **
Date: Monday, 30th at 7pm **
Speaker: Dr. Kerry Phelan (Maynooth)
Title: 'Athenian Women'
This lecture takes place in G20 Kane Building, UCC

February
Date: Tuesday, 7th **
Speaker: Dr. Alexandra Guglielmi (Dept of Archaeology, UCD)
Title: ‘In the shadow of the Empire? Ireland, Rome and beyond’
This lecture takes place at 7.30pm in Room 2.02 O'Rahilly Building, UCC

UCC Lecture **
Date: Monday, 20th
Speaker: Dr. Richard Flower (University of Exeter)
Title: t.b.c.

March
Date: Monday, 6th
Speaker: Dr. Damien Bracken (Dept. of Histiry, UCC)
Title: 'Ireland's place in the Roman world: Columbanus and the rhetoric of concordia'

April
Date: Monday, 3rd
Speaker: Dr. Jo Day (Dept. of Classics, UCD)
Title: 'Cilician mists and Illyrian oils: crocus and iris in antiquity'

May
Date: Monday, 5th
Speaker: Members’ Papers
Title: Diverse range of topics


Autumn-Winter Programme 2016

September
Date: Monday, 24th
Conference: (to be held in association with CAI Cork Branch at UCC)
Title: ‘Seamus Heaney and the Virgilian Tradition’
Further details to follow

October
Date: Monday, 3rd
Speaker: Dr Jason Harris (Dept of History, UCC)
Title: ‘Getting down and dirty with the Romans: how to be crude in Renaissance Latin’

November
Date: Monday, 7nd
Speaker: Dr Catherine Ware (School of Classics, UCC)
Title: ‘Condemned to the arena: a literary theme’

December
Date: Monday, 5th
Speaker: Dr Michael Hanaghan (School of Classics, UCC)
Title: ‘The epistolary narratives of Sidonius Apollinaris’


Spring-Summer Programme 2016

February
Date: Monday, 1st
Speaker: Dr Maeve O'Brien (Dept of Classics, NUI)
Title: ‘Roman Women: Matrons or Rebels’

March
Date: Tuesday, 7th
Presidential Lecture 'The Jewel in the Crown: The Royal Library of Alexandria'
Speaker: Prof. John Madden, Professor Emeritus, NUI Galway
Prof. Madden is the current Honorary President of the CAI
(This lecture is provided with the kind support of the Department of Classics, UCC)

April
Date: Monday, 4th
Speaker: Dr Catherine Ware (Dept of Classics, UCC)
Title: 'Condemned to the arena: a literary theme'

May
Date: Monday, 9th
Speaker: Members’ Papers
Title: A selection of short topics on diverse themes

Autumn-Winter Programme 2015

October
Date: Monday, 5th
Speaker: Dr Jennifer O'Reilly (Dept of Art History, UCC)
Title: ‘Images of Jerusalem in Late Antiquity and their influence’ (Illustrated)

November
Date: Monday, 2nd
Speaker: Dr Alan Ross (School of Classics, UCD)
Title: ‘Praising the emperor: panegyric in the Late Roman Empire’
(This lecture is provided with the kind supportof the Department of Classics, UCC)

December
Date: Monday, 7th
Speaker: Dr Daniele Miano, School of Classics, UCD
Title: ‘Maker of Kings? Fortuna in Archaic Rome’
(This lecture is provided with the kind support of the Department of Classics, UCC)

Spring-Summer Programme 2015

February
Date: Monday, 2nd
Speaker: Dr Jeroen Wijnendaele (Dept of Classics, UCC)
Title: ‘Rome has fallen. Why should we care?’ - Approaching the fall of the Roman Empire in the 21st century

March
Date: Tuesday, 3rd
Please note change of venue and day for March lecture
Speaker: Colman O Clabaigh OSB, Glenstal Abbey
Title: ‘Monks and their books in late medieval Ireland: with reference to recently re-discovered 14th century copy of Aristotle's On the Nature of Animals and other texts from St Mary's Cistercian Abbey, Dublin’

April
Date: Monday, 13th
Speaker: Dr Maire Geaney
Title: 'Things you may not have known about carpentry in Roman Britain and Ireland'

May
Date: Monday, 11th
Speaker: Members’ Papers
Title: A diverse range of ten-minute papers given by five branch members on topics of their choice

Autumn-Winter Programme 2014

October
Date: Monday, 6th
Speaker: Dr Diarmuid Scully (Dept of History, UCC)
Title: ‘The Roman Empire: a model for Gerald of Wales on the medieval English conquest of Ireland’

November
Date: Monday, 3rd
Speaker: Tony O’Sullivan
Title: ‘Travels in Roman Istria - from the Golden Fleece to the Amber Road and beyond’

December
Date: Monday, 1st
Speaker: Patrick Ryan MA
Title: ‘"erant qui metu mortis mortem precarentur". The collections from Pompeii and Herculaneum in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples’

Spring-Summer Programme 2014

February
Date: Monday, 3rd
Speaker: Dr Jason Harris (Dept of History, UCC)
Title: ‘The Present State of Spoken Latin’

March
Date: Monday, 3rd
Speaker: Dr Selga Medenieks (Dept of Classics, TCD)
Title: ‘Conquest and the Gods: empire-building and the (mis)use of religion in ancient Anatolia’

April
Date: Monday, 7th
Speaker: Dr Nicolette Pavlides (Dept of Classics, UCC)
Title: 'Encountering the hero in Archaic and Classical Sparta'

May
Date: Monday, 12th
Speaker: Members’ Papers
Title: A diverse range of ten-minute papers given by five branch members on topics of their choice


Autumn-Winter Programme 2013

October
Date: Monday, 7th October
Speaker: Sean Murphy (UCC)
Title: ‘The story of Alexander the Great, Part II'

November
Date: Monday, 4th November
Speaker: Jennifer O’Donoghue (CAI)
Title: ‘Caesarea, exploring Herod’s Coastal Port’ illustrated lecture

December
Date: Monday, 2nd December
Speaker: Dr David Woods (Dept of Classics UCC)
Title: ‘The Often Puzzling Coinage of the ‘British’ Emperor Carausius (286-93AD)’




Autumn-Winter Programme, Michaelmas Term 2012

October
Date: Monday, 1st October
Speaker: Sean Murphy (UCC)
Title: ‘The Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle’

November
Date: Monday, 5th November
Speaker: John Barry (UCC)