Classics in Our Lunctimes: Series 3
The third series of Classics in Our Lunchtimes talks continues on the last Thursday of the month during October half term with Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games, before turning to matters as diverse as the location of Atlantis, the washing, pressing and dry-cleaning of ancient textiles, Roman legionary standards, Starwars and Iris Murdoch. The full programme is as follows:
31st October 2013: Eleanor OKell Classical Names as a key to Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy
28th November 2013: Malcolm Heath (Mis)Locating Atlantis: between reason and unreason
30th January 2014: Cary MacMahon Forgotten Fragments of “Monstrous Gay Garments”: a biography of two late antique textiles in Leeds’ Museums
27th February 2014: Roger Brock Drinking Responsibly: nights out at Greek symposia
27th March 2014: Ben Greet Roman Eagles, On-Screen Flights of Fancy
24th April 2014: Edmund Stewart Visualising Drama in the Ancient and Modern World
29th May 2014: Bev Scott Ancient Epic Fights Back: George Lucas as rhapsode
26th June 2014: Penny Goodman 2000 years of Augustus: the world view
31st July 2014: tbc
28th August 2014: Owen Hodkinson The influence of the Platonic Epistles on Iris Murdoch’s philosophy and fiction
25th September 2014: tbc
The poster for talks from September 2013 to Februaray 2014 can be downloaded as a pdf poster.