Work in Progress Research Seminar
Please find below the schedule for Term 2 of this year’s Work in Progress seminar series. All talks this term are hybrid, and are hosted in person in Oculus 1.03. All talks will begin at 14:00 (GMT).
For any further information and a link to join the online seminar, please contact the organiser:
Dr Joe Watson: joe.l.watson@warwick.ac.uk
Term 2, 2025-2026:
14th January 2026
Ingo Gildenhard (Cambridge)
‘For God and Country or Poison for the Body Politic? Pietas and the Problematics of a Para-Civic Virtue’.
21st January 2026
Henriette van der Blom (Birmingham)
‘Roman, Italian and Other Foreign Speakers in Valerius Maximus: Hierarchy and Identity’.
28th January 2026
Lilah Grace Canevaro (Edinburgh)
‘William Morris and the Embodiment of Dreams’.
4th February 2026
Dan King (Exeter)
‘Methodist Diagnostics: Framing disease recognition in Soranus and Caelius Aurelianus’.
11th February 2026
Emilio Zuchetti (RHUL)
‘Unceremonial Acts: Lictors, Multitude, and Performative Conflict in the Roman Republic’.
25th February 2026
Mario Telò (Berkeley)
‘Nancy against Lacan: Ovid, Sophocles, Tacita Dean’.
4th March 2026
Chris Whitton (Cambridge)
‘His Master’s Voice? Tacitus (and Cassius) on Dominicide (Ann. 14.42-5)’.
11th March 2026
Theodora Hadjimichael (Birmingham)
‘Travelling Poems in Pindar and Bacchylides’.
18th March 2026
Henry Clarke (Leeds)
‘Foreign or Local? Conceptualising Local Sensitivities towards "Roman" Material Culture in Iberia’.
