Work in Progress Research Seminar

Please find below the schedule for Term 1 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 (BST or, from 27/10/2025, 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 1, 2025-2026:

Week 1 (8/10/2025)

Harry Tanner (Independent)

‘Homophobia in the Ancient World?’

This talk will be hosted on Teams, with no in-person component

Week 2 (15/10/2025)

Judith Mossman (Warwick)

‘“If I Could Talk to the Animals…”: Plutarch, Animal Speech and Human Nature’

Week 3 (22/10/2025)

Alison Cooley (Warwick)

‘Resurrecting a 'Ghost Inscription' from the Colosseum’

Week 4 (29/10/2025)

Marco Settecase (KCL / Parma)

‘Towards a New Critical Edition of Aelius Aristides’ Sacred Tales: State of the Art and Methodological Issues’

Week 5 (5/11/2025)

Rose Su (Warwick)

‘An Oedipus Sarcophagus Lid from the Pancratii Tomb: Iconography and Context’

Week 7 (19/11/2025)

Alison Sharrock (Manchester)

‘Thinking like a Plant? Vegetative Consciousness in Ovid’s Metamorphoses’

Week 8 (26/11/2025)

Carlos Enríquez de Salamanca (Warwick)

‘Understanding the Funerary Self-representation of the Auxiliary Cavalrymen in Germania through Social Practice Theory’

Week 9 (3/12/2025)

Richard Alston (RHUL)

‘Isis Cult and the Birth of Empire’

Week 10 (10/12/2025)

Zhian Zhang (Warwick)

‘Fibres and Fabrics in Sophocles' Trachiniae’