January 2019

Ashley Foster (University of Notre Dame): “Assent to this System”: The interplay of the eternal supernatural and Eighteenth-Century natural within the Reformed Scottish self.

Event date: 
Thursday 28 February 2019

Thursday 28 Feb

5.15pm, Room G. 14, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Ashley Foster (University of Notre Dame): “Assent to this System”: The interplay of the eternal supernatural and Eighteenth-Century natural within the Reformed Scottish self.

[Scottish History seminars]

Ian Gow (University of Edinburgh): The Scottish sinologist and missionary scholar Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Translation and knowledge transfer in science and technology to and from 1850s China.

Event date: 
Thursday 31 January 2019

Thursday 31 Jan

5.15pm, Room G. 14, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Ian Gow (University of Edinburgh): The Scottish sinologist and missionary scholar Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Translation and knowledge transfer in science and technology to and from 1850s China.

[Scottish History seminars]

Kristoffel Demoen (University of Gent): The Greek Anthology and the short-lived revival of classicizing epigrams in 10th century Constantinople.

Event date: 
Wednesday 1 May 2019 to Thursday 2 May 2019
Location: 
Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Wednesday 1 May         

5pm, Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Kristoffel Demoen (University of Gent): The Greek Anthology and the short-lived revival of classicizing epigrams in 10th century Constantinople.

[Classics seminars]

Giulia Sagliardi: Si veterum certamina rite recordor. Claudian's memory of the past in Bellum Geticum; Mark Huggins: John Chrysostom’s Catechetical Homily on Pascha (CPG 4605): A case study in approaching the question(s) of Byzantine pseudepigrapha.

Event date: 
Wednesday 24 April 2019 to Thursday 25 April 2019
Location: 
Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Wednesday 24 Apr         

5pm, Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Postgraduate session. Giulia Sagliardi: Si veterum certamina rite recordor. Claudian's memory of the past in Bellum Geticum; Mark Huggins: John Chrysostom’s Catechetical Homily on Pascha (CPG 4605): A case study in approaching the question(s) of Byzantine pseudepigrapha.

[Classics seminars]

Tassilo Schmitt (University of Bremen): Old wine in new skins, or can we learn anything from recent debates about the Neronian persecution?

Event date: 
Wednesday 17 April 2019 to Thursday 18 April 2019
Location: 
Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Wednesday 17 Apr         

5pm, Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Tassilo Schmitt (University of Bremen): Old wine in new skins, or can we learn anything from recent debates about the Neronian persecution?

[Classics seminars]