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CULTURAL SOCIETY
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PAST PROGRAMMES
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BAHCS 2012 PROGRAMME |
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Jan. 18th. 2012 |
Elizabeth Warren. University Of Bristol An habitation of dragons-the rock cut churches of Cappadocia |
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Feb 22nd |
Judith Affleck. Greek Boys. |
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March 21st. |
Ken Wood. Homer's Secret Odyssey or Homer, Master of Time. |
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April 18th. |
Jim Jones. Sabrina: The Roman Occupation of Severnside (POSTPONED (Prof Edith Hall. Kings College London Greek Tragedy and the Black Sea ). |
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May 10th |
Society 25th Anniversary Dinner At Manor Hall, Lower Clifton Hill Guest Speaker Sir Jeremy Morse |
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May. 16th. |
Dr Ioanna Sitaridou Queens College Cambridge) In search of the Last Greek infinitive -- A Story of Survival in the Hinterland of Trebizand. |
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Jun 20th. |
Ian Knowles Elias Icon, Cheltenham Origins of Iconography, Clues from the Holy Land. |
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Oct 17th. |
Mr Antonis Katepodis Counsellor For Economic Affairs: Greek Embassy London Greece and The Financial Crisis What we have done so far and what we may expect in the
future |
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Nov. 14th AGM |
Mr Andrew Thornhill Some Favourite Greek Authors |
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Dec. 8th 2012 |
'Constitutionalism Ancient, Modern, and American'. Professor Paul Rahe, Hillsdale College, Michigan Aegis of Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical
Tradition, Bristol University |
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BAHCS 2011 PROGRAMME |
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Jan. 19th. 2011 |
Dr.Llewelyn Morgan.
BNC. Oxford. What takes a classicist to Afghanistan? |
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Feb 16th |
Professor Helen King.
Reading Univ. Fear of Flute Girls - a Hippocratic Case History and It's Meaning |
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March 16th. |
Ms. Jennifer Woodley.
Filton College Philhellenism or Fraud - The classical tradition in Rome" |
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April 13th. |
Dr Doug Robinson. Bristol Univ. (retd) The Geology of Naxos -200 million years of Greek History |
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May. 18th. Alf & Aglaia Hill Charity Lecture |
Prof Ken Dowden.
Birmingham Univ. Can We Believe In Greek Mythology? |
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Jun 15th. |
James Morewood.
Wadham Oxford Glad to be A(sexual): Sex and Gender in Euripides' Hippolytus |
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Oct. 19th. |
Prof. Eleanor Dickey.
Exeter Univ. Learning Greek In The Roman Empire - New Discoveries About Ancient Textbooks |
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Nov. 16th. AGM |
Dr. Philomen Probert.
Wolfson Oxford. Introduction To Linear B |
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BAHCS 2010 PROGRAMME |
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CANCELLED |
Professor Stephen
Bann. University of Bristol "Little Sparta: Ian Hamilton
Finlay’s garden of neo-classical re-armament" |
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February
10 |
Prof. Peter
Mackridge. Oxford University “Why was there a
language controversy in Greece?" |
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March 17 "Alf
& Aglaia Hill" Charity Lecture. |
Brenda Stones on
Behalf of Gerry Brisch Editor for
Archaeopress of Christopher Wordsworth, Athens and Attica “On tour with
Christopher Wordsworth in Greece 1832/33.” |
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April 21 |
Dr. Matthew
Nicholls. University of Reading "The development
of public libraries in classical times" |
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May 19 |
Dr. Steven
Morewood. University of
Birmingham “The Eden-Dill
Mission & the Fall of Greece, or British
Intervention in Greece in 1915. On the horns of a dilemma!” |
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June 16 |
David Mason. University of
Winchester “Location,
Location, Location. The site of the
Treasury Of Atreus at Mycenae” |
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October
13 |
Dr. Emma Aston University Of
Reading "Friends in
high places: hospitality and ancient Thessaly" |
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November
17 |
Prof Malcolm
Heath. University of Leeds. “Aristotle and
the Biology of Music.” |
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BAHCS
2009 PROGRAMME |
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January
14 |
Professor Vivian
Nutton. University
College London. From Windbag to
World Author: A Hundred Years of Galen. |
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February 11 |
Professor James Pettifer. United Kingdom Defence Academy. Greece and the Contemporary Balkans: Opportunities and
Problems. |
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March 18 Alf & Aglaia Hill Charity Lecture. |
Christopher Somerville. The Golden Step - A walk through the heart of Crete. |
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April 22 |
Professor Timothy Webb Department of English, University of Bristol. The Double Life of Childe
Harold: Byron's Philhellenic Message in the Annotation. |
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May 13 |
Dr Ruth Macrides. University of Birmingham. Ceremonies and the City of Constantinople. |
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June 17 |
Dr T E Rihll. University of Swansea. Ancient Engineering: Simply Brilliant or Brilliantly
Simple. |
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October 14 |
Prof. Marc Lauxtermann. University of Oxford. Byzantine Poetry and the Classical Tradition. |
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November 18 |
Bettany Hughes. Helen of Troy; Goddess, Princess, Whore. |
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BAHCS 2008
PROGRAMME |
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January 16th |
Spiridian Azzopardi |
Journey To Mount Athos |
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February 13th |
Kyriaki Giaxoglou King’s College London |
Maniat Laments in Death Rituals |
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March 19th |
Professor RA Seaford University Of Exeter |
The Invention of Money by the Ancient Greeks: And the Consequences! |
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April 16th |
Professor Mike Edmunds Cardiff University |
Decoding the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism |
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April/May |
Visit To be arranged |
Visit To be arranged |
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May 21st Alf & Aglaia Hill Charity Lecture |
Dr Euridice Georgantelli University Of Birmingham . |
Royal
Encounters: Marriages, Coinage and Politics in the Byzantine World. |
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June 18th |
Dr Nicoletta Momigliano University Of Bristol |
No Sex Pleas We’re Minoan |
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Oct 15th |
Prof Elizabeth Jefferies University Of Oxford |
Homer in Byzantium |
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Nov 19th Society AGM Meeting |
Christopher Somerville |
The Golden Step –A Walk Through The Heart Of Crete |
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BAHCS 2007 PROGRAMME |
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January 17th |
Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith. Diplomat and Author |
Eleftherios Venizelos – and his Times |
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February 14th |
Dr Aidan Dodson, Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol. |
The Graeco-Egyptian World of the Dead |
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March 14th |
Mr Tony Wood, British Sundial Society. |
Greek Sundials – and thereafter |
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April 21st Saturday |
Eurydice ( Vicky) Georganteli Barber Institute |
Visit To Barber Institute Birmingham Travel and Money in the Byzantine World |
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April 25th The Alf & Aglaia Hill Lecture |
Dr K Doulamis, University College, Cork. |
Classical Motifs and Aesthetic Communications in George
Moore’s Aphrodite in Aulis |
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May 16th |
Tim Duff, University of Reading. |
Childhood and Education in Ancient Greek Biography |
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June 13th |
Professor Nicholas Pickwoad, Book Conservator, Camberwell College of Arts. |
Preserving the oldest library in Christendom: the Saint
Catherine's Monastery Library Project on Mount Sinai |
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Oct 17th |
Maria Pretzler, University of Swansea. |
Discovering Greece with Pausanias |
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Nov 14th AGM |
Dr Holley Martlew & Dr Vic Garner, |
"From Bronze Age to Space Age" Archaeology meets science in the Minoan-Mycenaean World |
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