Past events:

RIA colloquium "Sport and

Festival in the Ancient World"

17-18 November 2011
 

Thursday 17 November

18:00–19:15 Public lecture:
Professor Christopher Carey, University College London
Selling Victory: Sport, Poetry and Politics in Classical Greece

19:15–20:00 Reception

Friday 18 November

9:30–10:45 Dr Amanda Kelly, NUI Galway
Sculptural Misperceptions at Olympia

10:45–11:15 Coffee

11.15–12:30 Dr Alan Peatfield, University College Dublin
Sport and the Ritualisation of Combat in the Ancient World

12:30–14:00 Lunch

14:00–15:15 Professor Robert Maltby, University of Leeds
Two Country Festivals in Tibullus (c. 2.1 and 2.5)

15:15-15:45 Tea

15:45–17:00Dr Hazel Dodge, Trinity College Dublin
Blood and Sand: Sacred Games in the Roman World

Registration Fees:

Public Lecture on Thursday 17 November: Free
Colloquium: 20 (full fee): €10 (student/unwaged)

Download registration form here

Postgraduate Conference Belfast, 25-26 March 2011

The School of History and Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast hostied the inaugural Postgraduate Student Conference convened by the Royal Irish Academy’s Committee for Classical and Near Eastern Studies on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 March in Belfast.

Postgraduate students from Ireland, Europe and the USA delivered papers on a broad range of subjects of literary, cultural and historical interest.

Download programme here
Download abstracts here

Professor Hannah Cotton of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was the keynote speaker.