Lectures and Colloquia

Hilary Term Lecture
The Centre hosts the following lecture: Yannis Assael (Google DeepMind), ‘Predicting the past with deep neural networks’.

“Work in Progress” colloquium
The Centre hosts the following two talks: Giulia Colli (Pisa), ‘Interpolations in Greek Tragedy’; Enrico Prodi (UCL), ‘Commentary by excerpts: Didymus’ .

Michaelmas Term Lecture
The Centre hosts the following lecture: Mykola Tarasenko (Kyiv/Trinity College, Oxford): ‘What Can the “Greenfield Papyrus” (pLondon BM EA 10554) Tell Us about Its Owner?’

“Work in Progress” colloquium
The Centre hosts the following two talks: Benedetta Bessi (Venice/Stanford): ‘Towards a Digital Edition of the Liber insularum by Cristoforo Buondelmonti’; Joseph Mason (New College, Oxford): ‘Oral and Written Transmission in Old French Song: a reassessment’.

Second lunchtime colloquium, TT22
Our two speakers are: Giulia Dovico (Classics, Cologne), ‘Scholia on Euripides’ Medea. Remarks on the two main corpora’ and Celeste Pan (Jewish Studies, Balliol) ‘The Targumic Tosefta on Genesis 44:18. A Material History’.

“Work in progress” lunchtime colloquium
The Centre will host two online talks: “Ancient Slavery from the Perspective of the Papyri. New documents from Oxyrhynchus” by Amin Benaissa and “Liminal Landscapes: Childbirth and the Uncanny in Old Norse Literature” by Katherine Olley.