Events
Fluid Horizons: Charting Ancient Environmental History and Blue Humanities
Workshop, 7 May 2024, London
Postgraduate Research Showcase
9 May 2024
Swallowgate 11, School of Classics, St Andrews
Programme
12.00 Welcome and introduction to CAES
(Sian Lewis, Jason Konig)
12.15 – 1.00 Spotlight talks
- Stefano Carlo Sala (Classics): “Archaic Past and Augustan Present in Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Depiction of Rome’s Cityscape”.
- Florence Rogers (Classics): “Representations of Fog in Latin Literature”.
- Ronnais Lloyd (Classics): “Sensory Approaches to the Palaeoenvironment in Pompeii”.
- Sally Mubarak (Classics): “Landscapes of Trauma: reevaluating battlescapes in the historiography of the Roman Republic”.
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.15 Spotlight talks
- Max Dyer (Classics): “Winding and Twisted: connections across Mount Helikon”.
- Frances Bickerstaff (Medieval History): “Monasticism on a Maritime Frontier: Paisley Abbey and its landscape context, c. 1150-1300”.
- Gwenffrewi Morgan (Medieval History): “Periodising Environmentally in HighMedieval Past-Writing: time, environment, and agency”.
- Rowan Munnery (Classics): “Stuck in the Middle: the Mediterranean maritime cultural landscape’s Sicilian Divide”.
- Dimitar Krastev (Classics): “The Role of Climate Change in Migration”.
3.15 – 3.30 Coffee break
3.30 – 4.00 CAES research projects overview and future plans
(Andrea Brock, Ruben Post, Sian Lewis)
Enquiries
Please contact Jason König, [email protected] or Sian Lewis, [email protected].
