Past events

Events sponsored by the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies:
  • “Trees and the anthropocene in Greek and Roman antiquity”

    Workshop, 15 September 2023

    Hybrid event: in person in School II, St Salvator’s quad, St Andrews, and online via MS Teams

    Programme and selected recorded talks

    09.15 – 09.30: Introduction

    09.30 – 10.15: Emma Bentley: ‘Dionysus Dendritês: Wood and Carpentry in Greek Tragedy

    10.15 – 11:00: Kresimir Vukovic: ‘Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome: Resilience, Deforestation, Interpretations

    11:00 – 11.30: Coffee

    11.30 – 12.15: Andrew Fox: ‘The Death Grove at the Heart of Seneca’s Thyestes

    12.15 – 13.00: Leila Williamson: ‘Strawberry-tree solastalgia: following the arbutus in Vergil, Rutilius, and Ennodius

    13.00 – 14.00: Lunch

    14.00 – 14.45: Emily Kneebone: ‘Deforestation in imperial Greek epic

    14.45 – 15.30: Matthew Westermayer: Intervention and Mixture: Grafted Trees and Baptismal Practice on Mt. Nebo

    16.15 – 17.45: Edith Hall: ‘Achilles in green: reading the Iliad in the 21st century
    (Annual lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies)

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    “Uninvited guests, unexpected passengers: Insects and past environments in the Eastern Mediterranean”

    Research seminar, 3 November 2023
    Speaker: Eva Panagiotakopulu


  • “Godscapes: Ritual, Belief and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond”

    Conference, 27 June – 1 July 2023, St Andrews

    Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions and the School of Classics, St. Andrews

    View program (pdf)


    New Approaches to the History of Plague in Late Antiquity

    Workshop: Friday 3 February 2023
    School 2, St Salvator’s Quad, University of St Andrews

    Hosted by the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies and the Centre for Late Antique Studies

    This was a hybrid event.


    “Platonic Zoology”

    Research seminar, Friday 14 October, 4pm (online)
    Speaker: Dimitri El-Murr


    “Quintus’ Abject Monuments”

    Research seminar, Friday 18 November, 4pm (online)
    Speaker: William Brockliss



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