Events in Ireland

Upcoming Events 2010

PUBLIC LECTURE Dr Alexandra Karetsou Popular Cult and Power: The Function of the Juktas Peak Sanctuary in Protopalatial and Neopalatial Crete Friday February 26th 2010 at 7.30 pm Synge Lecture Theatre (2039), Arts Building Trinity College Dublin Sponsored by: Trinity College Dublin: Long Room Hub; Department of Classics & Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies University College Dublin: School of Archaeology Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens Part of an IRCHSS-funded research project

Recent Events

War and Death: New Perspectives on Armed Combat and Mortality from Ancient to Modern Times University College Dublin 28th August 2009 Call for papers: deadline for abstracts, July 28th 2009 Further details and programme here Poster here Sponsored by: UCD Graduate School of Arts and Celtic Studies Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens UCD Classical Society , UCD Archaeological Society

 

IIHSA Day School May 9th 2009		Information and bookings: Dept of Classics, Trinity College Dublin;   Dublin 2, Ireland. Email: cmorris@tcd.ie or ryanw1@tcd.ie Poster and further details here Booking form here
John Dillon	Man and the Sea in Homer's Odyssey
Emma Saunders	Picturing the Sea: Marine Imagery in the Aegean Bronze Age
Christine Morris	Denizens of the deep: the sea in Greek myth and religion
Philip de Souza	War, Trade and Piracy
Jo Day	A pretty kettle of fish:Eating seafood in the ancient Mediterranean
Amanda Kelly	Fine Wines afloat in the Mediterranean: Trade, status and inebriation

 

IIHSA Lecture Dr Barry Molloy (Co-Director of the Priniatikos Pyrgos excavation; School of Archaeology, University College Dublin) Five thousand years of human settlement in East Crete: the Priniatikos Pyrgos excavations Friday November 28th 2008, 7.30 pm, Theatre M, Newman Building, University College Dublin All welcome

 

Launch of The Lure of Greece (eds. J.V. Luce, Christine Morris, Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood) by Professor John Dillon on May 23rd 2008 at 6.30 pm, Department of Classics seminar room (B6.002), Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

PREVIOUS LECTURES IN DUBLIN

Dr Andreas Sotiriou
(35th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Kefalonia)
Classical and Hellenistic Kefalonia:
the evolution of four major city-states
March 6th 2008, University College Dublin

Professor Margaret Mullett (Director, Institute for Byzantine Studies, Queen's University Belfast)
A Twelfth Century Renaissance in Byzantium
IIHSA Inaugural, Trinity College Dublin December 2006

Professor John Dillon (Director of the IIHSA; Trinity College Dublin)
An Alexandrian Quartet: Callimachus, Philo, Origen and Cavafy
June 9th 2005

Dr Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood (University College Dublin)
Walking Back in Time. The Kephalonia Project 2003
May 25th 2004

Professor John Killen (University of Cambridge)
New light on an old problem: Michael Ventris, Linear B and the Pylos furniture tablets
IIHSA Inaugural, Trinity College Dublin April 2003

Dr. Marika Zeimbekis
Nurturing the Natural: A goddess in the sacred landscape of the Theran frescoes
IIHSA Inaugural, Trinity College Dublin and also in University College Cork, May 2002

Dr. Metaxia Tsipopoulou
Petras Siteia: A palatial centre in East Crete
IIHSA Inaugural, Trinity College Dublin November 2000

Prof. Brian Arkins (NUI Galway)
"Mahaffy: Classicist and Philhellene" IIHSA Inaugural, NUI Dublin October 1999

Previous Conferences and Day Schools

Ancient Gardens Day School
University College Dublin, Saturday April 21st 2007

IIHSA Galway Conference 2003
Irish Involvement in Greek Culture, Literature, History and Politics
National University of Ireland, Galway , September 19th-21st 2003

Day School on the World of the Ancient Olympic Games
February 15th 2003
Click here to see pictures of the recreation of the pankration.

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