[Usyd_Classics_Events] Reminder: Honours Presentation Day, Semester 1, 2025, May 9

[Ben Brown]

Dear All,
A quick reminder that you are cordially invited to a series of presentations by our currently Honours students in Classics and Ancient History. Please see below for the schedule of proceedings. The event will take place in the Kevin Lee Room (A14 H6.04) tomorrow (Friday May 9th) from 10am. Please reply to this email if you have any questions.
All best, Ben

SOFH4001 Presentations (10am-11.20am): 15 minutes each

James Wheate (LING)
“From Food to Sound - How Diet Shapes our Speech”
Amelia Sara (ANHS)
“Comparative history in Ancient History”
Athena Liang (ANHS)
“Changing Perceptions of ancient historiography”
Ainsley McBurnie (ANHS)
“Goddesses, Whores, Wives, Slaves”
Rod Studdert (ANHS)
“Hayden White - Metahistory and the Philosophy of History”

MORNING TEA (11.20am-11.50pm)

Honours Thesis Pitches (11.50-12.50pm): 10 minutes each (incl. Q&A)

Athena Liang (ANHS)
"Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars: Deaths, Endings, and the Principate".
Ainsley McBurnie (ANHS)
TBA
Rod Studdert (ANHS)
“The World of Peter Brown's Late Antiquity”
Ben Goldman (LATN)
“A Time for Delay, a Time for Speed: Memory, Heroes, and Power in Imperial Historical Epic”
Elsa Tonkinwise (LATN)
“Decentring the Human in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura”
Taxiarchus Wierum (GRKA/ARCO)
“Voces Magicae: Speaking Objects and Material Religion in Ancient Greece”

Short break (12.50pm-1.10pm)

Final Thesis Presentations (1.10pm-1.45pm): 20 minutes each (incl. Q&A)

Amelia Sara (ANHS)
"Writing Rebellion: A Comparative Study of Rebel Self-Representation in Ancient Judaea and Contemporary Biafra."
Jules Vahl (LATN)
“The Wound and The Word: Tracing Trauma in Rutilius Namatianus’ De Reditu Suo and Sidonius Apollinaris’ Epistulae.”


DR BEN BROWN
Senior Lecturer, Classics and Ancient History
Co-director Critical Antiquities Network<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/GFIjCNLJyQUjPO1qvsmfZfyVN02?domain=criticalantiquities.org>
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY NSW 2006
Ph.: 9351 8983; Office: Main Quad J6.07
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Aux approches de la soixantaine, on n’est pas toujours plus sage qu’à vingtans — Marc Bloch

Es eine Ungerechtigkeit ist, daß damit auch die Männer keine Erwähnung finden, welche sich dadurch, daß sie sich auf Lehre und Erziehung beschränkten, gar nicht selten ein sehr viel höheres Verdienst erwarben, als mancher, der ein Scherflein zur Wissenschaft beitrug — U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf

Recent Scherflein: “Remains of the Day: Unfreedom in Ancient Greece” Philosophy, Politics and Critique 1.2, 2024, 165–184.
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From: Ben Brown <benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au>
Date: Monday, 5 May 2025 at 2:41 pm
To: _ARTS SOH Academics <_ARTSSOHAcademics at mcs.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: Honours Presentation Day, Semester 1, 2025, May 9
Dear All,
You are cordially invited to a series of presentations by our currently Honours students in Classics and Ancient History. Please find attached the schedule of proceedings. The event will take place in the Kevin Lee Room (A14 H6.04) this coming Friday (May 9th) from 10am. Please reply to this email if you have any questions.
Best, Ben

DR BEN BROWN
Senior Lecturer, Classics and Ancient History
Co-director Critical Antiquities Network<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/GFIjCNLJyQUjPO1qvsmfZfyVN02?domain=criticalantiquities.org/>
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY NSW 2006
Ph.: 9351 8983; Office: Main Quad J6.07
E benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au<mailto:benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au> | W http://sydney.edu.au/arts/classics_ancient_history/staff/profiles/benjamin.brown.php

Aux approches de la soixantaine, on n’est pas toujours plus sage qu’à vingtans — Marc Bloch

Es eine Ungerechtigkeit ist, daß damit auch die Männer keine Erwähnung finden, welche sich dadurch, daß sie sich auf Lehre und Erziehung beschränkten, gar nicht selten ein sehr viel höheres Verdienst erwarben, als mancher, der ein Scherflein zur Wissenschaft beitrug — U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf

Recent Scherflein: “Remains of the Day: Unfreedom in Ancient Greece” Philosophy, Politics and Critique 1.2, 2024, 165–184.
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