Lectures and Seminars

Classical Association of South Australia

On Monday 24 August, the Classical Association SA, University of Adelaide will present the 2nd CASA lecture 2009.

This will be the inaugural Henry Darnley Naylor Memorial Lecture, and we are delighted that Associate Professor Peter Davies (Emeritus, University of Tasmania, Visiting Research Fellow at Adelaide) will get the series underway with his paper: 'Censorship: Ovid and free speech in Augustine's Rome'

• Date/Time: Monday 24 August 2009, 8:00pm (doors open at 7:30pm)
• Venue: Council Room, Level 7, Wills Building, North Terrace Campus
• For further information, contact Han Baltussen, Hughes 717, University of Adelaide.

Background to the Lecture Series:

The Henry Darnley Naylor Memorial Lecture series has been created after the Centenary celebrations of CASA in 2008 with a view to honouring its founder, Prof Henry Darnley Naylor (1872 - 1945). He migrated from the UK to Melbourne in 1895, and held a teaching position at the university there before coming to Adelaide in 1907. He became the fifth Hughes Professor in Classics and was one of the most distinguished of the eight incumbents from 1874 to 1992. The founder of the Classical Association, he held the Hughes Chair until 1927, when he retired early to promote the work of the League of Nations.

The Hughes Chair of Classics was a foundation chair of the University, made possible by the benefaction of Sir Walter Watson Hughes.Please see the Classical Association website for information about how to join, and for details of recent lectures.

Friends of the Museum of Classical Archaeology

International speakers give public lectures on Classical or Near Eastern Archaeology throughout the year, with an emphasis on the second half of the academic year. Membership subscription supports this important outreach programme, and also contributes to the Museum of Classical Archaeology, the only one of its kind in South Australia. See the Museum website for more details about the Museum collection as well as how to join this charitable association. Recent talks include:

• Pompeii's Last Years Speaker: Prof. J.-P. Descoeudres (University of Geneva). Time: Friday 15th August, 7pm.
• Images and Ritual in Ancient Greece Speaker: Prof. Francois Lissarague (Centre Lois Gernet, Paris). Time: Monday 1st September, 7pm.

Each year the Classics Discipline host public events and evening lectures on a wide range of topics dealing with the Mediterranean world in antiquity. We regularly hold two sets of talks, which are advertised to members.

Complete the membership form, and deliver, with susbcription fee, to:

The Friends of the Museum of Classical Archaeology,
Classics DX 650 114
The University of Adelaide
South Australia 5005

Classics Outreach Activities

In addition, we are involved in a variety of events with the wider community. These include Greek Cultural Month, and the Festival Hellenika (see below), as well as the South Australian chapter of the Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens. We are proud to host the Annual Galatis Lecture on Byzantine culture or history.

We also welcome interested people to sit in our our courses through the Community Access Programme. If you are planning to visit Italy, Greece, Turkey or the Near East, you might find one of our archaeology courses a good way to familiarise yourself with some of the key periods and sites. If you want to develop further your interest in ancient belief systems, myths, science, technology, communication, political or social history, there will be a course for you in Classics!

Festival Hellenika 2009

Papers presented earlier this year include:

• John Ward, The Antikythera Mechanism: Its Discovery and Functionality
• Dr Margaret O'Hea, Ancient Greeks beyond Greece: The Role of Greek Settlements in the History of Glass