Autumn 2019

Conferences:

• 6th Manchester Roman Army Conference: Living with the Roman Army
• MANCENT conference: Divine Performance: Music, Dance and Prayer in the Ancient World

Ancient Greece and Greek Language

• Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus

Ancient World:

• The Archeology of Jordan
• Ostia – the Harbour of Rome
• The Roman Emperors Septimius Severus and Caracalla
• Roman Britain in the Cinema

Archaeology:

• The Archaeology of the Isle of Man
• A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Derbyshire
• Living on the Edge: The Archaeology of Roman North West England

Art History:

• Painting in the Low Countries – 1600s: The Golden Age

Egyptology:

• Tutankhamun: the King, his Tomb and its Treasure
• From Seth to Satan – Evil in the Ancient Near East

Film Studies:

• Film Day School. Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove.  Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Latin:

• Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Cambriae Book 2 and Itinerarium
• Caesar, De Bello Gallico Book 5 and Pliny’s Letters on Vesuvius

Literature:

• Hopkins the Poet
• Difficult People
• Novel Discussion Group

Medieval History:

• From Henry III to Richard III
• The Plantagenet Kings 1216 -1485

Modern History:

• Adventurers in Archaeology: The Real Indiana Jones
• The Wonder Years: American Music 1900-1950
• Ways of Seeing

Music:

• In Search of Schubert

Theology and Religious Studies

• Reading Mark’s Gospel