The MANCENT conferences are a series of conferences that start of the academic year. The topic range over all the topics studied in MANCENT and are organised by our lecturers with additional external speakers. Depending on the topic they are organised in cooperation with external projects and groups that have an interest in the topic.
Upcoming events
Our Programme
- Spring 2026
- From Roman Britain to the Early Middle Ages: Britain in Europe and the Mediterranean
- Rome and its Enemies – Decline
- Castra Legionis – Rome’s planted cities
- SILKROAD STUDIES: WHEN DOES IT ALL START? The beginnings of long-distance trade in the Middle East
- Catastrophe III: The (other) year without summer – The ‘volcanic winter’ of 536AD.
- The city of Rome between antiquity and the sack of Rome, part II: 1000-1527
- Avignon – the Papal Home in France
- Novel Discussion Group 2025/6
- Mornings with a Masterpiece: Elgar Emerges: Pictures, a Dream and an Enigma
- Jeremiah 1-20
- From Here to Eternity: Concepts of Death and the Afterlife
- Ancient World
- World Archaeology
- Art History
- History other than Ancient History
- Latin
- Literature
- Music
- Religion and Theology
- Past courses (recordings still available)
- The MANCENT conferences
- 7th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: The Roman Army – what survives?
- 6th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: Living with the Roman Army
- 5th Roman MANCENT Conference: The Roman army and Mining in Scotland and elsewhere
- 2017 MANCENT conference: Rivers, Harbours and the Roman Army
- Producing for the Legion or Production by the Legion?
- Roman Gask Project lecture 2020 -Thousand years in Glenesk, the changing life of a Scottish glen.
- The MANCENT blog
- 31 Dec 2024: Welcome to a new year and the festival of Janus
- Blog 30 Sept 24: Why talk about the Silkroad in China?
- Mornings with a Masterpiece: Comparing Notes
- Mornings with a Masterpiece: Haydn’s String Quartets
- Roman villas in Gaul and Germany: the homes of the invaders and fashion victims?
- What has a German writer to do with the Grand Tour
- Roman Britain on screen
- MANCENT blog: A Chinese Garden in North Staffordshire
- Why talk about Silkroad in the Indian Ocean?
- Thinking about Religion in Roman Britain
- MANCENT 2023 Programme now out
- Why study Greek and Roman Myths by Tony Keen
- Today we are 12 years old!
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- Event Calendar January to April 2025
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