Professor Lucy Grig is Professor of the History of Late Antiquity at the University of Edinburgh. Her research takes in both literary and material culture from across the Mediterranean world (for instance, having published on poetry and glassware, sermons and paintings) and her monograph ‘Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400-550’ (Cambridge University Press, 2024), looked at the transformation of popular culture in its social and economic context with a particular focus on the city of Arles and its surrounding region.
Lucy will present on “Not so hidden transcripts: protest and its literature in the ancient world” at 5.30pm on Friday 11 July.
Dr Emily Hauser (University of Exeter) will take part in a Q&A session with the CA’s Katrina Kelly at 6.15pm on Friday 11 July. Emily is a lecturer in Classics and Ancient History with research interests in authorship and gender in antiquity, classical reception in contemporary women’s writing and women in Homeric epic, the subject of her latest book Mythica:
A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It.
Professor Stephen Halliwell is an Emeritus Professor at the University of St Andrews, where he was Professor of Greek (1995-2014) and later Wardlaw Professor of Classics (2014-2020). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2011 and of the British Academy in 2014. Stephen has translated Aristotle’s Poetics twice and the complete plays of Aristophanes for Oxford World’s Classics (3 vols, 1997-2024), whilst his own work has been translated into nine languages. The CA Honorary President for 2024-25, he will deliver his Presidential Address at 5pm on Saturday 12 July, on “Plato versus Homer: a fault-line in Greek culture?“.