Wolfson Arts Society invites you to a Life Drawing Class with Artist Stacey Gledhill (& life model)



Tuesday 30 April 2024 | 6.30PM-8.30PM



Haldane Room, Wolfson College



Please bring your own materials with you, including, paper, pencils, and charcoals.



The class is restricted to members of Wolfson College and there is no cost to attend.



Please register with the Event Manager, on the door of the event.

Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis

Wolfson Arts Society invites you to a Life Drawing Class with Artist Stacey Gledhill (& life model)



Tuesday 14 May 2024 | 6.30PM-8.30PM



Haldane Room, Wolfson College



Please bring your own materials with you, including, paper, pencils, and charcoals.



The class is restricted to members of Wolfson College and there is no cost to attend.



Please register with the Event Manager, on the door of the event.

Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis

Wolfson Arts Society invites you to a Life Drawing Class with Artist Stacey Gledhill (& life model)



Tuesday 14 May 2024 | 6.30PM-8.30PM



Haldane Room, Wolfson College



Please bring your own materials with you, including, paper, pencils, and charcoals.



The class is restricted to members of Wolfson College and there is no cost to attend.



Please register with the Event Manager, on the door of the event.

Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis

Wolfson Arts Society invites you to a Life Drawing Class with Artist Stacey Gledhill (& life model)



Tuesday 28 May 2024 | 6.30PM-8.30PM



Haldane Room, Wolfson College



Please bring your own materials with you, including, paper, pencils, and charcoals.



The class is restricted to members of Wolfson College and there is no cost to attend.



Please register with the Event Manager, on the door of the event.

Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis

The AWRC Maritime Day will include two 20-minute presentations: one by Linda Hulin, who will speak on 'The Practical Mariner Project', which uses landscape archaeology methods to explore the Bronze Age Mediterranean (ca. 1750-1500 BCE) from the point of view of the sailors, and one by Damian Robinson, who will speak on current underwater archaeology research in 'The Central Harbour of Thonis-Heracleion' project. Presentations in the Levett Room (catered with nibbles and soft drinks) will be followed by a punting expedition up the River Cherwell to the Victoria Arms. RSVP Christoph for punt reservations by 20th May ancient.world@wolfson.ox.ac.

Classical literature tells us the story of soldiers coming back from Alexander’s conquest of the Achaemenid Empire carrying a fortune in gold and gems. Examination of coin production and analyses of its metal can teach us more about where the gold of Alexander came from and where it travelled after the conquest.

As a Lunch Table event, members of the Cluster are invited to join Frédérique for lunch in Hall at 12.30. The talk, beginning at 1.15 in the Levett Room, is catered with tea/coffee and cakes (all welcome).

The four speakers in this event each have 5 slides and 5 minutes to talk about aspects of their research, with each talk followed by 15 minutes of conversation. The speakers are: Prerita Govil (Classical Indian Religion/Comparative Philosophy), Joel Bellviure Perez (Classical Archaeology), Ellen Sharman (History/Early Modern Reception), Alessia Zubani (History of Science/Late Antiquity).



The event is catered with wine, soft drinks and nibbles.

The Indo-European language family comprises ten primary branches (Anatolian, Tocharian, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Albanian, Greek, Armenian, and Indo-Iranian). The academic study of these languages together as a group may be said to begin in 1816, and the method of linguistic reconstruction still in use crystallised in the second half of the 19th century. The 20th and early 21st centuries saw the discovery of the Tocharian and Anatolian branches, as well as a number of changes and refinements in theory. What is the situation of these studies today, and where are they (~should they be) going?



As a Lunch Table event, members of the Cluster are invited to join Tim for lunch in Hall at 12.30. The talk, beginning at 1.15 in the Levett Room, is catered with tea/coffee and cakes (all welcome).

The spectacular ‘Main Deposit’ excavated by James Quibell and Frederick Green at Hierakonpolis in 1897–98 included hundreds of fragments of human statuettes carved from hippopotamus and elephant ivory. The cache represents men, women and children in a variety of poses and costumes, ranging from complete examples to the detached heads, arms, legs, feet and bases of many others. Debate continues concerning the date of their manufacture and the reason for their deposition. I will present a new study of the corpus, relating the Hierakonpolis pieces to comparative material from deposits found at other sites across Egypt. I also challenge the standard interpretation of such deposits as discarded temple offerings and propose an alternative explanation of the contexts in which they should be understood.



As a Lunch Table event, members of the Cluster are invited to join Liam for lunch in Hall at 12.30. The talk, beginning at 1.15 in the Levett Room, is catered with tea/coffee and cakes (all welcome).

The AWRC is proud to host a live performance of the Roman tragedy Octavia directed by Cluster member David Wiles. Octavia survived because it was thought to have been written by Seneca. Written a generation or so after Seneca’s death, the play attacks the brutality of Nero. A mixed student and community cast will present a half-hour version of this tragedy, performed in the translation of c.1561. This was a moment when it was no longer safe to perform biblical plays, and people were forced to turn to the classics in search of a new way of making theatre. The translation forges an exuberant rhetorical language in order to create some performative equivalence to the Latin, and the text does not seem to have had an airing in the last 450 years. Just as Nero discarded his first wife, so too did Henry VIII, and the fruit of his love match had come to the throne in 1558, so tackling this play was a bold choice. Nero’s argument for authoritarian rule retains its relevance today.



The performance of Octavia will be organised as one of our 'Lunch Table' events. Cluster members are invited to join David for lunch in Hall at 12.30. The performance, beginning at 1.15, is in the Buttery and will be catered with tea/coffee (all welcome).