The Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies welcomes the foremost German Latinist, Professor Therese Fuhrer to Kent, as a Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH) Visiting Expert.
Professor Therese Fuhrer, visiting from Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich), will be in Canterbury from 19 to 22 November 2014. On November 20 she will deliver a lecture, as part of the department’s research seminar series, entitled ‘Carthage – Rome – Milan: Places of Transition in Augustine’s Confessions’.
This lecture will form the inaugural event for the newly founded Centre of Early Christianity and Its Reception and is the first part of a themed day entitled ‘Celebrating Ancient Cities: Their Intellectual and Material Heritage’. A second event this day will see Dr Luke Lavan from the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies present a public lecture on ‘Visualising the Late Antique City: Ostia, Port of Rome as Seen by St Augustine’.
On November 21 Professor Fuhrer will visit the King’s School, Canterbury, with Professor Karla Pollmann, Head of the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies, for a public engagement event with advanced pupils studying classical civilisation and Latin literature, on the topic Augustus, Carthage, and Vergil’s Aeneid.
Finally, on November 22, Professor Fuhrer will conduct a masterclass for MA and PhD students from the Department, giving them the opportunity for individual exchange and networking.
For details of the events this week, see:
www.kent.ac.uk/secl/classics/events