Past Events Archive
Revisit past events that have shaped our Institute's academic community and international partnerships.An Archaeology of Transition: From Antigonid to Roman Macedonia
Online | May 5, 2026 | 5:00 PM (UK)
Vassilis Evangelidis (Athena Research Centre)
Part of the Antigonid Network: Hellenistic Lecture Series | Lecture Series Website
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Homer Appreciation Day — WIHS Co-Sponsored
Voices of Defiance: Historiography and the "Synchronized" Secession of Bactria and Parthia
Online | April 15, 2026 | 11:00 AM EST
Liu Yujing (MA cand., Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an)
Respondent: Dr. Graham Wrightson (South Dakota State University)
Part of the Seleukid Lecture Series | Lecture Series Website
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Theatricality and Illusion in the Post-Classical World
Online | April 8, 2026 | 17:00–18:30 CET
Dr. Angelos Chaniotis (Institute for Advanced Studies)
Chair: Dr. Manolis Pagkalos (Zhejiang A&F University)
Part of the HelleNET Scholars Talk | Lecture Series Website
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Entering AP 13: Phaedimus’ Herm (AP 13.2)
Online | April 2, 2026 | 18:00–19:30 CET
Dr. Jan Kwaspiz (University of Warsaw)
Chair: Dr. Davide Mossimo (Ghent University)
Part of the HelleNET Scholars Talk | Lecture Series Website
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Kleroi and Kings: A Reassessment of the Seleucid Cleruchy
Online | March 18, 2026
Dr. Talia Prussin (Cornell University)
Respondent: Dr. John Serrati (University of Ottawa)
Part of the Seleukid Lecture Series | Lecture Series Website
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Ancient Athletics (Online) Conference
Online | March 14–15, 2026
Organizers: Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia (King’s College London) and Andrew Farrington
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The City of Pella, Macedonia, under the Antigonids
Online | March 3, 2026 | 5:00 PM (UK)
Nikos Akamatis (Academy of Athens)
Part of the Antigonid Network: Hellenistic Lecture Series | Lecture Series Website
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Hellenistic Families Conference 2026
Online | February 26–27, 2026
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A ‘Canon’ of Hellenistic Geographers?
Online | February 19, 2026
Dmitry A. Shcheglov
Chair: Samantha Sink (Trinity College Dublin)
Part of the HelleNET Scholars Talk | Lecture Series Website
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The Elephant in the Room: The Battle of Ipsus (301 BCE) Revisited
Online | February 11, 2026
Dr. Eran Almagor (Jerusalem)
Respondent: Angus Jacobson MA (University of Tasmania)
Part of the Seleukid Lecture Series | Lecture Series Website
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The Antigonid Empire in Greece
Online | February 3, 2026 | 5:00 PM (UK)
Shane Wallace (editor) and contributors
Forthcoming special issue in Hermathena
Part of the Antigonid Network: Hellenistic Lecture Series | Lecture Series Website
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Agathokles of Syracuse: A Hellenistic Monarch in the Western Mediterranean?
Online | January 23, 2026
Dr. John Serrati
Chair: Dr. Carlo Lualdi
Part of the HelleNET Scholars Talk | Lecture Series Website
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The Maccabees in Cologne: How a Gift of Sweets Led to Erasmus’ Latin Version of 4 Maccabees
Online | January 21, 2026
Prof. Kai Brodersen (Erfurt University)
Respondent: Rabbi Dr. Benjamin Scolnic (Southern Connecticut State University)
Part of the Seleukid Lecture Series | Lecture Series Website
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Seleukid Study Days VIII: The Afterlife of the Seleukids — WIHS Co-Sponsored
Receptions and Reinterpretations from Antiquity to the Present
Utrecht University | November 12th - 15th, 2025
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Alexander’s Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship and Royal Traditions
Online | November 11, 2025 | 5:00 PM (UK)
John Holton (Newcastle)
Discussion of recent publications with Bloomsbury
Part of the Antigonid Network: Hellenistic Lecture Series | Lecture Series Website
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Female Roles in Ancient Foundation Legends — WIHS Co-Sponsored
Workshop Hosted in Collaboration with UW Department of Classical Studies,
the Dragen Lab at St. Jerome's University College, and Epic Threads Journal
University of Waterloo | October 6th, 2025
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Power, Royal Agency, and Elite Women in the Hellenistic and Roman World
Online Conference / Lecture Series
Waterloo | September 2021 – June 2022
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