Guest Lecturers
Schedule for Autumn 2008
October 19 - 26: David Taylor
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David Taylor is a highly experienced classical teacher, scholar and writer, having been Head of Classics at Watford Grammar School before becoming one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools. He has written six widely-read books on classical subjects and is currently editor of the influential Duckworth series ‘Classical Literature and Society’, with an important new book on Pausanias: Travel Writing in Ancient Greece. Until recently he was Consultant Secretary for the Joint Association of Classical Teachers. He was Staff Inspector of classics and became Head of Teacher Training and Director of Inspections at Ofsted before leaving to become a freelance international consultant. He has advised governments throughout Europe and in America, Australia and Asia. His extensive travel throughout Greece and Italy has included leading study tours for teachers with the British Schools of Athens and Rome, visiting many sites and giving lectures on a variety of classical subjects, including his special interests of Greek and Roman theatre (on which he has published ‘Acting and the Stage’ and ‘The Greek and Roman Stage’) and the social and political history of Greece and Rome. He recently lectured at an international conference in Venice on teaching classical literature.
October 26 - November 2: James Watson
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James is an ancient historian with a particular interest in Greece during the Archaic and Classical periods. As a research student at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he is currently completing his doctoral thesis (an investigation of the cultural changes that affected the Greek world in the late sixth and early fifth centuries BC). In his work, James seeks to answer historical questions by using archaeological and art historical evidence alongside literary and documentary texts. Topics of special interest to him include the commemoration of battles and the use and development of Greek sanctuaries; his study of the Sanctuary of Aphaia on the island of Aegina will form a chapter of an edited volume forthcoming from Oxford University Press. In addition to his research, James teaches undergraduates at Cambridge and has participated in archaeological fieldwork in the UK and Italy. James has also studied at the British School at Athens and is interested in the history and culture of modern Greece as well as its ancient counterpart. Away from his work, James enjoys travelling and then writing about those travels. He is a keen follower of different forms of motorsport, and also enjoys a variety of television programmes as well as finding out about the history of more recent times.
November 2 - 9: Heinrich Hall
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Heinrich Hall graduated from University College Dublin with a B.A. in Classics and Archaeology in 1996 and a research-based Masters in 1999. He is currently completing a PhD thesis about European Prehistory at the same institution. Heinrich has been an active field archaeologist since he was 16 years old; he has worked in various capacities, from excavator via fieldwalker, photographer and trench supervisor to pottery specialist, on projects in Germany, Ireland, France and especially Greece, where he is active since 1997 (mostly in Crete). His love for and knowledge of Greece go back to childhood holidays; his first visit to the country was in 1978! In 2001-2002, he worked as a temporary lecturer in Greek Archaeology and Prehistory at Trinity College Dublin, in 2002-2003 he was the receipient of the British School at Athens's Macmillan studentship. From 2005-2008 Heinrich has been the Assistant Director of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens. His current research focus is the 4th millennium BC.
Heinrich has published a number of academic articles and co-edited a conference volume. He speaks English, German, French and Modern Greek.
Schedule for Spring 2009
March 28 - April 4: Nigel Spivey
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Nigel Spivey Is Senior Lecturer in Classical art and archaeology at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow of Emmanuel College. Among his publications are Understanding Greek Sculpture, Greek Art, Enduring Creation, The Ancient Olympics, How Art Made The World; and latterly Songs on Bronze (2005) - a retelling of the Greek myths. He has contributed to a number of television documentaries in Britain and the US: his credits as individual presenter include the five-part BBC2/PBS series about the origins of art, How Art Made The World, which has been broadcast around the world; and an investigation of New Testament archaeology, Digging for Jesus (ITV).