Diary

Location: Old Library

Wednesday 6 May (Trinity Week 2) at 5.15pm in the Hall, All Souls College

This open evening is an opportunity for students belonging to gender and ethnic groups that remain underrepresented within academic careers, including women, to learn more about the Fellowship.
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Speaker: Professor Dominic Goodall

Location: Old Library, All Souls College

Location: Hovenden Room, All Souls College

Politics I: Inheritance and Society
• Middlemarch, Book 3
• (Optional) Poon, ‘Inheritance and Succession in George Eliot’s Late Fiction’

The historicist tone of Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-2) has been commented on by readers from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith. This reading group seeks to explore the historical richness found in Eliot's study of provincial life.

Tea and biscuits provided! 

Location: Wharton Room

The third lecture examines socio-political transformations in Iron Age Anatolia. It takes the case of Gurgum (modern-day Kahramanmaraş), exceptionally documented by a series of local inscriptions, as a representative microcosm for a broader analysis. The inscriptional evidence left by local political leaders illuminates not only the peculiar path to rulership walked by Gurgum’s ruling dynasty, but, most importantly, the changing and manifold nature of political leadership in Iron Age Anatolia as a whole. Key aspects include the rise of…

Speaker: Professor Dominic Goodall

Location: Old Library, All Souls College

Location: Hovenden Room, All Souls College

Science and Progress
• Middlemarch, Book 4
• (Optional) Knoepflmacher, Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel, pp. 27-44

The historicist tone of Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-2) has been commented on by readers from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith. This reading group seeks to explore the historical richness found in Eliot's study of provincial life.

Tea and biscuits provided! 

Location: Old Library

Location: Old Library

The fifth, and final, lecture brings together the conclusions reached in the previous lectures of the series. It draws a big-picture interpretation of political development in the three selected regions based on common features observed across the three case studies, casting light on shared structural factors that underpinned socio-political transformations in Greece, Anatolia, and the Levant during the Iron Age. Detected common features span from the social profiles of the new political actors to the fluidity of socio-political hierarchies, and include…