Current Lectures
2012
(08-09 Dec) 'Humour and women at work: did women paint Greek vases? Comparative evidence with a traditional Moroccan ceramic workshop'. Umeå University, Sweden, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS): Conference on humour and gender | web | pdf (23 Feb) 'Women, humour and the male gaze in 5th century B.C. Athens'. The Reform Club, London, The Thackeray Society | web (26-27 Jan) 'Vases grecs et humour graphique: comment signer son oeuvre. Le cas du pottier Nikosthénès'. Université Toulouse II Le Mirail, France, Colloque international : Textes et images | web | pdf Past Lectures
2011
(5-6 Sept) 'Disparate bodies in ancient artefacts: the function of caricature and pathological grotesques among Roman terracotta figurines'. University of Antwerpen, Belgium, Disparate Bodies "A Capite ad Calcem" in Ancient Rome | pdf
(10 May) 'Démocratie et imagerie populaire: la réception de personnages de l'époque Gréco-romaine, d'oeuvres d'art classiques et de personnages mythologiques dans les caricatures de journaux du 19ème siècle à nos jours'. Université de Fribourg, Fac. de Lettres, Switzerland. | pdf
(09 May) 'Caricature et physiognomonie antiques'. 6 lectures. Cours-bloc, Journée doctorale Edocsa/Callisto. Université de Fribourg, Faculté de Lettres, Switzerland. | web | pdf
(15 February) ‘Visual Caricature and Parody: towards a Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Carnival at the Kabirion Sanctuary (5th–4th centuries BC) in Central Greece’. Brussels, Université Libre de Bruxelles, International Seminars, Pottery in ancient Societies: contexts and uses, CReA-Patrimoine. | web | pdf
2010
(18-20 June) 'Democracy and popular media: classical receptions in 19th and 20th centuries political cartoons: statesmen, mythological figures and celebrated artworks'. Milton Keynes, The Open University, UK. Conference on Classics in the Modern World – a Democratic Turn? An International Research Collaboration. Convened the Panel on Democracy and Popular Media. | web | pdf
(19-22 May) ‘Grotesque terracotta in the Greco-Roman world: the role of caricature in visual humour, of theatrical masks in the realm of Comedy and of portraits of deformity in ancient medical centres’. Parma, 50th National Congress of the SNO (Società dei Neurologi, Neurochirurghi e Neuroradiologi Ospedalieri). Historical Pannel "Art or Neurology?". | Full Program | web | pdf
(19/04/2010) ‘Gender archaeology: comic iconography of women and the male gaze in 5th century B.C. Athens’, Brussels, International Study Group, 1640 Rhode St. Genèse, Brussels. | web | pdf
2009
(3-6 April) Humour as a tool of social cohesion: images of foreigners in ancient Athens'. Glasgow. Classical Association and Classical Association of Scotland 2009. | web | pdf
(13 March). ‘Gender archaeology: comic iconography of women and the male gaze in 5th century B.C. Athens’, Histories of Humour and Laughter Workshop. Cambridge, Newnham College. | web
2008
(04 December) 'Variety and Function in Greek Sculpture'. Sovereign Education Ltd, London, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square.
8 lectures The material culture of ancient & modern democracies. The M. Ragazzi Lectures, 12 Arlie Gardens, London.
2007
(19 November) ‘Hercules comicus: a case study in the politics of natural justice, from Greek temples to San Marco in Venice’. Oxford University Archaeological Society (OUAS)
‘Sacred Landscapes: from the Delphic Omphalos to the Umbilicus Orbis on the Roman Forum’, M. Ragazzi Seminars, 12 Arlie Gardens, London.
(22 February) ‘Visual Caricature and Parody: towards a Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Carnival at the Kabirion Sanctuary (5th–4th centuries BC) in Central Greece’, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. Seminar on Ancient Parody.
2006
(21 March) ‘The Archaeology of Humour: a case study’,, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Complex and Literature Societies Seminar Series.
(21 February) ‘A reconstruction of Greek Carnival at the Kabirion sanctuary in ancient Boeotia’, Bakhtin Research centre, University of Sheffield. | web
2005
(10 January) ‘Victory Monuments in Ancient Rome, An archaeological approach to the Power of Images’, Archaeological Survey of India, Bhopal, India.
2004
(2 December) ‘Athens: Art and archaeology in the 5th century B.C.’, Department of Classics, University of Reading.
(20-22 February) ‘www.beazley.ox.ac.uk’, French School of Athens, International Conference on the current state of scientific publications, Athens. | review | web
2003
27 March) ‘La parodie mythologique dans la peinture de vases attique’, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
(28 March) ‘Les canthares du Cabirion thébain: déformations corporelles, caricature et problèmes de style’, University of Fribourg, Switzerland: Symposium sur le corps et ses différences.
2002
(14 February) ‘Satyrs and mythological parody in Greek vase-painting’, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Greek Archaeology Seminar. | web
2001
(13 June) ‘Afghanistan’s stolen and desecrated archaeological heritage’, Jointly with Prof. Z. Tarzi, International Conference on the Obliteration of the National Heritage of Afghanistan, S.O.A.S., London. | web
2000
(02 April) ‘L’humour des Grecs, Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Strasbourg. | web
1997
(11 March) ‘La représentation de la Comédie Ancienne et du drame satyrique dans la peinture de vases’. Colloque sur la Comédie Antique, organised by Paris IV, E.N.S., University of Strasbourg II.