The Classics Department’s 2023 Dabis Lecture will be delivered by Professor Elena Isayev (Exeter University) and is entitled, 'The Value of a Body out of Place in the Ancient World’ (5:30pm, 11th May).
An image of Prof. Isayev’s last book, 'Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy'
An important event in March is the Classics Department’s Dabis Lecture on the 11th of May at 17:30 (Windsor Lecture Theatre) and will be delivered by Professor Elena Isayev (Exeter University). In the lecture, Prof. Isayev will consider the experience of people in different states of liminality (ransom, exile, asylum) and their role in articulating inter- and intracommunity relationships and the space between civil rights and human rights. The Lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. Please put the date in your diaries! All are welcome and admission is free, but booking is essential. Please RSVP by Wednesday 3rd May.
The Dabis Lecture is held in honour of Thérèse Dabis, Classics lecturer (1887-99), and celebrates her contributions to Classics at Royal Holloway. As a very brief introduction, Dabis emigrated from Germany to study Classics at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, before taking up a post at Royal Holloway. In 1895, she published a paper on "the position of women in the English University" and was described by a colleague as "the humanest of those who expound the humanities". She even donated several Classical texts to the Royal Holloway library.
