C.Moraitis Lecture and Galatis Award Ceremony

The Classics Discipline at the University of Adelaide would like to cordially invite you to the 2024 C. Moraïtis Annual Hellenic Lecture and Galatis Award Ceremony with special guest speaker Professor Julia Kindt, FAHA (Sydney University). The lecture title is: "On birds and bees: How the ancient Greeks and Romans came to shape modern views of what makes us human."

Julia Kindt is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. From 2018-2922 she held an ARC Future Fellowship. The first woman appointed full professor in Classics and Ancient History at Sydney University, she is a historian of ancient Greece with a broad interest in the social, cultural, and intellectual history of the ancient world and a particular expertise in the history of ideas (including religion, historiography, and classical reception studies). She is a contributor to TLS, the Australian Book Review, Meanjin, History Today, the Conversation, among others.

The talk is based on her new book The Trojan Horse and Other Stories. Ten Ancient Creatures that Make Us Human (Cambridge 2024), a study of humankind's relationship with animals. Stephen Fry has described the book as producing "insights ... that are enthralling and profound".

The lecture will be followed by a short prize giving ceremony for high-achieving students (Galatis awards), and an assortment of appetisers to be shared afterwards. 

If you have any further questions regarding this event, please contact the Event Host: han.baltussen@adelaide.edu.au