Lectures

Upcoming Lectures List

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Smithsonian Lecture - online
 

Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire

Wednesday, ​February 11, 2026 - ​12:00 p.m. ​to 1:15 p.m. ET
Sign up here

 

I am looking forward to teaching at Roundtable by the 92 Street Y  This is a 4 session online series called Myth vs. Reality: Carthage, A New History starting March 18th -- you can find the information and sign up for the course through this link below.

 

Myth vs. Reality: Carthage, A New History

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Past Lectures

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Ancient Carthage: Archaeology and Memory at British Museum Members Day event - Carthage: Legend and Legacy. Hosted by Kings College London, Nov. 29th, 2025
 

The London Podcast Festival Live Event (September 5, 2025)
 

British Institute of Persian Studies Lecture, London 
24th of September 
 

Department of Classics Research Seminar, Edinburgh
Nov. 12th
 

Sacred and Profane – The Dariali Fort in the Landscape of the North Caucasus:  invited paper at conference on Places of Faith – Place of Memory – Sacral Topography in the Pre-Modern Caucasus, University of Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Oct. 3-5, 2024)

 

Warrior Women of the Ancient World – U3A Association

 

Mary Jaharis Sponsored Panel at Byzantine Studies Association of North America
 

Intersecting Sexes: Byzantine, Sasanian and Eurasian masculinity, Vancouver Oct. 2023

 

All the Shahanshah’s Wives: Women at the Sasanian Court at the International Medieval Conference (IMC), Leeds, July, 2023

 

Telling Tales: Constructing Sasanian History in the Landscape, Pourdavoud Centre for the Study of Iran, UCLA, invited lecture, March 3rd, 2023

 

Shirin in Context: A powerful woman at the end of Antiquity: Melammu Project Workshop, Kassel, Germany (Jan. 2019)