Lecture to explore portrayal of Roman Women in Silent Cinema

The thirteenth annual Dorothy Buchan Memorial Lecture will be delivered by world-renowned Professor Maria Wyke (pictured) of University College London on Tuesday 29 October.

The lecture, ‘Virtue and vice, entertainment and uplift: Roman Women in Silent Cinema’, will explore how Roman women were portrayed in early films, dating from before ‘talkies’ – films incorporating spoken dialogue - emerged in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

A globally-recognised scholar of ancient gender and its representation in a range of media, Professor Maria Wyke is actively engaged in studying the way cultures, and our perceptions of them, move, shift, and interact over time.

• Press release

The free public lecture will take place on Tuesday 29 October at 5.30 pm in the Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3, followed by a reception with Professor Wyke in the foyer of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at 6.30pm