Conferences
We Are Sparta - Residential lecture course
Cambridge University, Institute of Continuing Education
Perceptions of Sparta in Antiquity and the Modern World (7 x 90 minute lectures) 2015 – 2018
From Imagination to Image
Annual National Gallery Lecture - National Portrait Gallery of Australia
November 2018
Socratic Dialogue in the 21st Century, Cities and Civilisation
Sarajevo School of Philosophy
November 2018
Confucius
Bristol Festival of Ideas, Institute of Ideas, Bristol University
November 2016
The Trouble with Troy
Royal Geographical Society Hong Kong
October 2016
Was Socrates Atheist?
Manchester University
March 2016
Bronze Age Gender Politics
The Voltaire Lecture, British Humanist Association
April 2016
Greeks and Romans
November 2015 - British School at Ankara – Annual Lecture
Bettany Hughes and Mary Beard in conversation
Royal Geographical Society
October 2015
History Or Story?
York University
September 2015
Buddha, Confucius and Socrates
European Researcher’s Night
September 2015
Rape in Antiquity
BBC History Magazine, Glyndebourne Event with Fiona Shaw
August 2015
Panel Participant In Sessions
Inspiring Women, Reflect and Represent, Diversity Forum, Women – the Great Disappearing Act
2010 - present.
Icons - What Is An Historical Icon?
June 2015 - Althorp Literary Festival and Chalke History Festival
Ideas That Make Us Human
May 2015 - The Raymond Williams Lecture Hay Festival
Democracy – Ancient or Modern?
May 2015 - Democracy Conference - Middlesex University
The Vote – What is Democracy?
May 2015 - Donmar Warehouse
Mary Renault
May 2015 - Hay Festival
Socrates and the Visual Culture of Golden Age Athens
May 2015 - British Museum
Dubai – Festival of Literature and Literacy
March 2015
Mekkah to Medina: New Evidence
March 2015 - Royal Geographical Society
Jaipur Literary Festival and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
January 2015
Citizens and the Ideas That Make Us
November 2014 - EU Cultural Centre
Ancient Greek Women – Their Tragedy
Sep 2014 - National Theatre - In conjunction with the National Theatre production of Medea
Eros - Philosophy and Praxis
June 2014 - The South Bank Centre
Athens and Socrates; Why We Need to Care
May 2014 - Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College, London - 25th Anniversary Lecture
The Myth Of Muthoi
March 2014 - Keynote – Oxford University Classics Department Public Lecture
Athens the Stage Set for Socrates and Aristophanes
February 2014 - A G Leventis Annual Lecture, UCL
Socratic Love
February 2014 - Introduction to Robin Lane Fox - 24th Runcimann Lecture, King’s College London
The Peril of a Passion for the Past
November 2013 - The Athens Dialogues, Kings College London, Onassis Foundation
Divine Women
November 2013 - Cambridge Limmud Conference
What Is Justice?
October 2013 - Howard League For Penal Reform - Plenary Session at Oxford University
BBC 100 Women
October 2013 - Bettany selected as one of BBC’s ‘100 Global Game Changers’ to talk about women and religion and to launch the nationwide, cross-party ‘Inspiring Women’ campaign - BBC /BBC World
The Reception of the Classical World
June 2013 - Seminar, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford
Cambridge University, Institute of Continuing Education
November 2012 - Residential lecture course 'Meet the Spartans’ - Perceptions of Sparta in antiquity and the modern world (7 x 90 minute lectures)
Dorothy Buchan Lecture
November 2012 - 'She-Spartans' - Leicester University
Islam and the Humanities
26-28 September 2012 -Plenary paper - International Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) - Oxford University
Re:Think Festival, Manchester
September 2012 - Festival of ideas in conjunction with the BBC’s Religion and Ethics Department. Presented a paper and discussion session ‘Fact and Faith: the role of history in religious broadcasting’
Public and Professional History
September 2012 - Seminar/workshop at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Mansion House – Classics For All
July 2012 - Delivered a rationale (and associated film) outlining why ALL should have access to the classics.
The Role of the Public Intellectual in Classical Athens and Today - Institute of Advance Study Debate
June 2012 - Institute of Advanced Study - a discussion at the Royal Society, London about the role of philosophy in Ancient Greece. Click here to watch.
'Helen of Troy' Lecture Series
2012 - A Major public lecture series in North America following the sucess of Helen of Troy.
Discussing the Historical Origins of King James Bible
2011 - Chaired a discussion examining the historical origins of the King James Bible - Royal Society. More details here.
Recording of Archbishop of Canterbury's speech "What should the Word of God sound like?" available here.
The Past, Present and Future of Classical Reception
April 2011 - Oxford University, APGRD, Seminars in Classical Reception, Classics Faculty.
Socrates, Athens, Sparta and the Search for the Good Life,
March 2011 - Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
What Did The Greeks Ever Do For Us?
March 2011 - Institute of Ideas, Battle of Ideas
Helen of Troy and the Women of Sparta
March 2011 - Butler College, Indianapolis
Helen of Troy, Goddess, Princess, Whore
March 2011- University of St. Louis, Missouri
Ta Erotika and the Hellenic Cup
February 2011 - Royal Holloway, Institute of Hellenic Studies, Annual Lecture
Ta Erotika and the Future of Education
September 2010 - Maastricht University, keynote for the opening of the European academic year
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
September 2010 - Annual Conference, Imperial College, London.
Chair of plenary session on the future of the relationship between the broadcast media and research institutions.
Communicating Culture
June 2010 - Keynote address - Festival of Postgraduate Research, University of Leicester
Cultural Amnesia and Global Understanding
May 2010 - Muslim Heritage in Our World – International Conference at the Science Museum, Media, Education and the Cultural Connection – keynote speech
Akrotiri and the Women of the Bronze Age
2010 - St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University, Public Seminar
JACT Presidential Addresses
2010 - Akrotiri - JACT
Royal Holloway Launch
2009 – Bettany lanuched Royal Holloway's new MA in Public History with an address at Royal Holloway.
Helen of Troy And The Women Of Sparta
2009 – Cardiff Archaeology Festival, Cardiff University
JACT Presidential Addresses
2009 - Classics in the Market - JACT, Icons and Iconoclasm
March 2009 - Bettany chaired a podcast of debate at the Royal Academy in conjunction with the Byzantium exhibition and Bettany's Radio 4 series Byzantium Unearthed, a landmark three part series that explored the meaning of Byzantium to both East and West.
‘...Bettany beautifully chaired our Icons and Iconoclasm panel discussion, deftly handling complex issues and a variety of perspectives, and making the links between ideas, issues, and speakers seamless. Her chairmanship contributed greatly to the evening’s success...’
- Dr. Alison Bracker, Events and Lectures Manager, Royal Academy of Arts.
The Classical World Today
November 2008 - Oxford University Classics Outreach Project – keynote for King Edwards’ conference organised for Secondary School and College Students
Terrible, Excruciating, Wrongheaded and Ineffectual – Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture, 2008 - Keynote at Classics For All conference organized by Reading University.
Paper published by Cambridge Scholars Press within volume ‘Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture
Helen of Troy: Princess, Goddess, Whore
2008 - Cardiff Archaeological Institute, Magazines, Museums, the Media: Communicating History to a Wider Audience
July 2008 - Anglo-American Conference of Historians at the Institute of Historical Research - Plenary panel session
Democratizing Danger: Brickbats and Bouquets for Mass-Market Scholarship
July 2008 - Institute of Historical Research paper
Women – The Challenge for Historians Ancient and Modern
November 2006 - University College London, Appropriations of Antiquity, UCL
The Women Who Loved Greece
July 2004 - Leeds International Medieval Institute, Leeds University
We Are The Spartans
May 2004 - Manchester University inset day, Manchester Museum
History and the Mass Media
2003 - Bristol University Archaeology and History Seminars
