Society AGM and Talk by Dr Amin Benaissa

The Society’s Annual General Meeting for members will take place on 5 November 2022, 2:30 p.m. After the meeting, at 3:30, Dr Amin Benaissa, Tutor in Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (from October Associate Professor of Papyrology at Christ Church) will speak on “Mary Elizabeth Dicker: Britain’s first woman papyrologist”, whose contribution to the development of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection has been largely forgotten. As A.S. Hunt’s assistant from 1929 to 1933, she sorted through a large amount of Oxyrhynchus papyri and transcribed and identified a number of important pieces during that short period.

Owing to the railstrike on this day the event has been changed to online. For the details of the Zoom call, please contact herculaneum@classics.ox.ac.uk.