Lincoln College alumnus Robert Seatter is a poet, actor, historian and broadcaster. Following spells in teaching and journalism, he joined the BBC in 1989 and stayed with the Corporation for 30 years becoming its Head of History, and publishing its centenary history in 2022. In parallel, he is also an award-winning poet, with six collections to his name, and a passionate interest in taking poetry out into the wider world, engaging with people and spaces in new and vibrant ways. A unique residency with the Sir John Soane’s Museum resulted in the acclaimed collection, The House of Everything. A skilled arts professional, Robert is also Chair of The Poetry Trust and The Poetry Archive.
Dr Roel Konijnendijk is the Lincoln College Darby Fellow in Ancient History. After a year in Taiwan and a year of public-facing work at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, he obtained a PhD in Greek warfare at UCL, and is now an expert in Classical Greek military thought and practice. Dr Konijnendijk has written about Greek tactics, Athenian democracy, Spartan traditions, Persian kingship, Herodotus, and the way modern scholarship has shaped our understanding of Greek warfare. He has been a panellist for r/AskHistorians, written for a number of history magazines, and appeared in several public-facing videos (including a very popular series for Insider).
Joana Neves Teixeira is a graduate student at Lincoln College, reading for an MSt in Early Modern History (1500-1700), with a focus on gender, environment, and Indigenous histories of the Americas. Her thesis is on women’s labour and gender fluidity among Tupi-speaking Indigenous people in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries. In 2022, she completed a BA in History and Politics at Merton College, with a prizewinning dissertation on politics and environment in the Mexica (Aztec) Empire, between 1428-1521 CE. Joana will be talking about the historical visions of contemporary Indigenous film makers in Brazil.
This panel will be chaired by Lincoln College alumna Emma Manco, who researches European integration and migration from Italy in the post-war period. She holds an MSt in Modern European History from Lincoln and a BA in History from the University of Birmingham.
The panel will be followed by a free drinks reception.
