🤩 Congratulations to our Classics researchers on winning the Outstanding Team Quality Award- Learner Facing at the annual national Outstanding Achievement Awards.
👉 The team, led by Prof. Edith Hall and Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson, won the award for the project they have delivered in prisons.
💥 Congratulations to Dr Jacob Lollar, who has been awarded a University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship for 2026.
👉 Dr Lollar will use the fellowship to examine two early modern Syriac manuscripts at the Library's Hunter manuscript collections.
🔗 shorturl.at/IsUYi
💥 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and the Attic Inscriptions Online team as new content arrives online!
👉 AIO launches 112 inscriptions, including all remaining letters of Roman emperors, inscriptions & graffiti connected with the Roman Agora, milestones and dedications.
🔗 shorturl.at/vL6xx
💥 Congratulations to Dr Ilaria Bucci, who has published a chapter in a new volume on 'Serving the Gods'!
👉 ‘Religious Lives in the Small Sanctuaries of Hatra: Identities and Practices in Temple III through Epigraphic and Archaeological Evidence’.
🔗 www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_9143.a...
International students: ready for something extraordinary?
Study at Durham – University of the Year 2026 – in one of Britain’s happiest places to live. 💜
Applications 2026 open now 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #DurhamUniversity #TransformativeHumanities
💥 Postdoc opportunity!
👉 We are currently advertising for six Addison Wheeler fellows, who will complete novel and ambitious research over 36 months.
📅 Identify a mentor and apply by 9 March
🔗 Learn more: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...
🎆 Celebrate ten years of the Women’s Classical Committee UK
👉 Join for a special celebration event in London on 22 April: wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/29/c...
🤩 Featuring our very own Katharine Russell on the impact of retellings of Classical myth on the study of Classical Civ in schools
🔊 Dr George Gazis recently appeared on the 'Life of Letters' podcast, talking about 'What Ancient Greece and Extinct Scripts Tell Us'
👉 In this episode Dr Gazis explores the history and evolution of writing systems.
🔗 Listen here: the-life-of-letters.castos.com/episodes/evo...
💥 Join us for a public lecture on Classical Architecture in North East England, hosted by The Durham Centre for Classical Reception
🏫 Dr Michael Johnson (Northumbria), "Classical town halls in the North East"
📅 6:00pm, Thurs 5 March
📍 7 Owengate
💥 Congratulations to Dr Ilaria Bucci, who along with Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja has published a new volume on 'Nurturing the Elite: Representations of Drinking, Eating, and Religious Vessels in Palmyrene Funerary Iconography'
🔗 Learn more: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!
🏫 Ilaria Bucci (Durham) "Inscribing Devotion: Memory practices and patterns of mobility in the sacred landscape of Hatra (Iraq)"
📅 1pm, Weds 25 Feb
📍 ER108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/57dc27...
🚀 Happy International Lego Classicism Day!
🧩 Dr Michael Loy had a great time when he visited pupils from Star of the Sea Primary School at their Lego Club.
💡 Years 5 and 6 are currently preparing for the national Innovation Project, and this year's theme is all about problem solving in archaeology
💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!
🏫 Joe Watson (Warwick) "When Sappho met Lydia"
📅 1pm, Weds 18 Feb
📍 ER155 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8af981...
💥 Congratulations to Dr Giulia Bonasio, whose new collection of 'Perspectives on Wisdom' is published today!
👉 This volume explores the nature of wisdom by fostering a dialogue among different areas of ancient and contemporary philosophy .
🔗 Learn more: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
💥 Join us for our second masterclass this term from @camne.bsky.social
🏫 Prof. Andrew Meadows (Oxford), on Lycian coinage networks
📅 1:15pm, Thurs 19 Feb
📍 Dawson Building (Archaeology) D210
💥 Conference taking place next week!
🎵 One-day workshop on 'Ancient Music and Metre' organised by the Durham International Centre for Theatre Studies
📅 20 Feb 2026
🔗 Full programme here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates (online discussion led by Gabriel Bodard and @carolinebarron.bsky.social), Friday 20th February 2026 at 14:00–15:30 GMT
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
✨ Prof. Edith Hall, Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson and the ACE project need your help!
🏛️ We need to fundraise £20k to bring the 'Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life' course to at least eight more prisons in 2026-27
🔗 Learn more and donate on the project GoFundMe page: www.justgiving.com/campaign/ace...
🎓 Want to find out about our MA Classics programme?
💥 Watch our new video from Prof. Ioannis Ziogas, Director of Taught MA Programmes, to learn more
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?si=cyz...
👉 And see full details of our postgraduate provision here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!
🏫 Katherine Backler (Leeds), as part of our series on 'Writing from the Margins: Decolonising Ancient Authorship'
📅 1pm, Weds 11 Feb
📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/98b466...
Want to support teaching of ancient ethics in prisons? Here's a blog with a link to JustGiving. £10 buys course material for 4 prisoners. @durhamclassics.bsky.social edithorial.blogspot.com/2026/02/anci...
📢 Calling Classics and Ancient History alumni!
🎓 Do you identify as a First Generation Scholar? You are warmly invited to come and share your experiences at a special celebration event in the Department.
📅 Thurs 12th March @ 12pm
✉️ Please contact Dr George Gazis: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/g-a-ga...
👥 It's time to #MeetOurStaff!
💥 Learn more about the pioneering work of Dr Thea Sommerschield, whose team are using to AI to help 'predict the past'
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx7b...
💥 Join us for our first @camne.bsky.social seminar of the year!
🏫 Prof. Grant Macaskill (Durham) "Maps and Metaphors, Networks and Rhizomes: Analytical Discourse and the Study of Local Quality in the Biblical Pseudepigrapha"
📅 1:15pm, Tues 3 Feb
📍 ER231 / hybrid on Teams: tinyurl.com/mvwtr7dw
💥 Congratulations to Dr Erica Bexley, who has published a new novice reader to the Pseudo-Seneca's 'Octavia'!
👉 This companion volume combines detailed literary analysis with historical, cultural and theatrical knowledge.
🔗 Learn more: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pseudosen...
@womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social is nearly 10! Come celebrate with us and a great line-up of speakers @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social @alicekonig.bsky.social & Katharine Piu San Russell @durhamclassics.bsky.social. Travel bursaries available, see info in QT'd link
#AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
💥 Congratulations to Dr Gary Watson, whose book 'The Role of the Army in the Government of the Roman Near East, 64 BC-AD 285' has been published with Brill!
👉 Dr Watson completed his PhD at Durham in 2024, and his new book is based off his PhD thesis
🔗 Learn more: brill.com/display/titl...
✍️ Call For participants! '(dh)2: Training the Next Generation of Digital Classicists'
📅 Mon 18 May
📚 Essential training on how to design, pitch, and write a successful postdoc project in Digital Classics
🔗 Learn more here: digitalhumanities.webspace.durham.ac.uk/events/
💥 Join us for our first @camne.bsky.social seminar of the year!
🏫 Prof. Grant Macaskill (Durham) "Maps and Metaphors, Networks and Rhizomes: Analytical Discourse and the Study of Local Quality in the Biblical Pseudepigrapha"
📅 1:15pm, Tues 3 Feb
📍 ER231 / hybrid on Teams: tinyurl.com/mvwtr7dw
👏 ICYMI: Prof. Edith Hall and Prof. Arlene Holes-Henderson started the year in Manchester, training prison educators in the delivery of Aristotle’s ethics.
