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Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum: What Future For the Townley Marbles? Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Register now for the upcoming ICS-BM seminar: Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum: What Future For the Townley Marbles?

Wednesday 18 March, 4pm, Chancellor's Hall
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T.B.L. Webster Fellowship The T.B.L. Webster Fellowship supports international scholars researching ancient theatre, performance, classical art or archaeology, offering funding and opportunities

Call for applications: T.B.L. Webster Fellowship

Awarded to scholars from universities outside the UK whose research interests are in ancient theatre and performance and its reception OR in classical art and archaeology.

Deadline 20 May 2026.
Full details: ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/fello...

Ariadne’s thread - Getting out of the maze of Linear A sign lists Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Join Ester Salgarella (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies) for the next Mycenaean Seminar on: Ariadne’s thread - Getting out of the maze of Linear A sign lists

Wednesday 11 March, 3.30pm, Online via Zoom
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LABO(U)R Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Join us Mon 9 Mar 4.30pm for the next Ancient Literature Seminar
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CANDIDA MOSS (Birmingham) ‘Invisible ink: bodily difference and enslavement in Roman book labour’
CHRISTOPHER LONDA (Marburg) ‘Intertextuality after paraliterary labour’
SERAFINA CUOMO (Cambridge) ‘Illiberal studies'

3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Final spots remaining: 3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage
13-17 April, Senate House

Through a mix of discussion & practical training, this in-person course will introduce issues, methods & technologies in the 3D imaging and modelling of ancient artefacts and buildings: shorturl.at/1X20a

Seeing Old Age in Pre-Modern Cultures Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Seeing Old Age in Pre-Modern Cultures
Fri 13 Mar, 12pm shorturl.at/jzAg8

Understandings of old age & the role of the old in society vary widely across time & cultures. This event launches a new initiative to enable comparisons & discussions between scholars of pre-modern cultures in Europe & China.

Dans une semaine je serai à Londres pour parler musées et pop culture. J'examinerai notamment comment les discours officiels des grands musées dits "universels" sont critiqués et remodelés par la culture populaire.

I found one of the most crucial & revelatory texts for BAD LANGUAGE research by browsing a physical shelf in an academic library thanks to @ics.bsky.social. It was a niche methodology & I fundamentally disagreed with its findings so no algorithm cd have recommended it.

Four panellists on stage speaking into mics with a screen behind showing an aerial map of the British museum with the western range galleries highlighted. The back of audience heads in the foreground.

Thoughtful, provocative and - most importantly - entertaining panel with @josephinequinn.bsky.social Alastair Blanshard, Salvatore Settis, Suzanne Marchand & Tom Harrison to end the first day of our British Museum/ @ics.bsky.social conference, “The Ancient Mediterranean and the British Museum”

Women Working the Past This book offers a new history of women's integral contribution to archaeology, history, and heritage in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and beyond. Born out of the Beyond Notability project...

That exciting feeling when you notice you have a new book out (even though you haven't quite finished it yet!) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... @amalexathorn.bsky.social @sharonhoward.bsky.social @corabeth.bsky.social

#TEIFriday #EpiDoc #Manuscripts
Last call to sign up for this afternoon's online workshop/working group. All expertise and interests needed!

Are you a UK state school teacher interested in introducing Classics to your school? 🎓

We offer bespoke training for all teachers to introduce a variety of classical subjects.

Contact us here: classicsforall.org.uk/my-school-wa...

#teacher #training #latin #classics #classicsforall

Sunoikisis Digital Classics: Working with Indigenous Heritage Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Sunoikisis Digital Classics Seminars continue Thurs 26 Feb. Paula Granados García (British Museum) and Nicole Iu (UoL) discuss Working with Indigenous Heritage.

Considering responsibilities & sensibilities of working with cultural heritage from outside our own historical settings: shorturl.at/OACMW

Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates, Friday 20th February 2026 - Current Epigraphy Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates Friday 20th February 2026 14:00–15:30 GMT (online only) Register for the Zoom link. Organisers: Caroline Barron (Durham University), Gabriel B...

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Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates, Friday 20th February 2026
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Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Register now for our upcoming seminar: Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates
Friday 20 Feb, 2pm with Caroline Barron (Durham University) & Gabriel Bodard (ICS)

Full details here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Reading Homer in the Hellenistic Schools: Planetary Movements and the Afterlife of the Soul Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Join the next PGWiP Seminar Fri 20 Feb, 5pm to hear:

Leonardo Mazzanti on Diodorus Cronus on πεττεία and the Celestial χορεία: From Homer to Hellenistic Astronomy; and Arianna Castelli on Chrysippus on the Fate of Virtuous Souls: Reassessing a Neglected Scholion to Iliad XXIII

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Forgetting Eleusis? The Athenian reconciliation of 401/0 and the politics of silence Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Join the Ancient History Seminar to hear from Lene Rubinstein (RHUL) on Forgetting Eleusis? The Athenian reconciliation of 401/0 and the politics of silence
Thursday 19 Feb, 4.30pm
Senate House and Online via Zoom

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Poster advertising the Peter Sadler Archaeology Lecture, by Emlyn Dodd on Falerii Novi, hosted by the University of Kent. An image of the ancient Roman gate of Falerii Novi at left, with text on right.

Looking forward to giving the Peter Sadler #Archaeology Lecture at the University of Kent this week, talking about our excavations at Falerii Novi 🏛️ 🏺

Thanks to Luke Lavan for the kind invitation to present before we head back into the field this summer.

Call for EOI: The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (BICS) is establishing an Emerging Editors Board made up of early career researchers and/or those outside of traditional academic roles who are in the earlier stages of building editorial experience.

Full details: shorturl.at/19eW8

Songs from Antiquity: Reimagining the Ancient Greek Art of the Muses
Fri 27 Feb, 8pm New College Chapel
A Concert of Recomposed Ancient Greek Music

Full details: shorturl.at/q5g1s

This event is part of the wider Songs from Antiquity: Conference: ancientmusicoxford.web.ox.ac.uk/songs-antiqu...

Final spaces available:
3D Imaging & Modelling for Cultural Heritage
13 - 17 Apr
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Through a mix of discussion and practical training, this in-person course will introduce you to issues, methods and technologies in the 3D imaging and modelling of ancient artefacts and buildings.

Call for Emerging Editors Board Members Closing date for expressions of interest: 2 March 2026

The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies is looking to strengthen and extend the networks and scholarly expertise available to the journal by establishing an Emerging Editors Board. Read about it here: academic.oup.com/bics/pages/c...

Evenings - ABC listen Join us for the famous Evenings quiz, a mix of interesting interviews, stories and live music.

Listen to ICS Senior Lecturer, Dr Emlyn Dodd on Australian national radio (ABC Evening show with Renee Krosch) discussing recent research on a new history of ancient Italian olive cultivation and oil production: (3:11 on): shorturl.at/KkoPp
And read the published research: shorturl.at/rRZD6

Two grant schemes from the School of Advanced Study are now open for applications: Being Human Festival 2026 and the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities’ new Collaboration and Innovation Grant.

Go to bit.ly/3ZoolUq for details on how to apply

Online Open Day: University of London MA Languages and Cultures Across Borders

Did you know we have bursaries available for our MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders?

Come along to one of our open days, either online or in person, and find out more about the programme and funding possibilities!

📅 4 Feb online
📅 4 March in person (details at bottom of linked page)

Poetry and the British Museum— A New Era Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Final spaces available:
Poetry and the British Museum— A New Era
Weds 25 Feb, 7pm

Bringing together 10 renowned poets for a reading that weaves together new poetry & past voices who have passed through, worked in, and been inspired by the Museum’s historic spaces and collections: shorturl.at/Cgy29

A stuffed toy bear is dressed in a graduation gown and hods a card that stays 'stay connected'

We are now delighted to welcome you to our alumni community. Your association with the School of Advanced Study does not end on your graduation day: it continues for the rest of your life, no matter what post-degree path you pursue.

Graduates stand on a staircase below strings of fairy lights

🎓That's a wrap!

Congratulations to the School of Advanced Study Class of 2025! It was a pleasure to welcome you today at Senate House and to celebrate your achievements. Whatever comes next, we wish you every success.

Congrats especially to Nicole Iu (@ics.bsky.social) and Caio Mello Santos & Elizabeth Fox (@dh-researchhub.bsky.social), all of whom I was very proud to have known during their study.

Congratulations to all the @sas-news.bsky.social graduands who were awarded their MAs, MPhils, MRes, LLMs or PhDs today. A lovely ceremony, very moving speeches from the two student representatives, and such a fascinating range of research topics.