Get lost with Edward Dodwell on Mount Lykaion in 1806, looking out for bandits and worse along the way...
🔗 bit.ly/40R5amL
#MountainCulture #TravelWriting
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Get lost with Edward Dodwell on Mount Lykaion in 1806, looking out for bandits and worse along the way...
🔗 bit.ly/40R5amL
#MountainCulture #TravelWriting
Image of a poster with an image of the tower of Babel from a medieval manuscript and the writing "26th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, will take place on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 June 2026. This year’s theme will be: ‘Technologies in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception.’
📣📣❗❗Call for Papers deadline 20th March!! For more information go to the APGRD website. Please email all enquiries to: postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk
“A Long Time Ago and Far Far Away: A STARR Wars Story”
Thomas Phillips (St Andrews)
STARR #Seminar, 📆 12 March,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
🔗 View abstract: bit.ly/40p3JMe
#AllWelcome
❗ Final week for applications to the new Future Leaders of Europe: The Europaeum Scholars' Programme (tinyurl.com/4fdbk43m).
❗ Deadline for receipt of applications and reference letters: Sunday 15 March 2026, 11.59pm GMT / 00.59 CET.
“Artistic Agonism. Statius, Silius Italicus, and Lucan’s Legacy”
Lorenzo Severin
Postgraduate Work-in-progress #seminar
🗓️ 13 March 5pm
Hybrid event - advanced booking essential 🔗 bit.ly/47pkpXN
Hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies
CLAS work-in-progress #seminars #tomorrow, 11 March at 3pm!
Hybrid event: room s11 Swallowgate, St Andrews/Teams. To get meeting link, email ass8@st-andrews.ac.uk and ack20@st-andrews.ac.uk.
View details: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/l...
“Up the Garden Path: Inscribing Ovid and Reading Reception in the Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay”
Jo Paul (Open University)
SACRA Annual #Lecture
🗓️ 13 March 4:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
Want to join us for your postgraduate studies? Meet us at a visiting day: bit.ly/4aQmcpQ #StAndrews
"Imaginative Landscapes And Otherworlds 2026: The Alterity Of Deserts And Arid Environments"
Online #Conference
📆 13 June 2026
⏰️ #CallForPapers deadline: 20 April 2026.
🔗 View #CFP: bit.ly/4s3Mpc1
#ClassicalReception
Mount Ithome reaches 800 metres above sea level. Explore a route from the village of Mavromati to the summit plateau, and enjoy the views over the site of ancient Messene.
🔗 bit.ly/4rQmNiH
#MountainCulture #MountainLandscapes
Want to join us for your #undergraduate studies? Meet us at a visiting day!
Bookings for 15 April open today: 🔗 bit.ly/40dB9gV #StAndrews #VisitingDay
Classics for All FREE Online CPD: Running Classics Trips for Primary and Secondary Schools
Monday, 9th March 20264–5pm, Online Running school trips both abroad and...
Meet us at an undergraduate #VisitingDay: bit.ly/40dB9gV
Are you considering an #undergraduate degree in Ancient History, Archaeology, Classics, Classical studies, Greek or Latin? Find out more about about the degree programmes we offer: bit.ly/3Ox6CIa
Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Peter Hansen about about his research on mountain history in the Alps and the Himalayas.
🔗 bit.ly/3N8Boqr
#Mountains #EnvHist #HistSci
Save the date! Join us for five inaugural lectures by our colleagues who were recently made professor: Prof Emma Buckley, Prof Alice König, Prof Myles Lavan, Prof Alex Long, and Prof Carlos Machado.
⏰️ 1 April 2026 at 4pm.
📍 Buchanan lecture theatre, St Andrews.
#AllWelcome #InauguralLecture
Take a ten-minute hike to the top of Kronion. Visit a site that was crucial for the way in which Olympia was represented in antiquity, and enjoy a fantastic view over the stadium and the rest of the sanctuary.
🔗https://bit.ly/4b8Y6I5
#MountainCulture #MountainLandscapes #Zeus
“Matrilineality, Materialism, and Minoans...”
Christopher Anaforian (St Andrews), Emily Strba (Edinburgh)
STARR #Seminar, 📆 26 February,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
🔗 View abstract: bit.ly/4aNAYOc
#AllWelcome
Join us for the Sutton Trust Summer School at #StAndrews, 5 to 10 July 2026. A free, week-long, residential experience for state school students in S5, Year 12, or Year 13.
Study #Classics, #History, #EarthSciences and more!
⏰️ Apply by 5 March.
🔗 View details and register: bit.ly/3OxoWRo
"Vox precantum: Female prayer and oratory in the Roman Republic "
Lewis Webb (Gothenburg)
Classics #seminar
🗓️ 25 February, 2:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
🔗 View schedule: bit.ly/4kJl9MQ
“Ancient environmental studies: interdisciplinary approaches”
Online #workshop, 📆 9 March,⏰10am to 1pm GMT
🔗 View details and register: bit.ly/4cuOdWf
The 3 hour workshop introduces ancient environmental studies through archaeology, palaeoenvironmental data, and ecocriticism.
“Lesbian and Juventius: From Romanticised Ancient Muse to Blasè Contemporary Ex-Lover”
Raven Jane Adilene (St Andrews)
STARR #Seminar, 📆 19 February,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
"Explosive Volcanism, Nile Failure, and Political Instability in Ptolemaic Egypt (305-30 BCE)"
Francis Ludlow (TCD)
CAES Annual #Lecture
🗓️ 20 February, 4:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social about his research on early 19th century Himalayan history.
🔗 bit.ly/3M6F5N2
#Mountains #EnvHist #HistSci
Laura Bassi #Scholarship, Spring 2026.
Provides editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study. Open to every discipline.
⏰ Apply by 8 March 2026.
🔗 View details and apply: bit.ly/3OinHp2
#funding
Megan Houston discusses the little known ancient Sanctuary of Zeus Ombrios.
🔗 bit.ly/3MjJSKQ
#MountainCulture #Zeus
“Actually Romantic: The Topos of Love in Byron’s Don Juan in Comparison with the Classical Epics ”
Clara Leonora Burbank (Erlangen-Nurnberg)
STARR #Seminar, 📆 11 February,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
Save the dates!
The Centre for Late Antique Studies begins an exciting schedule of seminars on 11 March, with papers from Timothy Greenwood and Becca Grose.
🔗 View schedule: bit.ly/4cexztV
Congratulations to Devon Keesee, whose poster ‘The Melanes Monolith: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of a Colossal Architectural Block on Naxos’ was awarded First Runner Up at the recent Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, held in January in San Francisco.
🔗 bit.ly/4qTS03T
