Events

Tuesday 11th May at 7.30 pm Callum Armstrong will give an illustrated talk on 'Reconstructing the Sounds of Ancient Double Pipes', with musical examples. This will be a Zoom webinar, open to all. For a link to register, contact Callum is a professional musician and expert aulos player. He has, through research and experiment, … Continue reading "The Guildford Classical Association May Talk"

Classics for All, Historically with Professor Edith Hall, hosted by Professor Paul Cartledge. Wednesday 12 May | 18:00 BST We are delighted to be joined by Professor Edith Hall who will discuss her recent book, A People's History of Classics, co-written with Henry Stead. Exploring the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, … Continue reading "Classics for All, Historically"

Wednesday 12th May 2021, 7pm – Dr Genevieve Liveley (Bristol) 'Homer's AI'. In this talk, Professor Liveley asks: What is the legacy of Homer’s intelligent machines? Beginning with Homer’s descriptions of relatively simple automata in the Iliad and Odyssey, this talk goes on to consider the more sophisticated models of artificial mind and machine cognition that these ancient poems describe, … Continue reading "Prof Genevieve Liveley (Bristol): ‘Homer’s AI’."

Online Lecture by Dr Sharon Marshall, University of Exeter Tuesday 18 May at 5.00pm (Online Lecture). At the end of Virgil’s catalogue of Italian allies in Book Seven of the Aeneid comes the warrior woman Camilla, an extraordinary woman, inured to battle and swift enough to race the winds. When war breaks out again between … Continue reading "‘Virgil’s Camilla, Warrior Queen’"

Classics for All Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire Network Event Wednesday 19th May 2021, 3:30 – 5:30pm On Wednesday 19th May, you are invited to a Zoom meeting on Teacher Assessed Grades for Classics. As many of our colleagues are in single person departments, we think it would be good for colleagues to meet to support … Continue reading "Teacher Assessed Grades Support Forum"

Due to the ongoing global situation with COVID-19, the Manchester & District Branch of the Classical Association has moved all of its lectures online on the platform Zoom. All events are open live to members, and recorded for their YouTube channel. You can become a member here, also via Pay-Pal: . You can also‘tip’ them at: https://ko-fi.com/manchesterca. There will be further events for members throughout the year, including a student-led and careers workshops … Continue reading "Prostitutes, Youths and Potty-Mouthed Clowns: Who Swore in Ancient Greek and Why it Matters"

Classical Association Teaching Board/Classics for All/British School at Athens CPD on Ancient Athenian Inscriptions in UK Collections, 10am-4pm BST, 5th June 2021 (virtual event)  Among the most enduring habits of the ancient world was the inscription of public and private documents and accounts on stone and other hard surfaces. From ancient Athens alone there survive … Continue reading ""

Remembering and Forgetting the Past: Athens in 403 BC A Classics for All Lawyers Group event with Professor Michael Scott Tuesday 8 June | 18:00 BST In 403 BC, Athens re-established itself as a democracy, after a brief coup by the 30 Tyrants. The problem that now faced them was this: how to recognise this … Continue reading "Remembering and Forgetting the Past: Athens in 403 BC"

The CA is hosting a CPD event on 14 June, on ‘Preparing for your first CA conference as a teacher’.  This free online workshop is designed for school teachers and PGCE students who are interested in sharing their classroom practice and/or research with others at the Classical Association conference, and will cover a range of … Continue reading "CA CPD: Preparing for your first CA conference as a teacher"