Events

Following on from the success of our inaugural GCSE and A Level Classical Civilisation conference last year, we will be holding this event again on Thursday 8th March 2018 in the Wills Memorial Building at the University of Bristol. Topics for sessions will align closely to the new OCR specifications and therefore the event will be most directly relevant … Continue reading "GCSE and A Level Classical Civilisation conference: Bristol Classics Hub"

2017-18 Free Public Classics Lectures Professor Edith Hall on Homer, Sappho and Aesop   Gresham College, London’s oldest Higher Education Institution, is delighted to announce a series by Visiting Professor in Classics Edith Hall. Few academic subjects have influenced the history of the world as much as ancient Greek history and culture, yet today few … Continue reading "Professor Edith Hall on Homer, Sappho and Aesop"

Saturday 10 March 2018 BMCA Texts and Topics Conference Sessions will be held on the A Level Latin set texts including Cicero Pro Milone, Tacitus Annals I, Latin Love Elegy and Virgil, Aeneid 8 and 10. There will also be session on a variety of topics on the A Level Classical Civilisation specification, including: Invention … Continue reading "BMCA Texts and Topics Conference"

The Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association would like to invite sixth formers and their teachers to this year’s Texts and Topics Conference. The Conference is on Saturday 10 March 2018 and will be held at the University of Birmingham (Arts Building). The Conference is open to all sixth formers studying Latin, Ancient Greek and/or Classical … Continue reading "Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association Texts and Topics Conference: Saturday 10 March 2018"

Please note that the deadline is now MONDAY 15th JANUARY.

One for the diary... From the Open University... The Classical Studies department at the Open University is pleased to announce our upcoming ACE event on the 12th of March 2018, 2-5 pm. This event is unique in the ACE programme for being live-streamed and open to any school groups or teachers, across the UK, to … Continue reading "Live-Streamed ACE Event for Classics Teachers and Students"

Junior Classics Competition Final 2018 Patron and Judge: Caroline Lawrence For Year 4 — 6 Students Thursday 15th March 6.30 pm AKS Junior School Hall King Edward Avenue

The next annual Oxbridge Classics Conference will take place in Cambridge on 16 March 2018. Find out more about studying Classics at Oxford or Cambridge, with lectures, course presentations and stalls. The Faculty of Classics at Cambridge will host this year’s one-day conference for all sixth formers who may be thinking of reading Classics at University.  This is … Continue reading "Annual Oxbridge Classics Conference"

From the CICERO organisers... CICERO Latin and Class Civ competition 2018 This year's competition for Sixth Form students (S4-S6 in Scotland) will take place on Saturday 17 March 2018. It's a challenging and engaging competition with plenty of fun, and has three rounds - Latin translation, Cultural Quiz (this year's topic is plant metamorphosis in … Continue reading "CICERO Competition 2018"

OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL GDST Department of Classics Prof Barbara Goff, Daughters of Antigone   March 19, 2018 at 4.30 pm Professor Barbara Goff, a specialist in ancient Drama and its reception and a senior member of the Classics Department at Reading University, will be speaking on ‘Daughters of Antigone’. Sophocles’ Antigone is one of the … Continue reading "Daughters of Antigone"