Dr Emily Hauser (Exeter): 'Women in the Trojan War'.
2021-03-23 19:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London)
Tuesday 23rd March 2021, 7pm – Dr Emily Hauser (Exeter)

‘Women in the Trojan War’.

In this talk, Emily will return to one of the oldest stories of Greek myth – the Trojan War – and ask what happens when we look at the story from the point of view of the women. What did Helen really look like? Did the Amazons really cut off one of their breasts to fight in battle at Troy? And who was the Amazon queen with whom Achilles fell in love – and, according to some sources, had a child? Bringing myth and history together, Emily will explore what historical fiction can do for us in re-imagining the stories and the voices of the women of ancient Greek myth. Emily is an award-winning classicist, Lecturer at the University of Exeter, and the author of the acclaimed Golden Apple trilogy that retells the stories of the women of Greek myth. She has been featured on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and in The Guardian alongside Colm Tóibín and Natalie Haynes, and her debut novel For the Most Beautiful was listed among the ‘28 Best Books for Summer’ in The Telegraph.

If you would like to attend this webinar, please contact Richard Cole (richard.cole@bristol.ac.uk) for the link.

Classics Day at the University of Kent
2021-03-24
UNIVERSITY OF KENT
CLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY
PUBLIC LECTURES

SPRING TERM 2021

Weds 27th Jan: Prof. Eleanor Dickey (Reading) ‘What did people actually do in a Roman school?

Weds 3rd Feb: Prof. Martin Carver (York) Remembering the Dead in Byzantine, Islamic and Norman Sicily 3rd-13th century.

Weds 24th Feb: Prof. Ruth Webb (Lille) Performance in Late Antique Theatres.

Weds 3rd March: Prof. Paul Cartledge (Cambridge) Thebes: Forgotten City of Ancient Greece.

Weds 10th March: Prof R. R. R. Smith (Oxford) Aphrodisias: A Greek city in Roman Asia – recent excavation, new discoveries

Weds 24th March: Classics Day

All lectures will be held on zoom at 5.15pm

https://kent-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97933278928?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 979 3327 8928
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Politics of the Late Republic
2021-03-31 13:00 - 15:30
Classics for All in collaboration with King’s College, London:

Politics of the Late Republic

An excellent afternoon of free/online talks on Wednesday 31st March on Politics of the Late Republic. Click on the Eventbrite link below to reserve your space. Talks will be recorded and made available down the line if you can’t attend.

The talks would be suitable to A Level Latin students, although the focus is the Classical Civilisation A Level topic.

https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/141819779779

Classical Association Conference 2021 (Online)
2021-04-06 - 2021-04-08
With conditions too uncertain to plan for the CA’s usual conference at a UK university this year, CA2021 will be held as a free online event from 6-8 April 2021. Registration is via the CA website here.

Sessions focus on key issues facing classicists, including inclusivity, outreach and employability. For details of the panels, presenters and timings, please see below. Once registered, you will be provided with links to all the sessions and can choose to attend all or any. The programme includes presentation of the CA Prize and the CA’s new Teaching Awards by broadcaster, classicist and comedian Natalie Haynes.

Enquiries to the conference team at: CA2021@classicalassociation.org

The Teaching Awards categories and detail of how to nominate are on the CA website here. Nominations for the Teaching Awards close on 26 February.

Tuesday 6 April

11am – 12.30pm

Inclusive Classics and Pedagogy: Teachers, Academics and Students in Conversation (A follow up to the Towards a More Inclusive Classics Workshop held 25-26 June 2020)

Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis and Professor Barbara Goff

2.00pm – 3.30pm

Accessing Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in Britain, Past and Present Perspectives (under the auspices of ACE)

Professor Edith Hall, Dr Henry Stead, Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson and Peter Wright

Wednesday 7 April

2:00pm – 2.45pm

Presidential Address by Mari Williams, winner of the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2018, for her novel Ysbryd yr Oes (‘Spirit of the Age’)

2.45pm – 3.30pm

Presentation of the CA Prize and the inaugural CA Teaching Awards by Natalie Haynes

7.00pm – 8.30pm

Greek Theatre Online: An evening of classics-inspired theatre,featuring new material from three UK-based theatre groups, Out of Chaos, Barefaced Greek and By Jove, followed by a Q&A chaired by Professor James Robson

Thursday 8 April

11am – 12 noon

Developing Classics in the Local Community: CA Branches in 2021

Katrina Kelly (Chair of Lytham St Annes CA) and colleagues from around the regions

2.00pm – 3.30pm

Classics in the Marketplace: Being a Classicist in Public

Dr Liz Gloyn, Dr Jane Draycott, Dr Mai Musié and Professor Neville Morley

What the Stoics can teach us about living through the Covid-19 crisis, with Professor A. C. Grayling
2021-04-11 18:00 - 20:00
What the Stoics can teach us about living through the Covid-19 crisis

A Lawyers Group Event
with Professor A. C. Grayling, hosted by Sir Rupert Jackson.

Thursday 11 March | 18:00 GMT

Stoicism was the ethical outlook of educated people in the Hellenic and Roman periods of classical antiquity for over 500 years, and remained influential among many of the same kind perpetually thereafter, having a major influence in the 18th century Enlightenment also. It was the ethics of practical, mature-minded people, and provided a powerful aid to lives as different as those of Marcus Aurelius, an emperor, and Epictetus, a slave. In this talk, Professor A. C. Grayling will explore what the philosophy of Stoicism can teach us about living through times of crisis.

This event is the first of our 2021 Lawyers Group Events and will be hosted via Zoom Webinar by Sir Rupert Jackson, Chair of our Lawyers Group Steering Committee. Because of the timely topic, we are offering a limited number of tickets to members of the public (£20 standard, or £10 concession). These are available to purchase by debit or credit card via the link below.

Buy tickets here:

BSA Virtual Course | ‘The Homeric World’
2021-04-15 16:30 - 17:30, 2021-04-20 16:30 - 17:30, 2021-04-22 16:30 - 17:30, 2021-04-26 16:30 - 17:30
The British School at Athens is delighted to invite UK school teachers to attend a free virtual CPD course, focussing on the OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation module ‘The Homeric World’. The course is intended both for those who already teach the new GCSE (or similar specifications), and also for those who have never taught the subject before.

Participants will follow a series of four virtual lectures, introducing the main themes of the module and providing new case studies beyond the GCSE syllabus. By the end of the course, participants will have a sound working knowledge of Bronze Age archaeology and its relationship to the works of Homer, helping them to teach this material to students with confidence.

‘Archaeology and the Homeric World’ – Prof. John Bennet (Director, BSA)
Thursday 15th April, 4:30pm

‘Life in the Mycenaean Age’ – Dr Anna Judson (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, BSA)
Tuesday 20th April, 4:30pm

‘Tombs, graves and burial’ – Dr Michael Loy (Assistant Director, BSA)
Thursday 22nd April, 4:30pm

‘Visiting Greece on a BSA School Teacher Fellowship: presentation and Q+A’ – Mr David Hogg (Head of English and teacher of Latin and Greek, Kelmscott School)
Monday 26th April, 4:30pm

All times are in UK BST. Although these lectures are designed as a series and participants will gain most if they can attend all sessions, attendance throughout the whole course is not mandatory.

There is no participation fee. Teachers can register for this course via the British School at Athens website (https://www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/school-teachers-course)

Pattern and Chaos in the Labyrinth
2021-04-22 19:00 - 20:00
Charlotte Higgins
Chief Culture Writer at The Guardian, Classicist and Author

Stoicism and After: Philosophy and Life
2021-04-27 18:00 - 19:00
Stoicism and After: Philosophy and Life

A Lawyers Group event with Professor A. C. Grayling, hosted by Sir Rupert Jackson.

Tuesday 27 April | 18:00 BST

Back by popular demand, Professor A. C. Grayling has generously offered to host a sequel to his recent talk on What the Stoics can teach us about living through the Covid-19 crisis. In this Part 2, Professor Grayling will discuss why the present-day revival of Stoicism, based largely on late Stoic thinkers like Aurelius and Epictetus, is interesting because of what it shows about the felt need for ethical principles in a secular age. He will explore the legacy of Stoicism, as well as its relationship to later philosophies and belief systems.

As with the original talk, this is a Lawyers Group event, hosted by Sir Rupert Jackson, Chair of our Lawyers Group Steering Committee. One fortuitous result of moving our Lawyers Group events online is that we are also able to offer a number of tickets to the public.

Tickets (£20 standard, £10 concession) are available to purchase here.

"How to retire (if you're a Roman emperor)" Dr Rebecca Usherwood (Trinity College Dublin)
2021-04-27 19:30 - 20:30
Tuesday 27th April at 7.30 p.m. (on Zoom)
Dr Rebecca Usherwood (Trinity College Dublin)
How to retire (if you’re a Roman emperor)
On the 1st May 305, Diocletian and Maximian, who had ruled the Roman Empire together for twenty years, abdicated. This was an action without precedent in Roman history, and a radical departure from an emperor’s normal career trajectory. This lecture considers both this event and its aftermath in comparison to recent abdication events, such as Beatrix of the Netherlands and Pope Benedict XVI. How can such a transition be explained to public? What issues might the continued existence of abdicated rulers cause to their successors, and the stability of the state in more general?
Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/cai-dublin-branch-lecture-dr-rebecca-usherwood-27th-april-730-pm-tickets-149400532013
Contact: alexander.thein@ucd.ie

The Oxford Greek Play 2021, Orestes
2021-04-28 17:00 - 19:00
From the folks at the OGP…

The Oxford Greek Play is a major educational and outreach event for schools, particularly for students approaching GCSEs and A-levels (or equivalent). This year’s multimedia production, Euripides’ Orestes, will be streamed live *at no cost* online on 28 April 2021 at 5pm. The recording of the premiere will then be available permanently on YouTube.

This year, the play will be predominantly in English, with subtitles for any classical Greek. A short academic discussion with outreach in mind — between world-leading specialists Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh, Natalie Haynes, and Rosa Andújar — will feature during the performance.

If you would like to book free tickets for yourself and/or your students, please follow this link: https://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/whats-on/all-shows/orestes/13815#details

If you would like to receive updates on the production’s outreach, including forthcoming educational packs and other supporting materials, we are also creating a mailing list for teachers of the humanities (especially of Classical Civilization, Drama, English, Ancient History, Classical Greek and Latin). Please sign up here, and feel free to share with your colleagues and partner organizations: https://forms.gle/cscz4dF2tKS9KXPJ9

You can also find us @orestesoxford on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, for a peek behind the scenes and to get to know the cast and creatives behind the production.

Oxford Greek Play
2021-04-28 17:00 - 20:00
From the folks at The Oxford Greek Play…

We are excited to announce that tickets for this year’s Oxford Greek Play are now available to reserve via the Oxford Playhouse website! Orestes will be performed online on 28th April at 5pm.

‘From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back…’

It has been six days since the murder. Six days since Electra watched her estranged brother Orestes kill their mother in a brutal act of revenge. Now Electra, Orestes and his lover Pylades have to figure out what to do next. In the wake of the Trojan war the next generation must navigate catastrophe, face their inherited trauma, and try to survive against the odds. But as society collapses, can they trust the whispers of Helen, Menelaus and the gods?

Oxford’s Greek play tradition goes back 140 years, and this April we are bringing you an experimental reimagining of Euripides’ little-known classic Orestes. Join us for an entirely virtual production, combining ancient Greek and new translations with contemporary dance, live comedy and an original soundtrack. Orestes has been devised at a distance for its online platform, and is being streamed live for one night only. Four world-leading specialists will be there to ask the important questions, as we invite you to decide the fates of these heroes and villains of Greek mythology.

To reserve your free ticket, follow this link: https://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/…/all…/orestes/13815…

Follow us at @orestesoxford on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, for a peek behind the scenes and to get to know the cast and creatives behind the production.

Greek mythology creative writing online workshop
2021-04-29 10:30 - 12:00
Join Dr Amanda Potter from the Open University for an online creative writing workshop, via Zoom. We will use characters and themes from Greek mythology, and paintings from the Brighton Museum collection, as an inspiration for your work.

Amanda will lead you through some short exercises to help you to build characters and get you writing in a supportive environment. Suitable for participants with all levels of experience, all you need is internet access, paper and a pen.

29 May 2021 10:30 – 12:0005 June 2021 10:30 – 12:00 Duration: 90 minutes

FURTHER INFORMATION

Blazing Blackness in Greek Antiquity
2021-05-11
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 and short talks.

Also look out for children’s competitions with Athena’s Owls!

Download a PDF of the programme here.

Tuesday 17th November 2020
Dr Sally Waite & Dr Susanna Phillippo (Newcastle) Greece Recreated Abstract: In this lecture we will talk about our collaboration with English Heritage and the Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne to create an online exhibition to communicate our research on the Shefton Collection of Greek Art and Archaeology and the inspiration of the Classical world on the development of the Belsay Estate in Northumberland.

Tuesday 15th December 2020
Dr Stephe Harrop (Liverpool Hope) Alcestis: In Bits. Live Discussion of specially recorded performance (recording available in advance). Abstract: Remember the morning you walked away, while she yelled down the street? Remember the time he held you so hard you thought your bones would snap? Remember the plate, the cup, the glass – falling, cracking, fracturing? Remember that night? The phone ringing? Remember? Alcestis: In Bits is about breaking up and breaking down. The losses that leave your life shattered, and the painstaking work of picking up the pieces. Queens and gods, broken crockery and late-night phone calls collide in this live storytelling fusion of ancient myth and modern experience. Inspired by Phrynichus’ lost tragedy, Alcestis: In Bits playfully, poignantly combines surviving fragments of an ancient tale with story-shards of contemporary heartbreak and endurance. Stephe Harrop is a professional storyteller, spitting out new words and re-spinning old tales to try and make sense of a crazy world. “A deep thinker with a light-touch and a wealth of material at her fingertips” – Alys Torrance, Story Jam. This live discussion with Stephe Harrop will focus on there performance specially recorded for the Manchester Classical Association, which will be made available a week or so in advance for your viewing.

Tuesday 19th January 2021
Dr Ian Goh (Swansea) Mixtures, Medicine, and the Moretum: Roman Recipes and Food Culture Abstract: Columella Book 12 contains numerous farmhouse recipes; I am particularly interested—and hope you will be too—by the cheese dips, which correspond with a recipe in a poem, the Moretum, which has come down to us alongside the work of Virgil. In this talk accompanied by cooking I attempt to navigate the politics of the advice these authors give and contrast their approaches. Cooking the books was never so much fun.

Tuesday 9th February 2021
Prof Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton) Homer’s Passage in Postcolonial Hispaniola

Tuesday 16th February 2021
Dr Shana Zaia (Vienna) Royal Authority in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Representations and Realities

Tuesday 9th March 2021
Dr Roberta Mazza (Manchester) The Illicit Trade in Papyrus Manuscripts from Egypt: Old and New Tales

Tuesday 11th May 2021
Dr Sarah Derbew(Stanford) Blazing Blackness in Greek Antiquity

Tuesday 25th May 2021
Dr Amy Coker(Cheltenham Ladies’ College / University of Bristol) Prostitutes, Youths and Potty-Mouthed Clowns: Who Swore in Ancient Greek and Why it Matters

The Guildford Classical Association May Talk
2021-05-11 19:30 - 20:30
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 guildfordca.office@gmail.com

Callum is a professional musician and expert aulos player. He has, through research and experiment, rediscovered and developed various aulos playing techniques.

Callum has performed in productions of Greek plays and was the aulos player at the Latin Qvarter’s production of ‘The Song of Arms and a Man’ put on by the GCA at Charterhouse.

Classics for All, Historically
2021-05-12 18:00 - 19:00
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, Edith will challenge the prevailing assumption that working-class culture was a ‘Classics-Free Zone’ and outline some of struggles that non-elite Britons went through to access the ancient Greeks and Romans between the Bill of Rights in 1689 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939. With vivid examples of those who succeeded, Edith will demonstrate that classics, historically, was for all.

This event will be chaired by Professor Paul Cartledge, A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University.

Tickets (£10 standard, £5 concession) are available to purchase here.

Prof Genevieve Liveley (Bristol): 'Homer's AI'.
2021-05-12 19:00 - 20:00
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, including various distinctions that Homer draws between artificial and human minds. After tracing this ancient narrative history of artificial intelligence, Dr Liveley examines its impact on contemporary debate about the nature of AI.

If you would like to attend this webinar, please contact Richard Cole (richard.cole@bristol.ac.uk) for the link.

'Virgil's Camilla, Warrior Queen'
2021-05-18 17:00 - 18:00
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 the Latins and Trojans later in Book Eleven, Camilla proves to be the fiercest of warriors, volunteering to confront the enemy and tragically dying when caught off guard. Camilla is a figure who has provoked fierce critical debate, with scholars divided over where we should look to find Virgil’s influences for the Camilla episode, whether she successfully subverts gender norms or ultimately reinforces them, and how the episode resonates with the politics of the poem as a whole. In this lecture, Dr Marshall will suggest that the tendency towards antithetical readings of the Camilla episode are the result of a tension inscribed in the poem itself, from the very first book and, in particular, the image of another of Virgil’s warrior women, Penthesilea, the Queen of the Amazons. Questions and discussion will be welcome.

This lecture will be held on Teams and it promises to be both informative and thought-provoking. It will be of relevance to all those with an interest in classics, literature, myth and/or ancient history. There is no charge for attending the talk.

email: lsfclassics@lsf.org for details.

Teacher Assessed Grades Support Forum
2021-05-19 15:30 - 17:30
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 each other through this process. It will be a great opportunity to share best practice, share concerns and make contacts who can help through the process. We hope you will be able to make it.

To sign up please complete the google form below and you will be send the link to join the Zoom Meeting:

https://forms.gle/QjCSDWc8cEmmYE9WA

Prostitutes, Youths and Potty-Mouthed Clowns: Who Swore in Ancient Greek and Why it Matters
2021-05-25

2021-06-05
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 some 20,000 inscriptions written on stone; they are deeply informative about all aspects of ancient public and private life, culture, society, politics and diplomacy.
Of the extant ancient Athenian inscriptions, a small but significant number (ca. 225) are to be found in a dozen public and private collections across the UK. The AHRC-sponsored Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections project, hosted on the Attic Inscriptions Online website, is developing editions, translations and notes on all of these inscriptions. Our Youtube channel is developing a series of videos aimed at a wide audience interested in the inscriptions of ancient Athens.
In mid 2021 we will launch the Attic Inscriptions: Education (AIE) part of our website. This will bring together resources based on our research designed to support teachers of classical subjects at all pre-18 levels. These resources are designed to be of relevance to the KS 1 and KS 2 national curriculum, to be of interest to those teaching KS 3 and to address aspects of the specifications for GCSE and A-level Classical Civilisation and Ancient History. We hope also that we will be able to identify specific areas of ancient Greek history and culture that could be better addressed (through ancient Athenian inscriptions) in future versions of these specifications.
This CPD event will support the launch of AIE. It is aimed at schoolteachers of any of the Key Stages, though we understand that participants may not find all the sessions immediately relevant. No prior experience of studying inscriptions or knowledge of Greek is required (though we welcome those who are interested in exploring the possibility of using Athenian inscriptions to teach Greek language).
We envisage offering 8 sessions from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm then 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm. Each session will consist of a conversation, with guest discussants (guests including Charlie Andrew (Classics for All), Dr Sharon Marshall (University of Exeter), Dr April Pudsey (Manchester Metropolitan University), Rob Hancock-Jones (Tonbridge School), Liam Holian (Weaverham High School), Sophie Evans (Pimlico Academy)), on the potential that ancient Athenian inscriptions have for current and future syllabi and specifications:

A Beginners’ Guide to using Ancient Athenian Inscriptions in the Classroom (plenary session). 25 mins lecture.
KS 1 and KS 2 Literacy, History and Art and ancient Athenian inscriptions (with Charlie Andrews of Classics for All). Conversation 15 mins + discussion 10 mins.
GCSE Ancient History specifications (Athens in the Age of Pericles) and ancient Athenian inscriptions. Conversation 15 mins + discussion 10 mins.
GCSE Classical Civilisation specifications (Myth and Religion; Women; War and Warfare) and ancient Athenian inscriptions. Conversation 15 mins + discussion 10 mins.
A-level Ancient History specifications (depth study in Culture and Politics of Ancient Athens; period study on Relations between Greek states) and ancient Athenian inscriptions. Conversation 15 mins + discussion 10 mins.
A-level Classical Civilisation specifications (World of Heroes; Culture and the Arts; Invention of the Barbarian; Greek Religion) and ancient Athenian inscriptions. Conversation 15 mins + discussion 10 mins.
Ancient Athenian Inscriptions and pre-18 education generally (KS 3; ancient numeracy, the history of medicine, the history of collection). Conversation 15 mins + discussion 10 mins.
Plenary discussion of teaching Ancient Athenian Inscriptions in the Classroom. Conclusions. 25 mins.

Lunch break 12.30 – 2.00 pm after session 4.

Registration fee: £5.
To register for the event, please see our Eventbrite site:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ancient-athenian-inscriptions-in-uk-collections-classical-association-cpd-tickets-142573805089
For questions, please contact peter.liddel@manchester.ac.uk

Remembering and Forgetting the Past: Athens in 403 BC
2021-06-08 18:00 - 20:00
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 period in their history as a warning for the future without making too obvious the fact that Athens’ fabled democracy had failed and almost died. How to remember and forget the past, as well as the deeds of the individual citizens – some who had supported oligarchy and some democracy – who now once again had to live cheek by jowl with one another. Their answer was a mix of civic decree, legal reform and sophistic rhetoric, with far reaching consequences for the nature of their democracy over the following century.

This event is the latest in our series of 2021 Lawyers Group events, hosted by Sir Rupert Jackson, Chair of our Lawyers Group Steering Committee. One fortuitous result of moving our Lawyers Group events online is that we are also able to offer a number of tickets to the public.

Tickets (£20 standard, £10 concession) are available to purchase here.

Anyone who buys a ticket and is unable to attend on the night will be sent a link to the video recording the following day. If you have any questions about this event, please contact events@classicsforall.org.uk.

CA CPD: Preparing for your first CA conference as a teacher
2021-06-14
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 questions relating to writing an abstract and presenting a paper.

The presenters include Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Andrew Christie, Peter Wright and Gemma Williams, all of whom have submitted abstracts and presented at CA conferences as schoolteachers. They will share their top tips and will be happy to answer questions from the audience.

In addition, presentations will be given by Dr Ian Goh and Maria-Elpiniki Oikonomou, members of the organising committee for the 2022 CA conference at Swansea University.

Further details and the link for registration can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preparing-for-your-first-ca-conference-as-a-teacher-tickets-152481802175

Warwick Classics and A. G. Leventis Ancient Worlds Day 2021
2021-06-16
Expanding Horizons

Warwick Classics and A. G. Leventis Ancient Worlds Day 2021

Wed 16th June

Dear All,

This year’s Warwick Classics Network A. G. Leventis Ancient Worlds Day 2021 will take place online on Wednesday 16th June between 1.30 and 3.45pm with the general theme of ‘Expanding Horizons’.

Our focus will be to take the topics covered in the OCR Classical Civilisation and Ancient History GCSE and A-level curricula and to expand upon these, looking especially at interactions between diverse groups, but also expanding the horizons of what we think Classics is and what the term ‘Classics’ covers.

The day will consist of both live and pre-recorded elements. Live lectures will be delivered from 1.30pm by Prof Michael Scott and Dr Elena Giusti (see below) with a live Q&A with our current Classics students. For our pre-recorded content, our Warwick Classics community will present over 20 specially recorded short videos on a range of topics linked to the OCR specs but taking pupils in new directions. Both live and pre-recorded elements will complement the OCR specs while providing context and glimpses into new scholarship and directions in Classics.

If your school would be interested in attending the live sessions, we would love for you to come along and join us.

Live Sessions

1.30-2.15pm The Battle of Salamis and its Impact – Prof Michael Scott

Michael’s talk will focus on the impact of one of the most important events in ancient history, which in 2020 celebrated its 2,500th anniversary. This talk will be of interest to anyone studying Greece and Persia, Invention of the Barbarian, Ancient Warfare, and Athenian Democracy.

2.20-2.50pm Studying Classics

A live Q&A with our Warwick Classics students. This is your opportunity to learn all about studying Classics at university and why it is such a fun and respected degree

3.00-3.45pm Centering Africa in Greek and Roman Literature – Dr Elena Giusti

Elena’s talk with focus on representations of Africa in Greek and Roman literature, as well as African authors writing in Latin and Greek. This talk will be of interest of anyone studying Egypt, Cleopatra, Carthage, Dido, and Women in the ancient world.

Pre-recorded videos

Our pre-recorded videos will cover diverse topics including Rome and Greek Myth, Petra, Roman art beyond the frontier, Ancient lyric, Persian fashion in Athens, Greek Theatre, the destruction of Carthage, Nero, Roman Britain, and much more!

How to Sign Up

If you are interested in attending the live sessions or in receiving more information about this event, please email Dr Paul Grigsby at Paul.Grigsby@Warwick.ac.uk.

We hope to see some of you there,

all the best,
Paul
Dr Paul Grigsby
WCN Research Fellow in Outreach and Impact
Department of Classics and Ancient History
University of Warwick
www.warwick.ac.uk/wcn

The Classical Association of Ireland: Summer School in Latin
2021-06-21 - 2021-07-02
June 21 – July 2, 2021

The Classical Association of Ireland is pleased to announce the 2021 Summer School in Latin, which will take place on Zoom between June 21st and July 2nd.

This course is designed for secondary school students between the ages of 15 and 18, and provides an exciting opportunity to learn Latin through a two-week immersion with qualified, inspiring, and fun teachers!

If you are not studying Latin or Classics, but you are interested in ancient languages, this is the place for you! Whether you are studying Classical Studies or the new Junior Certificate Classics or not, the Summer School offers an exciting opportunity to explore the culture of the Romans through their language. Perhaps you want to improve your language learning skills or understanding, communicating, and writing in English? Or you are exploring your academic future? If you are you thinking about studying Classical Civilisation, Archaeology, Classical Languages, Ancient or Medieval History, Philosophy, Religion, History of Art, Romance languages in college, the CAI Summer school is a great place to start!

Over the course of two weeks, you will immerse yourself in the language of Rome and engage in a variety of fun activities, led by experienced and passionate teachers. There will be interactive and online games, singing contests, Latin cartoons, and a bit of spoken Latin, too!

Customized materials are provided. After two weeks, students will be able to read simple Latin texts and have sufficient knowledge of the language to continue studying it independently or enter a higher-level course.

Contact hours: three classes/per day for two weeks
Minimum age 15
Course fee: €200
Information and registration: Dr Cosetta Cadau, cadau@mu.ie

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King’s Greek Play 2021
2021-06-28 - 2021-06-29
Save the date: 28 and 29 June, 2021

After the success of 2020’s experimental Dionysus in the Underworld, performed only a few weeks before the UK went into national lockdown, the King’s Greek Play 2021 will be a little different. Students from across the college will create an entirely new play, mostly in English, which draws on extant and fragmentary Greek tragedy. Led by Dr David Bullen and Professor Edith Hall, the project explores how the Trojan War cycle speaks to present concerns about responsibility, sacrifice, and intergenerational tension. Young adults both west and east suffer acute isolation and despair caused by their irresponsible parents’ abuse, neglect, and endless international disputes. Is this the 21st century or the Bronze Age? The group has drawn on texts with lonely young adults at their heart, including Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis and Orestes, Sophocles’ Philoctetes, and Aeschylus’ now fragmentary trilogy about the central figure of Homer’s Iliad, Achilles.‘

Like the phoenix rising from the ashes, the Annual King’s Greek Play reinvents itself yet again, with a bold new online production, combining highlights from extant and fragmentary Greek tragedies to provide a brand-new play about the Trojan War. The King’s Greek Play once again fashions something radically new out of some of the world’s oldest tales.’ (Dr Daniel Orrells, Head of Department of Classics, King’s College London)

This year’s performance will be online rather than live. Further communications will follow with information about how to book.

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King’s College London Summer School
2021-06-28 - 2021-08-06
Intensive courses in Ancient Greek

Intensive courses in Latin

This year King’s College London is again running two 6-week courses (28 June – 6 August, 2021) in Ancient Greek and Latin as part of the KCL Summer School. These courses offer students who have not previously had the opportunity to study Greek or Latin intensive training designed to bring them from complete beginners to a point where they are able to read simple texts. They are ideal for students who intend to study for a Masters or Doctoral degree to get ahead during the summer, thus acquiring an essential skill for their future research. They are also appropriate for teachers, undergraduates, mature students and anyone with an interest in the Hellenic or Roman world.

This year, the courses will be online only.

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Towards a More Inclusive Classics II (1-2 July 2021)
2021-07-01 - 2021-07-02
Towards a More Inclusive Classics II (1-2 July 2021)
Online international workshop organised by Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (University of St Andrews, UK) and Professor Barbara Goff (University of Reading, UK)
Hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies and supported by the Council of University Classics Departments

Following the inaugural Inclusive Classics workshop last year, registration is now open for Towards a More Inclusive Classics II (1-2 July 2021). The workshop includes panels on embedding inclusive practices in institutions, decentring the canon, and collaboration between lecturers and students, with presentations from teachers, UG and PG students, and academics. There will also be opportunities to network with speakers and attendees in smaller breakout sessions.

The event will be held via Microsoft Teams and live captions will be available. All times are UK BST. Presentation materials will be pre-circulated via Microsoft OneDrive from 11 June. Attendance is free, but registration is essential. Registration closes on 25 June 2021.

To register, please email inclusiveclassics@gmail.com with your name, email address, affiliation or interest in the workshop, and choice of breakout group for the networking session. Please choose from the following, and note that there is no obligation to join a group based on current career path – the groups are open to anyone who is interested. It will also be possible to request to join a different group during the session.

Career paths:
PhD students and early career researchers
Mid-career and professoriate
Teachers in schools and colleges

Thematic:
Ideas for an Inclusive Classics Initiative Classical Association 2022 panel
Ideas for future Inclusive Classics Initiative events
Outreach

TOWARDS A MORE INCLUSIVE CLASSICS II – 1-2 JULY 2021

Online international workshop hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies and supported by the Council of University Classics Departments

Hosts: Professor Barbara Goff (University of Reading, UK) and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (University of St Andrews, UK)

Thursday 1 July, 14.00-16.40

1400 Welcome

PANEL 1: EMBEDDING INCLUSIVE PRACTICES (organised and chaired by Ashley Chhibber, PhD candidate, University of Nottingham, UK)

1410 Professor Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham University, UK) ‘A “head of department” perspective on building an inclusive departmental ethos’ (10 minutes presentation, 10 minutes Q and A)

1430 Dr Naoko Yamagata (Open University, UK) ‘Successes and challenges of inclusion at the Open University’ (10 minutes presentation, 10 minutes Q and A)

1450 Dr Marchella Ward (University of Oxford, UK) ‘Outreach in Classics and embedding inclusion’ (10 minutes presentation, 10 minutes Q and A)

1510 Small group discussion

1530 Break

PANEL 2: PROJECT UPDATES

1545 Serafina Nicolosi (PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool, UK) and Dr Fiona Hobden (University of Liverpool, UK) ‘Decolonising the Curriculum at Liverpool’

1555 Professor Peter Kruschwitz (University of Vienna, Austria) ‘MAPPOLA project update’

1605 Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson (King’s College London/University of Oxford, UK) ‘Knowledge Exchange’

1620 Q and A session

1640 End of workshop day one

FRIDAY 2 JULY 13.00-16.00

1300 Welcome

PANEL 3: DECENTRING THE CANON (organised and chaired by Anna McOmish, Aldridge School, UK)

1310 Anna McComish (Aldridge School, UK) ‘Teaching Ancient Middle Eastern History KS3’

1315 Peter Wright (Blackpool Sixth Form College, UK) ‘Opening up Latin and Classics teaching in the Blackpool area’

1320 Ray Cheung (Undergraduate and President of the Christian Cole Society, University of Oxford, UK) ‘The Christian Cole Society’

1325 Vijaya-Sharita Baba (Petroc College, UK) ‘Ethnic inclusivity in the current Classical Civilisation A Level specification’

1330 Sanjay Sharma (Heinz-Brandt-Schule, Berlin, Germany) ‘Framing discussions and subverting narratives in Classics’

1335 Q and A session

1400 Break

NETWORKING SESSION

1415 Small group discussion (groups chosen at registration)

1500 Break

PANEL 4: LECTURERS AND STUDENTS IN PARTNERSHIP (organised and chaired by Professor Kunbi Olasope, University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

1515 Professor Kunbi Olasope (University of Ibadan, Nigeria), Dr Monica Aneni (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) and Dr Idowu Alade (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) in conversation

1535 Q and A session

1600 Close of workshop

All times are UK BST. Presentations will be pre-circulated.
