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Read more at: Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) awarded ERC grant
Egyptian hieroglyphs

Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) awarded ERC grant

16 March 2022

Philippa Steele, Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, has been awarded a grant of 2 million euros by the European Research Council (ERC) to investigate the visual properties of pre-modern writing. The five-year project, Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS), will...


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Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning: Outstanding Student Contribution to Education Awards

4 February 2022

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Lylaah Bhalerao (MPhil cohort 2020-21) has been highly commended in the University’s Outstanding Student Contribution Awards (Inclusive Practice) in recognition of the work she undertook to make Classics as a Faculty and a discipline more inclusive, particularly her work organising...


Read more at: Michael Squire to join Faculty as Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology
Professor Michael Squire with students

Michael Squire to join Faculty as Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology

27 January 2022

We are delighted to announce that Michael Squire, Professor of Classical Art, King’s College London, has been elected Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology as successor to Professor Martin Millett who retires on 30 September 2022. The Laurence Professorship of Classical Archaeology was established in 1930 at the...


Read more at: New Year's Honours 2022: James Diggle CBE

New Year's Honours 2022: James Diggle CBE

1 January 2022

The Faculty is delighted to report that Emeritus Professor James Diggle has been awarded a CBE for his services to Classical Scholarship in the 2022 New Year's Honours List. James was Professor of Greek and Latin from 1995 until he retired in 2011 and is a Fellow of the British Academy as well as Life Fellow at Queens'...


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Aldborough Roman Town

24 November 2021

Watch a new film about Aldborough Roman Town , exploring its archaeological story. Created by Dr Rose Ferraby, it celebrates new understandings of the site from the Aldborough Roman Town Project .


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Lewis-Gibson visiting fellowships

8 November 2021

The Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies is delighted to launch a new scheme for scholars wishing to visit Cambridge for periods of up to three months. The fellowships will be known as Lewis-Gibson Visiting Fellowships , after Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson , two pioneering scholars of ancient languages who endowed a fund...


Read more at: Beyond the Pale: A trail to bring colour to Classics
Beyond the Pale: A trail to bring colour to Classics

Beyond the Pale: A trail to bring colour to Classics

27 October 2021

The Museum of Classical Archaeology has launched a new trail, exploring what difference it might make to see Greek and Roman sculpture with its pigment restored – as well as the consequences over the centuries of seeing the Greek and Roman world without colour. Follow the trail from Bay A around the Gallery, and pick up a...


Read more at: Classics Beyond Borders | A collaboration with the University of Ghana

Classics Beyond Borders | A collaboration with the University of Ghana

20 October 2021

We are proud to announce that the Faculty of Classics has established a collaborative link with the University of Ghana, generously supported by the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research fund. Developing new connections with Ghana promises to open up new possibilities for research and teaching, which will be beneficial for...


Read more at: SOUNDING ALDBOROUGH 2021 Episode 3

SOUNDING ALDBOROUGH 2021 Episode 3

19 October 2021

Episode 3 of the Aldborough Roman Town podcast, written and presented by Dr Rose Ferraby, is now available. See the project page for more information .


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Plan of current knowledge of Roman York, ©John Creighton and Martin Millett

Roman York beneath the streets

12 October 2021

Martin Millett, Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge, and Dr John Creighton, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, have been awarded a grant of £718,598 from the AHRC for a new project on Roman York (which will run from November 2022 to April 2024). The nature and topography of...


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Election of two new Professors in the Faculty of Classics

27 March 2024

The Faculty is delighted to announce the election of Professor Josephine (Jo) Crawley Quinn to the Professorship of Ancient History and Professor Serafina Cuomo to the A. G. Leventis Professorship of Greek Culture . Jo will join the Faculty on 1 January 2025 and will be the first woman to hold the Professorship of Ancient...

Craven Seminar 2024

26 March 2024

The programme for the Craven Seminar 2024, ‘Interface Interpretation: exegesis as encounter in Greco-Roman literature’ , is now available online . This will be an in-person event. Please click here to register.

Classical Equalities Lecture 25 April 2024 at 17.00 in G19

4 March 2024

Jane Draycott will be giving this year’s Classical Equalities lecture, on ‘ Prostheses in Classical Antiquity: Everything You Never Knew You Wanted To Know’. Jane Draycott is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Glasgow. Her research investigates science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world. She has...

Soundmarks Project

12 February 2024

Soundmarks, an art/archaeology collaboration between Rose Ferraby, Cambridge Archaeologist, and Rob St John using sound and visual art launches at DIG in York. In 2019 the pair created work exploring and animating the sub-surface landscape of Aldborough Roman Town in North Yorkshire, UK. Soundmarks Aldborough was re-shown...