News

We are very sad to pass on the news of the death of Pat Story on 25th March, after a short illness.Pat has been the single most important figure in classics education for the last 50 years and her passing marks the end of an era.There will be a celebration of her life in Hughes Hall at 2pm on Saturday 17 May.All are very welcome: if you are plannin…

The Faculty is pleased to announce that the UKRI funded VIEWS project has launched this year’s visiting fellowship competition, with a new virtual fellowship aimed at tackling inequalities in academia alongside the usual competition. For more information see here.The deadline for both competitions is Friday 23rd May 2025. If you have any questions …

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Frisbee Sheffield has been awarded a Trinity College Project Completion Grant. The award, for Mid-Career Researchers in the Humanities, will enable a period of research leave in Lent Term 2026 in connection with a project on Socrates and the Ethics of Conversation.

The Faculty is delighted to announce that both Dr Lea Niccolai and Dr Henry Spelman have been awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes in the 2024 competition.Professor Anna Vignoles, Director of the Leverhulme Trust, said:“Now in its twenty-third year, this scheme continues to attract applications from extraordinarily high calibre researchers. Selecting o…

The Faculty would like to congratulate Sólveig Hilmarsdóttir for winning the The British Federation of Women Graduates' Elen Wynne Vanstone Award for her work Talis homo qualis oratio: social status and its connection to the language of Roman writers.Sólveig works on the interface between Latin linguistics and Latin literature and her PhD project f…

The new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Paris 1924: Sport, Art, and the Body, Co-curated by Classics' Carrie Vout has been awarded 5 stars by the Guardian. "Timed to coincide with next week’s return of the Olympics to the French capital – is a revelation from first to last. You soon begin to realise that those Games were a turning point not j…

The Faculty is saddened by news of the death of Dr Richard Duncan-Jones FBA FSA.  He had been a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College since 1963 where he was a college lecture in Classics and Director of Studies for many years. 

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Elena Giusti as a new Assistant Professor of Latin literature.  She will join the Faculty in the new academic year. Elena will be joining from the University of Warwick, where she is currently Associate Professor of Latin. She works broadly on Roman literature and thought, specifically on L…

The Faculty of Classics would like to congratulate our Early Career Researchers who have secured new positions elsewhere in the UK and abroad. We thank Il-Kweon, Michael, Tom, Ludo, and Lea for all their contributions to our Classics community and wish them the very best for the next steps in their careers. Dr Il-Kweon Sir has been appointed to a l…

This summer Professor Caroline Vout is co-curating an Olympic Exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 'Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body'  which looks back on the pivotal moment, 100 years ago, when traditions and trailblazers collided, fusing the Olympics’ classical legacy with the European avant-garde spirit. It was a breakthrough that forever ch…

This year Professor Dame Mary Beard is due to give The Sir Robert Rede's Lecture on Friday 3 May 2024.She will speak on the topic 'The boy who breathed on the glass at the British Museum': what, or whom, is the past for?'If you would like to attend the event, you are most welcome but booking is essential: register for free tickets via https://event…

The Faculty is delighted to announce the election ofProfessor Josephine (Jo) Crawley Quinn to the Professorship of Ancient History andProfessor 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 History in the University.  Sh…

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.   

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 published extensively on the …

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 at DIG in York between …