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Applications are sought for two Research Associates to join the 'Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems' Project (VIEWS), led by the Principal Investigator Dr Philippa Steele. Closing date 9 December 2022.For further details please see: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/37671/

Members of the Faculty will be saddened by news of the death of Ian DuQuesnay. Mr DuQuesnay was appointed to a University Lectureship in the Faculty from October 1983.  He was the author of various studies of Republican and Augustan poetry and co-editor of Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers (2012) and The Cambridge Companion to Catullus (2021). Ian w…

The Museum of Classical Archaeology is very sad to report the death on 21 September 2022 of its former Assistant Curator, John Donaldson. John worked in the Museum from 1988 until his retirement in in March 2013. Indeed, the Museum looks the way it does in large part because of John, who was as happy painting bases as he was writing labels. He also…

The Faculty of Classics is deeply saddened by the news of the death of Joyce Reynolds FBA. She was Reader Emerita in Roman Historical Epigraphy, Fellow of the British Academy, and Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, where she was Director of Studies in Classics from 1951 to 1979. She was awarded the Gold Medal of the Society of Antiquaries in 1951 …

Mary Beard is one of ten writers and scholars invited by the BBC to reflect on their experience of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Follow the link below to listen:Listen here

The Board of Electors to the Regius Professorship of Greek invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship to take up appointment on 1 September 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. For more information see details here. Closing date: 2 September 2022

The British School at Athens and the Archives of the Faculty of Classics and Pembroke College are pleased to announce that the first phase of the project‘Digital Thessaly’ has been completed. Funded by the Cambridge Digital Humanities, this project reunites on BSA Digital Collections Alan Wace’s research notebooks that formed the basis of his and M…

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 employ a research team workin…

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 and hosting a panel on 'D…

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 bequest of Sir Perceval Maitla…

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' College. Professor Diggle sai…

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. 

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 for the furtherance of Greek…

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 token at the front desk to…

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 both parties. We are looking …