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Archaeologists Alessandro Launaro, Senior Lecturer, and Ninetta Leone, Research Associate, have been working as members of the Cambridge MACH group to develop mathematical approaches to the classification of Roman pottery, part of the “Unveiling the Invisible” project funded by the Leverhulme Trust.The Mathematics for Applications in Cultural Herit…

Dr Renaud Gagné, Director of Undergraduate Studies, discusses the on-going challenges and adaptations made by the Faculty as the Covid-19 crisis continues and Lent term began under a renewed lockdown.Students returned to Cambridge in October 2020 for the first time since March 2020. Following a great deal of preparation and adaptation of classrooms…

Rachel Phillips describes some of the challenges faced during the pandemic by doctoral students engaged in full time research.When lockdown started in March 2020, I was six months into my PhD and five years into my time at Cambridge. I completed both my undergraduate and my master’s degrees here, and despite my assumption that I’d experienced all t…

A Fellow of Trinity from 1958, and Secretary of Trinity College Council for very many years, John was a University Assistant Lecturer in Classics (Ancient Philosophy) before he was appointed to the Office of University Draftsman at the Old Schools. John died on 23 February after a long illness.Fellows of Trinity and colleagues have paid tribute to …

Dr Rebecca Flemming, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow of Jesus College, has been appointed as a Joukowsky Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) for 2020-21. Rebecca also recently featured on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time discussing the Justinianic Plague.Two distinguished archaeologists are appointed annually as the Ma…

Justyna Ladosz, Education and Outreach Coordinator in the Museum of Classical Archaeology, explains how she continues to facilitate lessons for school groups whilst the Museum remains closed, and how the Faculty’s students continue to deliver the Learn Latin with MoCA project.Pre-pandemic, the Museum would welcome around 1,000 school pupils in a si…

The Faculty congratulates Emeline McClellan from the University of Georgia on winning a highly competitive US Gates scholarship for pursuing the MPhil in Classics at Cambridge. The Faculty congratulates Emeline McClellan from the University of Georgia on winning a highly competitive US Gates scholarship for pursuing the MPhil in Classics at Cambrid…

This year’s annual J H Gray Lecture will be delivered virtually by Philomen Probert, Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College.The J H Gray Lectureship was endowed in 1926 by a gift of £1,000 from the Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club to commemorate the services of the Revere…

This year’s annual series of Sather Lectures will be delivered virtually by four previous Sather Professors, including Mary Beard, Professor of Classics and Fellow of Newnham College and MM McCabe, Professor of Ancient Philosophy Emerita, King's College London, and Honorary Fellow of Jesus College.Founded over a century ago, the prestigious Sather …

Details of how to apply for this post are available online. Closing date: 11 February 2021.

An online corpus of more than 2,000 inscriptions in Greek and Latin of the Roman period from Cyrenaica (eastern Libya), of which Joyce Reynolds is the Principal Author has been published to mark her 102nd birthday.Joyce Reynolds FBA, Reader Emerita at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Fellow of Newnham, celebrated her 102nd birthday on the 1…

The Faculty reports with great sadness the death of Dr. Neil Hopkinson (1957–2021). Neil was successively undergraduate, PhD student and then Research Fellow at Peterhouse, and then a Fellow of Trinity. A fine scholar of and commentator on Hellenistic literature and a devoted teacher, Neil died suddenly on Tuesday 5 January after suffering a short…

Caroline Vout begins her term as Director of the Museum of Classical Archaeology. Caroline Vout (Carrie), Professor of Classics and Fellow of Christ’s College at Cambridge, Byvanck Chair of Classical Archaeology and Art History at the University of Leiden, took over as Director of the Museum of Classical Archaeology on 1 January 2021. Carrie will p…

The Faculty Board has issued a statement on Race Equality. https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/race-equality

The Faculty's Aldborough Roman Town has been nominated for Current Archaeology Award for Best Research Project of the Year. See link for how to vote.https://www.archaeology.co.uk/voteFor more information and to read the full article published this month:https://www.archaeology.co.uk/awards/research-project-of-the-year-2021.htm