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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

The Faculty is delighted to report that Professor Simon Goldhill has been elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.https://www.humanities.org.au/2020/11/25/welcoming-our-newly-elected-fellows-2020/

The Faculty invites applications from early career researchers to the this fellowship. Internal deadline: 21 December 2020.Information for applicants on how to apply is available from the INT’s website. Applications must be made to the Faculty Research Officer by the deadline, and not to the INT.

Professor Mary Beard is starting a new series of her Arts and Culture programme, now called "Inside Culture" on BBC2 (7.30 pm Thursday 24 Sept).Professor Mary Beard is starting a new series of her Arts and Culture programme, now called "Inside Culture" on BBC2 (7.30 pm Thursday 24 Sept). The first episode has Vanessa Redgrave performing from Shakes…

Cambridge Classics maintains its place at the top of the Guardian league tableSee the Guardian website for further details:https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2020/sep/05/the-best-uk-universities-2021-league-table

Details of how to apply for this new post are available online. Closing date: 17 September 2020.The details and how to apply can be found here.

The Faculty congratulates Professor Paul Cartledge on becoming President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (the Hellenic Society) in June. Among his predecessors are Professor Easterling, Professor Osborne, and Professor Schofield. The Society (founded in 1879) helps to maintain the Hellenic and RomanLibrary in conjunction w…