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Reception Seminars: Lent 2025
Seminars will take place in the Faculty of Classics.

 

Tuesday 28th January, 12.30-2.00pm (1.11)

Josey Parker (Classics PhD) & Ava Wilson (MML MPhil)

'Renaissance Woman: reading Latin with Isotta Nogarola and Hélisenne de Crenne'

 

Friday 31st January – Saturday 1st February (G.21)

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Classics Beyond the Canon

Sign up here: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/44331/

 

Thursday 13th February, 5.15-6.30pm (G.21)

Professor Sarah Annes Brown (ARU)

'Mind the Gap: Ovid, Contemporary Poetry and the Anthropocene'

Followed by pub trip and dinner with speaker

 

Tuesday 18th February, 12.30-2.00pm  (1.11)

Davide Salmoiraghi (ASNAC JRF) & Albert Koch (Classics undergraduate)

'Classical heroes: from Medieval Iceland to Renaissance Italy'

 

Thursday 27th February

Theatre trip!- details tbc

 

Thursday 6th March, 5.15-6.30pm (G.21)

Professor Jane Draycott (Glasgow)

'Cleopatra VII and the problem(s) with women in classical video games'

Followed by pub trip and dinner with speaker

 

Tuesday 11th March, 12.30-2.00pm (1.11)

Marie-Gabrielle Pélissié du Rausas (Visiting student in History and Classics, Université de Tours) & Alex-Jaden Peart (Classics MPhil)

Free Thinkers: from Plato’s Republic to Phyllis Wheatley 

 

Tuesday 18th March, 12.30-2.00pm (1.11)

Workshop: Setting the Record Straight: Queering the Archive (and Classics!)

In collaboration with the Newnham Queer Archive.

 

Thursday 20th March, 5.15-6.30pm (G.21)

Professor Simon Goldhill (Cambridge) 

“On Historicity”

Followed by end of term pub trip

 

 

 

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Senior Curator: Mediterranean Antiquities

28 April 2025

The Faculty and the Fitzwilliam Museum and are seeking to appoint a Senior Curator of Mediterranean Antiquities. The post-holder will be the curatorial and research lead for the Fitzwilliam's substantial collection of Mediterranean antiquities, and will also be a senior member of the Faculty of Classics: 20% of the role...

Ralegh Radford Rome Award

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The Faculty is delighted to report that Jonathan Steward has been awarded the Ralegh Radford Rome Award, BSR, for Lent Term 2026.

Pat Story

2 April 2025

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...

VIEWS Visiting Fellowships and Remote Inclusivity Fellowships

31 March 2025

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...