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Faculty of Classics

 

E: PHILOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS

All talks will take place on Wednesdays between 4.30 pm and 6 pm, in room 1.11, in the Faculty of Classics building.

29 January
IE Seminar
Prof. Mark Janse
'The development of agglutinative noun and verb inflections in Cappadocian Greek'

5 February - CANCELLED
Mycenaean Seminar
Merten Wiltshire
'The Archanes Sequence of Signs'

12 February - CANCELLED
IE Seminar
Dr Simona Marchesini
'Grotta poesia in Apulia: hermeneutics and textuality of one of the richest epigraphic complexes in the ancient Mediterranean'

19 February
Mycenaean Seminar
Hannah Lewis
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Plants in Linear B

26 February
VIEWS Seminar
Avraham Faust
'The Locus of Writing: Viewing Literacy in Iron Age Israel and Judah'
Hannah Bash
'Writing, Materiality, and Orality in the Deir Alla Plaster Inscriptions'

5 March
IE Seminar
Dr Afra Pujol i Campeny
TBC

12 March
VIEWS Seminar
Theo Nash
'Regionalism in Mycenaean Writing: Comparing Writing practices at Mycenae and Thebes'

19 March
IE Seminar
Prof. Patrick Honeybone
'What can Laryngeal Realism tell us about Indo-European stops?'

 

 

 

 

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Senior Curator: Mediterranean Antiquities

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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...

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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.

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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...