St Andrews Classics
School of Classics, University of St Andrews.
st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/
- We're pleased to offer a Widening Access PhD Scholarship for 2025 entry. Funding available for duration of 3 year course. ⏰Apply by 30 May 2025. 📅We're holding an information session on 19 May. 🔗View info and get session link: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/s... #Scholarships #PhD
- "Laetae Segetes IX " International PhD and young researchers #conference 🗓19–21 November 2025, 📍Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno – Czechia #CallForPapers: Submit abstracts (up to 200 words) together with a CV by 30 May 2025. 🔗View details: classics.phil.muni.cz/en/news-and-...
- We're looking forward to the Cold War Classics workshop starting #tomorrow! View programme: sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/04/14/c...
- "Cold War Classics" #Workshop, 📅 13 to 15 May 2025. Hybrid: 🗺️ St Andrews 💻 Teams ⏰register by 10 May to attend online (email has22@st-andrews.ac.uk) View programme: sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/04/14/c... #AllWelcome #ClassicsBluesky
- New information session on Monday 12 May at 3pm! Get link: bit.ly/info-session...
- We're seeking applications for a 12 month Associate Lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology, to start 1 September. ⏰Closing date: 16 May. Informal enquiries welcome. Two online information sessions will be held on 8 May. standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/a... #Job #AcademicJob
- The Conference Dinner and the whisky tasting are sold out! General registration remains open. Book now to avoid disappointment! ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk It’s going to be a fabulous Saturday night, followed by a ceilidh. Bring your dancing feet! #CA2025
- Seminar, 🗓8 May at 5:15pm, 📍Room S11, Swallowgate: "The Campana reliefs: authenticity in classical reception" Speaker: Louise Wawrzynkowski Hosted by STARR - the St Andrews Reception Research Group. #seminar #classicalreception #postgraduateseminar #campanareliefs
- APGRD have extended the Call For Papers for the postgraduate symposium. New deadline for abstracts is this Friday, 9 May. #CFP #classicalreception #symposium 🔗 www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
- "Cold War Classics" #Workshop, 📅 13 to 15 May 2025. Hybrid: 🗺️ St Andrews 💻 Teams ⏰register by 10 May to attend online (email has22@st-andrews.ac.uk) View programme: sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/04/14/c... #AllWelcome #ClassicsBluesky
- We're seeking applications for a 12 month Associate Lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology, to start 1 September. ⏰Closing date: 16 May. Informal enquiries welcome. Two online information sessions will be held on 8 May. standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/a... #Job #AcademicJob
- #Today at 5pm BST: "Intimacy and Diversity in Classical Collecting" Speaker: Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis #HybridEvent 📍Rm 1.04, Faculty of Classics, Sidgewick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA. 👉 Get meeting link and view abstract: www.ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk/events/greek...
- ‘Intimacy and Diversity in Classical Collecting' Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St Andrews) Annual lecture for the Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity. 🗓2 May 2025 at 5pm 📍Al Jaber Auditorium, Corpus Christi College, Oxford www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/about-corpus...
- Deadline extended! Tell us about your experiences studying with us this semester! Module evaluation questionnaires (MEQs) are open to receive #StudentFeedback until midnight on 2 May. 👉Check your email for more info. #YourFeedbackFatters #StudentVoice
- "Classics and the British Radical Left, 1917–56" Speaker: Henry Stead (St Andrews) #Lecture #tomorrow 🗓1 May at 5pm, 📍G19 Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Av., Cambridge 🔗View abstract: www.classics.cam.ac.uk/events/class... #AllWelcome
- 🚨 The CA/CAS 2025 Dinner is almost SOLD OUT! 🚨 Join colleagues for an evening of valuable connections and conversation at St Andrews' beautiful Younger Hall. Book your place soon to avoid disappointment! 👉https://ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ #CA2025
- Late antique #seminar, 23 April at 4pm: "Inscribing Forgetting? Towards Epigraphic Recycling and Social Oblivion in Late Antique Asia Minor" Arik Avdokhin (Oxford) For meeting link, email Ann-Sophie Schoess (ass8@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Anna Kelley (ack20@st-andrews.ac.uk) #AllWelcome
- Did you study a module with us this semester? Please tell us about your experience in the module evaluation questionnaires. MEQs are open to receive #StudentFeedback until midnight on 25 April 2025. Check your email for more info! . . . . #questionnaire #YourFeedbackFatters #StudentVoice
- #CallForPapers: The First St Andrews Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop in Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies, 1 July 2025. Open to St Andrews PhD researchers: please submit proposals for 20 minute papers on any aspect of Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period by 1 May 2025.
- "Cold War Classics" Workshop, 📅 13 to 15 May 2025. Hybrid: 🗺️ St Andrews 💻 Teams ⏰register by 30 April to attend online (email has22@st-andrews.ac.uk) View programme: sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/04/14/c... #AllWelcome #ClassicsBluesky
- The Europaeum Classics colloquium 'Multipolar antiquity' is open for applications! 📌Leiden 🇳🇱 📅28-29 August ⏰Apply by 28 May 🚆🛌🍝Travel and board included europaeum.org/cfa-the-euro... Open to #postgraduate students.
- "'Tumultus Iudaicus': the diaspora revolts and the rebuilding of Cyrene" Caroline Barron (Durham) #Seminar 🗓️ 16 April ⏰ 2.15pm (UK time) 📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject) #AllWelcome
- 📋 Apply for the Katie Pearson Scholarship ⏰ Deadline: 21 April The scholarship was established through donations in memory of Katie Mortimer Pearson MA (Hons) English Language and Literature 1982. 🫶 Open to students studying any subject at St Andrews Find out more👇 ow.ly/poRt50VwAFe #EverToExcel
- Students studying the archaeology of ancient Rome visited the city on a field trip this semester. Read Kasia Middleton's account of their experiences: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/r...
- "Plato's 'Laws'" #Conference 🗓️ 15 to 16 May 2025 📍 Room S11, Swallowgate, St Andrews 👉 View programme: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/plato... ⏰To register: email classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk by 15 April
- "Heterarchies and Power Dynamics in Post-Roman Europe (4th -10th century AD)" Workshop,📅5 to 7 Nov 2025, 🗺️University of Bonn. View #CallForPapers (pdf) 👉https://www.goerres-gesellschaft-rom.de/images/PDF/PDF2025/Heterarchies_Workshop_Call_for_Papers.pdf Submit abstracts by 4 May 2025. #CFP
- Join us for our next research #seminar: "‘Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province’…" Lina Girdvainyte (Edinburgh) 🗓️ 4 April ⏰ 4.15pm (UK time) 📍 room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
- CLAS seminar, #tomorrow, 2 April at 4pm: "Visigothic Queens: Female Power and Patronage in Late-Antique Iberia" Carolyn La Rocco Hybrid event: Rm SO3 Swallowgate/Teams For meeting link, email Ann-Sophie Schoess (ass8@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Anna Kelley (ack20@st-andrews.ac.uk).
- 🎉We're delighted to be ranked no 1 in the UK for the subject of Classics and Ancient History, and now third in the world! 🌍 🎊🙌 Thanks to everyone in our school for your dedication and expertise! #SubjectRankings #ClassicsAndAncientHistory #Classics standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/l...
- ROMEC XXI, last few days to register! 21st Roman Military Equipment Conference Brno, Czech Republic, 2-6 June 2025. www.arub.cz/ROMEC2025/ #ClassicsBluesky
- Be heard. Be valued. Are you studying for an MLitt with us? Complete the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) 2025, and enter a draw to win a £20 voucher! 👉 Check your email for the survey link Survey closes 13 June #YourVoiceMatters stleonardscollege.st-andrews.ac.uk/community-an...
- Be heard. Be valued. Are you studying for a PhD with us? Complete the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) 2025, and enter a draw to win a £20 voucher! 👉 Check your email for the survey link Survey closes 16 May #FeedbackMatters 🔗 stleonardscollege.st-andrews.ac.uk/community-an...
- Research #seminar: "'Voluntarium et naturale?' Slave onomastics in ancient Italy" Katherine McDonald (Durham) 🗓️ 26 March ⏰ 2.15pm (UK tme) 📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams. (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #AllWelcome #onomastics
- Calling all final year #students! Have your say in the National Student Survey: thestudentsurvey.com NSS is open until 30 April #YourViewsYourNSS #NSS2025 #StudentVoice
- Classical Association Conference 2025 🗓11-13 July 📍St Andrews Registration is open! 👉https://ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/registration-information #CA2025 is hosted by the School of Classics @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, in partnership with the Classical Association and @cascotland.bsky.social.
- "Teaching Ancient Peace and Peacebuilding: current approaches, what works well, what could be different?" 💻Online consultation, 🗓26 March, ⏰4-5pm. Event is free. 👉View details and register: forms.office.com/pages/respon... #AncientPeace @viswarpeace.bsky.social
- Join us for the CAES Annual #lecture! "Ovid’s ecological disasters: scalar zoom and the challenges of narrative time" Alison Sharrock 🗓️ 21 March ⏰ 4.15pm 📍 Hybrid: Room SO3 Swallowgate, or Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject) #AllWelcome
- Research #seminar: " 'Are We Not Men?' Animals and Stigmatising Assumptions in Ancient Rome" Jack Lennon (Leicester) 🗓️ 14 March ⏰ 4.15pm 📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams. (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject) #AllWelcome
- Seminar, Wednesday 12 March at 4pm: "Cursing and Being Cursed in Late Antique Egypt" Charlotte Spence (Oxford) Hosted by the Centre for Late Antique Studies For meeting link, email Ann-Sophie Schoess (ass8@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Anna Kelley (ack20@st-andrews.ac.uk).
- Hybrid #lecture: ‘Thomas Burgon in Smyrna: A Merchant’s Tale of Travel and Classical Collecting in the Early Nineteenth Century’ Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St Andrews) 📅18 March ⏰6pm 🗺️London 👉Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thomas-bur... Flyer: www.angloturkishsociety.org.uk/doc/Alexia-P...
- Arts and Divinity Faculty Journal - call for submissions. Students at St Andrews: submit pieces pertaining to your subjects throughout the year! View info: artsanddivinityfacultyjournal.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk Submit: forms.office.com/e/WQCMznGZRz Questions? Email artdivfp@st-andrews.ac.uk
- "Perspective-taking, mind-reading, decision-making. Dialogue and its rhetorics in Greek Tragedy" Speaker: Jon Hesk (St Andrews) 🗓 3 March ⏰4.30-6.30pm 📍Room 261, Senate House, Malet Street, London 👉 Register: archive.sas.ac.uk/events/persp... #Seminar hosted by ICS #AllWelcome #AncientLiterature
- "Professionalising your PhD", online discussion, 🗓 12 March at ⏰2-5pm, 📍virtual session via MS Teams. View info and register: 👉https://st-andrews.startuptree.co/event/s/b6cHiJSN77ecN7snnS8QfA/Professionalising-Your-PhD%253A-Exploring-Career-Pathways-and-Skills-for-the-Future
- Calling all final year #students! Have your say in the National Student Survey: thestudentsurvey.com NSS is open until 30 April #YourViewsYourNSS #NSS2025 #StudentVoice
- "Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon" Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) 🗓️ 28 February 2025 ⏰ 4.15pm (UK time) 📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject). SACRA Annual #lecture. #AllWelcome
- 1 week left! Complete the Disabled Students' survey to contribute to disability work at the uni. 👉 forms.office.com/e/GGVrwmxbng The survey takes only 10 minutes and is completely anonymous.
- "Teaching Ancient War's Aftermath: Current approaches, what works well, what could be different?" 💻Online consultation hosted by @viswarpeace.bsky.social, 🗓24 February, ⏰1-2pm. 👉Registration (free) forms.office.com/pages/respon... Enquiries to vispeace@st-andrews.ac.uk #AncientPeace #Curriculum
- Seminar next Monday: "How to be Both: Models of Christian Political Service in Late Antiquity." Robin Whelan (Liverpool) 24 February, 5.15pm — Parliament Hall, St Andrews (co-hosted by SAIMS and ILCR)
- "Mythos as MythUS" International Summer School Confronting and overcoming crises through myth and traditional narrative from antiquity to the present. 23-30 June 2025 👉View details: mythus-aegean.eu 👉Enquiries to info@mythosasmythus.eu
- Research #seminar next week: "Unauthenticated letters in late Roman North African disputes..." Becca Grose (St Andrews) 🗓️ 19 February ⏰ 2.15pm 📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (To get Teams meeting link: email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
- St Andrews Archaeology Society Lecture, 13 February, 6pm, School 1, St Salvators Quad. "What sulfur isotope analysis can tell us about population mobility in prehistory" Professor Derek Hamilton (SUERC, University of Glasgow) View info: archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/wwhat-... #AllWelcome
