The School of Classics’ Visualising Peace Project studies how people in different communities and contexts experience, understand, represent and work towards peace. Their aim is to spark more conversation about what peace means to each of us, where it can be found, how it can be promoted, and what peace-building and peace-keeping actually involve, at…
Transformations
A WaMStA symposium, 24 May – 26 May 2023 TRANSFORMATIONS is a 3-day symposium hosted by the St Andrews/William & Mary Joint Degree Programme. It is designed to bring together faculty members from both institutions to share current and future research projects and to explore ways in which their various interests might lead to fruitful…
Towards a more inclusive Classics III: Material Culture
28-30 June 2023 A workshop on issues of accessibility, inclusivity, and diversity in the study of the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean world. The Inclusive Classics Initiative, in partnership with the Institute of Classical Studies, the Council of University Classics Departments EDI Committee, the University of St Andrews and the University of Reading, is…
Somewhere to stay
Visualising forced migration at the Wardlaw Museum, St Andrews A haunting new art installation inspired by a Polish family’s extraordinary wartime odyssey across three continents will be unveiled on 25 May at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews. ‘Somewhere to Stay’ was created by artist Diana Forster in collaboration with the School of Classics’ Visualising…
Congratulations to Maxwell Stocker
Congratulations to Maxwell Stocker, who successfully defended his PhD recently. Maxwell’s thesis, entitled Egypt and the Odyssey: Homeric Dialogues with Egyptian Travel Literature, is the first systematic study of the as-yet unexplored cross-cultural relationship between the Odyssey and the Egyptian tradition of travel poetry from the Middle and Late Bronze Age. The thesis presents a comparative exploration of portrayals of…
Congratulations to Sanne Van Den Berg
Congratulations to Sanne Van Den Berg, who defended her PhD thesis on “Narratives of Death in Tacitus’ Annals” successfully and was approved with no corrections. By focusing attention on a wide range of death scenes – from murders to suicides – she shed new light on the political dynamics of the text. Her study has…
Congratulations to Carlos Machado
Congratulations to Carlos Machado on being awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Carlos will be working on a project with the title ‘Poverty and the end of empire: a deep history of the late antique West’. The project will study the role of poverty dynamics in the transformation of western Mediterranean societies between the Fourth and…
Congratulations to Pablo González Rojas
Congratulations to Pablo González Rojas, who successfuly defended his PhD. Pablo’s dissertation, Tacitus and the Representation of the Legal World in the Annals, is the first systematic study of the Roman historian Tacitus’ representation of the law in his Annals. Building on the recent growth of ‘law and literature’ approaches to English literature and Latin poetry, Pablo…
The Little Things
A Roman Studies Colloquium University of St Andrews24 March 2023 12:30-4:30pmParliament Hall, St Mary’s College Programme 12:30-13:10 – Of Mice and Men Dr. Nandini Pandey, Associate Professor of Classics – Johns Hopkins University 13:10-13:30 Break 13:30-14:30 – They Were Her Property Dr. Lisa Pilar Eberle, Assistant Professor of Classics – Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 14:30-14:50…
Congratulations to Carolyn La Rocco
Congratulations to Carolyn La Rocco, who successfully defended her viva on 15 February! Carolyn’s dissertation, “The ‘Christianisation’ of the Iberian Peninsula: Christian Space Creation by Late Roman and Visigothic Elites from the Fourth to the Eighth Century CE” analysed the Christianisation of the peninsula by focusing on the creation of Christian spaces over a long…
Philopoiētai 2
Workshop3 May 2023, 9:30 am to 5pm Programme 9.30-10.20 Rebecca Lämmle (in person) ‘An Apology to Homer. Plato and the dialogues of the dead.’ 10.20-11.10 Emily Kearns (in person)‘Some thoughts on blood, colour and impurity in Homer and his readers’ BREAK 11.40-12.30 Shaul Tor (online) “Even if they speak without likelihoods or compelling proofs”: Timaeus…
Congratulations to Oliver Gerlach
Congratulations to Oliver Gerlach, who successfully completed his PhD. In ‘Birth, Death, and Rebirth in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and Paraphrase’ Ollie demonstrates the enormous rewards of reading against each other two texts which although by the same author have tended to be considered in isolation from each other. Nonnus of Panopolis dates to the 5th century…
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