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…
Category: Features
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…
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…
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…
Undergraduate travel scholarships
The School of Classics is pleased to announce this year’s programme of travel scholarships. The deadline for application is Friday 10 March 2023. Awards are up to £500. The awards can be used very flexibly: Please do think about applying if you have a trip in mind for this coming summer or before. If you…
Lecturer in Ancient History (2 Posts)
We wish to appoint two Lecturers in Ancient History, within the School of Classics, to start in September 2023. Both are standard positions. The successful candidates will be scholars with a growing international research reputation in the subject, with the expertise to deliver high-quality teaching across the School’s undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Ancient…
New Approaches to the History of Plague in Late Antiquity
Workshop: Friday 3 February 2023School 2, St Salvator’s Quad, University of St Andrews Hosted by the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies and the Centre for Late Antique Studies This will be a hybrid event. All are welcome! Follow the links in the schedule to watch selected talks. Schedule 9.00-9.05: Introduction 9.05-9.50: Peter Sarris (Cambridge): Why Historians of the…
New trends in the study of Eleatism
Conference, 9-10 June 2022 Online: via Microsoft TeamsIn-person: Arts Seminar 1, Arts Building, St Andrews The last 20 years have seen the development of a host of innovative and philosophically sophisticated approaches to the Eleatics and their influence. There have been new major works on the long neglected work by Melissus, new reconstructions of Zeno’s…
The distribution of economic and political power in ancient empires
A conference to be held at the School of Classics, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UKThursday 2 June and Friday 3 June 2022Conference convenors: Bart Danon and Myles Lavan Conference topic While the distribution of wealth in modern societies has recently received considerable attention (notably following the recent work of Thomas Piketty), it remains a relatively…
Philosophy and religion in ancient Greece and the Islamic world
Workshop: Monday 25 April 2022 Organisers: Olaf Almqvist (oha1@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Alex Long (agl10@st-andrews.ac.uk) School III, University of St Andrews (45 here: wwwmap.pdf ) The School of Classics at St Andrews is holding a one-day workshop on the interface between philosophy and religion in the ancient Greek and Islamic worlds. Programme 9.30am Olaf Almqvist, St Andrews ‘God is…
Turbulence / Emergence /Enchantment: A Compendium of Climate Literacies
By Jason König The Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies has been running for 18 months or so now. It has been exciting to welcome so many different contributors from around the world to our various events (almost all of them online so far, but we hope it won’t be long before that changes). One of…
Philosophy and religion in ancient Greece and the Islamic world
Workshop: Monday 25 April 2022 Organisers: Olaf Almqvist (oha1@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Alex Long (agl10@st-andrews.ac.uk) Call for abstracts The School of Classics at St Andrews will hold a one-day workshop on the interface between philosophy and religion in the ancient Greek and Islamic worlds. Confirmed speakers: Peter Adamson, LMU; Olaf Almqvist, St Andrews; Fedor Benevich, Edinburgh; Feriel…
St Andrews Classics 