St Andrews Classics

"History’s Pawns: The Use of Boxers in Mussolini’s Rome" Speaker: Carlotta Piantanida (La Sapienza) STARR #seminar 📆 29 October,⏰6pm In person:📍Rm S11, Swallowgate Online:💻Teams (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link) View abstract: buff.ly/8lE04pt

The @antiquitymedia.bsky.social upcoming conference schedule is now up on the CRSN site! Find out more information (including how to register for the conference) below:

"The Dangerous Spindle: Women, Work, and Conflict in Late Antiquity" Kate Cooper (RHUL) 🗓️ 16 October, 4:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) Centre for Late Antique Studies - Annual #Lecture #allwelcome

We're hiring! Join our professional services team here in #StAndrews as a Research and Events Administrator. Please email informal enquiries to Samantha Dixon at clschman@st-andrews.ac.uk ⏰️ Apply by 9 November: buff.ly/7Ge7VlU #Vacancy #HiringNow #jobs

Calling all creatives! Are you a writer, actor, producer, choreographer or composer? Amateur or professional, student or teacher - join us to explore the power of peace storytelling! buff.ly/1nwG4bj First #workshop - 13 November, University of St Andrews. #Allwelcome

The School of Classics welcomes applications for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme 2027. Send preliminary applications to classicsdor@st-andrews.ac.uk by 31 October 2026 at 5pm. 🔗 View details and apply: buff.ly/CCJZIIb #Funding #ClassicsBluesky

"Long After the Labyrinth" A new play which draws on ancient myth to explore post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding today. Coming to the Byre in St Andrews! 12 November 2026. 👉️ View details and book: buff.ly/xMiMJUd #PeaceStudies #StAndrews #Theatre

"St Andrews Greek Week" 📆 24 - 27 November Join us for a poetry recital, film screening, play performance, workshop, keynote and roundtable, all celebrating Greek culture. View info and book for workshop/keynote: buff.ly/N1eRHHN Free events: #AllWelcome #SaveTheDates

We're inviting applications for our doctoral programme for 2027-2028 entry! View details including funding opportunities: buff.ly/eOqjfXe #PhD #PhDApplication #Scholarships #Funding #DoctoralProgram #Studentship #PostgraduateResearch #StAndrews

"Lucian’s 'Icaromenippus' as an Exercise in Scalar Literacy " Anna Athanasopoulou (Ghent)   CAES Annual #Lecture 🗓️ 16 October, 4:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #allwelcome

"The Mock Trial of Odysseus, King of Ithaca" 📆 Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 6pm 💻️ Live from the UK Supreme Court 🔗 View details and get livestream tickets: buff.ly/af3SsSt #ClassicsForAll

"From Plato’s Cave to the TVA ... " Speaker: Dr Ioannis Tzortzakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) STARR #seminar 📆 15 October,⏰6pm In person:📍Rm S11, Swallowgate Online:💻Teams (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link) View abstract: buff.ly/IFaUTfi

"Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities" Online #Workshop 📆 11 December 2026, 2-5 p.m. GMT #CallForPapers Please send abstracts (approx. 500 words) to mountainstories@st-andrews.ac.uk, copied to the three convenors, by 31 October 2026. 🔗 View details: buff.ly/xVoFyOU #Mountains #CFP

"Jackie D\escends The Stairs: Jacques Derrida / the “step” of hospitality / Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus" Speaker: Robin Fodor STARR #seminar 📆 #today,⏰6pm In person:📍Rm S11, Swallowgate Online:💻Teams (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link) [NB: change to schedule]

"AI in teaching and learning Classics" 📆 Fri 23 Oct 2026 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM 📍 Room G.19, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, CB3 9DA #FreeEvent 👉️ Book now (in-person or online tickets): buff.ly/wknmfEd #ClassicsBluesky

"Long After the Labyrinth" A new play which draws on ancient myth to explore post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding today. Tour dates from 21 October onwards. 👉️ View details and book: buff.ly/tyytSgm #PeaceStudies #ClassicalReception #PostConflictRecovery

Laura Bassi Scholarship, Winter 2026. Provides editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study. Open to every discipline. ⏰ Apply by 15 November 2026. 🔗 View details and apply: buff.ly/MM55W4D #Scholarship #Funding

"Stonehenge: exploring the mystery" Professor Mike Parker Pearson (UCL) Mitford #Lecture 🗓️ 8 October, 6:30 - 8pm 📍Lower Parliament Hall, #StAndrews Entry: £5, students and members free (annual membership £10) Hosted by the St Andrews University Archaeological Society buff.ly/KptfUVj #allwelcome

JACT #Latin Summer School: 18 to 31 July 2027. Open to anyone at any level, from complete beginners up to post A-Level standard and everyone in between. View details and register: buff.ly/miDAyHd #SummerSchool

Association for Art History Annual Conference, 7 to 9 April 2027. Session 41: "Feminist and Queer Reception of Classical Greco-Roman Corporeality" View #CallForPapers and submit proposals: buff.ly/2GJEr8K Deadline: 25 October 2026 #CFP #ClassicalReception #Corporeality #Feminism

"The Matron of Ephesus after Petronius..." Speaker: Marika Strano (University for Foreigners of Perugia) STARR #seminar 📆 8 October,⏰6pm In person:📍Rm S11, Swallowgate Online:💻Teams (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link) View abstract: buff.ly/HJNccl1

Calling all St Andrews Classicists! The St Andrews Network for Working Class Classicists is conducting a survey in collaboration with the School of Classics Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion Committee. 🔗 bit.ly/3OKmPKm  Please fill this in if you haven’t already! #WorkingClassClassics

The School of Classics welcomes applications for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme 2027. Send preliminary applications to classicsdor@st-andrews.ac.uk by 31 October 2026 at 5pm. 🔗 View details and apply: buff.ly/G6POzp2 #Funding #ClassicsBluesky

"Inscribing Freedom: Hellenistic Manumission between Document and Monument" Matthew Hewitt (Edinburgh) #Seminar 🗓️ 2 October, 4:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #AllWelcome

"‘We Could Be Heroes’... " Speaker: Anna Coopey (University of St Andrews) STARR #seminar 📆 1 October,⏰6pm In person:📍Rm S11, Swallowgate Online:💻Teams (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link) View abstract: buff.ly/MvKpmvt

"Narrativity in Imperial Legislation and the Challenges of Late Roman Monarchy" Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner (Tübingen) CLAS Work-in-progress #Seminar 📆 28 September, 12pm 📍 In-person only: Room S4, Swallowgate, St Andrews #AllWelcome

‘First Causes and the Unity of Aristotle’s First Philosophy’ Speaker: Guilherme Cecílio (UNIRIO), Global Fellow (University of St Andrews) #Seminar 📆 Wednesday 30 September 2026, 3pm to 5pm 📍 Arts Seminar 4 (Arts Building), St Andrews. #AllWelcome

In this episode, Jason König, Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou, Ionas Sklavounos and Marilena Mela talk about the work of Boulouki preserving traditional building techniques. buff.ly/k2kB7X3 #MountainsOfGreece #Mountains #podcast For a version with subtitles listen on YouTube: buff.ly/R1Zy0gu

"Victor Davis Hanson: Spartan Aberration in Modern Asymmetrical #Warfare" Speaker: Aaron Pocock (Glasgow) STARR #seminar 📆 24 September,⏰6pm In person:📍Rm S11, Swallowgate Online:💻Teams (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link) View abstract: buff.ly/QcFYfZY #ClassicsBluesky

"Rural Labour in Classical Attica: Evidence from the ARTEMIS Survey" Maeve McHugh (Birmingham) #Seminar 🗓️ 23 September, 2:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) 🔗 View seminar schedule: bit.ly/3SU6Pb0 #AllWelcome