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💥 Join us for the Durham Centre for Classical Reception Prize Lecture!

🏫 Dr Alexander Vandewalle (Gent) "Play the Hero, or Play God Characterization of Greco-Roman Mythological Characters in Video Games"

📅 5pm, Weds 10 Dec

📍 TLC123 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/84e9bd...
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🚨 PhD scholarship alert!

👉 PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities, 8 available!

💥 3.5 years funding & full fee waiver

🔗 Full details: www.dur.ac.uk/departments/...
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
💥 Congratulations to Dr Ilaria Bucci and Prof. Ted Kaizer, who have a new article in the latest volume of 'Iraq'!

👉 This article is the publication of the first bilingual inscription from Hatra, combining Greek with Hatran Aramaic.

🔗 Read here for free, open-access: doi.org/10.1017/irq....
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Still proud to be part of the “University of the Year 2026” 🏆

Durham continues to shine - thanks to every student, staff member and alumnus who makes this community so special.💜
www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!

🏫 Francesca Salvatori (Durham) "Pariter super aequora lata feremur. Alcyone’s transformative power in Ov. Met. 11.410-748"

📅 1pm, Weds 12 Nov

📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a1f28b...
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🚨 PhD scholarship alert!

👉 Edna Jenkinson Studentship in Classics, in association with St Mary's College

💥 3.5 years funding & a research and travel allowance of £1,400

🔗 Full details: tinyurl.com/4eywc8f6
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall who, along with Prof. Alison Sharrock, has published a special collection of 'Green Letters' on 'Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach to Classics'

🔗 tinyurl.com/y83r95d8
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
💥 PhD applications are now open!

📚 Study across the whole spectrum of Classics: literature, history, philosophy, archaeology, digital humanities, classics education, reception, public policy...

👉 Learn more here: tinyurl.com/4eywc8f6

🏛️ Departmental research strengths: tinyurl.com/32yavda6
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🎉 Massive congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall, who has won the International Hellenic Prize for her book 'Facing down the Furies'

🎭 Prof. Hall turns to Greek Tragedies to seek wisdom in understanding the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide.

🔗 tinyurl.com/ykcparez
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!

🏫 Dr Annie Burman (Uppsala) "Etruscans in the Archive: modern archival collections as a source in epigraphic research"

📅 1pm, Weds 5 Nov

📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5c367e...
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Ingleheart, who has has published new translations of Catullus in the latest Shearsman magazine

🌈 Prof. Ingleheart has rendered the Latin into loose Polari

🔗 See the latest issue of Shearsman here: www.shearsman.com/shearsman-ma...
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
💥 Join us as the UKRI-funded Aristoteles Pezographos project and the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (DCAMP) host a workshop dedicated to the Atlantis story in Plato's works.

📆 5 Nov, 10am–6pm

📍 Grey College, Durham & hybrid via Teams

🔗 Full programme: tinyurl.com/c34ekkds
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Lucy Jackson, who has provided the introduction and notes to Gary Owen’s 'Iphigenia in Splott'

🎭 The text is a new student edition and is a modern retelling of Iphigenia at Aulis

📚 Pictures from the recent book launch, held at the National Theatre

🔗 tinyurl.com/aps5d2x5
October 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📚 Conference CFP: Philomythia: Aristotle’s Use of Previous Literatures, 16th-17th June 2026

👉 Part of the ERC/UKRI-funded research project, "Aristoteles Pezographos: The Writing Styles of Aristotle and their Contribution to the Evolution of Greek Prose"

🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/3hhcnayc
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!

🏫 Prof. Candida Moss (Birmingham) "Invisible Hands: Enslaved Secretaries, Shorthand, and Authorship"

📅 1pm, Weds 29 Oct

📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a31f97...
October 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Polly Low, who has provided the introduction and notes to Robin Waterfield's recently published new translation of Thucydides!

🔗 tinyurl.com/826xpz6n

🔊 Listen to Polly and Robin on the 'Wondery' podcast: tinyurl.com/3xp738a3
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
💥 Congratulations to Dr Andrea Giannotti, who has a new publication in the 'Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies'!

👉 Dr Giannotti explores what purpose did the erection of a stele in a specific civic space serve.

🔗 Read here for free, open-access: tinyurl.com/3mjkre4f
October 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
💥 Join us for a special lecture by our visiting scholar!

🏫 Dr Gwynaeth McIntyre (Otago) "Searching for the “True” Likeness of a Caesar? Physical Appearance in Suetonius"

📅 5pm, Thurs 23 Oct

📍 CL007 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/04dd02...
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!

🏫 Dr Ella Kirsh (Cambridge) "Ipsissima verba? The limits of shorthand under the Roman empire"

📅 1pm, Weds 22 Oct

📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/689ab4...
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Thinking of studying at Durham?

The University will be holding tours of the colleges, campus, and city to allow you to discover Durham for yourself on 27, 28, and 31 October!

For more info and to sign up, see durhamuni.eventsair.com/2025-discove...

Open to prospective undergrads and postgrads
October 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🌳 Conference CFP: Ecocritical Approaches to Ancient Performance Culture, 22–24th April 2026

🎭 This conference will address the relationship between ancient Greek and Roman dramatic/mimetic performances and the natural world, including their reception

👉 Contact Emma Bentley and Edith Hall
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
📢 Are you considering Durham for undergraduate or postgraduate study?

💥 Join us for the 'Durham Live' online event to learn more about studying with us: durhamuni.eventsair.com/discover-dur...

📅 20/21 October
October 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
💥 Congrats to Dr Alexander Vanderwalle, whose thesis has been awarded the Durham Prize in Classical Reception for 2025!

👏 CongratulatCongratsions also to Aimee Hind Scott on second place, and to Jessica Glueck, whose thesis was highly commended.

📅 Prize lecture in Durham at 5pm on 10th Dec.
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🎆 Back in September our PhD students enjoyed 'Glaux', an exchange week with their Heidelberg counterparts.

👉 Research presentations, a trip to Hadrian's Wall, and lots of discussion on research and collaboration ideas.

👏 Congrats Dr Chris de Lisle on organising such a great initiative!
October 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
💥 Submit your manuscript!

👩🏫 Dr Chiara Palladino is one of the editors of the new collection 'From bits of history to bytes of data: AI and the study of the ancient Near East – Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications'

👉 Learn more here: www.nature.com/collections/...
October 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM