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The Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition @BristolUni.bsky.social. Promoting research into Greco-Roman culture, from antiquity to the present day.

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📢 EVENT REMINDER 📢

Join us on Thursday 18th to hear Jonathan Stamp talk about his experiences as a historical consultant on HBO's ROME!

🎟️ buytickets.at/theinstitute...
⏰18/11, 5-6:30 PM.
📍Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, BS8 1RJ
A poster for the event described, featuring an ancient Roman wall painting of a garden filled with birds and fruit trees.
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Last Thursday we were delighted to support the launch of the new South West and Wales regional network for the Hellenic Society. Organised by Dr Frances Pickworth, the event featured presentations from scholars and students in the area and a round-table discussion about the aims of the network.
A group photograph of a room full of people.
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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📢 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 📢

We are thrilled to announce that our 2025/26 Donors’ Celebration will be a lecture delivered by Jonathan Stamp, former consultant for the HBO series ROME.

🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰18/11, 5-6:30 PM.
📍Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, BS8 1RJ
The poster for the event, featuring a picture of the HBO Rome set of the Roman Forum, in a monochrome blue.
October 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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📣 UPCOMING EVENT! 📣

The Hellenic society is launching a new South West and Wales regional network!

🎟️ Sign up: forms.office.com/e/tbYuWrWwNP
⏰October 30th, 2-6PM
📍Humanities Research Space, University of Bristol 1st floor, 7 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB
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October 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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On Saturday the 4th, we were thrilled to invite Nicky Sugar and Alexander Taylor from University of Bristol Special Collections to deliver our annual Symonds lecture in collaboration with OutStories Bristol!
A photograph of Nicky Sugar and Alexander Taylor presenting in a lecture theatre. A zoomed out picture of the same scene. The two stand in front of a powerpoint presentation which says "they're only hidden because some fucker hid them.
October 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Big thanks to Prof Edith Hall and Dr Connie Bloomfield-Gadelha for presenting their new volume: Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature! The book launch was introduced by IGRCT director Dr Laura Jansen included a rich and insightful response from Dr Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway).
A photograph of two women, Edith Hall and Connie Bloomfield-Gadelha, presenting in a lecture theatre.
October 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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📣 EVENT TIME CHANGE - 5PM 📣

Our book launch for Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature will now be starting at 5PM, not 4PM. We apologise for any inconvenience.

🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰5PM-7PM, October 8th.
📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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📢 CALL FOR BIDS OPEN 📢

Deadline: October 27th

The IGRCT is accepting applications for travel bursaries from UoB students and for event proposals from UoB staff and PGRs. Please see our website for more information: igrct.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/funding/.
A graphic to advertise the travel bursaries, showing some buildings from the forum in Rome.
September 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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🏳️‍🌈 EVENT REMINDER 🏳️‍🌈

Don't forget to get your tickets for this year's Symonds lecture!

The event will also be livestreamed, and you can register here: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...
⏰4PM-6PM, 4/10.
📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.
A poster for the event advertised, featuring photographs from John Addington Symonds' life arranged in a collage.
September 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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📣 ANOTHER EVENT! 📣

We are holding a book launch for the volume "Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature", edited by Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha and @edithmayhall.bsky.social.

🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰4PM-6PM, 8/10.
📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.
The poster for the event. It features an unfinished painting of a woman with no face, standing on a cliff.
September 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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🏳️‍🌈 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🏳️‍🌈

For this year's Symonds lecture, Nicky Taylor and Alexander Sugar present “No man can see himself as others see"
Bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences. #queerhistory

🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...
⏰4PM, 4/10
📍Peel Lecture Theatre
The poster for the event discussed. It features various photographs and drawings from John Addington Symonds' life, such as a photograph of him on a sledge and a drawing of his dog.
September 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Welcome back to our 'meet the board' series! Today we're introducing Dr Peter Dent.

Peter is Head of Subject for History of Art at the University of Bristol. He is a specialist in late medieval and Renaissance sculpture and also works on Italian literature of the period, Dante in particular.
A photograph of Dr Peter Dent, standing next to a medieval painting of a saint.
September 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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📣 EVENTS PROGRAMME 📣

The IGRCT is thrilled to release our programme of events for the 2025/26 academic year. Be sure to put these dates in your diaries, and keep an eye out for announcements about venues and bookings!

#classicssky #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky
Text reads: IGRCT events programme 2025/25. October fourth: Symonds Lecture. Alexander Taylor and Nicky Sugar: "No man can see himself as others see": bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences." October sixteenth to April twelfth: Director's Annual Reception Series. Multiple Speakers: "Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories." The poster has an image down one side of a painting of the sea and cliffs, with an archaic Greek statue of a girl at the bottom. Text reads: IGRCT events programme 2025/25. November eighteenth: Donors Celebration. Jonathan Stamp: Title to be announced. April twenty third: Morse Lecture. Josephine Quinn: Title to be announced. The poster has the same image as the previous page.
August 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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🏛️ NEW EVENT SERIES 🏛️

The IGRCT is pleased to announce our new Director's Annual Reception Series, exploring emergent research at the intersections of antiquity and modernity.

The first series,"Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories" begins on October 16th.

www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
The poster for the event series. It features a painting of a silhouette of a woman walking down a black and white staircase. The events are to be held at 5-6:30 PM GMT/BST online on Thursdays throughout the year.
August 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Big news - the IGRCT has a new website! We've migrated to igrct.blogs.bristol.ac.uk. Watch this space for exciting new event listings in the upcoming academic year.
A screencap of the front page of the website.
August 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Welcome back to our meet the board series! Introducing Dr Erin Forbes:

Erin is a Senior Lecturer in English. Her recent book, Criminal Genius in African American and U.S. Literature, 1793-1845 shows at how creative genius developed in tandem with racialization in the early United States.
A photograph of Erin Forbes, standing against a pale background.
August 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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A huge congratulations to Dr Frances Pickworth, who has been appointed to a Lectureship in Digital Classics at @clahbristol.bsky.social. Frances was an intern for the IGRCT in 2022/23.

We are very proud of this accomplishment, coming so soon after Frances' successful viva defence earlier this year!
A photograph of Frances Pickworth, smiling in front of a river.
August 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Today in our meet the board series we're introducing Professor Elaine McGirr!

Elaine is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies and Head of Theatre. She works on, among other things, the resignification and reception of classical drama in the long eighteenth-century -
A photograph of Elaine McGirr.
August 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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This morning on meet the board we're introducing Dr Rhiannon Daniels!

Rhiannon is Associate Professor in Italian and has research interests in medieval and Renaissance Italian literary culture-
A photograph of Dr Rhiannon Daniels, standing in front of a bookshelf and smiling.
August 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Exciting news! We have another book to announce this week: "Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature," edited by IGRCT board member Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha and Edith Hall and published by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social.
The cover of the volume, showing an illustration of a man in Ancient Greek clothing giving a speech to an audience.
July 31, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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She is currently researching Julius Pollux’s Onomasticon, an ancient encyclopaedic text written in the 2nd century AD, and is interested in how Pollux preserves fragments from lost works of Classical Greek literature.

Picture: a 10th c. manuscript of Pollux held by the Ambrosiana library.
A photograph of a page of a manuscript written in Ancient Greek.
July 31, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Welcome back to our meet the board series! Today we're introducing Dr Naomi Scott.

Naomi Scott is A.G. Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies. Her first book, "Jokes in Greek Comedy: From Puns to Poetics", focused primarily on the fragments of Old Comedy.
A photograph of Dr Naomi Scott standing in front of a bookshelf.
July 31, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Fresh off the press from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social - "The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean," edited by Hannah-Marie Chidwick. The volume began as an IGRCT-funded conference held in Bristol in 2018.
The cover of the book described, showing an illustration of a 'wound man' with multiple blades stuck in his body.
July 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Morning all! Today on meet the board we're introducing Professor Matthew Steggle.

Matthew Steggle is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at the University of Bristol. He works on many aspects of English literature, including the reception of classical literature.
A photograph of Professor Steggle, standing in front of a canopy of trees.
July 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Next in our meet the board series is Dr Paul Earlie!

Paul is Senior Lecturer in French Thought in the School of Modern Languages at Bristol. His work explores the classical roots of contemporary French thought, with a particular interest in philosophy and rhetoric.
A photograph of Paul Earlie, wearing a blue top and smiling in front of a bridge over a river.
July 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM