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School of Classics, University of St Andrews.
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Deadline approaching!
Submit your PhD applications for 2026 entry by 15 November 2025.

View details including funding opportunities: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/p...

#PhD #PhDApplication #Scholarships #Funding
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Congratulations to Alison Hadfield who has successfully defended her #PhD thesis “In Touch with the Past: A Sensory Approach to Objects, Memory and Wellbeing”.

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November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Join us for the CLAS Annual #lecture!

"Mary of Egypt: Gender, sanctity and landscape"
Speaker: Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham)

🗓️ 14 November
⏰ 4.15pm
📍 Hybrid: Room SO3 Swallowgate, or Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)

#AllWelcome
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Dr Sian Lewis will give a talk to the Scottish Hellenic Society of Edinburgh tomorrow, 11 November, entitled "Animals of the 'polis': regional bestiaries in the Greek Mediterranean".

View SHSE programme: scottishhellenicsociety.wordpress.com/programme-20...
Programme 2025-6
7 October – Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St Andrews) – ‘From Banff to Basra: Robert Wilson in the footsteps of Alexander the Great in the 1820s’ 11 November – Sian Lewis (St Andrews) – …
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November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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⌛ Deadline approaching for the new BSA course on 'The Art and Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece'.
⏰ Apply by October 31, 2025
📩 For questions, email assistant.director [at] bsa.ac.uk
Read more at: www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/the-...
October 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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"2026 Intensive Introductory #Workshop in the Palaeosciences for Pre-Modernists "
📆 19-23 January 2026
📍 Princeton University
⏰ Apply by 15 November
🔗 View details: climatechangeandhistory.princeton.edu/events/2026-...
2026 Intensive Introductory Workshop in the Palaeosciences for Pre-Modernists
Applications are now open for the 7th Annual CCHRI Workshop!
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November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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“The Social Texture of the Desert”
(Shannon McMillian)

Postgraduate #seminar, 📆12 November ⏰5:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate

Please send enquiries to sp283@st-andrews.ac.uk and em216@st-andrews.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Rebecca Sweetman's new #book "The Archaeology of the Cyclades in the Roman and Late Antique Periods: Globalization, Christianization and Resilience" has been published by Cambridge University Press.

🔗 bit.ly/cyclades25

The volume is available in hardback and as an ebook.
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Explore a sunset route up Mount Hymettos, and what role the mountain plays in Greek literature and mythology.

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#mountains #MountainCulture
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"Thinking Generationally: Authors and Readers"
A SGSAH Literature Discipline+ Catalyst Doctoral Training Event

📆24 November, 11:00-16:00
📍Irvine Building 301, St Andrews
👉Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-g...
Open to all Arts & Humanities PhD researchers registered at Scottish institutions
Thinking Generationally: Authors and Readers
A SGSAH Literature Discipline+ Catalyst Doctoral Training Event
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November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#Seminar: "Classics and cyber security "
Genevieve Liveley (Bristol)

🗓️ 7 November, 4:15pm
💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)

#AllWelcome
All seminars: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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#Seminar: "Dining like a Caesar, feasting like a tyrant…"
Gwynaeth McIntyre (Otago)

🗓️ 5 November, 2.15pm
📍 hybrid: Rm SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)

#AllWelcome
November 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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SAIMS seminar: "‘East’ and ‘West’ in the Middle Ages"
Speaker: Robert Bartlett (St Andrews)

📆 Monday 3 November, ⏰ 5:15pm
📍 Parliament Hall, St Andrews

View all SAIMS seminars: saims.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/seminars-2/
Seminars – St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
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November 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"Fleets and Naval Forces of the Late Roman Mediterranean (3rd–6th Centuries)" by Alex Elliott, one of our #alumni, was published recently by Franz Steiner Verlag as part of the Historia - Einzelschriften monograph series.

🔗 www.steiner-verlag.de/Fleets-and-N...

#ClassicsBluesky #Book #NavalHistory
November 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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While in Greece, a group of students in Dr Martens’ module visited the temporary exhibition they curated for the Corinth Archaeological Museum. ‘A Potted History of Corinth’ explores trade and cross-cultural interactions in the city across time, from the Late Bronze Age to the Byzantine period.
October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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“The Imagined Desert: Post-Classical Visions of Egypt ”
Shannon McMillan (St Andrews)

STARR #Seminar, 📆 6 November,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)

#AllWelcome
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Setting out from Stemnitsa, head up into the secluded forests of Menalo for a glimpse of the territory of Pan and Artemis: mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/10/25/m...

#Mountains #MountainCulture
October 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Professor Alice König was delighted to receive confirmation recently that the Ancient Peace Studies Network (APSN) has been welcomed as a Full Member of the newly-founded Scottish Peace Platform (SPP). standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/a... #PeaceStudies
Ancient Peace Studies Network joins the Scottish Peace Platform
Professor Alice König was delighted to receive confirmation recently that the Ancient Peace Studies Network (APSN) has been welcomed as a Full Member of the newly-founded Scottish Peace Platform (S…
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October 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Students from the School of Classics have just returned from exploring the monuments and topography of Greece on a module led by Dr Brian Martens.
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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"German for students of Classical studies", 2026 summer program hosted by the department of Classics at the University of Cologne. Open to PhD, MA and BA students.

📆 8 June to 17 July 2026
👉 View details and register: ifa.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/internationa...
⏰ Apply by 31 Jan 2026
GSCS Program
The Classics Department at the University of Cologne is launching the 'German for Students of Classical Studies' program for its tenth run in 2026. The course will take place between June 08 and July…
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October 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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ISHR seminar: 📆30 October, 17:30. 📍Old Class Library, 65-71 South Street.

‘Battle Spirits and Evil Omens: Writing about Civil War with Lucan in Fourteenth-Century Ireland’ Brigid Ehrmantraut, (St Andrews)

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Brigid Ehrmantraut (St Andrews), ‘Battle Spirits and Evil Omens: Writing about Civil War with Lucan in Fourteenth-Century Ireland’ plus Book Launch – Institute of Scottish Historical Research
Institute of Scottish Historical Research
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October 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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“Gravespotting: Classical Reception in Dundee’s Graves”
Erin Limmack (St Andrews)

STARR #Seminar, 📆 30 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)

#AllWelcome
October 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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“Have you tried switching it off and on again? Stoicism and the death of the Cosmos ”
(Stefano Parrinello)

Postgraduate #seminar, 📆29 October ⏰5:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate

Enquiries: sp283@st-andrews.ac.uk

All postgraduate seminars:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/res...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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"Cultures of violence and female resistance: receptions of ancient Greek myths from the 14th to the 21st century, in Europe and beyond" #Conference, 10-12 June 2026, University of Caen Normandie.
👉View #CallForPapers: agrelita.hypotheses.org/9587

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Cultures de la violence et résistances féminines : les réceptions des mythes grecs antiques du XIVe au XXIe siècle, en Europe et au-delà
Colloque international – ERC AGRELITA Les 10-12 juin 2026 à l’Université de Caen Normandie Appel à communications (Please find an English version of this call below) Le projet ERC AGRELITA organise à…
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October 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Maria Christodoulou discusses hellebore, its uses, and how it's associated with Helikon (Paliovouna), Aghia Anna, and Antikyra.

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#Mountains #MountainCulture
Mount Helikon's summit viewed from Aghia Anna. Title reads: "Helikon (Paliovouna)". Text to left of QR code: "Read about hellebore, its uses, and how it's associated with Paliovouna, Aghia Anna, and Antikyra. Explore a route to the mountain's peak."
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM