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Account of the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Nottingham, UK.

We teach Latin, Greek, Archaeology, Ancient Literature, Languages, Art & History, Reception & more! Follow us for research insights + photos of Dept life.
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Don’t miss Prof Alex Mullen’s free webinar on November 26th at 7pm!

She’ll be presenting the Joan Pye lecture on ‘Tales from the Tablets: recovering the voices of Roman Britain’.

#archaeology #classics #roman 🏺

Book your tickets here: tinyurl.com/Romanvoices
Poster for a free webinar - the Joan Pye annual lecture to be presented by Alex Mullen. November 26th, 7pm. Hosted by Cotswold archaeology and the Roman Research Trust. The image is of lots of people in togas in a market place.
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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💥conference in Grantham:

Fieldwalking: Past, Present ... and Future?

Once a mainstay of #archaeology fieldwalking has fallen out of favour. Hear about projects where it’s been used and why it is still important on Sept 24th.

See 🔗 for more info

cbaem.archaeologyuk.org/cba-em%20eve...
Photo of four people in a largely bare agricultural field with a railway embankment and bridge in the background. There’s a slight furze of green plants coming through on the ground. They are all in waterproofs and looking at the ground. Photo copyright the Bingham Heritage Trails Association
September 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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We’re delighted to be hosting Dr Meir Orbach (AKA @meirzooarch.bsky.social) on a Rothschild Fellowship this year. Meir is working with Prof Hannah O’Regan on lateglacial faunas and extinction. #archaeology #caves #zooarch 🧪🏺
Photograph of a man in a red caving helmet, light blue jacket and grey trousers inspecting a bone assemblage in the middle of a cave passage.
September 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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We’re delighted to welcome Dr Clare Burke (AKA @thesherdnerd.bsky.social) to the Department today as our new Assistant Prof in Archaeological Materials. Many pottery-related adventures lie ahead! It’s great to have you join us!
A smiling woman with long dark hair and a blue jacket and scarf standing in the doorway of a wattle-built hut.
September 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr Anna Bloxam for receiving a Lord Dearing Award for excellence in teaching. The nomination was particularly focussed on Anna’s work in #DigitalHumanities and archival digitisation. 🥳
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July 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Huge congratulations Dr Emily Kneebone and Dr George Woudhuysen on their promotions to Associate Professor.

It’s great news and very well deserved - well done!! 👏🥳👏
To the left a photo of a smiling lady with long brown hair with highlights and wearing a blue dress. To the right a smiling man with short brown hair and wearing a grey and white striped T-shirt and a zipped fleece top.
March 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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📢 Research Seminar!

Tuesday March 18th, 5pm, room A03, Humanities Building.

Dr Anke Walter (Newcastle) will speak to us on:

The Body and the Senses in Statius’ Thebaid

All welcome!
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March 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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😊 Prof M. Kulikowski (Penn State) has written a very positive review of Dr George Woudhuysen & Prof Alex Mullen's co-edited volume "Language and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces" (2024)
Read the review here and buy the book from OUP 🔽
tinyurl.com/5czpsev9
Picture of a book cover showing an early illumination of two people with a manuscript. One on the left is sitting on a throne, the other on the right appears to be kneeling near them. The book title is ‘languages and communities in the late Roman and post-imperial western provinces’ edited by Alex Mullen and George Woudhuysen. In the ‘Oxford studies in Ancient Documents’ series.
March 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Comments from Head of Department Prof Hannah O’Regan for #IWD2025

Find @artsemergency.bsky.social here
Screenshot from instagram. There’s a photo of a woman in red and dark blue graduation robes, and wearing glasses. The text says ‘international Women’s Day’ Hannah O’Regan Head of Department of Classics and Archaeology. Professor of Archaeology and Palaeoecology. Underneath is a quote that says “if someone says it’s not your place - find allies and make it your place.” A purple image with the University of Nottingham logo. The headline says Has mentorship played a role in accelerating your career? How do you pay it forward? "I've never had a formal mentor - partly because I've seen behaviour I have no desire to emulate, and partly because I was too embarrassed to approach those people I did admire. That was a mistake... ...having an experienced person you can be honest with and who can share thoughts and advice is invaluable. I therefore mentor formally and informally within UoN and beyond. Most importantly, I make a monthly donation to Arts Emergency. They are a mentoring charity that helps people from underrepresented backgrounds find their place and networks in the Arts and Humanities. ...In a world where creative opportunities are getting fewer, it's incredibly important that doors are opened for those with talent but few contacts. Arts Emergency do this and I'm proud to support them."
March 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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We had a wonderful couple of days knapping with @ancientcraftuk.bsky.social, creating scrapers, pointers and bifaces. Some fine tools made and much respect is due to our palaeo-forebears!
A composite image of three photos. To the left a piece of leather surrounded by debitage multiple finished tools lying on top. On the right, two students with big grins showing their favorite tools that they’ve made.
March 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Research seminar!

For tomorrow’s ClassArch seminar we’re excited to welcome Dr Philip Bone who will be speaking on

“Percy Bysshe Shelley's Translations from Greek and Latin Verse”

5pm, A03, Humanities Building. All welcome, 🍷to follow!
Engraving of Percy Bysshe Shelley, a young man with wavy hair, fine straight eyebrows, dark eyes, and a very large white shirt collar.
February 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Our own Associate Professor Theodora Jim is currently at the British School in Athens as one of their 2024-25 Visiting Fellows. During her time in Athens this year, Theodora will be working on her project ‘Comparing Greek and Chinese Polytheism’! Congratulations, Theodora! 🥳🥳🥳

Image (c) BSA
A photograph of Theodora sitting outside on a stone step in front of a green carpeted set of steps. She’s wearing a grey top and black trousers with a grey side-stripe, and holding a black and white cat.
February 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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💥Tuesday 26/11, 5pm (GMT)

The Centre for Spartan & Peloponnesian Studies Annual Lecture 2024

⚔️Dr Andrew Bayliss will speak on "The Hidden Terror: the Spartan krypteia in modern #popularculture

#reception #Sparta #Classics
Webinar registration here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a30258...
Seminar poster with details of the lecture/ webinar. The image used is an illustration of four very tired looking men wearing red cloaks and sitting on rocky ground. It is taken from the 2013 graphic novel Three by Kieron Gillen and Ryan Kelly. Prof Stephen Hodkinson from the Dept was the academic consultant.
November 23, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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Did you see Prof Mark Bradley on BBC4 discussing augury with Simon Sebag Montefiore? If you missed it, find the first episode of ‘Rome: a history of the eternal city’ on I-player.
Two men in a market setting discussing something that is just off screen (it’s a liver). Simon Sebag Montefiore to the left, Mark Bradley to the right. They’re both wearing blue shirts.
November 11, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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📢Don't miss this week's #SpartaLive #webinar w/ Dr Daphne Martin on Sparta's #Mediterranean 🏺

🗓️Thurs 24/10, 5pm (BST)/ 7pm (ETT)

#archaeology #Sparta #ancientGreece #ancientGreekhistory

All welcome! Follow 🔗 to register👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/66eaa3...
Red, black and cream image of a very large person sitting in a chair. There is a small leopard sitting below them. The text reads ‘Dr Daphne D Martin, University of Cambridge, The American College of Greece. Sparta’s Mediterranean. Thursday 24 October 17.00-18.00 BST)
October 23, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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🏺Join us for this week's #SpartaLive #webinar with Dr Shanshan Bai (Sichuan University & Groningen University) on:

‘Spartan Memory of the #Persian Wars in the Leonidea Under #Rome'

🗓️Thurs 17/10, 5pm
🖥️MS Teams
Registration🔗: tinyurl.com/2zs8tpub
Poster for the Sparta live talk, showing an oil painting of Leonidas with helmet, cloak and shield amongst a group of people, some carrying wreaths.
October 15, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Join us tomorrow (15/10) for our next departmental research workshop! 🌴🌴

Dr Rocco Rante (Le Louvre) will speak to us on ‘The Bukhara Oasis along the Silk Road’

🏛️ 5pm, Humanities Building A3, University Park

All welcome!
A book front cover showing an excavated area against a vegetation-fringed lake. The title says ‘the Oasis of Bukhara: volume 3. Material culture, Socio-territorial features, archaeozoology and Archaeometry’. Edited by Rocco Rante. Brill publishers: Art and archaeology of the Islamic World series. A book front cover showing 3D building reconstructions within a green landscape with a river flowing by. The title says ‘the Oasis of Bukhara: volume 1: population, depopulation and settlement evolution’. Edited by Rocco Rante and David Mirzaakhmedov. Brill publishers: Art and archaeology of the Islamic World series
October 14, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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Interested in exploring the #earlymedieval #riverscapes of #Italy? 🌊🌳📔🏺
Join us for the #book launch of our Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Dr Marco Panato
🗓️8 Nov, 5-6.30pm
Registration🔗 tinyurl.com/5n8tp24r
Image of a book front cover, with an etching of picture lots of people with a boat pulled up on the shore of a wide river. There are bare hills and a few trees in the background. The text says ‘Marco Panato. River and Society in Northern Italy: the Po Valley, 500-100AD. Amsterdam University Press.’
October 14, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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We welcome expressions of interest from outstanding early career scholars who wish to apply for a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship through the University of Nottingham. #Classics #archaeology #heritagescience. EoI deadline: 3pm, Nov 20th 2024. Contact Dr Chrysanthi Gallou for details.
The logo of the Leverhulme Trust
October 11, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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Beautiful Aurora over our Humanities Building and University Park Campus last night. Photos taken by Dr Richard Kendall.
Two photos, side by side. The left shows a lit up grey building against a deep blue sky with a slight green tint. The right shows a bright pink and blue sky over the top of a large rhododendron bush.
October 11, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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Open now - a new exhibition curated by Dr Charlotte May and Dr Chris King on the human stories behind #Nottingham’s caves. From the civil war to rescue #archaeology in the 1970s. Find it in the Weston Gallery, Lakeside Arts on the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social University Park campus.
A red and black leaflet. The main image show soldiers in civil war uniform entering a cave passage. The text reads ‘Tales from the Caves: exploring Nottingham’s underground stories’. Free admission. Open October 3rd 2024 to March 9th 2025.
October 10, 2024 at 4:48 PM