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Website and contact details: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/classics-ancient-history/
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
🌳 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
📢 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
Incredibly honored to have been selected and to be in such wonderful company - I'm very excited to travel to Durham in December. Huge thanks to everyone involved!
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💥 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.
🎆 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!
@geophilologist.bsky.social
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💥 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/...
🎉 Congratulations
@profarlenehh.bsky.social and @edithmayhall.bsky.social on the OPEN ACCESS publication of "Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in British Secondary Education"
🔗 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Small votive dedication to Hades showing a man in a chariot and, sorry, a chicken. With greek inscription.
I'm sorry, but for budget reasons, your chariot to the afterlife is scheduled to be pulled by a chicken.
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💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!
👨🏫 Dr Jacob Lollar (Durham) "Tragic Riddles in the Margins: A Syriac Invocation of the Story of Oedipus"
📅 1pm, Weds 8 Oct
📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8d428d...
💥 Congratulations to Dr Michael Loy, who has a new publication in the 'Journal of Hellenic Studies'!
👉 Dr Loy models the production rates for black- and red-figure pottery, in the Classical Athenian Kerameikos.
🔗 Read here for free, open-access: doi.org/10.1017/S007...
📣 Calling all KS2 school teachers!
💥 Fantastic three-day FREE virtual workshops and activities on Hadrian's Wall, organised by the Great North Museum. Learn about the Roman North East from your own classroom!
📅 25/26/27 November
🔗 Learn more: www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/greatnorthmu...
CPF: the 7th LBA/EIA Aegean ECR Group online conference, chaired by Dr Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge) is on the 27th of Nov. We welcome proposals on any topic within the remit of the group - an ideal place to test out a chapter, article idea or presentation. forms.gle/PJN5cw4HbkiC...
Please share!
🏛️ Join us for this term's research seminar series
🔗 See the termcard here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
💥 Our research theme this year is 'Writing from the Margins: Decolonising Ancient Authorship'
🎆 Happy new (academic) year, and a very warm welcome to all arriving for Induction Week!
🏫 Here, some of our academic staff enjoying a meal before the term's teaching begins.
🎉 We are looking forward to seeing all students soon and to lots of exciting research events & collaborations this year.
🎆 Happy new (academic) year, and a very warm welcome to all arriving for Induction Week!
🏫 Here, some of our academic staff enjoying a meal before the term's teaching begins.
🎉 We are looking forward to seeing all students soon and to lots of exciting research events & collaborations this year.
So happy to see the front of our lovely 38 North Bailey without scaffolding once more!!
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37 and 38 North Bailey, Durham. The left hand building is red brick with black beams above. The right hand building is a duller brown brick, with a cream front door. The sky is cloudy above the buildings.
Our building at @durhamclassics.bsky.social is looking much smarter after repairs this summer - but we kind of miss our purple front door!
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💥 Congratulations to Dr @carolinebarron.bsky.social , who has a new publication in the journal 'Libyan Studies'!
👉 Dr Barron reassess 53 Latin, Greek and Latino-Punic inscriptions from a late-antique tomb excavated in 1926 at Sirte, Libya
🔗 Read here for free, open-access: doi.org/10.1017/lis....
💥Welcome back for another academic year, and welcome to some new faces in our Learning & Teaching team!
🎉 We are joined this year by Kate Buckley (Department Manager), Zoe Rickelton (Learning and Teaching Manager) and Alex Walton (Learning and Teaching Administrator)
🎆 Have a great year, everyone!
💥Welcome back for another academic year, and welcome to some new faces in our Learning & Teaching team!
🎉 We are joined this year by Kate Buckley (Department Manager), Zoe Rickelton (Learning and Teaching Manager) and Alex Walton (Learning and Teaching Administrator)
🎆 Have a great year, everyone!
💥 Publication of 107 new inscriptions on Attic Inscriptions Online!
👉 New entries include all votives of artisans and workers, and boundary stones of the Athenian empire on Aigina.
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and team!
🔗 buff.ly/4Bgd7gF
💥 Publication of 107 new inscriptions on Attic Inscriptions Online!
👉 New entries include all votives of artisans and workers, and boundary stones of the Athenian empire on Aigina.
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and team!
🔗 buff.ly/4Bgd7gF
🎭 Congratulations to Dr Lucy Jackson, whose exhibition '‘The Greeks: Radical Reinvention’ has opened at the National Theatre’s Wolfson Gallery!
👉 The exhibition tells the story of how the NT has reimagined Greek drama across six decades
📅 Open until early spring
🔗 buff.ly/dWh0FLz
🎭 Congratulations to Dr Lucy Jackson, whose exhibition '‘The Greeks: Radical Reinvention’ has opened at the National Theatre’s Wolfson Gallery!
👉 The exhibition tells the story of how the NT has reimagined Greek drama across six decades
📅 Open until early spring
🔗 buff.ly/dWh0FLz
📣 Calling all students, alumni and friends of the department!
💥 We are now on LinkedIn! Connect with us and stay in touch with our global Durham Classics network.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/durh...
📣 Calling all students, alumni and friends of the department!
💥 We are now on LinkedIn! Connect with us and stay in touch with our global Durham Classics network.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/durh...
💥 Join us for a special lecture, organised by @camne.bsky.social!
👩🏫 Dr Rachel Phillips ( @britschoolathens.bsky.social ), "Curating the Dead: Body and Image in Early Mycenaean Burials ”
📅 4pm, Thurs 18th Sept
🔗 TLC040, Teaching and Learning Centre: buff.ly/2SCBkK0
💥 Join us for a special lecture, organised by @camne.bsky.social!
👩🏫 Dr Rachel Phillips ( @britschoolathens.bsky.social ), "Curating the Dead: Body and Image in Early Mycenaean Burials ”
📅 4pm, Thurs 18th Sept
🔗 TLC040, Teaching and Learning Centre: buff.ly/2SCBkK0
