Classics at Leeds

Today we remember our former colleague Emeritus Professor Robert Maltby whose funeral takes place this afternoon at Faversham and Mid-Kent Crematorium.

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Photos of the Parkinson Building flag flying at half mast kindly provided by Dr Katherine Backler

Essay Writing I've just updated my 'Complete guide' (though please note, the name is somewhat misleading, it is not - in fact - complete!) to essay writing in Ancient Greek studies for my current 'Greek Art and...

I've just updated my 'Complete Guide to Essays in Ancient Greek Studies' for my @leedsclassics.bsky.social Greek Art and Society students, so I thought it was a good time to share it more widely! Please feel free to use or adapt it if you need to!
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Travanti Tate is a Leeds distance learning doctoral candidate, living and working in the USA (where he's teaching part-time in Butte-Glenn Community College). We are very happy to be able to host this talk in hybrid form.

On campus venue: Michael Sadler 1.01, University of Leeds

Join us for our first research seminar of 2026 with Travanti Tate on "Plato as Sociologist: eros and philia in the Symposium."

Thursday 19 February 17:15 UK time in-person in Michael Sadler 1.01, and online via Teams (link in thread). All are very welcome to attend!

A tribute to Emeritus Professor Robert Maltby by Emma Stafford, Professor of Greek Culture:

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The funeral for our former colleague Professor Robert Maltby will take place at 14.30 on Thursday 12 February at Faversham and Mid-Kent Crematorium (ME13 9HY).

For those unable to attend, the ceremony will be live-streamed:
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New MA in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social - now open for applications for a September 2026 start!

For more information and to apply, please visit:
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For more information, please visit the competition website:
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You can also access and download the Teacher Handbook here: artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

The competition is aimed at Key Stage 3 students and is a great opportunity to introduce Classics to school students already familiar with English, History and Drama, highlighting the links to their current subjects and developing their oracy/public speaking skills in an exciting way.

This FREE outreach Classics competition has run for over 70 years at the University of Leeds, and is a celebration of Classics, Reading and Performance.

Our 'Myths & Legends: A Classics Competition 2026' is still open for Key Stage 3 students to enter! Entries will close on 2nd March 2026.
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Robert had been going to give a paper at the colloquium in memory of Malcolm Heath to be held in Leeds in May. It is a particular sadness that we will not, after all, be seeing him then. We will pass on details of funeral/ commemorative arrangements as they become available.

He was given an honorary doctorate by the Demokritos University of Thrace in 2019, and the Festschrift from the accompanying conference was published in 2024: S. Kyriakidis and Ch. Michalopoulos (eds) Secretis bene vivere silvis. Studies in Latin Literature in Honour of Robert Maltby (Newcastle).

In addition to his contribution to the study of Latin literature, he was an early champion of the Erasmus scheme, setting up exchanges between Leeds and universities in northern Italy and Greece in the 1990s.

We were deeply saddened to learn that our former colleague Robert Maltby died last week. Having taught at Leeds since 1989, Robert was Professor of Latin Philology by the time he took early retirement in 2013 and though he moved away from Leeds, he stayed in touch.

The hero with the hard stare: Paddington the Musical This is a longer version of the review Paddington The Musical: why the little bear from Peru is a hero in a very classical sense published today in The Conversation.  Paddington (James Hameed and A…

Prof. Stafford has been to the West End again! This piece on the new Paddington musical came out in The Conversation yesterday. You can also read a longer version, with more pictures, on the CAWCRS research blog (leedscawcrs.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/t...).
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21-22 May: Symposium in memory of Prof. Malcom Heath: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/directory-re...

19 March: Dr Stuart McKie (Exeter). Working title: “Curse tablets and demons: a sense of the weird.”

26 March: Shaun Tougher (Cardiff). Byzantine and ancient Greek history [Joint IMS-Classics event]

7 May: Dr Claire Holleran (Exeter) - title TBC

5 March: Dr David Tandy (Leeds). Working title: "Return to Askra: moving closer to some answers to stubborn questions."

12 March: Prof. Anna Foka (Uppsala). "The  Digital Periegesis project and its Public Interface." [online]

Our research seminars will resume in Semester 2. See thread below for a sneak peak of the schedule...

19 Feb.: Travanti Tate (Leeds PhD Candidate) - title TBC

26 Feb.: Dr Sara De Martin (Université de Lille, ICS). "Maxims and the Masses in the Empire: Some Intellectual Perspectives." [online]

Looking for an MA in Classics and Ancient History? Look no further! We are very excited about the launch of our new MA in Classics and Ancient History, now open for applications for a September 2026 start.

For more information and to apply, please visit:
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We're delighted to be welcoming back our former colleague Dr Emilio Zucchetti today for our final research seminar of 2025! All very welcome to attend in person or online - full details below...

The JACT Latin Summer School 2026 (Harrogate, 19 July - 1 August) is open for applications from anyone interested in starting or improving their Latin. Leeds students have thoroughly enjoyed the experience in previous years!

For more information and to apply: www.latincamp.co.uk

Our final Centre for Ancient World & Classical Reception Studies seminar of 2025 is this Thursday! All very welcome to attend in person or online. Details below.

Centre for Ancient World and Classical Reception Studies webpage:
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Read about Emilio's research here: pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/e...

On campus venue: Michael Sadler 1.01 [first floor], University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds (Accessibility Guide: www.accessable.co.uk/university-o...)

For our next seminar Dr Emilio Zucchetti (Royal Holloway) will speak to us on "‘As Gramsci Said’: Latin, Hegemony, and the Politics of Classical Education in Contemporary Italy."

Thurs 4 December, 17:15-18:30 UK time, in-person in Michael Sadler 1.01, and online via Teams. All welcome to attend!