Events
Wednesday, 1 October 2025, Sebastian Marshall (St Andrews):
“Buying Ancient Estates: Archaeology and foreign land ownership in nineteenth-century Greece’”
Room SO3, ground floor, Swallowgate.
Thursday, 30 October 2025, 5:30pm – Dr Brigid Ehrmantraut (St Andrews):
“Battle Spirits and Evil Omens: Writing about Civil War with Lucan in Fourteenth-Century Ireland”
(Seminar hosted by the Institute for Scottish Historical Research)
Medieval History, 71 South Street, Old Class Library.
Previous Events
Friday, 19 September 2025, Emily Pillinger & Rowan Gard (KCL):
“Cassandra and the agency of hope: a workshop on translation, performance arts, and climate activism”
(School of Classics seminar
Room SO3, ground floor, Swallowgate.
Last year a group of researchers from the diverse fields of Geography (Rowan Gard), Classics (Emily Pillinger), Music (Toby Young), and Performing Arts (Priyanka Basu), came together at King’s to create an experimental installation exploring the fear and frustration – and glimmers of hope – that accompany looking into our world’s uncertain future. This future is defined by climate change: extreme weather events, rising sea levels, food insecurity, forced migration. But having a vision of this future does not mean having either the ability to communicate it or the agency to change it.
The project, initially called ‘A Temple for Cassandra’, foregrounds different ways of knowing and experiencing this foreboding. It starts from the Greek words of the prophet Cassandra, but is underpinned by elements of indigenous Polynesian storytelling, digital soundscapes, and classical Indian dance. Our aim was to create a mythic world in which Cassandra’s prophecies have been transformed into twenty-first century global communications with the natural world, with the spiritual / divine, and with our future selves.
This workshop by Rowan and Emily will explore why the project came about, in what directions it might develop, and how its workings might be relevant to classicists and other academics working in different areas. We will invite participants to engage in some gathering and discussing of ideas, sounds, and imagery; it will help if participants bring a device that will allow them to share material on a collaborative digital platform.
13 to 15 May 2025:
“Cold War Classics”
Workshop, St Andrews
Hybrid event – register by 30 April.
View programme Getting to St Andrews
Friday, 28 February 2025, 4.15pm – Fiona Macintosh (Oxford):
“Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon”
(SACRA Annual Lecture)
Room SO3, Swallowgate, School of Classics.
The lecture will also be streamed on Microsoft Teams. To get the Teams meeting link, please subscribe to our mailing list: email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject.
30 May 2024, 6pm to 31 May 6pm:
“The Next Generation of Classical Reception Studies “
Workshop for Early Career and PG Researchers
2 May 2024 :
“Classical Reception and Pedagogy: A Scottish Perspective on Teaching the Reception of Classical Material Culture”
Workshop, University of St Andrews
Wednesday, 7 February 2024, 2.15pm – Milinda Banerjee:
“How Did Ancient Rome Shape India’s Decolonization?”
(Annual Lecture)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 2pm:
Autumn Committee Meeting
Friday, 4 November 2022, 4 pm, (online) – Lorna Hardwick:
“Global Classics: What Can Reception Studies Offer?”
(Inaugural Annual Lecture)