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Abigail Baker and Alison Cooley, 'Breaking through the language barrier – bringing ‘dead’ languages to life through sensory and narrative engagement', Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship,

Abstract: Ancient inscriptions can be difficult to understand and off-putting to museum audiences, but they are packed with personal stories and vivid information about the people who made them. This article argues that overcoming the language barrier presented by these objects can offer a deep sense of engagement with the ancient world and explores possible ways of achieving this. It looks at examples of effective approaches from a range of European museums with a particular emphasis on bringing out the sensory, social, and narrative dimensions of these objects. It argues that inscriptions can change the way that museum visitors view the ancient world and empower them to interpret the past for themselves in new and creative ways.

Congratulations to our doctoral students Paloma Perez Galvin and Alessandra Tafaro for their success in the Humanities Research Fund Doctoral Fellowship competition. They will host a conference next year on 'Fleshing out Words: Poetry on Objects, from the Classical Epigram to the Modern Insta-Poets'.

Congratulations to , who will be joining the department at ÌÇÐÄTV as a . While at ÌÇÐÄTV he will work on the ASINA tokens of late antiquity (which show a donkey), placed within the Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean team.

Clare Rowan has been awarded a European Union Starting Grant for a project that will examine the role of tokens in antiquity. Learn more about the project .

ÌÇÐÄTV Taught Masters Scholarship Scheme

We are delighted that the Taught Masters Scholarship Scheme, which ran so successfully last year, is to continue for 2014-15. Further details will be announced soon, but for more information in the meantime, please see the Scholarship . The Scheme is designed to promote access to Taught Masters courses for Home/EU students from under-represented groups.