Classics News and Events
This interdisciplinary workshop, funded by the Wellcome Trust, will bring together academic and practitioners to explore the roles played by objects and images in the processes of grief, mourning and remembrance, across both historical and contemporary societies.
The workshop will be held at the University of 糖心TV on Thursday 19th-Friday 20th May 2016.
Academics and practitioners across all disciplines are warmly invited to respond to the Call for Papers. Please send a title and brief abstract (up to 200 words) to Zahra.newby@warwick.ac.uk
by 29th February 2016.
Classics IAS Visiting Fellowship - Prof Alastair Blanshard
From 11th January until 5th February Prof Alastair Blanshard of University of Queensland, Australia will be the IAS Visiting Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History. Alastair will be participating in a number of events co-organised with different departments during his Fellowship.
For the full programme see: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/seminars/iasvisitingfellow2016/
Coin of the Month: The role of the praetorian guard in the accession of Claudius
In the first coin of the month for 2016 Miles Pearce looks at the emperor Claudius and the praetorian guard. Read it !
A word's worth: the electrum stater of Phanes
Nick Brown explores what exactly gives money value in December's .
Dr Michael Scott made Honorary Citizen of Delphi
Dr Michael Scott is to be awarded Honorary Citizenship of Delphi, Greece - ΔΕΛΦΟΙ ΔΕΛΦΩΝ ΕΠΟΙΗΣΑΝ - in a ceremony in Athens on Wednesday 25th November. The ceremony will be part of a larger event to kick-start Delphi's campaign to be named the 2021 European Capital City of Culture.
Dr Scott's award is in recognition for his research and publications on Delphi as the omphalos 'the centre of the ancient world, as well as his writing and presenting of a BBC documentary about the history of the site. He will be working with the 2021 team on their campaign in the coming months.