by emmabridges | Sep 15, 2020 | Conferences
Earlier this summer the ICS hosted a two-day online workshop, ‘Towards a more inclusive Classics’, organised by Prof. Barbara Goff (Reading) and Dr. Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St. Andrews). The organisers have since written reports about the event on their...
by emmabridges | Aug 25, 2020 | Events, Public engagement
Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, in 2020 we have been able to make two special awards for public engagement projects which share research in Classics (broadly defined) with wider publics. The field of entries was exceptionally strong, and the members of...
by emmabridges | Jul 9, 2020 | Public engagement
Dr. Andriana Domouzi shares her experience of putting together a theatre project which was supported by one of the ICS’s small grants for public engagement. On the 9th November 2019, theatre company Cyborphic produced a fully reconstructed version of Euripides’...
by emmabridges | Jun 29, 2020 | People
Under normal circumstances, the ICS hosts visitors from all over the world, although the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has interrupted this element of our activities. In this post Academic Visitor Nikoline Sauer (Aarhus University) shares her experience of visiting London...
by emmabridges | Jun 15, 2020 | People, Research
ICS Director Prof. Greg Woolf shares some thoughts on the Institute’s ongoing work in the era of physical distancing. Fans of Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels might remember his idea of entire civilizations, at an advanced point in their development, choosing to...
