by valeriejames | May 14, 2021 | Events, Public engagement
Christine Plastow By Jove Theatre Company are pleased to announce The Gentlest Work, the culmination of three years of work on our ‘Orestes Project’, which has been supported in part by the ICS Public Engagement Grant Scheme. Loving you is the gentlest work A delicate...
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 | Oct 31, 2019 | Events, Public engagement
Poster design by Valeria Vitale. Image by Robin Kaplan @TheGorgonist. For this year’s Being Human festival, the ICS is putting on a free event in London in partnership with Islington’s Little Angel Theatre and puppeteer-storyteller Tinka Slavicek. Making Medusa, which...
by emmabridges | Oct 18, 2019 | Events, Public engagement
With less than a month to go until the opening of this year’s annual Being Human festival, this week’s blogpost picks out some of the classically-focused events which will be taking place around the UK this November. Being Human – founded in 2014 – is organised by our...
by emmabridges | Sep 20, 2019 | Events, Public engagement
Prof. Miriam Leonard (University College London) reports on a new exhibition supported by an ICS public engagement grant. For a number of years I have been exploring Sigmund Freud’s interest in antiquity. I have been repeatedly struck by the way that the Greco-Roman...
by Gabriel Bodard | Jan 25, 2019 | Digital humanities, Events
The ICS has hosted yearly, week-long EpiDoc training workshops since 2011, and many other similar events have been offered around the world in the past fourteen years. EpiDoc is community of practice and encoding guidelines for editions of ancient texts, in particular...
