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 | Apr 2, 2020 | Public engagement
Dr. Patty Baker (University of Kent) shares an update on the progress of her ICS-funded public-facing project exploring Roman floral design. Surviving images from the Greco-Roman world often portray deities, women, men, and emperors wearing crowns made of laurel,...
by emmabridges | Feb 7, 2020 | Public engagement
Dr. Adrastos Omissi (University of Glasgow) shares some thoughts on the re-enactment of ancient battles, after hosting an event funded by an ICS public engagement grant. One of the very real problems with studying accounts of military conflict, in any age, is that...
by emmabridges | Jan 29, 2020 | Public engagement
Professor Neville Morley (University of Exeter) introduces a new staging of Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue, to be performed to the public in London on 21st February 2020. This follows on from his earlier work sharing Thucydides with wider audiences, which was...
by emmabridges | Dec 6, 2019 | Public engagement
Dr. Patty Baker (University of Kent) is a recent recipient of one of the ICS’s small grants for public engagement. In this post she reports on a trial event in which she used her research into ancient Roman floral design to open up a conversation about...
