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 | Oct 4, 2019 | Public engagement
Dr. Selena Wisnom (The Queen’s College, Oxford) was the recipient of one of this year’s ICS public engagement grants; the award helped to fund an immersive production of her new play about the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. Here she tells us more about the...
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 emmabridges | Sep 6, 2019 | Digital humanities, Public engagement
Prof. Neville Morley (University of Exeter) shares news of a new animation about Thucydides, created with the help of an ICS public engagement grant. In recent years, Thucydides has become an increasingly familiar name in debates about current events, such as the...
by emmabridges | Aug 28, 2019 | Public engagement
Dr. Christine Plastow (Open University) reports on the latest phase of a new project from By Jove Theatre Company. From 22nd-26th July 2019, By Jove Theatre Company held a week of research and development work partially funded by the ICS Public Engagement small grant...
