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Gertrude Rachel Levy in Mandate Palestine

By Amara Thornton (Co-Investigator, Beyond Notability) As we work our way through the “Certificates of Candidates for Election” of women at the Society of Antiquaries, I am starting to explore the careers of a few of them in more detail to begin charting...

Classical Studies in Mainland China

Professor Simon Mahony, Executive Director of the Research Centre for Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai; Emeritus Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of Information Studies, UCL; Associate Fellow at the Institute of...

Ancient Greeks beyond Greece

Professor Franco De Angelis was A.D. Trendall Fellow in 2018-2019 and reports on a recently published edited book completed while in residence. I am very happy to share my recent book launch, which happened via the newly established Centre for Migration Studies at the...

Monuments of Marathon

Brandon Braun has been an academic visitor at the ICS over the last two years while writing his UCLA doctoral dissertation on monuments and memorials in ancient Greece. As well as researching the monuments of Marathon, which he discusses in this blog, he has run the...

Notes from a temporary Utopia

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...