by valeriejames | Feb 9, 2021 | Public engagement
Dr. Liz Gloyn reports on her on-going partnership with visual artist Howard Hardiman to retell Greek myth in BSL. One thing that classicists know is the power of myth. So many of our students and the general public first encounter and come to love the classics through...
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 | May 9, 2019 | Public engagement
Prof. Susan Deacy (Roehampton) reports on a public engagement project supported by the ICS. A little over a decade ago I tentatively began to develop a project whose goal was to develop activities for autistic children focused around classical myth. Last year, thanks...
by emmabridges | Mar 12, 2019 | Public engagement
Kat Mawford and Matt Ingham, PhD students at the University of Manchester and members of the Manchester Classical Association committee, report on Athena’s Owls, a public engagement project working with local libraries in Manchester. The Athena’s Owls project,...