by valeriejames | Aug 13, 2021 | Public engagement
Claudina Romero Mayorga writes about the recent event for which she received an ICS Public Engagement grant I can’t conceive a day without dancing and, apparently, neither could the ancient Greeks. According to ancient sources, dancing was present in everyday life, in...
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 | 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 | Jan 14, 2019 | Events, Public engagement, Research
On Saturday 12th January 2019 the ICS’s second public engagement workshop for classicists took place in Manchester. Hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University, and supported by our colleague Dr. April Pudsey of ManMet’s Department of History, the workshop followed...
by emmabridges | Sep 19, 2018 | Uncategorised
Dr. Sally Waite (University of Newcastle) and Andrew Parkin (Keeper of Archaeology, Great North Museum) share news of an upcoming exhibition supported by one the Institute of Classical Studies’ small grants for public engagement. Reimagining Ancient Greece, a...