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  1. Achilles in green: reading the Iliad in the 21st century (trigger warning -- see below)

    Achilles in green: reading the Iliad in the 21st century (trigger warning -- see below)

    Annual Lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies (CAES): Edith Hall (Durham)

    Note: the lecture will include discussion of and possibly images of animal sacrifice. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact...

  2. Trees and the anthropocene in Greek and Roman antiquity

    Trees and the anthropocene in Greek and Roman antiquity

    Workshop followed by the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED SHORTLY

    Morning Session 9.15 -- 9.30 Introduction 9.30 -- 10.15 Emma Bentley: Dionysus Dendritês: Wood and Carpentry in Greek Tragedy 10.15 -- 11.00...

  3. The Sentient Sponge: between natural history, art history and philosophy

    The Sentient Sponge: between natural history, art history and philosophy

    Verity Platt (Cornell)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  4. The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 1)

    The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 1)

    The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy this year focuses on 'The Ideal Citizen'. Graduate students from the UK, the US, Canada,...

  5. The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 2)

    The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 2)

    The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy this year focuses on 'The Ideal Citizen'. Graduate students from the UK, the US, Canada,...

  6. The Discourse on the Ancestral Constitution in the Early Hellenistic Period

    The Discourse on the Ancestral Constitution in the Early Hellenistic Period

    Laura Loddo (Milan)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  7. A Case Study of the Archaeology of Ancient Medicine: The Asklepieion of Paros Re-Study Project

    A Case Study of the Archaeology of Ancient Medicine: The Asklepieion of Paros Re-Study Project

    Tomas Alusik (Charles University Prague)

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  8. New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    Workshop organised by Christian Djurslev

    Programme 1.00-1.10pm: Introduction by Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus) 1.10-2.10: Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews) 'Rethinking 'Style' in...

  9. New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    Programme 1pm to 1.10pm: Introduction by Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus) 1.10pm to 2.10pm: Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews) 'Rethinking 'Style'...

  10. How the Christians stole the past:

    How the Christians stole the past:

    Greek chronology and Roman history in Theophilus of Antioch's Ad Autolycum - Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus)

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  11. of Colonies and Queens: myths of Carthage in a contact zone

    of Colonies and Queens: myths of Carthage in a contact zone

    Jo Quinn (Oxford)

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  12. Gesualdo Six: Fading

    Gesualdo Six: Fading

    Making a welcome third appearance in St Andrews, one of the most successful vocal ensembles in the UK, fresh from their BBC Proms debut, preview their...

  13. Uninvited guests, unexpected passengers: Insects and past environments in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Uninvited guests, unexpected passengers: Insects and past environments in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Eva Panagiotakopulu (Edinburgh)

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  14. Editing slaves: Unfree labour and textual revision in Rome (Trigger Warning below)

    Editing slaves: Unfree labour and textual revision in Rome (Trigger Warning below)

    Talitha Keary

    Note: Note: the lecture will involve discussion of slavery, rape and torture. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact...

  15. Masterclass with Lucy Schaufer (Bunyan Craig Fellow in Singing)

    Masterclass with Lucy Schaufer (Bunyan Craig Fellow in Singing)

    Grammy-award winning Lucy Schaufe, Bunyan-Craig Fellow in Singing, leads a free public masterclass with vocal scholars at the Laidlaw Music Centre. All are...

  16. Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman Empire.

    Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman Empire.

    A Social and Cultural History (Trigger Warning below) Christian Laes (Manchester)

    Note: the lecture will contain some images (ancient artifacts) of what was considered as bodily deformity and references to Nazi-propaganda that referred to...

  17. Untranslatability

    Untranslatability

    Martin Revermann (Toronto)

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  18. Organ Concert by Tom Wilkinson (University Organist)

    Organ Concert by Tom Wilkinson (University Organist)

    Music by Bach, Mendelssohn, and Part

  19. Lunchtime concert by Cat Evison (saxophones)

    Lunchtime concert by Cat Evison (saxophones)

    'Lost Along the Way'

    Music Centre Associate Teacher Cat Evison presents reflections on recent history in a programme of her own works for solo saxophone and electronics.  Using...

  20. The Persian empire and 'India', 522 -- 486 BCE

    The Persian empire and 'India', 522 -- 486 BCE

    Rhyne King - St Andrews

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  21. Lunchtime concert by the Resol String Quartet

    Lunchtime concert by the Resol String Quartet

    Britten-Pears Young Artists 2022-23 and winners of the Cavatina Competition at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Resol String Quartet make their Laidlaw Music...

  22. The Ladies at the bank: women and money at the end of the Second Punic War

    The Ladies at the bank: women and money at the end of the Second Punic War

    Kristina Milnor - Columbia

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  23. Organ Concert by Robert Gower (Dundee Parish Church)

    Organ Concert by Robert Gower (Dundee Parish Church)

    Transcriptions of music by Bantock, Boulanger and Chaminade

  24. Music Talk by Freeland Barbour

    Music Talk by Freeland Barbour

    Music talk on free reed instruments in Scottish traditional music

  25. Lunchtime concert by Freeland Barbour (accordion)

    Lunchtime concert by Freeland Barbour (accordion)

    A musical life in 2 volumes -- Freeland Barbour introduces his music based on his ground-breaking collection 'The Music and the Land'.

  26. Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Giacomo Savani (Visiting Scholar)

    Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Giacomo Savani (Visiting Scholar)

    For further information and to register to join the seminar please follow the link.

  27. Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Francois Leleux (Oboe/Conductor) and Carolyn Sampson (Soprano)

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Francois Leleux (Oboe/Conductor) and Carolyn Sampson (Soprano)

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra François Leleux (conductor/oboe) Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Mozart: Symphony no. 25 in G minor Berlioz: Cantata -- Herminie...

  28. Rhetoric in Plato's Academy?: the lost Περὶ τέχνης of Xenocrates of Chalcedon

    Rhetoric in Plato's Academy?: the lost Περὶ τέχνης of Xenocrates of Chalcedon

    Phillip Horky - Durham University

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  29. St Andrews Chamber Orchestra and St Salvator's Chapel Choir

    St Andrews Chamber Orchestra and St Salvator's Chapel Choir

    With Michael Downes, Bede Williams, Claire Innes-Hopkins (Conductors), The Fitzwilliam String Quartet, James Eastaway (oboe)

    Vivaldi: Magnificat, RV610 Villa-Lobos: Sinfonietta no. 1 Mozart: Symphony no. 41 in C, K551 'Jupiter' The music of the baroque, classical and...

  30. Organ Concert by Laurent Jochum (Saint Jean Baptiste de Belleville, Paris)

    Organ Concert by Laurent Jochum (Saint Jean Baptiste de Belleville, Paris)

    Music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Boëllman, Takle Please note the change in venue

  31. How Did Ancient Rome Shape India's Decolonization? -- Milinda Banerjee (St Andrews)

    How Did Ancient Rome Shape India's Decolonization? -- Milinda Banerjee (St Andrews)

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  32. Lunchtime Concert by Music Centre Piano Scholars with Anca Nite-Doyle (piano)

    Lunchtime Concert by Music Centre Piano Scholars with Anca Nite-Doyle (piano)

    Music Centre piano scholars Oisin Lyons, Lucy Javurek and Zach Brandman perform Sergei Rachmaninoff's hugely popular Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op....

  33. St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity Annual Lecture -- Alena Sarkissian (Prague)
    Cancelled

    St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity Annual Lecture -- Alena Sarkissian (Prague)

    Launching the Cold War on Stage 1945--1956

    This is a School of Classics Online Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to...

  34. Afro-Caribbean Society Festival

    Afro-Caribbean Society Festival

    The African-Caribbean Society returns with its annual music concert, celebrating the musical diversity of Scotland and honouring our common ancestral culture....

  35. Music from the Chinese-Speaking World: Spring Festival 2024

    Music from the Chinese-Speaking World: Spring Festival 2024

    Chinese-speaking students studying in St Andrews join with students with an interest in Chinese culture to share music from the Chinese-speaking world....

  36. Organ Concert by Chris Nickel (Glasgow)

    Organ Concert by Chris Nickel (Glasgow)

    Music by Bach, Elgar, Frescobaldi, MacMillan, Sweelinck, and Wesley

  37. Lunchtime concert by Roy Howat (piano)

    Lunchtime concert by Roy Howat (piano)

    The popular Scottish pianist and international recognised scholar of French piano music Roy Howat makes a welcome return to St Andrews with a lunchtime...

  38. Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Panayiotis Christoforou (Oxford)

    Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Panayiotis Christoforou (Oxford)

    For further information and to register to join the seminar please follow the link.

  39. Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama --- Lyndsay Coo (Bristol)

    Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama --- Lyndsay Coo (Bristol)

    The sisterhood of the Danaids

    TRIGGER WARNING Will include mention of suicide, rape and sexual violence. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join...

  40. Maximiliano Martin and Friends

    Maximiliano Martin and Friends

    Maximiliano Martín (clarinet), Cerys Ambrose-Evans (bassoon), Scott Mitchell (piano), Laidlaw Music Centre woodwind scholars

    Honorary Professor of Woodwind and one of Europe's foremost clarinettists, Maximiliano Martín curates a programme including music by Mozart, Rossini and...

  41. Laidlaw Music Centre Spring Concert Series: Maximiliano Martín and Friends

    Laidlaw Music Centre Spring Concert Series: Maximiliano Martín and Friends

    Honorary Professor of Woodwind and one of Europe's foremost clarinettists, Maximiliano Martín curates a programme including music by Mozart, Rossini and...

  42. Lunchtime concert by Rose McLachlan (piano)

    Lunchtime concert by Rose McLachlan (piano)

    Schubert: Impromptu D935 No.3 in B-flat Major Debussy: Images, Book II Debussy Preludes: Ondine, Bruyeres, Les Collines D'anacapri Shostakovich: Prelude...

  43. Organ Concert by Michael Chamberlain (Campbell Watterson Organ Scholar)

    Organ Concert by Michael Chamberlain (Campbell Watterson Organ Scholar)

    Music by Alain, Bach, and Peeters

  44. Music Talk by David Wordsworth (John Ireland Charitable Trust)

    Music Talk by David Wordsworth (John Ireland Charitable Trust)

    'John Ireland and his World'

  45. School of Classics Seminar -- Jason König (St Andrews)

    School of Classics Seminar -- Jason König (St Andrews)

    Imagining the earth in ancient Greek and Roman literature: human-environment relations in Lucian's True Stories

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  46. School of Classics Seminar -- Janja Soldo (Edinburgh)
    Cancelled

    School of Classics Seminar -- Janja Soldo (Edinburgh)

    Female addressees and letter writers in Latin letters and letter collections: first thoughts on a neglected corpus of women's writing

    -As agreed please add the following link to the bottom of the Event Description: For further information please contact [email protected] Also please...

  47. Lunchtime concert by Mark Stone (baritone) and Stephen Barlow (piano)

    Lunchtime concert by Mark Stone (baritone) and Stephen Barlow (piano)

    Following his recent debut with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, renowned British baritone Mark Stone performs a lunchtime recital of English art song by John...

  48. Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor) and Pekka Kuusisto (violin)

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor) and Pekka Kuusisto (violin)

    Fauré: Suite Pelléas & Mélisande Lindberg: Violin Concerto no. 1 Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks Shostakovich arr Barshai: Chamber Symphony Two of the...

  49. The John Ireland Competition for Singers

    The John Ireland Competition for Singers

    Vocal and piano student duos perform songs by one of the most distinctive art song composers of 20th century England in this first St Andrews John Ireland...

  50. Mark Stone sings 'Winterreise'

    Mark Stone sings 'Winterreise'

    Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano)

    One of the most admired British baritones of his generation, a winner of the Decca prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and with multiple appearances throughout...