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  1. Sands 24: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Sands 24: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Pay what you can: £10, £8, £6

    Anna Hints' atmospheric, almost mystical, feature-length documentary debut invites us to become part of a supportive, witty, sweaty female collective who gather in a traditional Estonian smoke sauna, as their mothers and grandmothers have done

  2. Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World

    Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World

    Further information and registration details can be found via the link below. Please contact [email protected] if you have additional...

  3. Visualising Peace Photography Exhibition

    Visualising Peace Photography Exhibition

    The Visualising Peace Project has been collaborating with PRISMA Photography Magazine to host a competition and exhibition on the theme of Visualising Peace....

  4. Classical Reception and pedagogy

    Classical Reception and pedagogy

    A Scottish perspective on teaching the reception of classical material culture

    This is the first workshop in a planned series on 'Classical Reception and pedagogy' that will focus on the ways that the reception of classical material culture is currently taught at universities. The workshop will bring together experts from all

  5. St Andrews Climate Week

    St Andrews Climate Week

    The inaugural University of St Andrews Climate Week will run from 27-30 May 2024, with a series of events designed to highlight climate-themed research and build new cross-disciplinary collaborations. Climate Week is a STAIRS-funded initiative,

  6. Classical Reception and pedagogy
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    Classical Reception and pedagogy

    Object-based Teaching - Classical Reception and University Collections

    These morning and afternoon workshops are the first in a planned series on 'Classical Reception and pedagogy' that will focus on the ways the reception of classical material culture is currently taught at universities. The workshops will bring

  7. Untranslatability

    Untranslatability

    Martin Revermann (Toronto)

    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...

  8. Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture -- Speaker: Professor Ursula Coope (Oxford)

    Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture -- Speaker: Professor Ursula Coope (Oxford)

    'Contingency and the Present'

    For further information please contact [email protected]

  9. Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication

    Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication

    A conversation with Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar

    The turbulent Yiddish world of the first half of the twentieth century produced great works not only of literature, theatre, and music, but of cinema. In their new book, Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar explore these little-known, "ethnic," diasporic

  10. Teach-in: Gaza and justice

    Teach-in: Gaza and justice

    As we pass 100 days of Israel's military campaign in Gaza with a spread of conflict in the region, this Teach-In provides a forum for discussing questions...

  11. Film screening: Tea & Sympathy (1956)

    Film screening: Tea & Sympathy (1956)

    A screening of Tea & Sympathy (1956) to accompany the talk by Professor Richard Dyer and book launch of The Richard Dyer Reader on 15th November, 4pm-6pm in...

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

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

    Rhyne King - St Andrews

    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...

  13. 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

    For further information please email [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our seminar mailing list. Email...

  14. Centre for Late Antique Studies Annual Lecture -- Neil McLynn (Oxford)

    Centre for Late Antique Studies Annual Lecture -- Neil McLynn (Oxford)

    Lost at Leuchars: Gregory Nazianzen at Sasima

    For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our seminar mailing list. E-mail...

  15. 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

    For further information please emai [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our seminar mailing list. Email...

  16. 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...

  17. 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.

  18. Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Larisa Ficulle (St Andrews)

    Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Larisa Ficulle (St Andrews)

    Leaves of rue, Bayberries and Myrrh: Theory and Practice of Abortion in Byzantium

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

  19. Supply chain cinema: producing global film workers

    Supply chain cinema: producing global film workers

    Film Studies Speaker Series: Dr Kay Dickinson

    Dr Kay Dickinson will introduce her upcoming book Supply chain cinema: producing global film workers (BFI, 2024). Why are big budget films typically made across...

  20. 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...

  21. 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.

  22. Centre for the Literatures of the Roman Empire Annual Lecture

    Centre for the Literatures of the Roman Empire Annual Lecture

    Strange Stew: the Emperor Vitellius and his "Shield of Minerva" - Rhiannon Ash (Oxford)

    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...

  23. People and animals in Roman Britain --- Umberto Albarella (Sheffield)

    People and animals in Roman Britain --- Umberto Albarella (Sheffield)

    School of Classics Seminar

    TRIGGER WARNING Will include discussion of animal slaughter and butchery. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact...

  24. Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive: An Exploratory Workshop

    Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive: An Exploratory Workshop

    The St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity (SACRA) and the Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN) would like to invite Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Academics based in the UK and working in the field of classical reception

  25. 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...

  26. 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...

  27. 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)

    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...

  28. 'The Drum': film screening plus panel discussion

    'The Drum': film screening plus panel discussion

    On 5 March, Dundee Contemporary Arts will be screening the 1938 film 'The Drum' from a rare vintage 16mm print, as part of the events programme for...

  29. 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,...

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

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

    For further information please emai [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our seminar mailing list. Email...

  31. 'Aristotle's psychology and its reception' --- Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame) and Peter Adamson (LMU)

    'Aristotle's psychology and its reception' --- Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame) and Peter Adamson (LMU)

    Neither Arche Nor CEPPA (NANC) Event

    All are welcome.

  32. 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'...

  33. Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender and Sexuality

    Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender and Sexuality

    Inexplicable men of genius and what to do about them: a study in predicaments and alarms in the historiography of early Christian women

    Blossom Stefaniw is Professor of Intellectual History at MF University College in Oslo where she teaches in the Religious Studies department. Her research...

  34. Energy Cafe: Imagery and community agency in energy futures

    Energy Cafe: Imagery and community agency in energy futures

    Hosted by Gair Dunlop. Whether it's enormous offshore wind developments or the slow drawdown of nuclear facilities, community agency in relation to...

  35. Museum of Dreamworlds: Silent Antiquity Films in the British National Film Archive

    Museum of Dreamworlds: Silent Antiquity Films in the British National Film Archive

    School of Classics Seminar - Maria Wyke (UCL)

    TRIGGER WARNING May contain a reference to (or a moving image of) violence, possibly sexual. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please...

  36. 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,...

  37. 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...

  38. 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...

  39. Hands off: LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage and Ethical Stewardship -- Day One

    Hands off: LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage and Ethical Stewardship -- Day One

    Ajamu X and Matthew Arthur Williams in conversation

    Who should be responsible for safeguarding queer and trans collections for posterity, and how should this be done? 'Hands off' is a two-day...

  40. 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...

  41. Hands off: LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage and Ethical Stewardship -- Day Two

    Hands off: LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage and Ethical Stewardship -- Day Two

    Who should be responsible for safeguarding queer and trans collections for posterity, and how should this be done? 'Hands off' is a two-day...

  42. 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...

  43. 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...

  44. 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

    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...

  45. 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...

  46. Colonial Cinema in the Open Air: Dr Nadine Chan

    Colonial Cinema in the Open Air: Dr Nadine Chan

    Film Studies Speaker Series

    Dr Nadine Chan (University of Toronto) will present her research in a talk entitled: 'Colonial Cinema in the Open Air: Ambient Governmentality and...

  47. 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)

    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...

  48. Violence and Social Bonds in Late Antique Egypt: Women as Victims, Perpetrators, and Adjudicators

    Violence and Social Bonds in Late Antique Egypt: Women as Victims, Perpetrators, and Adjudicators

    Anna Kelley - St Andrews

    TRIGGER WARNING Will include discussions of both domestic and sexual violence, abduction marriage and rape. This is a School of Classics Event. For further...

  49. Ecuadorian cinema for the 21st century: Dr Fernanda Miño

    Ecuadorian cinema for the 21st century: Dr Fernanda Miño

    Book launch and screening of Ratas, Ratones, Rateros (Sebastian Cordero, 1999)

    Associate Lecturer in Film Studies, Dr Fernanda Miño, will be introducing her upcoming book Ecuadorian Cinema for the 21st Century. The first major English...

  50. Screening Politics---Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    Screening Politics---Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    Workshop organised by the German Screen Studies Network (GSSN)

    This GSSN workshop focuses on the "politics" of film exhibition in the Cold War, i.e., the influence of institutional actors from politics, culture...