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  1. "Say no!" Textile Art and Activism Workshop
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    "Say no!" Textile Art and Activism Workshop

    Join our artist facilitator Hannah Ayre to explore textile art and activism and have a go at creating your own activist textile banner. Participants can bring...

  2. "Say No!" Book Club --- February
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    "Say No!" Book Club --- February

    Our monthly book club is a chance to discuss a series of books covering the exhibition's themes of protest, feminism, art and inclusivity. Join us at the...

  3. Teaching Ancient War's Aftermath

    Teaching Ancient War's Aftermath

    Current approaches, what works well, what could be different?

    The Visualising War and Peace project is laying the foundations for a major five-year study of current practice and future approaches to teaching ancient war...

  4. "Say no!" Book Club --- March
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    "Say no!" Book Club --- March

    Our monthly book club is a chance to discuss a series of books covering the exhibition's themes of protest, feminism, art and inclusivity. Join us at the...

  5. "Say no!" Book Club --- April
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    "Say no!" Book Club --- April

    Our monthly book club is a chance to discuss a series of books covering the exhibition's themes of protest, feminism, art and inclusivity. Join us at the...

  6. Plato's Laws

    Plato's Laws

    Two-day conference PROGRAMME Thursday 15 May 2-2.45pm: Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi 'Elpis in Plato's Laws' 2.45 -- 3.30pm: Antony...

  7. Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon

    Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon

    Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)

    Annual lecture of the St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity. Abstract There is nothing new about turning to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus...

  8. Teaching Ancient Peace and Peacebuilding

    Teaching Ancient Peace and Peacebuilding

    Current approaches, what works well, what could be different?

    The Visualising War and Peace project is laying the foundations for a major five-year study of current practice and future approaches to teaching ancient war...

  9. "Say no!" Domestic Dusters --- Radical Embroidery Workshop

    "Say no!" Domestic Dusters --- Radical Embroidery Workshop

    As part of our Domestic Dusters display for International Womens Day, we will be hosting a drop-in embroidery workshop with artist and researcher Vanessa Marr...

  10. Teaching Ancient War and Peace

    Teaching Ancient War and Peace

    Setting new agenda for primary, secondary and tertiary education.

    The Visualising War and Peace project is organising a series of online consultations plus an in-person workshop in 2025 to explore current practice and future...

  11. "Are we not men?" Animals and stigmatising assumptions in Ancient Rome

    "Are we not men?" Animals and stigmatising assumptions in Ancient Rome

    Jack Lennon (Leicester)

    This is a School of Classics Event. Abstract This paper will consider the use of animal comparisons, especially those involving animals that were judged to...

  12. 'Voluntarium et naturale'? Slave onomastics in ancient Italy

    'Voluntarium et naturale'? Slave onomastics in ancient Italy

    Katherine McDonald (Durham)

    This is a School of Classics Event. Abstract This paper turns a critical eye on the naming of enslaved people in ancient Italy, using Latin, Etruscan and...

  13. Learning about ancient and modern war and peace in dialogue

    Learning about ancient and modern war and peace in dialogue

    The Visualising War and Peace project is laying the foundations for a major five-year study of current practice and future approaches to teaching ancient war...

  14. Unauthenticated letters in late Roman North African disputes: forgeries or negotiation strategies?

    Unauthenticated letters in late Roman North African disputes: forgeries or negotiation strategies?

    Becca Grose (St Andrews)

    Abstract In the letters of Augustine and other North African religious figures, we find multiple mentions of suspect letters --- letters missing...

  15. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor David Scanlon (University of Birmingham)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor David Scanlon (University of Birmingham)

    Computational Prediction and Experimental Realisation of New Transparent Conducting Oxides

    Transparent conducting oxides have become ubiquitous in modern optoelectronics. The number of oxides that are transparent to visible light and have the...

  16. Tumultus Iudaicus: the diaspora revolts and the rebuilding of Cyrene

    Tumultus Iudaicus: the diaspora revolts and the rebuilding of Cyrene

    Caroline Barron (Durham)

    This is a School of Classics Event. Abstract The outbreaks of violence amongst the Jewish communities of ancient Alexandria, Cyrene, Cyprus and Mesopotamia...

  17. Going beyond tools: Deep neural networks for ancient Greek epigraphic networks

    Going beyond tools: Deep neural networks for ancient Greek epigraphic networks

    Thea Sommerscheid (Nottingham)

    This is a School of Classics Event. Abstracts Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence are transforming the study of ancient languages, enabling tasks...

  18. Ovid's ecological disasters: scalar zoom and the challenges of narrative time

    Ovid's ecological disasters: scalar zoom and the challenges of narrative time

    Alison Sharrock (Manchester)

    Annual lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies Abstract Although climate change seems to have speeded up in the last few years, it still...

  19. 'Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province': Nero's liberation of Greece...

    'Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province': Nero's liberation of Greece...

    Line Girdvainyte (Edinburgh)

    'Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province': Nero's liberation of Greece revisited. Abstract This paper focuses on a...