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School of Classics, University of St Andrews.
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🎭✨ Join us for 'Engaging Audiences: Policy, Practice & Beyond' on Wed 10th December — a deep dive into creative, cross-sector approaches to audience engagement in #PhD research and beyond!

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#SGSAH #KEHub #HybridEvent
Engaging Audiences; Policy, Practice and Beyond
We invite you to join for SGSAH’s annual pan-KE Hub event, this year looking at engaging with diverse audiences as part of research and beyond.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Jason König continues to explore Parnitha, following a route to the Cave of Pan. He discusses Nikagoras and Edward Dodwell, both notable visitors to the cave.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Did you study a module with us this semester? Please tell us about your experience in the Module Feedback Questionnaires. MFQs are open to receive #StudentFeedback until 5 December 2025.

Read about MFQs and access the survey system: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/education/ha...

#YourVoiceMatters
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#Seminar: "Reforming Justinian’s empire: The praetorian prefect John the Cappadocian"
Giordana Franceschini (Tübingen)

🗓️ 28 November, 4:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)

#AllWelcome
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
St Leonard's College World Leading Doctoral Scholarships (student-led).
Open to new EU, or international doctoral students.
Submission deadline: 21 January 2026.
View details stleonardscollege.st-andrews.ac.uk/funding/worl...
World Leading Scholarships 2026-2027 – St Leonard's College
Supervisor-led competition
stleonardscollege.st-andrews.ac.uk
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"Classical Reception in Smosh's Comedy"
Aneirin Pendragon (St Andrews)

STARR #Seminar, 📆 27 November,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link)

#AllWelcome
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Ancient Peace Studies Network: inaugural workshop

📆 20 to 26 January 2026
📍 University of St Andrews
🔗 View details: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a...

To register interest, please contact Prof. Alice König at [email protected].
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Every time you walk on one of these paths you are contributing to keeping it open and in use, and that’s an act of heritage preservation in itself"

Jason König discusses Mount Parnes in antiquity, and a route to the Koromilia peak.
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/11/15/p...
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Congratulations to Florence Rogers who successfully defended her PhD thesis "The Mists of Ancient History: Representations of Fog in Latin Literature". standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/c...

#PhD #PhDThesis #LatinLiterature
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#Seminar: "Rome at its Core: A new history of early Rome and its republic"
Andrea Brock (St Andrews)

🗓️ 21 November, 4:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)

#AllWelcome #ClassicsBluesky
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Relief in the Round: Terracotta Classicism and the Homeric Friezes of Ickworth House”
Sebastian Marshall (St Andrews)

STARR #Seminar, 📆 20 November,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link)

#AllWelcome
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Deadline approaching!
Submit your PhD applications for 2026 entry by 15 November 2025.

View details including funding opportunities: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/p...

#PhD #PhDApplication #Scholarships #Funding
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Congratulations to Alison Hadfield who has successfully defended her #PhD thesis “In Touch with the Past: A Sensory Approach to Objects, Memory and Wellbeing”.

standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/c...
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Join us for the CLAS Annual #lecture!

"Mary of Egypt: Gender, sanctity and landscape"
Speaker: Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham)

🗓️ 14 November
⏰ 4.15pm
📍 Hybrid: Room SO3 Swallowgate, or Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)

#AllWelcome
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Dr Sian Lewis will give a talk to the Scottish Hellenic Society of Edinburgh tomorrow, 11 November, entitled "Animals of the 'polis': regional bestiaries in the Greek Mediterranean".

View SHSE programme: scottishhellenicsociety.wordpress.com/programme-20...
Programme 2025-6
7 October – Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St Andrews) – ‘From Banff to Basra: Robert Wilson in the footsteps of Alexander the Great in the 1820s’ 11 November – Sian Lewis (St Andrews) – …
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November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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⌛ Deadline approaching for the new BSA course on 'The Art and Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece'.
⏰ Apply by October 31, 2025
📩 For questions, email assistant.director [at] bsa.ac.uk
Read more at: www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/the-...
October 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"2026 Intensive Introductory #Workshop in the Palaeosciences for Pre-Modernists "
📆 19-23 January 2026
📍 Princeton University
⏰ Apply by 15 November
🔗 View details: climatechangeandhistory.princeton.edu/events/2026-...
2026 Intensive Introductory Workshop in the Palaeosciences for Pre-Modernists
Applications are now open for the 7th Annual CCHRI Workshop!
climatechangeandhistory.princeton.edu
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“The Social Texture of the Desert”
(Shannon McMillian)

Postgraduate #seminar, 📆12 November ⏰5:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate

Please send enquiries to [email protected] and [email protected]
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Rebecca Sweetman's new #book "The Archaeology of the Cyclades in the Roman and Late Antique Periods: Globalization, Christianization and Resilience" has been published by Cambridge University Press.

🔗 bit.ly/cyclades25

The volume is available in hardback and as an ebook.
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Explore a sunset route up Mount Hymettos, and what role the mountain plays in Greek literature and mythology.

mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/11/01/h...

#mountains #MountainCulture
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Thinking Generationally: Authors and Readers"
A SGSAH Literature Discipline+ Catalyst Doctoral Training Event

📆24 November, 11:00-16:00
📍Irvine Building 301, St Andrews
👉Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-g...
Open to all Arts & Humanities PhD researchers registered at Scottish institutions
Thinking Generationally: Authors and Readers
A SGSAH Literature Discipline+ Catalyst Doctoral Training Event
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November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
#Seminar: "Classics and cyber security "
Genevieve Liveley (Bristol)

🗓️ 7 November, 4:15pm
💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)

#AllWelcome
All seminars: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#Seminar: "Dining like a Caesar, feasting like a tyrant…"
Gwynaeth McIntyre (Otago)

🗓️ 5 November, 2.15pm
📍 hybrid: Rm SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)

#AllWelcome
November 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
SAIMS seminar: "‘East’ and ‘West’ in the Middle Ages"
Speaker: Robert Bartlett (St Andrews)

📆 Monday 3 November, ⏰ 5:15pm
📍 Parliament Hall, St Andrews

View all SAIMS seminars: saims.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/seminars-2/
Seminars – St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
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November 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Fleets and Naval Forces of the Late Roman Mediterranean (3rd–6th Centuries)" by Alex Elliott, one of our #alumni, was published recently by Franz Steiner Verlag as part of the Historia - Einzelschriften monograph series.

🔗 www.steiner-verlag.de/Fleets-and-N...

#ClassicsBluesky #Book #NavalHistory
November 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM