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@durhamclassics.bsky.social📚 Book talk from our very own Prof. Edith Hall, this weekend in Durham! 🌟 Edith will be talking about her new 'Medea', from Yale University Press 📅 10am, Gala Theatre | Durham Book Festival
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🎉 Congratulations to Dr Claire Barnes, who has been awarded the Durham Prize in Classical Reception 2026, for her thesis 'Only Connecting’: Authenticity and the Classics in E.M. Forster, Christopher Logue, and Kae Tempest' 📅 A prize lecture will be held in Durham on 9th December
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🎉 We are celebrating more successes in recent league table rankings!
🏅 Durham was placed 4th in the UK for Classics in the Guardian University Guide 2027
🔗 Read about Durham's league table successes right across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🇩🇪🤝🇬🇧 Our annual doctoral exchange with Heidelberg's Department of Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik took place 14–18 Sept! 🎓 7 Durham PhD students visited Heidelberg for a series of presentations, keynote lectures, museum visits, and group meals with their counterparts students.
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Ingleheart, two of whose poems have appeared in the latest edition of 'Poems for Persons of Interest'
🏳️🌈 The poems are entitled 'Polari Catullus 78B' and 'Polari Catullus 50'
🔗 Read the whole issue for free here: pfpoi.blogspot.com/p/september-...
@durhamclassics.bsky.social📚 Would you like to join our vibrant research community here at Durham Classics?
👉 Expression of interest are open for the 'British Academy International Fellowships Programme': deadline 6th November
🔗Learn more about the scheme: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🤩 A very warm welcome to all our new students joining us this week for Welcome Week! 🎓 We are really looking forward to teaching you all, and we hope that you enjoy your studies here with us.
@durhamclassics.bsky.social✨ Call for papers!
👉 Language and Labour in the Ancient World
📅 📍 15–16 April 2027
⏰ Submit by Saturday 31st October 2026
🔗 Find out more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
@durham.ac.ukReposted by @durhamclassics.bsky.socialNew funding from The Polonsky Foundation will support a two-year project exploring the learning and teaching of ancient Greek in UK schools, led by @profarlenehh.bsky.social. The funding was announced during a recent visit @britschoolathens.bsky.social.
@katherinemcdon.bsky.socialReposted by @durhamclassics.bsky.socialRaising a glass to the students matriculating at Castle today, but also celebrating 5 years in Durham 🎉 and 20 years since I started university 😮😮. @durhamclassics.bsky.social
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and volunteers from College Year in Athens, for the publication of new inscriptions on AIO!
👉 New: funerary stelai, lekythoi, trapezai, and kioniskoi on display on the Kolonos Agoraios west of the Athenian Agora.
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🎉 Durham’s Centre for Classics Education, Research and EngagementS (CERES) has secured £60,500 for two projects supporting the future of Classics Education across the UK.
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🕯️ Readers of the Guardian might have spotted Prof. Edith Hall's very moving obituary for her friend and mentor Prof. Pat Easterling.
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🎆 Happy new (academic) year! 💫 Some of our academic staff got together earlier this week to enjoy lunch and catch up after the summer. 🤩 We're all ready to meet new and returning students now - can't wait to teach you all!
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🌟 We're number one!
🚀 In the recent Times University UK rankings, Durham has been ranked as #1 in the country for Classics and Ancient History - a fantastic result!
🔗 Check out the full league table here: www.thetimes.com/uk-universit...
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall, whose new book "Medea. A life" has recently been published with Yale University Press!
📖 Edith explores the possibility that Medea could be based on a historical figure who migrated to Greece in the late Bronze Age.
@durhamclassics.bsky.social👩🏫 Justine Wolfenden and Anna Judson headed to the Institute of Classical Studies in London last week, to present at the conference 'Teaching Ancient Languages in Universities: Innovations in Module Design, Instruction and Assessment' 💫 Their paper was entitled 'Applying Language Learning at Durham'
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🚀 Congratulations to former Durham PhD Giulia De Cesaris (2020), who has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project 'PeripaTOs – Recasting Aristotelianism'!
👏 The project proposes to study the Peripatetic school (from Theophrastus to Critolaus).
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🤩 Congratulations to Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson!
📚 *Three* books on Classics, Education and Policy launched at a parliamentary reception hosted by Baroness Young of Old Scone in the House of Lords.
@durhamclassics.bsky.social🎉 Congratulations to Caitlin Spencer-Knapp, who has passed her PhD viva (without corrections!) 👉 Caitlin's thesis was entitled 'Pliny and Seneca: Community, Location and Leisure' 👏 With thanks to Prof. Roy Gibson as supervisor, and to Prof. Peter Heslin and Dr Janja Soldo (Edinburgh) as examiners.
