Thinking Strategically: Challenges Facing Language Educators Fri 21 Nov, 12-1.15pm Join Megan Bowler, Emma Cayley & Charles Forsdick for an ILCS Seminar to discuss the recently published Higher Education Policy Institute’s report on the deep challenges faced by language educators: shorturl.at/gEAOM

EpiDoc office hour, Weds 19 Nov, 4-5pm shorturl.at/z9cHz The EpiDoc community hosts monthly online drop-in sessions or. During these open sessions, experienced EpiDoc users and developers will be available to answer EpiDoc-related questions and provide mentorship for your digital projects.

Reminder to register for upcoming ICS Seminars in Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Literature and Ancient History. Presenters include: - Wolfgang Mann (Columbia) shorturl.at/yeIRM - ANTHONY CORBEILL (UVA) shorturl.at/APSDc - Roel Konijnendijk (Oxford) shorturl.at/ugefu

Join us in person on 18 November for an Introduction to Responsible AI (RAI): www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

The Future of the Antique: Interpreting the Sculptural Canon 10-12 Dec Programme: shorturl.at/td8kw Register: shorturl.at/cDJF4 Marking the new edition of Haskell & Penny’s seminal Taste and the Antique. This conference will address how classical statues shaped visual culture beyond replication.

Calling SAS Students: Turing Scheme Funding is available to support travel to a partner institution and work or study abroad. Partners include @bsrome.bsky.social @britschoolathens.bsky.social The Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition (OBTA) at the University of Warsaw shorturl.at/yUCPi

Developing & Leading a Major Project in Classics Thurs 27 Nov, 1–3pm Register: shorturl.at/qH4K7 Designed particularly for mid-career researchers seeking to develop a major project, hear from: •Arlene Holmes-Henderson (Durham) •Alex Mullen (Nottingham) •Corisande Fenwick (UCL) •Ellen Swift (Kent)

Shoutout to the Classics Library at Senate House in our latest #VirgilsAeneidPodcast, in which we discuss whether Aeneas was a pious #Faithful or a #CelebrityTraitor! youtu.be/fmZZI5NtBbQ?...

The Issue brings together a wonderful selection of papers on the reception of Orosius's Historiae - see ToC above. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this project, & special thanks to the ICS @ics.bsky.social for their support. It's exciting to think where this field of study can go next!

Read the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies on Orosius Through The Ages academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6...

New Blog post #HistDay25 Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece Dr Rosario Rovira Guardiola explores a diary by Amy Maud Hicks, a well-known suffragette, during a trip to Greece in 1902 showcasing her early career as a Classicist & archaeologist: shorturl.at/W2i6Q

New Blog post for #HistDay25 Antinous in the collection of the ICS library Part of the Queer History & Heritage Trail, Dr Rosario Rovira Guardiola explores how Antinous and his image have fascinated so many since his death in October 130 AD through the collections of the Library: shorturl.at/munV2

Welcome to Dr Anna Walas who joins the ICS today as a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellow. Dr Walas’s work will investigate legacies of European imperialism on the archaeology of Roman frontiers in Britain and North Africa. Further details here: shorturl.at/rqi2a

Calling all Postgraduate Students: register for the upcoming PGWiP Seminar: Fri 7 Nov, 5-6pm, Online via Zoom: shorturl.at/klF3g Christian San José Campos (University of Alcalá) will discuss Ptolemy I and the West: Reframing an Unfinished Policy and the ‘Western Clause’ of Alexander’s Hypomnemata

Read the latest research published in the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies - including articles on the Greek chorus; early Athenian inscribed public honours; the reinterpretation of a comic scene on a bell-krater…and more! academic.oup.com/bics/advance...

Register now for ICS Archaeology Seminars: Shared Horizons: A Dialogue Between Classical Archaeology & Archaeological Science shorturl.at/mRVRO Weds 26 Nov, 5pm, Eleanor von Aderkas (UCL & British Museum) Containing Commodities: Organic Residue Analysis of Greek Decorated Pottery shorturl.at/046zk

Apply now for the SAS Public Humanities Fellowship! Applications are invited from those working at the forefront of shaping the future of Public Humanities, deepening its reach, and expanding its impact. Apply by 21 November: www.sas.ac.uk/research-eng...

An intro to essential resources for Classics & Archaeology research Weds 5 Nov, 2-4pm shorturl.at/o1srW Held in collaboration with specialist staff from the Combined Classics Library, providing an intro to essential resources for research in the fields of Classics, Archaeology & Ancient History.

Register now for upcoming The Cutting Edge: Conversations in epigraphy seminar Alex A. Antoniou (University of Glasgow) will discuss: Embracing and Encoding Uncertainty and Ambiguity: Emperor Worship and EpiDoc Wednesday 29 October 5-6pm In person at Senate House shorturl.at/lkLPB

Final days to apply: ICS Public Engagement Grants Apply for up to £500 to support Classics-themed public engagement activities, demonstrating aspects of research in Classics in ways that are accessible, enjoyable & understandable for non-specialist audiences Deadline 1 Nov: shorturl.at/BRqqU

Exploring research focussed on Nature, the Environment, & Culture and opportunities for new displays across all depts holding collections from the ancient Mediterranean in the British Museum (including Egypt & Sudan, Middle East, Britain, Europe and Prehistory amongst others) shorturl.at/h76mr 2/2

Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum: Nature, the Environment, & Culture 4–6.30pm, Weds 5 Nov In-person at Senate House Full details and registration here: shorturl.at/h76mr 1/2

Join us to remember the late Prof John North, Honorary Fellow, former Director, and long-time friend of the ICS. Thurs 6 Nov 4.30pm, Tim Cornell (Manchester) will give a memorial lecture: The symbolic projection of social reality. John North’s vision of Roman religion and culture: shorturl.at/6fU7g

The Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum on 6 November will bring together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically. Find out more and register: www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Call for Papers: “Civilizing” the World: Classicism, Neo-Classical Sculpture, and Plaster Casts in the Service of Imperial Powers and Post-Colonial Elites (1780-1945) Papers deadline: 1 December 2025 Conference dates: 22 - 23 October 2026 Full details here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

New fieldwork this week on Paros, #Greece! 🏺 🏛️ Ground-Penetrating Radar survey adjacent to excavations at #Hellenistic and #Roman houses and a sculpture workshop. 3D modelling of structural remains will also tie in with subsurface features captured by radar. /1

📣 Calling all PhD Students in Classics, Archaeology, Ancient History, and related disciplines 📣 Register now for our Classical Studies PhD welcome event 22 October 2025, 3:00PM - 4:00PM Learn how the ICS’s resources and activities can support you in your PhD research: shorturl.at/pxRQe

Accordia Research Institute Lectures return for 2025-26 focusing on aspects of Italian archaeology and history. Join us on Tues Oct 21 at 5.30pm, Eleanor Betts (Open University) will discuss ‘The Potentino Exploration Project: the undiscovered temple’ Full schedule here: shorturl.at/8UIZ5

Upcoming Research Training: Introduction to Digital Classics Approaches Weds 29 Oct 2-3pm This seminar will give an overview of current digital methods, technologies & tools used in the study of the ancient world, languages, texts, history, objects, cultural heritage & reception: shorturl.at/U6pc0

Join Ben Dewar (ICS) who will speak at the upcoming seminar in The Cutting Edge: Conversations in epigraphy series Weds 15 Oct, 5pm The Tablet Box in Context: Epigraphic Perspectives on the Construction of Historical Knowledge in Ancient Assyrian Full details here: shorturl.at/1BzZk

Delighted to welcome speakers and attendees to our conference Herculaneum: Contexts, Present Progress and Future Prospects Today we kick off with sessions on Archaeology and Papyrology including papers from eminent and emergent scholars.

Delighted to welcome Jas Elsner to Senate House tonight for the 28th Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture: Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art

This afternoon ICS Librarians Sue Willetts and Rosario Rovira Guardiola hosted students from the Research Training in Classical Art and Archaeology Intercollegiate Module at the Combined Library to introduce them to handling texts, using the library, and accessing resources.

Prof Polly Low (Durham) will give the Autumn Lecture in Classics, part of the ICS/National Hellenic Research Foundation/British School at Athens Lectures in Classics Towards a New History of Ancient Greek Empire(s) Mon 3 Nov, 6pm, at the BSA. Full details & link to register: shorturl.at/7YW74

Registration now open for our upcoming 3D Spring School: shorturl.at/GpY8r 3D Imaging and Modelling for Classics and Cultural Heritage 13-17 April 2026 This in-person course will introduce you to issues, methods and technologies in the 3D imaging and modelling of ancient artefacts and buildings.

Read the latest research published in the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies - including articles on Roman picture galleries; the reuse of antiquities; Tiberius’ words in Suetonius' De vita Caesarum; making gods real through choral dance…and more! academic.oup.com/bics/advance...

Ancient Literature Seminars return for Autumn Term: ICS Visiting Fellow, Jeff Tatum (Victoria University of Wellington) will discuss Best of the Achaeans, Last of the Greeks: Achilles and Plutarch's Philopoemen Monday 13 Oct, 4:30pm, in person at Senate House shorturl.at/2zpRZ

Join ICS Ancient History Seminars, this term focused on 'Civil War' On Thursday 9 Oct at 4.30pm we welcome Consuelo Martino (Edinburgh) to discuss Making a Saviour Out of a Perpetrator: Civil War and Leadership in Roman imperial Memory: shorturl.at/0bL2y Full series details here: shorturl.at/oMZo0

Call For Papers: Environmental Approaches to the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape, 1750-1920 Panel at the Association for Art History (AAH) Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, 8-10 April 2026 Full details and how to submit here:

Join us on Friday 10 Oct at 6pm: Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture: Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art: shorturl.at/upBPy One of Britain's leading art historians, Prof Jaś Elsner, will look at the religious context of some of the great monuments of antiquity.

Mycenaean Seminars are back for the 2025-26 Series. Join us on Wednesday 15 October at 3.30pm to hear Trevor Van Damme (University of Warwick) speak about: New discoveries from ancient Eleon in Boeotia: shorturl.at/Vl6QF Details on the full seminar series can be found here shorturl.at/hly7i

Come see the new Library Exhibition: 100 Years of the Wood Collection Exploring treasures from British antiquarian Robert Wood including diaries, notebooks, sketchbooks, and published works to mark the centenary of the collection’s acquisition. Now on view at Senate House, 3rd Floor Lobby.

Teaching began today on ICS Intercollegiate Module: Wine, Oil and Grain in Greece and Rome: Production to Consumption convened by Dr Emlyn Dodd. Students will learn how wine, oil and grain shape(d) the physical, cultural and economic landscapes of the Mediterranean: shorturl.at/6mW5k

Congratulations to Dr Jessica Venner who has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Oxford for her project Cultivating Cohesion: Urban Agricultural Gardens in Early Imperial Tyrrhenian Italy (31 BCE–117 CE) shorturl.at/VKGGJ

We are delighted to welcome five new Early Career Research Associates to the ICS: Dr Jessica Clarke, Dr Edward Jones, Dr Melissa Kays, Dr Alexandra Solovyev, and Dr Mirjam von Bechtolsheim. See the full cohort of ECRA's here: shorturl.at/VOONa

One particular highlight of the Being Human Festival: Reading in the Roman Empire: ICS Acting Director Dr Kathryn Tempest and Prof Gesine Manuwald (UCL) will introduce a series of lightning talks on the literature and reading culture of ancient Rome. Weds 12 Nov 2.30-3.30pm shorturl.at/WxLB4 2/2

The 2025 Being Human Festival programme is now live 💫 This year's festival runs from 6 - 15 Nov 2025. With over 220 events taking place in 46 towns and cities across the UK, there is a wide range of events to suit everyone's curiosities. Programme highlights: bit.ly/3IsbVWI #BeingHuman2025 1/2

Ancient Philosophy Seminars return for Autumn Term: Mondays 2-4pm, in person at Senate House and Online via Zoom Monday 6 Oct, 2pm Join Ugo Zilioli (Oxford) who will discuss Pyrrho’s Revelation: On the Hieratic Style and Oral Origin of the Aristocles Passage, Between East and West shorturl.at/zXwmO

Postgraduate Work-in-Progress seminars are back! Fridays at 5pm, in person and online. Friday 3 October, Antonis Stamiris (University of Edinburgh) will discuss: Anticipatory Pain and Pleasure in the Platonic and Aristotelian Analysis of Emotion Full schedule here: shorturl.at/xlKgo

Training activities include: • Intros to digital approaches to Classics • Developing & leading a major project • Publishing in journals • Applying for postdocs & fellowships • Spring School in 3D imaging and modelling Most activities are free & open to all regardless of career stage/affiliation 2/2