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

The Institute of Classical Studies is pleased to announce its Researcher Training Programme for 2025-26 academic year. Designed for researchers in Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, Reception Studies and Philology. You can find an overview of programme activities here: shorturl.at/Q8Ke4 1/2

It's here! Sign up for History Day 4 Nov 2025. #HistDay25 Together with @senatehouselib.bsky.social we are celebrating all things history with collections from galleries, libraries, archives, museums & more. Find out what it's all about and book your free spot. www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

Accepting applications: 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

The Intercollegiate Masters Induction is underway! Delighted to welcome students from Kings, UCL, & Royal Holloway to learn more about the Intercollegiate MA Programmes, the ICS and our Library. Chaired by Dr Emilio Zucchetti (RHUL). Find out more about the ICS' Module offerings: shorturl.at/ua0R9

Street art and civil society in post-2011 Tunisia: aesthetics, civic engagement and organisational challenges Anwar Tlili (KCL). A free webinar hosted by the British Institute of Libyan and Northern African Studies. Sep 25 at 17:00 BST. Open to all. Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#WCCWiki is today!

On Thursday 9th October, I will be presenting at the ICS Ancient History seminar on a theme very dear to me: Making a saviour out of a perpetrator! Join us if you can 🥰 @ics.bsky.social ics.sas.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

The ICS Autumn Newsletter is now live! Learn more about the news, upcoming events, and new Fellows of the Institute alongside ways to get involved: shorturl.at/eHD8a Sign up to receive future editions: mailchi.mp/sas/ics-news...

CRSN is looking for Early Career Researchers who are interested in convening or co-convening the Classical Reception seminar series at the Institute of Classical Studies this summer! For more information, see the link below: classicalreception.org/call-for-ecr...

5 October Deadline: ICS Conference Grants Do you have an upcoming conference you would like the ICS to support? Now accepting applications to our Conference Grants scheme. Small grants - max £500 - are available to support conferences and workshops throughout the UK: shorturl.at/KzlbR

Prof Katherine Harloe, Dr Kathryn Tempest & Prof Claire Gorrara attended the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Classics reception. APPG provides a forum for issues of strategic national importance affecting the teaching & learning of Classics in schools, universities, museums & communities.

"not only have I gained experience of photogrammetry, but I have also gained a much deeper understanding of it through the errors and challenges faced in using the technology" Aimée Wilkinson reflects on a summer internship at the ICS supported by the Roman Society: ics.sas.ac.uk/blog/ehrenbe...

Applications are now open for BSR Humanities Awards 2026–27! Fellowships and awards for scholars at all career stages. Deadline: 14 Nov 2025. Apply: bsrome.slideroom.com More info: bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...

Join one of Britain's leading art historians, Prof Jaś Elsner, for a new look at the religious context of some of the great monuments of antiquity. Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture: Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art 10 October, 6 - 7:15pm shorturl.at/upBPy

📣 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

🥳Congratulations to Dr Anna Walas, a new UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, joining the ICS from November 2025! bit.ly/4mephnb Anna’s research project will bring together partners from Northern & Southern frontiers of the Roman Empire and develop collaborative understandings of ‘frontier’ places.

We are delighted to publish the 2024-25 Annual Review of the Institute of Classical Studies. Learn more about select highlights of the Institute's year including: Fellows in residence; research projects; special events; library exhibitions; and more! shorturl.at/9Umxu

Join us in-person on Friday 26 September, Senate House, 5-7pm for a Guest Lecture by Nancy Sherman (Georgetown). Full details here: shorturl.at/tts2i The Angry Sage begins with the question: Is there a foothold, or even a toehold, in Stoic and Kantian texts for developing an account of moral anger?

Welcome to the ICS' new Non-Stipendiary Research Fellows: Dr Daniel Anderson, Professor Victoria Baines, Dr George Brocklehurst, and Dr Viola Periti. We are excited for you to join our community. You can find out more about all our NSRFs here: ics.sas.ac.uk/people/non-stipendiary-research-fellows

The ICS welcomes Visiting Fellows who come to undertake research & engage with the ICS & wider Classics community. This Autumn we are delighted to host Dr Bridget Brasher, Dr Diana Burton, Professor Jeffrey Tatum, Professor Luiz Henrique Milani Queriquelli, & Dr Giacomo Scavello: shorturl.at/GeZOE

The ICS is delighted to welcome Professor Ann Brysbaert as Dorothy Tarrant Fellow for 2025. Learn more about Prof Brysbaert's research interests in monumental architecture and its labour cost studies in Mycenaean Greece here: shorturl.at/F7QFy Welcome to the ICS community!

✒️New Blog Post✒️ "This research focuses on the displacement of native inhabitants from ancient sites located in the Ottoman Empire as they were turned into archaeological sites & subsequently tourist destinations" Alexandra Solovyev reflects on her 2025 William St Clair Fellowship shorturl.at/DegC4

Congratulations Emlyn! You can read more about (and buy) these new publications here: edizioniquasar.it/products/bet... www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?s...

A temporary change in the ICS this year... I am delighted that the School of Advanced Study has granted me 10 months of research leave, and over the moon that @kathryntempest.bsky.social agreed to step in as Acting Director for that period. The Institute will be in very good hands!

Congratulations to ECRA Dr Christopher Jotischky who will be taking up a 2-year postdoc in Modern Greek Studies at Royal Holloway. Supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation, Christopher will continue research into 'Classical and Ottoman Enslavement in Greece, 1770-1900': shorturl.at/84zaj

The ICS is delighted to welcome Dr Kathryn Tempest who joins as Acting Director from 1 September. A long-time friend of the ICS, Kathryn joins on secondment from the University of Leicester, where she lectures on Roman History. You can learn more about Kathryn's work here: shorturl.at/N0NkI

Read the latest articles published by the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies here: academic.oup.com/bics/advance...

The Institute of Classical Studies is launching a newsletter. Sign up to stay updated on announcements, events, fellowships, grants, and upcoming activities of the ICS. The newsletter will be sent monthly in term time. mailchi.mp/sas/ics-news...

A reminder to register for our upcoming conference on 13 and 14 October. Herculaneum: Contexts, Present Progress and Future Prospects Full details here: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/hercu...

Congratulations Frances! Frances co-convened the ICS' Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar this year, and we're looking forward to seeing what comes next.

Sorting out bits of @ics.bsky.social archive and thinking about what has changed (and what hasn't) since 2003.

The trail was officially launched last weekend as part of The Armitt and @nattrustarch.bsky.social’s Ambleside Roman Fort open day for the #FestivalOfArchaeology, with Rowan and @aliceeliz.bsky.social giving trail tours to the public, supported by an @ics.bsky.social public engagement grant.

Loss, grief, and its therapy: philosophical perspectives from ancient Greece, Rome, and Asia 4-6 September 2025 In-person only Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge Registration now open: griefconference.my.canva.site

The trail tours are launching The Armitt’s new digital trail of Roman Ambleside, designed by our students this spring (more on this next week!), and have been generously supported by an @ics.bsky.social public engagement grant 🥰

‘Languages disciplines are facing a vicious cycle... Intervention and investment are needed to prevent a critical skills deficit.’ Author Megan Bowler examines the decline of language learning in UK schools & universities, offering 10 clear recommendations to reverse the trend: shorturl.at/be6Kd

There are now more A-Level entries for PE than for French, German & Classical Languages combined A new report for the Higher Education Policy Institute, The Languages Crisis: Arresting decline (HEPI Report 192), sponsored by Duolingo, shows a big drop in formal language learning: shorturl.at/be6Kd

Have you stopped by to see our pop-up exhibition yet? Still on display - come and learn more about women archaeologists who dedicated their lives to the study of various aspects of Roman Britain, including material culture, art and archaeology.

Really pleased to be one of three co-chairs for the 2025/26 @pgwip.bsky.social's PG work-in-progress seminar series based at @ics.bsky.social along with @carlosedes.bsky.social! Looking forward to a great year of insightful talks and discussions ahead as part of my new PhD journey!

We're now accepting submissions for papers for our 2025/26 seminar series! You can send abstracts of 300 words to [email protected] along with a working title, your preferred term and mode of attendance. Papers are around 45 minutes and can be connected with any aspect of the ancient world!

Register now for our upcoming Digital Classicists Seminar: Digital editions of classical texts for GLAMs 5 July 2025, 5:00PM - 6:15PM Chiara Senatore (La Sapienza, Roma) Hybrid | Online via Youtube in-person Senate House https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/digital-editions-classical-texts-glams

The Pelagios Network’s People Activity are holding a Sample Data Gathering Sprint 29 July, 12 - 1pm, Online via Zoom (register for link) Organisers: Gabriel Bodard (London) and Jun Ogawa (Tokyo) https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/linked-open-data-people-data-gathering-sprint

The Thriplow Charitable Trust has established a bursary for the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies by distance-learning. Apply by 1st August for the October 2025 intake. Learn more about the bursary here: www.london.ac.uk/study/fees-f... #RefugeeProtection #ForcedMigration

Sort It, See It, Say It. Digital strategies to revive a Bronze Age Aegean Script Register now for our upcoming Digital Classics Seminar with Ester Salgarella (University of Aarhus) Friday 18 July 5-6.15pm https://shorturl.at/cTZYM

Join us for this introductory workshop & tutorial: Introduction to Digital Classicist Wiki editing 28 July, 3-4pm, Online via Zoom shorturl.at/ddngs

Extremely productive excavation season at Falerii Novi once again! Some very helpful material coming from the hard work of our @ics.bsky.social @bsrome.bsky.social team 🙌 🏺 #Classicsbluesky