As the term draws to a close we're looking back on an extremely busy Autumn at the IGRCT. We began the academic year with a very well-attended Symonds lecture delivered by Alexander Taylor and Nicky Sugar from Bristol Special Collections, >

We are very excited to announce that Professor Shelley Hales, IGRCT board member has just published "Mirrors and Masks in the Roman Empire: Encounter, Performance, and Metamorphosis" with Bloomsbury. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mirrors-a...

Last month we welcomed Jonathan Stamp, prolific documentary maker and former historical consultant on the HBO series "ROME," to deliver a talk for our yearly Donors' Celebration event.

On Thursday December 4th, IGRCT director Laura Jansen will be giving a lecture at the Cambridge Faculty of Classics entitled "Cicada Sound Paths: Animal Voice and the Acoustic Ambient in Phoebe Giannisi's "Tettix" The lecture will be held at 4:30PM in the Classics Faculty building.

Hear ye, hear ye! Very exciting news! 🎉Our PGRs have now released the call for papers for their annual CMS PGR conference (the longest-running PGR medieval conference in the UK!) We'd be so grateful if you could share this with anyone who may be interested! #medievalsky #skystorians

On Thursday we welcome Dr Mario Telò (Berkeley) for the third installment of the Director's Reception Series. Dr Telò will be speaking on "Stiff Tangents: Laura (1944)/Hippolytus." 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein... ⏰November 13th, 5-6:30 PM GMT. 📍Online (Zoom link available on signup).

🗣️ TONIGHT: Join Jonathan Stamp, former consultant on the award-winning HBO series Rome, for a public lecture on Bringing Ancient Rome to Life The FREE event organised by @igrct.bsky.social takes place in the Wills Memorial Building, 5-6.30pm, tickets 👉 brnw.ch/21wXs5g @clahbristol.bsky.social

We are happy to announce that this event has sold out! See you all at 5PM.

Nov. 13th, 5PM GMT (noon EST) Michelle Zerba on ‘Occult Classicism and the Performance of Secrecy: the Eleusinian Mysteries and Aleister Crowley’s Rites of Eleusis’ classicalassociation.org/events/igrct... @igrct.bsky.social Oblique Classicisms/ Hidden Histories’ (online) lecture series

📢 EVENT REMINDER 📢 Join us on Thursday 18th to hear Jonathan Stamp talk about his experiences as a historical consultant on HBO's ROME! 🎟️ buytickets.at/theinstitute... ⏰18/11, 5-6:30 PM. 📍Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, BS8 1RJ

Last Thursday we were delighted to support the launch of the new South West and Wales regional network for the Hellenic Society. Organised by Dr Frances Pickworth, the event featured presentations from scholars and students in the area and a round-table discussion about the aims of the network.

📢 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 We are thrilled to announce that our 2025/26 Donors’ Celebration will be a lecture delivered by Jonathan Stamp, former consultant for the HBO series ROME. 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein... ⏰18/11, 5-6:30 PM. 📍Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, BS8 1RJ

We hope that everyone is having a wonderful reading week! Here's a sneak peek at some of the CMS Research Seminars we can look forward to in the second half of the semester! #medievalsky #skystorians

We are SO excited to announce that applications are now open for this year's Medieval Studies Summer School! 🎉 Please do pass this information on to anyone you think might be interested! We'll be sharing some highlights of last year's programme over the next few weeks! #medievalsky #skystorians

DEADLINE COMING UP SOON: OCTOBER 27TH! Info on how to apply here! igrct.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/funding/

📣 UPCOMING EVENT! 📣 The Hellenic society is launching a new South West and Wales regional network! 🎟️ Sign up: forms.office.com/e/tbYuWrWwNP ⏰October 30th, 2-6PM 📍Humanities Research Space, University of Bristol 1st floor, 7 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB

This Thursday we have a very special CMS Seminar, which will be a crossover with the GW4 collaborative project 'Medieval Studies: Mobilising Digitial Humanities'. Very excitingly, it will also be online! Contact [email protected] to register for online attendance!

On Saturday the 4th, we were thrilled to invite Nicky Sugar and Alexander Taylor from University of Bristol Special Collections to deliver our annual Symonds lecture in collaboration with OutStories Bristol!

Exciting news! 📣 The CMS' own Dr Sig Sønnesyn (@sigsonnesyn.bsky.social) is giving a lecture tomorrow (Tuesday) on 'Meaning, Intelligibility, and Fusing Horizons: Medieval Thought as a Case Study' at 3:30pm in G.HO1, Arts Complex. All welcome. We can't wait! 😀 #medievalsky #skystorians

Big thanks to Prof Edith Hall and Dr Connie Bloomfield-Gadelha for presenting their new volume: Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature! The book launch was introduced by IGRCT director Dr Laura Jansen included a rich and insightful response from Dr Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway).

📣 EVENT TIME CHANGE - 5PM 📣 Our book launch for Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature will now be starting at 5PM, not 4PM. We apologise for any inconvenience. 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein... ⏰5PM-7PM, October 8th. 📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.

🏳️‍🌈 EVENT REMINDER 🏳️‍🌈 This Saturday at 4PM! Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th... Or register for the webinar: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #lgbthistory #queerhistory

We're so excited for the first Centre for Medieval Studies Research Seminar of the year! Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after! All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians

📢 CALL FOR BIDS OPEN 📢 Deadline: October 27th The IGRCT is accepting applications for travel bursaries from UoB students and for event proposals from UoB staff and PGRs. Please see our website for more information: igrct.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/funding/.

🏳️‍🌈 EVENT REMINDER 🏳️‍🌈 Don't forget to get your tickets for this year's Symonds lecture! The event will also be livestreamed, and you can register here: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th... ⏰4PM-6PM, 4/10. 📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.

A new semester means a new exciting round of CMS seminars! Here's a sneak peek of what we have to look forward to over the next few weeks!

📣 ANOTHER EVENT! 📣 We are holding a book launch for the volume "Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature", edited by Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha and @edithmayhall.bsky.social. 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein... ⏰4PM-6PM, 8/10. 📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.

🏳️‍🌈 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🏳️‍🌈 For this year's Symonds lecture, Nicky Taylor and Alexander Sugar present “No man can see himself as others see" Bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences. #queerhistory 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th... ⏰4PM, 4/10 📍Peel Lecture Theatre

Teaching a new course this semester focused on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and our first assignment is pondering this marvelous talk by @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social on (the politics of) translating Ovid and how a feminist lens resists contemporary gender and sexual stereotypes. youtu.be/FHT8twAy7zk?...

Welcome back to our 'meet the board' series! Today we're introducing Dr Peter Dent. Peter is Head of Subject for History of Art at the University of Bristol. He is a specialist in late medieval and Renaissance sculpture and also works on Italian literature of the period, Dante in particular.

📣 EVENTS PROGRAMME 📣 The IGRCT is thrilled to release our programme of events for the 2025/26 academic year. Be sure to put these dates in your diaries, and keep an eye out for announcements about venues and bookings! #classicssky #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky

📣 EVENTS PROGRAMME 📣 The IGRCT is thrilled to release our programme of events for the 2025/26 academic year. Be sure to put these dates in your diaries, and keep an eye out for announcements about venues and bookings! #classicssky #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky

🏛️ NEW EVENT SERIES 🏛️ The IGRCT is pleased to announce our new Director's Annual Reception Series, exploring emergent research at the intersections of antiquity and modernity. The first series,"Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories" begins on October 16th. www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...

🏛️ NEW EVENT SERIES 🏛️ The IGRCT is pleased to announce our new Director's Annual Reception Series, exploring emergent research at the intersections of antiquity and modernity. The first series,"Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories" begins on October 16th. www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...

Big news - the IGRCT has a new website! We've migrated to igrct.blogs.bristol.ac.uk. Watch this space for exciting new event listings in the upcoming academic year.

Welcome back to our meet the board series! Introducing Dr Erin Forbes: Erin is a Senior Lecturer in English. Her recent book, Criminal Genius in African American and U.S. Literature, 1793-1845 shows at how creative genius developed in tandem with racialization in the early United States.

A huge congratulations to Dr Frances Pickworth, who has been appointed to a Lectureship in Digital Classics at @clahbristol.bsky.social. Frances was an intern for the IGRCT in 2022/23. We are very proud of this accomplishment, coming so soon after Frances' successful viva defence earlier this year!

Today in our meet the board series we're introducing Professor Elaine McGirr! Elaine is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies and Head of Theatre. She works on, among other things, the resignification and reception of classical drama in the long eighteenth-century -

Double publication alert! Both the below focus on @ubisoft.com's #Assassin'sCreedOdyssey as a case study, demonstrating not only how influential the game has been on my own (and others') thinking, but also on the development of games studies scholarship more broadly. #BrisotlDigitalGameLab

This morning on meet the board we're introducing Dr Rhiannon Daniels! Rhiannon is Associate Professor in Italian and has research interests in medieval and Renaissance Italian literary culture-

So when we weren’t having fun, Connie Bloomfield-Gadelha and I edited this enormous book, published today

Exciting news! We have another book to announce this week: "Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature," edited by IGRCT board member Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha and Edith Hall and published by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social.

Welcome back to our meet the board series! Today we're introducing Dr Naomi Scott. Naomi Scott is A.G. Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies. Her first book, "Jokes in Greek Comedy: From Puns to Poetics", focused primarily on the fragments of Old Comedy.

Fresh off the press from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social - "The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean," edited by Hannah-Marie Chidwick. The volume began as an IGRCT-funded conference held in Bristol in 2018.

Morning all! Today on meet the board we're introducing Professor Matthew Steggle. Matthew Steggle is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at the University of Bristol. He works on many aspects of English literature, including the reception of classical literature.

Next in our meet the board series is Dr Paul Earlie! Paul is Senior Lecturer in French Thought in the School of Modern Languages at Bristol. His work explores the classical roots of contemporary French thought, with a particular interest in philosophy and rhetoric.

Welcome back to our meet the board series! Introducing Dr. Connie Bloomfield-Gadelha, pictured here with a rescued baby jay which she is currently raising. Connie’s research focuses on popular, grassroots receptions of antiquity, and how communities build relationships with the past. #classicssky

Welcome to our first installment of this summer's 'meet the board' series! We'd like to introduce you to the members of our executive committee, starting with Dr Claire Hall. Claire is an ancient historian with a focus on ideas of the future and future-prediction in the Greco-Roman worlds.

Our final piece of news for the week - the IGRCT is thrilled to announce that Professor Stephen Bann CBE FBA will be joining our Vice Presidents. Stephen Bann is Professor Emeritus of History of Art at the University of Bristol, and his career as an art critic spans six decades.

The IGRCT would like thank Dr Ellen O’Gorman for her brilliant leadership as Director of the IGRCT. As both Deputy Director (2016-18) and Director (2018-25), Ellen has run the Institute with exemplary dedication, creativity and generosity of mind.