📖 EVENT REMINDER 📖 Free tickets still available to our book launch for "Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature!" The event will feature a talk by Nick Lowe and a wine reception. 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein... ⏰4PM-6PM, 8/10 📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS81SS.

📢 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.

Please welcome the IGRCT's new director, Dr Laura Jansen! Laura is Associate Professor of Classics & Comparative Literature at Bristol, and she will be taking over the directorship from Dr Ellen O'Gorman on July 1.

This morning's #imageoftheweek is this illuminated illustration of Iliad 16, in which Achilles sacrifices to Zeus for Patroclus' safe return from battle. This image is from the 5th century CE Ambrosian Iliad, a unique and beautiful manuscript. #classicssky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky #achilles

This Thursday's #imageoftheweek is this fascinating Pompeiian fresco depicting Narcissus gazing at his own reflection - which only appears as a disembodied head. #classicssky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky

Today's #imageoftheweek - "The Head of Medusa" by Adebayo Bolaji, 2024. Seen here at @arnolfiniarts.bsky.social last Autumn! Photos by our intern. #classicssky #classicsbluesky #classicalreception #greekmythology

This Thursday's #imageoftheweek is this stunning 6th century Chalcidian hydria depicting the hero Atalanta wrestling Peleus to win the spoils of the Calydonian boar. #ancientbluesky #classicssky #classicsbluesky Photo by Marcus Cyron on Wikimedia.

Tickets now on sale for a medieval feast performance of ‘The Life of Job’ at the Winterbourne Medieval Barn! This is part of a fascinating project by the CMS' own Dr Cathy Hume! Tickets are £25 (plus booking fee) and include a meal and a drink. Book today at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/winterbourne...

The @hellenicsociety.bsky.social, Roman Society and the Institute of Classical Studies are running a small grants scheme to assist unfunded scholars who wish to visit the Library in summer 2025 to advance a project of research or scholarship: ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/grant... Closing date: 15 June.

Today's #imageoftheweek is this statue of the dying Achilles by Christophe Veyrier, from 1683. Note: the cherub trying valiantly to remove the arrow from his heel. Statue is in the V&A, photo by our intern.

Register here! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #greek #ancientgreek

📣 Four more days to apply! Tell your students! 📣

Today's #imageoftheweek is this grisly detail from the late 2nd or early 3rd century Roman Basel Sarcophagus, showing Medea's victim Glauce succumbing to the poisoned robe. #classicssky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky Photo by Nick Thomson on Flickr

📺 Prof Nicoletta Momigliano (@clahbristol.bsky.social) features in a new documentary, Mothers of the Minotaur, which considers the Bronze Age civilization of Minoan Crete and its reception once rediscovered in the early 20th century Watch the full documentary 👉 bit.ly/3Z3DTwW

CALLING ALL FACULTY OF ARTS STUDENTS AT BRISTOL Applications for the IGRCT's travel bursaries are open again for students wishing to undertake trips related to classics or classical reception. The deadline is May 19th! More information here: uob.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/grp-ig...

CALLING ALL FACULTY OF ARTS STUDENTS AT BRISTOL Applications for the IGRCT's travel bursaries are open again for students wishing to undertake trips related to classics or classical reception. The deadline is May 19th! More information here: uob.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/grp-ig...

Today's #imageoftheweek is a fascinating anachronism. Willem van Haecht's 'Apelles Painting Campaspe' (1630) shows Alexander the great's lover being painted by his favourite artist in a room filled with contemporary baroque paintings. Can you recognise any of them? #ClassicsBluesky #ClassicsSky

Only two days until the conference kicks off! 😮😆We cannot wait to welcome everyone to Bristol! Be sure to check out the schedule ahead of Thursday! #medievalsky

Today's #imageoftheweek - in a rare depiction of a sculptor's workshop, Herakles himself (far right) walks in on an artist making a statue of him. #classicssky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky Apulian krater, 360–350 BCE. Image from @metmuseum.org.

Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School! You will be taught be leading experts at the University's world-renowned Centre for Environmental Humanities (1/3)

Less than a month to go before the deadline for enrolment on the Bristol Medieval Studies Summer School! #medievalsky Find out more at: www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...

This morning's #imageoftheweek is 'Terror Antiquus' (1908), by Russian artist and designer Léon Baskt. This striking painting depicts various real archaeological sites, such as Mycenae, but is also thought to show the fictional destruction of Atlantis. #ancientbluesky #classicssky #classicsbluesky

After a long absence, our website is now back online! The address has changed slightly, so don't forget to update your bookmarks: www.bristol.ac.uk/arts-law-soc...

🌱 A huge thankyou to everyone who attended our Morse lecture on Thursday, and thankyou especially to Professor Stephen Bann for such an engaging talk! It was fascinating to learn about the background behind Ian Hamilton Finlay's poetic and artistic practices. 🌱