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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!

We're recruiting new chairs for the @ics.bsky.social postgrad work-in-progress seminar! Interested in chairing for the 2025/26 academic year? Email us at [email protected] with your name, institution, year of PhD, and 200 words on why you're interested in the position. Deadline Fri 27 June.

Join us *in person and online* this Friday, 9 May at 5pm BST for our next @ics.bsky.social PG WiP seminar: Miriam Orfitelli (University of Salerno) on 'Agency and Poetic Voice of the Roman Alcestis'. Sign up here to attend: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/agenc...

#AncientLiterature seminar 3 March 4:30pm in Senate House, Room 264 Jon Hesk (St Andrews): Perspective-taking, mind-reading, decision-making. Dialogue and its rhetorics in Greek Tragedy https://bit.ly/40n4kin

#AncientPhilosophy seminar 3 March, 4:30pm in Senate House, Room 243 Fiona Leigh (UCL): Phantasia in the Sophist https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/phantasia-sophist

Join us *online* today, Friday 28 February at 5pm GMT for our next @ics.bsky.social PG WiP seminar: Laura Bevilacqua (University of Chicago) on 'Interpretative Proposals on the Rituals of Astragalomantic Oracles in Imperial Asia Minor’. Sign up here: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/inter...

Join us *in-person or online* on Friday 7 February at 5pm GMT for our next @ics.bsky.social PG WiP seminar: Andrea Farina (KCL) on 'Digitising preverbs with PrevNet. A cross-linguistic analysis of motion verbs in Ancient Greek and Latin'. Sign up here: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/digit...

Join us *online* on Friday 31 January at 5pm GMT for our next @ics.bsky.social PG WiP seminar: Michael Hudecki and Gary Beck (University of Ottawa) on 'Being Beyond Production: Two Challenges to Heidegger’s Critique of Plato'. Sign up here: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/being...

Ready to take up your #NewYear commitment to learning #Classics? We run regular Ancient Literature, Ancient History, Ancient Philosophy, Mycenaean and a PGWiP (@pgwip.bsky.social) series alongside special seminars, workshops and lectures that are free and open to all.

Join us *in person or online* on Friday 6th December at 5pm GMT for our next @ics.bsky.social PG WiP seminar - Ben Cassell & David Wilson (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) on 'Cognitive Science in pursuit of ancient religious experience'. Register here to attend! ics.sas.ac.uk/events/cogni...

Don't forget to join us for the PG WiP seminar at 5pm today! Sign up below 👇

#AncientLiterature seminar (today) Mythography. 3 talks of 30 minutes, followed by discussion and drinks. Bob Fowler. Susan Deacy. Ruth Parkes. 25 November 2024, 4:00PM - 6:30PM. ics.sas.ac.uk/events/mytho...

APPLICATION CALL Our William St Clair Fellowship is open to an #ECR working in areas supported by the ICS, @ilcs.bsky.social and the Institute of English Studies (IES) 🔄5 months (starting in 2025) 💷Stipend: £10,000 🗓️Deadline: 22 November ↪️More info and how to apply: t.co/NWd1BTz84A

Hello Bluesky Classicists! 👋 Join us *in person or online* on Friday 29th November at 5pm GMT for our next @ics.bsky.social PG WiP seminar - Martina Russo (Sapienza Università di Roma) on 'Tiberius’ opponents in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum'. Register here to attend! ics.sas.ac.uk/events/tiber...