The lecture is completely free and open to all!

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📢 THIS THURSDAY! 📢

Join us for our 10th Annual Morse Lecture to hear Professor Josephine Quinn speak about "The Provincialisation of Ancient History, or an Enlightenment Tragedy."

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⏰April 23rd 5-6:30PM
📍Peele Lecture Theatre, School of Geographical Sciences

Final BAARS talk tomorrow! See you at G10 😀

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The event is free and open to all, and will also be livestreamed.

Ancient History was both hugely popular in the early eighteenth century and understood in a very broad geographical sense. By the early nineteenth century it belonged to Greece and Rome, and had become the preserve of the wealthy and well-educated. What happened, and whose fault was it?

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📣NEW EVENT📣

For our 10th Annual Sir Jeremy Morse Lecture, we welcome Professor Josephine Quinn to speak on "The Provincialisation of Ancient History, or an Enlightenment Tragedy."

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⏰April 23rd 5-6:30PM
📍Peele Lecture Theatre, School of Geographical Sciences

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Not long before applications close for this year's Medieval Studies Summer School!

Lecture Poster

Online Lecture Wed April 8th, 5PM BST= 12PM EST Emily Greenwood on ‘Thrice Removed: Black Classical Separation’ @igrct.bsky.social ‘Oblique Classicisms/ Hidden Histories’ series: classicalassociation.org/events/igrct...

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Join us next Wednesday for the next installment in our reception series, delivered by Professor Emily Greenwood (Harvard University). The lecture is free to attend, and is titled "Thrice Removed: Black Classical Separation"

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⏰Wed March 8th, 5-6:30PM
📍Online, Zoom

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Next up in our director's reception series! A lecture from Sean Gurd (University of Texas) titled "Tangents and Parabolas: Varèse and the Brussels World Fair." The lecture is free to attend and open to all.

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⏰March 11th, 5-6:30PM
📍Online, Zoom

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Our classical reception lecture series "Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories" will be returning in March and April! The talks are held on Wednesday evenings on Zoom at 5PM UK time.

Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...

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Don't forget that applications are currently open for the Bristol Medieval Studies Summer School! Apply by 1st March to be eligible for a 10% discount!

Find out more at: www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...

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Congratulations to Naomi Scott, whose Leventis Research Fellowship (2023-2026) at the IGRCT has been extended to a fourth year! We are deeply grateful to the Leventis Foundation for their continued support.

Here is a picture of Naomi giving a school outreach talk in Bath!

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📢 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS OPEN 📢

Deadline: February 24th at midday

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/

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Further details:

Travel bursaries: uob.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/grp-ig...

Event Proposals: uob.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/grp-ig...

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📢 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS OPEN 📢

Deadline: February 24th at midday

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/

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Professor George Corbett delivering his lecture.

Last Thursday, the IGRCT was delighted to welcome Professor George Corbett from the University of St Andrews to deliver a talk on Dante and Thomistic theology for the annual Aquinas lecture. We are very grateful to Professor Corbett for coming all this way to share his expertise!

Happening this evening!

📢 THIS THURSDAY 📢

Don't forget to sign up for this year's Aquinas lecture! Professor George Corbett will be speaking on the relationship between Dante's poetry and Thomas Aquinas' theology.

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⏰January 29th, 6PM-7PM
📍Arts Complex Lecture Theatre 3

The lecture will be delivered by Professor George Corbett from the University of St Andrews, and will be followed by a free drinks reception.

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📣 EVENT REMINDER 📣

Don't forget to sign up for the annual Aquinas lecture, titled "Whose Aquinas? The Thomism of Dante and of Étienne Gilson."

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⏰January 29th, 6PM-7PM
📍Arts Complex Lecture Theatre Three, University of Bristol

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We are proud to announce the third of our wonderful keynote speakers: late medieval and Renaissance sculpture expert, Dante scholar and Head of Subject for History of Art... our very own Dr Peter Dent! 🎉🎉🎉
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and of striking a mortal blow to Thomism. Defending Dante against Gilson’s accusations (and accusing Gilson, instead, of crimes against Thomism), this lecture argues for for a new Leonine renaissance of both Thomistic and Dante studies."

The event is free, open to all, and will be followed by a drinks reception. Lecture abstract:

"The papal encyclical Praeclara Summorum (1921) celebrates Dante as the ‘disciple of St Thomas Aquinas’. By contrast, Étienne Gilson accused Dante in 1934 of two crimes against Aquinas >

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📢 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 📢

The 2026 Aquinas lecture will be presented by Professor George Corbett from the University of St Andrews, titled "Whose Aquinas? The Thomism of Dante and of Étienne Gilson"

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⏰29/01, 6PM-7PM
📍Arts Complex, Lecture Theatre Three