Front door of the Department of Classics and Ancient History with a poster for the British Epigraphy Society spring meeting
All ready for the British #Epigraphy Society spring meeting @durhamclassics.bsky.social! Epigraphic conference cake to be revealed later...
A view of North Bailey, a street in Durham. Brick buildings line the road. A cream door is to the right. The sky above is blue.
Not a usual working day for me, but a lovely day for some epigraphy! Looking forward to welcoming the British Epigraphy Society meeting today @durhamclassics.bsky.social
🎉 Huge congratulations to Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson, who has been awarded the Classical Association prize!
🎆 Arlene received the prize at the Classical Association annual conference, hosted in Manchester last weekend.
🫶 Thank you to the The Classical Association and The University of Manchester with the Manchester Metropolitan University for hosting such a wonderful annual Classics conference last weekend!
🎉 And congratulations to all our Durham staff and students who delivered papers and chaired panels!
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and to the Attic Inscriptions Online team, for new inscriptions published today!
🔗AIO's latest launch publishes or revises all the decrees, accounts, and leases of the deme of Rhamnous in eastern Attica. www.atticinscriptions.com/browse/bypub...
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall, Dr Rory McInnes-Gibbons and Prof. Edmund Thomas on the publication of 'Classical Encounters in England's North East'!
🔗 Learn more: mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781032...
🎭 Hybrid conference: 'Ecocritical Approaches to Ancient Performance Culture'
📅 22 / 23 April
🔗 Learn more and register: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
🎉 We've made it to the end of term!
🥳 Congratulations to all staff and students for your many achievements over the recent weeks, we are so proud of you!
🤗 Have a restful break, everyone, and we'll see you back here soon.
🌸 Flowers in Messene, snapped by Prof. Polly Low
🔎 Upcoming workshop 'Working with Manuscripts from the Mediterranean World '
📅 26 / 27 March
🔗 Learn more and register: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
@durhamclassics.bsky.social and the Durham Centre for Classical Reception is now accepting submissions for their 3rd annal international prize for a doctoral thesis in Classical Reception Studies! Find more information below:
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
👏 Very many congratulations to Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson, who has been awarded the Gulbenkian Professorship in the Humanities!
💥 As part of this visiting professorship, Prof. Holmes-Henderson will spend part of next academic year at the University of Lisbon.
🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Professor @edithmayhall.bsky.social from our @durhamclassics.bsky.social is transforming how people connect with the ancient world, bringing Classics to new audiences and championing Classics education for all. Discover her passion for inclusive classics education👉https://bit.ly/4lxh7Yl
🔎 Hybrid conference: 'Comparing Cyprus and Sicily: Scientific approaches'
📅 26 / 27 March
🔗 Learn more and register: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!
🏫 Stella Alekou (Ioannina) "The Aesthetics of Ovidian Violence and the Limits of Narrative"
📅 1pm, Weds 18 Mar
📍 CL007 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/139f1e...
💡 What will you study with us at MA level?
👉 A fascinating range of elective modules in Classics and across the Arts and Humanities faculty await you here at Durham!
🔗 Learn more here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
💥 Congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall who last weekend received the International Hellenic Prize in Athens
🎭 Prof. Hall won the prize for her book 'Facing down the Furies', in which she turns to Greek Tragedies to seek wisdom in understanding the damage caused by suicide
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson who spoke last week the Globe Theatre in Stockton-on-Tees during an event organised by ASSIST women's network.
👉 The event brought together businesspeople, entrepreneurs and researchers to focus on this year's IWD #GivetoGain theme.
🤩 Congratulations to our Classics researchers on winning the Outstanding Team Quality Award- Learner Facing at the annual national Outstanding Achievement Awards.
👉 The team, led by Prof. Edith Hall and Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson, won the award for the project they have delivered in prisons.
💥 Congratulations to Dr Jacob Lollar, who has been awarded a University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship for 2026.
👉 Dr Lollar will use the fellowship to examine two early modern Syriac manuscripts at the Library's Hunter manuscript collections.
🔗 shorturl.at/IsUYi
💥 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and the Attic Inscriptions Online team as new content arrives online!
👉 AIO launches 112 inscriptions, including all remaining letters of Roman emperors, inscriptions & graffiti connected with the Roman Agora, milestones and dedications.
🔗 shorturl.at/vL6xx
💥 Congratulations to Dr Ilaria Bucci, who has published a chapter in a new volume on 'Serving the Gods'!
👉 ‘Religious Lives in the Small Sanctuaries of Hatra: Identities and Practices in Temple III through Epigraphic and Archaeological Evidence’.
🔗 www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_9143.a...
International students: ready for something extraordinary?
Study at Durham – University of the Year 2026 – in one of Britain’s happiest places to live. 💜
Applications 2026 open now 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #DurhamUniversity #TransformativeHumanities
💥 Postdoc opportunity!
👉 We are currently advertising for six Addison Wheeler fellows, who will complete novel and ambitious research over 36 months.
📅 Identify a mentor and apply by 9 March
🔗 Learn more: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...
🎆 Celebrate ten years of the Women’s Classical Committee UK
👉 Join for a special celebration event in London on 22 April: wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/29/c...
🤩 Featuring our very own Katharine Russell on the impact of retellings of Classical myth on the study of Classical Civ in schools
🔊 Dr George Gazis recently appeared on the 'Life of Letters' podcast, talking about 'What Ancient Greece and Extinct Scripts Tell Us'
👉 In this episode Dr Gazis explores the history and evolution of writing systems.
🔗 Listen here: the-life-of-letters.castos.com/episodes/evo...
💥 Join us for a public lecture on Classical Architecture in North East England, hosted by The Durham Centre for Classical Reception
🏫 Dr Michael Johnson (Northumbria), "Classical town halls in the North East"
📅 6:00pm, Thurs 5 March
📍 7 Owengate
💥 Congratulations to Dr Ilaria Bucci, who along with Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja has published a new volume on 'Nurturing the Elite: Representations of Drinking, Eating, and Religious Vessels in Palmyrene Funerary Iconography'
🔗 Learn more: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!
🏫 Ilaria Bucci (Durham) "Inscribing Devotion: Memory practices and patterns of mobility in the sacred landscape of Hatra (Iraq)"
📅 1pm, Weds 25 Feb
📍 ER108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/57dc27...
🚀 Happy International Lego Classicism Day!
🧩 Dr Michael Loy had a great time when he visited pupils from Star of the Sea Primary School at their Lego Club.
💡 Years 5 and 6 are currently preparing for the national Innovation Project, and this year's theme is all about problem solving in archaeology
💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!
🏫 Joe Watson (Warwick) "When Sappho met Lydia"
📅 1pm, Weds 18 Feb
📍 ER155 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8af981...