Reading students launch new Classics-themed radio show
Undergraduate Penelope Faithfull describes how she and fellow-student George Upfield are using radio to bring the ancient world to a wider audience within the University. Viva! Salvete (Or shall we say...
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The Classical in 20th-century British Sculpture
Observant visitors to our Classics Department hallway in the Edith Morley building may have noticed a certain upscaling of our appearance in 2018. Pursuant to our collaboration with University Arts...
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A visit to central and northern Greece
Rosie Mack and Una Markham recently undertook a week long research trip to Greece. Here is their account of their travels! *** We flew to Thessaloniki, collected a car, and made overnight stops in...
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Longing for what we have lost
Portrait of J.J. Winckelmann by A. von Maron (1768) Today marks the 250th anniversary of the untimely death of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, a pioneering scholar of antiquity and arbiter of taste in...
View ArticleGoing to School in Ancient Rome
Members and friends of Reading Classics will know about Professor Eleanor Dickey’s Ancient Schoolroom project, the painstaking reconstruction of an ancient classroom which brings the past to life for...
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Reading Classics hosts MOISA’s 11th international conference
This weekend, 20-22 July 2018, the International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage, a.k.a. MOISA, held its 11th international conference at UoR’s Museum of...
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Winckelmann and Curiosity in the 18th-century Gentleman’s Library (Christ...
On the glorious sunny evening of 29th June 2018, the Very Rev’d Professor Martyn Percy, Dean of Christ Church, welcomed Reading staff, interested scholars and other supporters to a champagne launch of...
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Visiting researcher in the Ure Museum
On a visit to UoR Classics Department’s Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology in May 2018, Claudia Gamma, a PhD student at University of Lausanne (Switzerland), made some exciting discoveries. Archaeology...
View ArticleCall for papers for PG and ECR conference in April 2019
The first call for papers has gone out for the conference ‘Keeping it in the Family? Exploring familial tension and rupture in the ancient and early-medieval Mediterranean.’ This is a postgraduate and...
View ArticleResearch seminars in the Classics Department this autumn
All seminars start at 4 p.m., except for the one on the 10th October, which is this term’s Reading Classical Association talk; this starts at 5 p.m. All seminars will take place in Edith Morley G25...
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New exhibit on Classical themes in the Women’s Suffrage movement
In the early 20th century suffragettes and suffragists—many of whom were Classicists or had received a Classical education—adapted Classical themes, especially imagery, in their campaigning magazines...
View Article‘Tales of Love and History’ in the Sheldonian, featuring Dr Katherine Harloe
On 7 November Dr Katherine Harloe will be taking part in a public panel discussion in Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre with James Ivory (of Merchant Ivory Pictures), Professor Richard Parkinson...
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Reflections on teaching in Brazil
As autumn draws on, I look back on the warm and sunny winter days I spent in Belo Horizonte, the chief city of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, in August 2018. I was visiting the Universidade...
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Homan tablet and stylus: newest acquisitions in the Ure Museum
On 17th October 2018 the Ure Museum Curators welcomed friends and supporters, Classics Department staff and students, and other university staff including Vice Chancellor Prof. Robert Van de Noort and...
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Classics and Global Humanities: launching the Classical Association of Ghana
Nigeria and Ghana have long and distinguished classical traditions. Although Latin and Greek were taught to West Africans as part of colonialism, the ancient languages, literatures and histories...
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TRACamp, A Roman Experimental Archaeology Workshop. An account by Reading...
Figure 1: A replicated Vindolanda tablet given to the delegates to commemorate the event, with Hadrian’s Wall in the background Experiments have always been an integral part of scientific...
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Classics and Central Asia at Fudan University in China
(By Dr. Rachel Mairs) I recently returned from a month-long fellowship at Fudan University, in Shanghai, where I had the chance to co-teach a course on the archaeology of Central Asia with my colleague...
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Re-imagining Mithraism
(By Dr. Claudina Romero) No one would have thought that the construction works carried out in Mérida (Spain) to build a bullfighting arena in 1903-1913 would be critical to rebuild the religious life...
View ArticleClassics contribution to UK Vote 100
Reading Classics’ Professor Barbara Goff has written a guest post on the website of UK Vote 100, which celebrates the centenary of women gaining the vote in the UK. In her post, Professor Goff, an...
View ArticleReading Ancient Schoolroom seeking Associate Director
The Reading Ancient Schoolroom, which offers historically accurate re-creations of ancient schools for modern children, is seeking an Associate Director. This is a paid position, though not paid very...
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