Up to 30 fully-funded PhD Studentships for entry in September 2019 South, West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership https://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/ The AHRC-funded South, West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWW DTP2) is a collaboration of nine leading universities and the Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum of Wales, and 23 cultural, arts, heritage and industry Read more…
AKMED POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP The Koç University Research Center for Mediterranean Civilizations (AKMED) will sponsor a post-doctoral researcher in the field of numismatics. The appointee’s primary duty will be to catalog the coins held in the collection of the Suna & İnan Kıraç Kaleiçi Museum, as well as preparing a Read more…
ROMAN SEMINAR LECTURE Georgia Tsouvala, Illinois State University, USA “Reconsidering the Evidence for Female Athletics in late Hellenistic and Roman Greece” November 29, 2018, 7 p.m. The Netherlands Institute at Athens, Library (Makri 11, Athens) Abstract This talk will discuss the epigraphic and literary evidence for women’s membership in palaistrai Read more…
International Conference organized at Ghent University by Flavia Ruani and Koen De Temmerman Het Pand, Thursday 22nd-Saturday 24th November 2018 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. Kate Cooper, Royal Holloway, University of London; Prof. Stratis Papaioannou, Brown University The conference aims to examine the persistence of ancient novelistic material in hagiography and Read more…
In the wake of Hordern and Purcell’s The Corrupting Sea, there has been a renewed interest in studying the cultures of the Mediterranean as part of an integrated whole rather than in isolation. The annual Ohio State University (OSU) Classics Graduate Colloquium invites papers on a range of topics that Read more…
International Catacomb Society The Shohet Scholars Grant Program of the International Catacomb Society is now accepting applications to the Shohet Scholars cohort of 2019-2020. Submission deadline is January 15, 2019 (11:59 p.m. EST). This annual grant program funds research on the Ancient Mediterranean from the Hellenistic Era to the Early Middle Read more…
RESEARCH NETWORK DEDICATED TO THE HISTORY OF THE MONASTIC ECONOMY DOES MONASTIC ECONOMY MATTER? RELIGIOUS PATTERNS OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR (Workshop II) Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS) 9-11 November 2018 The aim of the NETWORK dedicated to the history of the monastic economy is to nurture research Read more…
ΡΩΜΑΪΚΟ ΣΕΜΙΝΑΡΙΟ / ROMAN SEMINAR Advancing knowledge of Greece’s Roman past ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΟΜΙΛΙΩΝ 2018-2019 | PROGRAMME OF LECTURES 2018-2019 Πέμπτη 8 Νοεμβρίου 2018 Thursday 8 November 2018 ASCSA, Cotsen Hall (co-sponsored) Mali Skotheim (University of Wisconsin-Madison) «Continuity and Change in the Dramatic Festivals of Early Roman Greece, 2nd-1st Read more…
Greek sanctuaries have been studied for more than 150 years, but mainly with a focus on temples, statues, monuments and sacrificial ritual. Our conference adopts a different perspective, that of the human visitor, in order to explore the hands-on, logistical experience of someone coming to a Greek sanctuary. Of interest Read more…