Events

The Connected Past Oxford 2018

United Kingdom , United Kingdom

"How do social networks evolve over huge time-scales? How did geography constrain or enhance the development of past social networks? These are fundamental questions in both the study of the human past and network research, yet our ability to answer them is severely hampered by the limited development of spatiotemporal network methods. PastNet is an […]

The 11th Celtic Conference in Classics

United Kingdom , United Kingdom

"The 11th Celtic Conference in Classics will be held at the University of St Andrews from July 11-14, 2018. Suggestions are now invited, from established scholars anywhere in the world, for panels on any scholarly theme centred on ancient Greece or Rome. The CCC by tradition consists of a number of panels running in parallel and […]

Ritsos in Monemvasia: A Literary Guide for Travellers

United Kingdom , United Kingdom

"Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990), one of the most prolific of Greece’s twentieth-century poets, was born into a land-owning family on the Byzantine-Venetian peninsular fortress of Monemvasia, in south east Laconia, and is buried in its cemetery. In this talk John Kittmer, a Ritsos scholar and former UK Ambassador to Greece, examines Ritsos’ upbringing and looks at […]

John Craxton: A Life of Gifts

United Kingdom , United Kingdom

"Artist and adventurer John Craxton (1922-2009) said that life was more important than art – while pouring his intrepid, sociable existence into ravishing and exhilarating pictures. No one ever enjoyed living more than he did. One of the youthful hopes of British art longed to live abroad, and when finally escaping to Greece after the […]

The Geography of Gandharan Art: 2nd Workshop of the Gandhara Connections Project

United Kingdom , United Kingdom

"The Classical Art Research Centre will hold the second international workshop for our Gandhara Connections project on Thursday 22nd to Friday 23rd March 2018, at the Ioannou Centre in Oxford. 'The Geography of Gandharan Art' will bring together an international line-up of speakers, including a number of the leading Pakistani archaeologists dealing with Gandhara, to […]

Late Antique Archaeology Conference 2018: Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity

United Kingdom , United Kingdom

"The Late Antique Archaeology conference reviews the state of late antique funerary practices, on a thematic basis, from scientific examinations of skeletons and their DNA, to treatments of the deceased body, to the nature of memorial structures and how they were treated over time."