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Using GIS Storymaps in Research

Wed, 06 May 2026 10:10:39 GMT

This workshop will look at the ways GIS can be used in research within the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dr Godwin Yeboah (Senior Software Engineer, Research Computing) will give a presentation on the possibilities GIS offers for use in research, then Dr Christina Williamson (University of Groningen, IAS Visiting Fellow) will presnt on her use of GIS Storymaps in her research on Deep Mapping Sanctuaries

The workshop will conclude with refreshments and time for informal discussions.

Please sign up on the form below.

Major Wellcome Trust Discovery Award win

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:16:50 GMT

Prof. Simon Swain, Prof. Caroline Petit, and Dr Uwe Vagelpohl have won a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award for their project Liquid Knowledge. The rise of uroscopy in medieval Byzantine and Arabic medicine

Dr Emily Clifford wins CAMWS First Book Award

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:10:34 GMT

Dr Emily Clifford, Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, has won the CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) ‘First Book Award’ for her monograph Figuring Death in Classical Athens: Visual and Literary Encounters (OUP 2025).

New on the Material Musings blog

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:39:29 GMT

In November's Material Musings blog article, Sue Walker discusses an unusual enamelled statuette from the western Roman cemetery at Cirencester in an article titled: 'The Cirencester Cockerel'.

You can read it here.

AI meets antiquity: Warwick ancient historian tests DeepMind’s transformative new model

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:07:50 GMT

Co-authoring a paper published in the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal Nature today, Alison Cooley, Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, has played a key verification role in developing the first artificial intelligence (AI) model for contextualising ancient inscriptions.

The Art of Veiled Speech, from Antiquity to Modern Times: 1st May 2025, 4pm

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:59:00 GMT

Subtexts are all around us. In conversation, business transactions, politics, literature, philosophy, and even love, the art of expressing more than what is explicitly said allows us to live and move in the world. But rarely do we reflect on this subterranean dimension of communication. Words don't just say what they say, and often we can understand (as listeners) and convey (as speakers) more, or something else entirely, than what is expressly said. Every day, we send out double-meaning messages and decipher those sent to us by others, without even taking notice. Greco-Roman rhetoric provides invaluable theoretical tools for thinking about this phenomenon, notably with the rhetorical notion of “figured speech”. History offers striking examples of the use of innuendo in ancient and modern political contexts. In personal and public life, veiled speech has many functions, including diplomatic, poetic, humorous and polemical. It also raises difficulties, as it carries the risk of misunderstanding. Criteria can therefore be proposed to remedy uncertainty and guarantee interpretation.

Congratulations to May Robinson

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:55:52 GMT

Many congratulations to May Robinson, current 2nd-year undergraduate, for reaching the final shortlist in the Classical Association’s 2023-4 "CA X Bloomsbury" Competition, for her poem ‘Pomegranate Juice’.

MA information sessions

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:14:47 GMT

There are various Masters options available at the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick (ranked 3rd in the UK among classics departments in the Research Excellence Framework). A postgraduate fair will be taking place at Warwick on 22 November 2023, 12-3pm in the Panorama room on campus (book here: Prospective Student Events Calendar) where staff will be available to talk about these courses and others, and other aspects of postgraduate life at Warwick (applying, funding, finance). There will also be an online information session about our degrees on 29th November 2023, 5-6pm (UK time). If you would like to attend the online session please email Clare Rowan, Director of Graduate Studies, C.Rowan@warwick.ac.uk. Further information is also available at https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/applying/postgraduate/ .

Taught MA in Ancient Literature and Thought

https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/ancientlitandthought

This MA will foster your ability to read a wide range of Greek and/or Latin texts in the original language and to develop nuanced understanding of the methodologies and critical approaches to the study of these texts within their historical, cultural and political contexts, very broadly considered. It provides an intensive introduction to literary theory tailored specifically to classicists, making it a unique pathway in the UK for classicists contemplating going on to a doctorate, and harnesses Warwick's strong interdisciplinary links between its departments of Classics and Ancient History, English and Comparative Literary Studies, and Philosophy.

Taught MA in Ancient Visual and Material Culture

https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/ancientvmc

The taught MA courses provide an overview of the scope of the visual and material culture of the ancient world, the ways in which it might be studied, and the questions that can be asked of it. The core module gives you an awareness of historiography and methodological issues affecting the study of the material culture of the ancient world as well as inviting you to consider the ways in which its study can contribute to our picture of antiquity. Optional modules allow you to develop your interests in particular aspects of the subject (art, epigraphy, numismatics, or an approved external option) in more depth, while a core language component (in ancient Greek, Latin or a modern language) provides the linguistic skills necessary to conduct further research. There are options to undertake study at the British School in Rome (the Taught MA in Ancient Visual and Material Culture of Ancient Rome, https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/vmcancientrome) or the British School at Athens (the Taught MA in Ancient Visual and Material Culture of Ancient Greece, https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/vmcancientgreece) (these options are subject to acceptance by the BSR/BSA).

We also offer an MA by research which has two different pathways. https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/classicsresearch

Funding

Warwick Taught Masters Scholarship Scheme

https://warwick.ac.uk/study/outreach/scholarships/wtmss/

Warwick regularly offers a taught masters scholarship scheme. This is an offer of up to £10,000 per student for UK or UK domicile EU students from underrepresented groups. Information has yet to be released for the forthcoming academic year, but last year the deadline for applications was 31 May 2023.

Departmental Bursaries

The department offers a small amount of bursaries each year to support tuition costs. Deadline to apply to us for consideration is 30 March 2024.

Material Musings article for October

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:59:00 GMT

This month Elena Claudi's article, 'The Great Altar of Pergamon: Telephus, the Wounded King and Mythical Founder', discusses the depiction of the Telephus myth on the internal frieze of the altar, focussing on panels relating to the Trojan War.

You can read it here

Doctoral Study for 2023/24 Entry

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:55:00 GMT