Classics News and Events

Kevin Butcher explores in BBC History Magazine.

Our annual Drama Day on January 25 was a huge success - over 550 visiting school students and their teachers enjoyed lectures from department members, our IAS Visiting Fellow Alastair Blanshard, and the play production team, before watching our students' production of Aristophanes' Lysistrata.

For a tweet-by-tweet account of the day from the perspective of performers, lecturers and visitors, take a look at:

https://storify.com/drmichaelcscott/warwick-classics-drama-festival-january-2016

Congratulations to all our students who worked so hard to deliver a fun and thoughtful interpretation of this riotous comedy!

This interdisciplinary workshop, funded by the Wellcome Trust, will bring together academic and practitioners to explore the roles played by objects and images in the processes of grief, mourning and remembrance, across both historical and contemporary societies.

The workshop will be held at the University of Warwick on Thursday 19th-Friday 20th May 2016.

Academics and practitioners across all disciplines are warmly invited to respond to the Call for Papers. Please send a title and brief abstract (up to 200 words) to Zahra.newby@warwick.ac.uk by 29^th February 2016.

From 11th January until 5th February Prof Alastair Blanshard of University of Queensland, Australia will be the IAS Visiting Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History. Alastair will be participating in a number of events co-organised with different departments during his Fellowship.

For the full programme see: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/seminars/iasvisitingfellow2016/

In the first coin of the month for 2016 Miles Pearce looks at the emperor Claudius and the praetorian guard. Read it here!