Classics News and Events

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!

From manuscript to printed book: Early Greek and Latin writings

A PG workshop on palaeography at the University of Warwick. You don't need a high level in Greek or Latin to join in...

Friday 4th March 2016, Renaissance Centre, Room H.4.50

Follow the link for detailed programme, speakers' bios and abstracts.

Convenor: Dr. Caroline Petit, University of Warwick

£10: register with renaissance@warwick.ac.uk

An article exploring medicine in late antique Alexandria, based on medical and hagiographic texts of the 7th c. AD.

Caroline Petit, ‘Alexandrie, carrefour des traditions médicales au 7e s.: Les témoignages de Sophrone de Jérusalem, Alexandre de Tralles, Paul d’Egine, Stéphane d’Alexandrie et Jean d’Alexandrie’ in J.-P. Caillet/B. Dumézil/S. Destephen/H. Inglebert (eds.), Aux origines des saints patrons, Paris, Picard, 2015, 287-307