Excavations at a medieval castle in Okinawa province, Japan, turned up four Roman coins of the fourth century. Are they evidence for links between the Roman empire and Japan? Kevin Butcher investigates in an article for The Conversation.

Alison Cooley explores how the Great Fire revealed London's Roman past in a new History Extra online article.

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/

Just published: Alison Cooley 'Paratextual readings of imperial discourse in the Res Gestae divi Augusti', Cahiers Centre Glotz (2014)