The Cardiff & District branch of the Classical Association. We aim to promote classics, broadly construed, to the communites of Cardiff and neighbouring areas.
Last week we held our first event of the academic year. Dr Emily Hauser gave a fantastic paper on ‘Women in Homer’ at @CAVC! Thank you Dr Hauser for coming and thank you to all that attended.
Keep your eyes open for our next event 👀
@Classical_Assoc#ClassicsInWales
ALT Dr Emily Hauser wears a black and white dress and brown boots behind a white podium.
ALT Side photo of Dr Emily Hauser wears a black and white dress and brown boots. She stands behind a white podium and gestures with her right hand with her left placed on her hip.
ALT Dr Danny Pucknell wears a grey shirt and stands behind a white podium.
ALT Sharon James Evans, Principal of CAVC stands in a pink suit behind a white podium.
We are excited to announce our next event! Free tickets below:
Dr Emily Hauser will be delivering a lecture on ‘The Women of Homer’.
🗓️14th November 2024
🕐18:00 for refreshments for a 18:30 start
🏫Cardiff and Vale College, Dumballs Road, CF10 5FE
🎟️ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-a…
ALT Mrs Kay Martin stands at a podium in a black skirt suit and boots. She reads from the podium. In the background Laurence Totelin sits on a chair looking at the print programme. She wears a red flowery dress.
#TBT
Mari Williams' (former president @Classical_Assoc) speech revolved around her experiences in studying and teaching Classical Languages from school to University level. Her joyful and humorous insights regarding how Classics has evolved was a wonderful final talk.
ALT Mari Williams stands in a blue suit at a podium speaking and looking to an audience.
#TBT
The evening was closed by @ltotelin who gave thanks for everyone's involvement and attendance. In particular she thanked: @CAVC, the committee of the branch (especially @dpucknell1 & @MariaFragoulaki) and the speakers.
Thank you everyone for a fantastic (re)launch!
ALT Laurence Totelin stands at a podium speaking to an audience. She wears a red flowery dress and black cardigan.
ALT Classics Shared: Past, Present, And Future in Wales
A celebration of Classics for the Community of Cardiff and District Classical Association Branch, organised by Cardiff and Vale College and the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
Generously supported by the Classical Association, UK
Image of the memorial found in Cathays Park, Cardiff. A Circle of white columns surround a statue of 'Victory' on a podium. The monument is surrounded by a bed of purple flowers.
Thursday 7 December 2023, 18:00-20:15
Cardiff and Vale College, Room CP1
This is a free event. All are welcome, but booking is needed. Please book here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-and-district-classical-association/t-lnzozml
ALT 18:00 – 18:30: Arrival. Soft drinks and cake
18:30 – 18:40: Welcome
Mrs Kay Martin, MBE, Group Principal, Cardiff and Vale College
Miss Katerina Kelly, Engagement Coordinator and Classics Education Research Assistant, Classical Association, UK
18:40 – 18:50: Professor Nick Fisher, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University
18:50 – 19:40: Discussion panel
Dr Danny Pucknell, Lecturer, Cardiff University and Tutor, Cardiff and Vale College
Ms Caroline Bristow, Director of the Cambridge Schools Classics Project
Mx Annis Wiltshire, Classics Student, University of Oxford
Miss Isobel Jackson-Scibona, Alumni and Events Officer, Cathedral School Llandaff
Dr David Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, Cardiff University
Dr Caroline Musgrove, Events and Outreach, Cambridge School Classics Project
ALT 19:40 – 20:00: Professor Paul Cartledge, A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus, University of Cambridge, President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
20:00 – 20:15: Closing remarks
Mrs Mari Williams, Former Classical Association President (2021), winner of the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2018 for her novel 'Ysbryd yr Oes' (‘Spirit of the Age’)
Logo for Cardiff and Vale College on bottom left
The Classical Association logo is in the bottom centre
Cardiff University Logo on the bottom right
ALT Classics Shared: Past, Present, And Future in Wales
A celebration of Classics for the Community of Cardiff and District Classical Association Branch, organised by Cardiff and Vale College and the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
Generously supported by the Classical Association, UK
Image of the memorial found in Cathays Park, Cardiff. A Circle of white columns surround a statue of 'Victory' on a podium. The monument is surrounded by a bed of purple flowers.
Thursday 7 December 2023, 18:00-20:15
Cardiff and Vale College, Room CP1
This is a free event. All are welcome, but booking is needed. Please book here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-and-district-classical-association/t-lnzozml
ALT 18:00 – 18:30: Arrival. Soft drinks and cake
18:30 – 18:40: Welcome
Mrs Kay Martin, MBE, Group Principal, Cardiff and Vale College
Miss Katerina Kelly, Engagement Coordinator and Classics Education Research Assistant, Classical Association, UK
18:40 – 18:50: Professor Nick Fisher, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University
18:50 – 19:40: Discussion panel
Dr Danny Pucknell, Lecturer, Cardiff University and Tutor, Cardiff and Vale College
Ms Caroline Bristow, Director of the Cambridge Schools Classics Project
Mx Annis Wiltshire, Classics Student, University of Oxford
Miss Isobel Jackson-Scibona, Alumni and Events Officer, Cathedral School Llandaff
Dr David Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, Cardiff University
Dr Caroline Musgrove, Events and Outreach, Cambridge School Classics Project
ALT 19:40 – 20:00: Professor Paul Cartledge, A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus, University of Cambridge, President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
20:00 – 20:15: Closing remarks
Mrs Mari Williams, Former Classical Association President (2021), winner of the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2018 for her novel 'Ysbryd yr Oes' (‘Spirit of the Age’)
Logo for Cardiff and Vale College on bottom left
The Classical Association logo is in the bottom centre
Cardiff University Logo on the bottom right