The St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity supports collaboration in ancient cultural reception studies.
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“Up the Garden Path: Inscribing Ovid and Reading Reception in the Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay”
Jo Paul
SACRA Annual #Lecture
🗓️ 13 March 4:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #AllWelcome
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In the first episode of a new podcast series launched this week, Anna Coopey and guest Zinovia Lialiouti discuss "The Communist Greek Left": bravenewclassics.info/index.…
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9 Dec 2025
Congratulations to students from Bertha Park High School, who graduated from the #STALOS programme last week. 🎉
stalos.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2…
#LearningLatin #Congratulations #Graduation
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"In California as in Ancient Rome" -- SACRA member & @StA_Classics PhD Candidate @ChrisAnaforian reports on his recent archival trip to the US for #BraveNewClassics sharing one of his findings bravenewclassics.info/index.…
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Kasia Middleton describes her experience of transcribing the travel diaries of Robert Wilson, a Scottish physician and Grand Tourist of the nineteenth century, and what she took from the experience, both professionally and personally: sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/20…
#ClassicalReception
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"Cold War Classics"
#Workshop,
📅 13 to 15 May 2025.
Hybrid: 🗺️ St Andrews 💻 Teams
Deadline extended! ⏰register by 10 May to attend online (email has22@st-andrews.ac.uk)
View programme: sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/20…
#AllWelcome #ClassicsTwitter
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"Cold War Classics"
Workshop,
📅 13 to 15 May 2025.
Hybrid: 🗺️ St Andrews 💻 Teams
⏰register by 30 April to attend online (email has22@st-andrews.ac.uk)
View programme: sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/20…
#AllWelcome #ClassicsTwitter
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Join us for our annual #lecture!
"Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon"
Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
🗓️ 28 February
⏰ 4.15pm (UK time)
📍 hybrid: room SO3 Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk & put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject) #AllWelcome
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16 Jul 2024
"Who’s Afraid of a Queer Achilles?" by Dr Francesco Busti, Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS): classicalreception.org/whos-…
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Our @misterconnor1 has written a piece for @bloomsburyacad about the perceptions people have about Classics, and why it hinders the subjects in the state sector.
bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/b…
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1 Jul 2024
"Classical Reception and pedagogy".
Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis and Dr Lenia Kouneni reflect on the recent workshop, its outcomes, pedagogical practice, and next steps.
sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/20…
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28 Jun 2024
"The Next Generation of Reception Studies at SACRA"
Henry Stead and Emma Buckley reflect on the recent SACRA / CRSN event, which brought together new classical reception scholars. sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/20…
#ClassicalReception #ClassicsTwitter
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2 Jul 2024
Aakanksha Mansukhani, a grad student at Binghamton University, SUNY, has written a fab #BraveNewClassics blog post on the myth of Niobe and Walter Benjamin's concept of "mythic violence" bravenewclassics.info/index.…
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13 Jun 2024
Read the latest @SACenRA Asian Takeover post by Federico Brusadelli, Assistant Professor of Chinese History, University of Naples “L’Orientale”. It's about Chinese engagement with the ancient Greek polis in the early 20th century classicalreception.org/polis…
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6 Jun 2024
Fresh up on the @SACenRA Asian Takeover of our CRSN blog is a post called "The Idea of Rum in the Medieval Middle East" by Andrew Peacock, Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews classicalreception.org/the-i…
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Nominations for this year’s Working Classicists Award end this Friday! 👀
We love hearing about people doing good work and making the discipline a better place. 😄
Academics, students, pupils, teachers, enthusiasts… nominate someone you know! 🏆
workingclassicists.com/award…
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15 Apr 2024
Join us for this upcoming workshop under the aegis of @SACenRA Anyone interested in teaching classical reception is welcome, particularly PGR students, for whom we also have some bursaries to give (deadline this Friday; details in the events page)
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Next Monday: Tune in to the first seminar of the @CRSN_UK #ClassicalReception Summer Series hosted by the ICS. Professor Patrice Rankine on "The Bacchae and the Postcolonial Turn" 4.30pm UK time classicalreception.org/event…
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10 Apr 2024
"The Next Generation of Classical Reception Studies"
#Workshop, 30-31 May 2024.
Programme now available: sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/20…
Register by 29 April!
#ClassicsTwitter @SACenRA @CRSN_UK
23 Mar 2024
"The Next Generation of Classical
Reception Studies"
#Workshop for Early Career and PG Researchers
30 -31 May 2024, St Andrews.
Hybrid event.
Register by 29 April:
sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/20…
#ClassicsTwitter @SACenRA @CRSN_UK
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11 Apr 2024
"Classical Reception and Pedagogy: A Scottish Perspective on Teaching the Reception of Classical Material Culture."
Hybrid #Workshop, 2 May 2024, University of St Andrews
Programme and meeting link: sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/20…
#ClassicalReception #Pedagogy @SACenRA
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