Events
View a calendar of upcoming events on classical subjects, from competition deadlines to public lectures and summer schools. Use the three main tabs to browse events hosted by the CA, by our local branches and by external organisers, and then filter using the tabs below. If you would like us to add an event to our calendar, please send details to canews@classicalassociation.org.
Please note that, unless listed under CA Events, any enquiries about the activities featured below should be directed to the organisers of the event and not to the CA itself.
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CPD event / Short course
Classical Association SEND course: ‘Literacy...
12 November 2025 – 25 June 2026 (online) This course, led by Emily Rushton, is designed to empower participants to create an inclusive and supportive environment for all students in Classics, with a particular...
CPD event / Short course
Classical Association SEND course: ‘Literacy...
‘Literacy and Classics: unlocking the classical world for neurodiverse students’ 12 November 2025 – 25 June 2026 (online) This course, led by Emily Rushton, is designed to empower participants to create an inclusive and...
Branch events
Cornwall branch lecture: Professor Chris...
Cornwall Classical Association Professor Chris Carey (University College London): ‘Athenian Way of Death’ 15 April 2026, 6pm Online
Branch events
Southport & Birkdale branch lecture:...
Southport & Birkdale Classical Association Professor Ben Russell (Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at the University of Edinburgh): ‘Barbarians in Classical Archaeology’ Wednesday 15 April 2026 (provisional) Time: Doors open at 6:15 PM for a 7:00 PM start Location: KGV College, Southport We warmly invite you to join us beforehand for... Read more »
Branch events
Lytham St Annes branch lecture:...
Lytham St Annes Classical Association Dr Paul Roberts: “Rome, Monarchs and Monuments” 16 April 2026, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.15pm for refreshments) AKS Lytham, Clifton Drive, FY8 1DT For over 20 years, Paul was Senior Roman Curator in the Greek and Roman Department at the British Museum before becoming Keeper of the Department of Antiquities at... Read more »
Branch events
North Staffordshire branch event: Play...
North Staffordshire Classical Association Play Reading (in English translation) of Plautus’ Mostellaria (Ghost Story) Thursday 16 April 2026, 7.30pm SCR Bar, Keele Hall, University of Keele, ST5 5BG Texts will be available, & details will be advised near the date. All welcome – free of charge. Note: for queries about any events hosted by... Read more »
Branch events
Liverpool branch lecture: Dr Andrew...
Liverpool Classical Association Dr Andrew Fox (Lecturer in Ancient History, Liverpool University): title tbc Thursday 23 April Venue tbc
Branch events
Camarthen branch talk: Professor Pierre...
Carmarthen Classical Association Professor Pierre Schneider (University of Artois, Arras) will be speaking on the topic: “Les sociétés méditerranéennes antiques et les mondes de l’océan Indien: a research blog devoted to ancient Indian Ocean studies” The talk will take place at 18:00 BST (19:00 CEST) on Thursday 23rd April (online via MS Teams) Professor Schneider... Read more »
Branch events
Hull & District branch talk:...
Hull & District Classical Association Anne Everest (Classicist and former Head Teacher): ‘Antigone: Hero or Victim?’ Friday 24 April 2026 7.00pm Oasis Hub, 310 Newland Avenue, Hull HU5 2NB Free event – donations gratefully accepted For group bookings email hullclassicalassociation@gmail.com Note: for queries about any events hosted by local CA branches, please contact the... Read more »
Branch events
Gloucestershire branch lecture: Dr Alison...
Gloucestershire Classical Association lecture Dr Alison Pollard (University of Oxford): ‘How to Decorate a Roman House’ Tuesday 28 April 2026, 7.30pm Dean Close School, Shelburne Road, Cheltenham Please contact Claire Wilkinson at wilkinsonc@cheltladiescollege.org for more information. Note: for queries about any events hosted by local CA branches, please contact the branch directly (details are... Read more »
Branch events
Cambridge & District branch event:...
Cambridge & District Classical Association event Talk by Dr Samuel Gartland, University of Leeds: After Dark in Ancient Greece 11 May 2026, 6.00pm – 7.00pm Join us at the Faculty of Classics for this talk which will explore nightlife, night work, fear, and freedom in ancient Greece, asking who enjoyed the night and who paid the price... Read more »
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North Staffordshire branch lecture: John...
North Staffordshire Classical Association lecture John Drinkwater: ‘Roman Coins – Hands On’ Thursday 14 May 2o26, further details to be announced Keele Hall, University of Keele, ST5 5BG All welcome – free of charge. Note: for queries about any events hosted by local CA branches, please contact the branch directly (details are available on... Read more »
Branch events
Birmingham & Midlands branch: Texts...
Birmingham & Midlands Classical Association ‘Texts and Topics 2026’ sixth form conference 2 July 2026, 9.00am – 2.45pm King Edward’s School, Edgbaston Road, Birmingham B15 2DU The Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association invites sixth form students to the 2026 Texts & Topics Conference at King Edward’s School, Birmingham. Students will take part in three... Read more »
Branch events
Cornwall branch lecture: Dr Matthew...
Cornwall Classical Association Dr Matthew Nicholls (University of Oxford): ‘Digital Rome: A virtual tour of the ancient city’ 3 July 2026, 6pm Online
Seminar
‘Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World...
Register now for upcoming ICS-BM Seminar: ‘Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum: Wonder and the Marvellous’ Wednesday 15 April, 4.00pm In person at Senate House This seminar will explore current research on the theme of wonder (thauma), and how it offers a vital framework for thinking about craft production, description, and... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
British Epigraphy Society Spring Meeting...
We are pleased to announce the schedule of the British Epigraphy Society’s upcoming Spring Meeting in Durham, which will take place at Durham University on Saturday 18 April in the Ritson Room, Department of Classics and Ancient History (38 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3EU). The event will feature: Academic presentations on papers and posters on... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
The Cambridge History of Later...
To mark the publication of The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature, its editors are organising a colloquium to celebrate the research that went into this project on Latin literature from the second to the seventh century and to name some of the many opportunities that await for those studying in this area. The project... Read more »
CANI talk: Dr Eirene Allen...
THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION IN NORTHERN IRELAND Dr Eirene Allen (Institute for Classics Education): What is ‘glory’ to the Greeks, and why can’t it be achieved without women? Wednesday 22nd April 2026, 1pm Linenhall Library, Belfast Please check our social media for any updates. If you would like to become a member, or if your subscription... Read more »
Public Lecture
CANI talk: Dr Eirene Allen...
THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION IN NORTHERN IRELAND Dr Eirene Allen (Institute for Classics Education): What is ‘glory’ to the Greeks, and why can’t it be achieved without women? Wednesday 22nd April 2026, 1pm Linenhall Library, Belfast Please check our social media for any updates. If you would like to become a member, or if your subscription has... Read more »
Miscellaneous
Women’s Classical Committee UK: ‘Celebrating...
As part of the Women’s Classical Committee’s tenth anniversary celebrations, we invite you to join us for a lively round table discussion and Q&A on the theme of ‘Celebrating Women in Classics’ at the Institute of Classical Studies, London. Our panellists are experts across a range of disciplines whose work offers new and different ways... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
‘Ecocritical Approaches to Ancient Performance...
‘Ecocritical Approaches to Ancient Performance Culture’ Ritson Room, 38 North Bailey, Durham University 22nd-23rd April 2026 This international conference, convened in the Department of Classics and Ancient History by Durham PhD candidate Emma Bentley and Professor Edith Hall, and financially supported by the University of Durham, explores the particular relationship between the contexts, texts, sensory... Read more »
Public Lecture
IRGCT: 10th Annual Sir Jeremy...
The 10th Annual Sir Jeremy Morse Lecture at the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT) will be delivered by Professor Josephine Quinn (St John’s College, University of Cambridge). Professor’s Quinn’s lecture will take place at the Peel Lecture Theatre, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, BS8 1SS, on Thursday, 23 April... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Call for Papers: ‘The Trade...
The Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar (CLANS) invites abstracts for a one-day workshop on religion, space, trade, and their interaction in the late-antique Mediterranean and beyond. This workshop, entitled ‘The Trade in Religious Imagination in Late Antiquity’, seeks to explore how people across the expanses of the Roman and Sasanian Empires, and those at their... Read more »
Short course
‘Cleopatra – An Egyptian Queen’...
CLEOPATRA at Roman Bath, with George Sharpley Saturday 25th April 2026, 10am-4pm News of Caesar’s murder in 44 BC must have come as a shock to Cleopatra. He was the father of her toddler son and their host in Rome where they had been staying for nearly two years. They left Rome for Alexandria almost... Read more »
Public Lecture
2026 Sybille Haynes Etruscan Lecture:...
2026 Sybille Haynes Etruscan Lecture Monday 27 April, 5pm Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford. Dr Mariachiara Franceschini, from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, will give a lecture by herself and Dr Paul P. Pasieka (University of Mainz), entitled ‘Urbanization in Transition: Vulci and Etruria during the Archaic Period.’ We look forward to seeing you... Read more »
Public Lecture
Classics for All: Dr Kathryn...
Classics for All fundraising event Dr Kathryn Tempest: ‘Corruption as symptom and cause: Cicero and the decline of the Roman Republic’ Tuesday 28 April, doors open 5:30pm Twenty Essex Street, London WC2R 3AL Lawyers’ Group members are invited to book their ticket to an evening with historian, author and lecturer at the University of Leicester,... Read more »
Public Lecture
IGRCT ‘Oblique Classicisms/ Hidden Histories’ lecture...
‘Oblique Classicisms/ Hidden Histories’ Sponsored by Bristol’s Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT) This series will take place online via Zoom. Please visit this link to register. April 29th Alexander Beecroft (South Carolina) ‘Ekphrastic Voyeurism: Gyges and Candaules in Anglophone Fiction of the 1970s and 1990s’ Laura Jansen (Bristol) ‘Forthcoming Directions... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Call for Papers: ‘Rethinking Assessment...
The Open University: ‘Rethinking Assessment in Classical Studies’ 30 April 2026 at The Open University in Milton Keynes. The deadline for submission of proposals is 23 February 2026. The symposium on Rethinking Assessment in Classical Studies aims to bring together educational practitioners to explore ways in which assessment design for Classical Studies courses at... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Meeting of the Durham/Edinburgh/Glasgow Network...
Following the successful first meeting of the Durham/Edinburgh/Glasgow network on ancient epistolography in Edinburgh in Feb. 2025, we invite you to the second meeting, which will take place in Durham on Friday 1 May 2026. Our goal is to give a platform for current research on epistolography and to connect scholars with an interest in ancient... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Call for Papers: Analogue Games...
Call for Papers: ‘Analogue Games and the Ancient & Pre-Modern Past’ University of Durham Friday 1 May 2026 Organisers: Dr. Helen Roche (Durham University, UK) and Dr. Hamish Cameron (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ) Recently, analogue games have been gaining increasing attention within the context of Game Studies, Ludonarratology, Historical Game Studies and Classical Game... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Network on Ancient Epistolography 2nd...
Durham/Edinburgh/Glasgow Network on Ancient Epistolography Second Meeting Durham 1st May 2026 Organizers: Roy Gibson, Andrew Morrison, Janja Soldo Venue: Ritson Room, Durham Department of Classics & Ancient History, 38 North Bailey, Durham DH1 3EU Attendance at the workshop is free, with lunch and tea/coffee provided throughout the day; but spaces are limited: email roy.k.gibson@durham.ac.uk to... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Call for Papers: Cicero Awayday...
Cicero Awayday 2026: Call for Papers Cicero Awayday 2026 will be held at UCL in London on Thursday, 7 May 2026. As on previous occasions, this will be a forum for graduate students and colleagues to present current research on any aspect of studies on Cicero’s life and work. Presentations will generally be 20-30 minutes,... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Perspectives on Character and Truth...
Perspectives on Character and Truth King’s College London 7-8 May 2026 The Department of Philosophy, King’s College London is pleased to announce a conference organised in honour of Raphael Woolf titled: Perspectives on Character and Truth. Programme: Thursday, 7 May 2026 10:00-11:30 Fiona Leigh (UCL) – Soul turning: Desiderative Self-knowledge and Courage in Alcibiades... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Cicero Awayday (UCL)
Cicero Awayday 2026 will take place at UCL on 7 May 2026. Everyone with an interest in Ciceronian matters will be welcome! Please register here. Programme: 10.30–10.45 am Registration and coffee 10.45–11.00 am Opening remarks Section 1: Cicero’s letters and treatises 11.00–11.40 am Catharine Edwards: Paternal address: Cicero and son 11.40–12.20 pm Cesare Barba: Cicero’s officium in the Civil... Read more »
Miscellaneous
Experiencing the last days of...
A one-off screening of the rarely seen silent epic film Jone o Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (Jone or The Last Days of Pompeii, 1913, dir. Giovanni Enrico Vidali) will be held in the 500-seat Bloomsbury Theatre from 6 to 8.30 pm on Saturday 9 May 2026. Immerse yourself in the romance and menace of Pompeii’s... Read more »