Event Roundups
Reflections on the CA’s Ancient History CPD Day 2026
By Olivia Page, Rory Savage and Diya Dasgupta On Tuesday 27th January, three of us PGCE students from the University of Cambridge attended the Classical Association’s CPD Day for Ancient History teachers. While we have varying experiences of teaching and learning Ancient History, we all found it to be a highly valuable day that will… Read more »
A Trip to Parliament
A Trip to Parliament Sophie Johns, CA intern, describes attending the CA’s #CelebratingClassics reception at the Houses of Parliament this September. For a recent graduate juggling job applications and the prospect of living with her parents again after four years of university, the invitation to ‘A Celebration of Classics’, a parliamentary reception hosted by Dr Peter… Read more »
The East London Classics Summer School
The East London Classics Summer School AUTHOR: Sarah Merali-Smith Course Director Sarah reports back on this year’s ELCSS – one of several fantastic summer schools which the CA is proud to support. To find out more about our outreach activity and grants scheme, browse our pages here. We were so pleased to have been able to… Read more »
A Weekend in Warwick
A Weekend in Warwick This March, we headed to the University of Warwick for the 2024 CA Conference, where hundreds of delegates from across the world came to share their research, exchange ideas and build friendship and collaborations. Our huge thanks to the organising committee, headed by Prof. Alison Cooley, Prof. David Fearn and Dr… Read more »
Wild Visions in Sheffield
Wild Visions in Sheffield In January, thanks to a grant from the Classical Association and organisation from Sarah Fryer (Sheffield High School for Girls) and Gina Johnson (High Storrs School), the Sheffield and District CA branch held a schools workshop and special public event – a performance of Wild Visions: Untamed Myth by storytellers Katy… Read more »
Celebrating in Cambridge
Celebrating in Cambridge READ TIME: 10 MINS Our Engagement Co-ordinator Katrina Kelly reflects on CA 2023 and the range of events we enjoyed across the weekend. Devised and hosted by the CA’s Outreach Officer, a former schoolteacher herself, the event was a successful example of collaboration and knowledge exchange across educational phases, with both academics and… Read more »
Antigone: The Musical
Antigone: The Musical AUTHOR: Marina McCready I first came across the Antigone story in a drama class in Year 9 and it stuck with me all the way to university, when I had an opportunity to study it again in my Classics degree. When I decided I wanted to write a musical, I had a few… Read more »
Springtime in Swansea …
Springtime in Swansea … Author: Katrina Kelly Swansea University was the wonderful host of the 2022 CA Conference when hundreds (a classis of classicists?) flocked to the seaside to enjoy a weekend of papers, panels, pop-up discussions and plenty of long-overdue catching up over Welsh cakes in the Taliesin Centre. Thanks to the tremendous organisation of Dr… Read more »
The CA Returns to Swansea
The CA Returns to Swansea AUTHOR: Mai Musié In April 2022 the prestigious annual Classical Association conference took place at Swansea University. The conference was due to take place there in 2020, which would have been rather fitting as the University marked its centenary that year, but we all know what happened that year and in… Read more »