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.
CA events
Branch events
Other events
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...
Public Lecture
AI and Ancient Languages with...
Annie K. Lamar is an Assistant Professor of Computational Classics and, by courtesy, of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also directs the Low-Resource Language (LOREL) Lab. Her research bridges computational...
Branch events
Cambridge & District branch AGM...
Cambridge & District Classical Association Join us for our AGM followed by a celebratory summer party. Thursday 11 June 2026, 5.30 – 7.30pm Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, CB3 9DA 17:30-18:30 AGM in G.19 Faculty of Classics We will discuss the running of the Cambridge and District branch of the CA and upcoming events- open to... Read more »
Branch events
Camarthen branch talk: Haggai Olshanetsky...
Carmarthen Classical Association Title of paper: The Jewish Military Service in the Armies of Rome as a Window into Ancient Judaism and the Roman Empire Speaker: Haggai Olshanetsky (University of Warsaw) Time, date and location: 18:00 BST (19:00 CEST) on Thursday 11th June (online via MS Teams). Abstract: The relationship between the Jews and the Roman... Read more »
Branch events
Camarthen branch talk: Priyasakhi Chiara...
Carmarthen Classical Association Title of paper: “The Tusk Breaks, the Ocean Gives, the Diver Disappears: South Indian Pearl Trade in the Age of Indo-Mediterranean Trade.” Speaker: Priyasakhi Chiara Barchi Time, date and location: 18:00 BST (13:00 EDT) on Thursday 25th June (online via MS Teams). Abstract: Pearls have been regarded as elusive luxury commodities from... 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
Summer school
Classical Association of Scotland: Ancient...
The Classical Association of Scotland is once again proud to present Ancient Voices language school for 2026! This will be running from the 1st until the 28th of June via online classes so you can learn from the comfort of your own home. Further details about the summer school can be found here. Note: this is a fee-paying... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
‘Philosophy in the Roman Mediterranean’...
‘Philosophy in the Roman Mediterranean’ conference 4-10 June 2026 British Institute at Ankara and online The conference is part of the Philosophy in the Roman Mediterranean project, which aims to establish a new and more inclusive basis for a philosophical history of the period 100 BCE to 200 CE. You can view the programme... Read more »
Summer school
University of Cologne: ‘German for...
‘German for Students of Classical Studies’ at the University of Cologne Applications for the 2026 Cologne summer program “German for students of Classical studies” are being accepted until January 31, 2026. The program will run from June 8 – July 17, 2026. Please find all the relevant information below or check out our website here.... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
‘Classical Literature in the Renaissance’...
Thanks to generous support from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh will host a one-day event on the theme of Classical Literature in the Renaissance on Tuesday 9 June 2026. The event will feature four talks from leading international scholars in the field, and... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
“Cultures of violence and female...
The conference “Cultures of violence and female resistance: receptions of ancient Greek myths from the 14th to the 21st century, in Europe and beyond” will take place at the University of Caen Normandie (June, 10-12 2026), organised by the ERC AGRELITA project. Further details about the call for papers can be found here – deadline 15 January 2026.
Miscellaneous
Online panel discussion in celebration...
The Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome and the Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway are delighted to invite you to their first joint event: a panel discussion in celebration of Prof. Richard Alston’s latest book, Classicism and the Construction of Capital Cities (Bloomsbury 2025), with panellists Gonda Van Steen (KCL) and Christopher Jotischky... Read more »
Miscellaneous
‘Stories from the Sands’ (Magdalen...
Stories from the Sands 11th June, 2-5:30pm Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford In 2024, an astonishing discovery was made. An Egyptian archaeological team, excavating an ancient necropolis, uncovered a papyrus containing nearly 100 lines from lost plays by the Greek playwright Euripides. The find gives us insight into two plays very different in mood but... Read more »
Public Lecture
‘Tony Stark, Odysseus and the...
‘Tony Stark, Odysseus and the Myths Behind Marvel: Ancient Texts and Modern Pop Culture’ Thursday 11 June, 5pm In person at Senate House In this illustrated talk Peter Meineck will describe aspects of his recent book, which examines the influence of ancient mythology on Marvel films, comics and games and how the Marvel Universe is... Read more »
Miscellaneous
King’s College London Latin Play:...
The King’s College London Latin Play returns after a five-year hiatus. Produced and performed in the original Latin (with English surtitles) by students from KCL, UCL and Birkbeck. Giorgio Correr’s Procne Thu 11 Jun 2026 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM BST Booking required via this link. For centuries, the gruesome story of Procne, Tereus... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Call for Papers: ‘Antiquity in...
Call for Papers: Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games Date: 13th June 2026 Location: Classics Faculty, Ioannou Centre (OX1 3LU) Keynote Speakers: Dr Dunstan Lowe (University of Kent), Dr Jennifer Cromwell (Manchester Metropolitan University) The reception of the classical world in video games is by no means a... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Corpus Christi College, Oxford: ‘Experiments...
Experiments in Classical Reception: A Symposium in Honour of Professor Emerita Lorna Hardwick Date: Saturday 13 June 2026 Location: MBI Auditorium, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford and Online Programme: 10.30-11.00: Arrive/register/coffee Welcome and short introduction Anastasia Bakogianni and Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford) 11:00-12:15 Panel 1 Chair: Stephen Harrison The Popular Turn in Classical Reception Studies: Challenges,... Read more »
Summer school
University of Bologna: Summer School...
Applications are now open for the 2026 Summer School in Classical Languages of the University of Bologna. Our programme will take place between Monday 15 June and Friday 3 July 2026. We will be offering the following courses: Beginners’ Latin, Intermediate Latin, and Beginners’ Greek. Each course corresponds to 50 hours of teaching distributed over three weeks, from... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Call for Papers: Classical Reception...
Call for papers for Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN) PGR and ECR workshop: Criticality and Crises in Classical Reception 16 June 2026, University of Reading Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Academics based in the UK and working in the field of classical reception studies to submit proposals for 5-10 minute lightning presentations on the theme:... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
‘Philomythia: Aristotle’s Uses of Previous...
‘Philomythia: Aristotle’s Uses of Previous Literatures’ 16 – 17 June 2026 In person in the Department of Classics & Ancient History, Durham University, 38 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3EU Online via Teams ((registration link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/648ddf4f-eb87-413f-ad33-d952b397a34d@7250d88b-4b68-4529-be44-d59a2d8a6f94/registration). On June 16 and 17, the Durham-based ERC/UKRI-funded research project Aristoteles Pezographos (https://www.aristotlepezographos.org) will host the international conference “Philomythia: Aristotle’s... Read more »
Miscellaneous
‘Age of the Hero’ musical...
A new musical based on Homer’s Iliad is being staged at the Phoenix Arts Club in London on the 17th and 18th of June. Featuring an original pop-rock soundtrack, Age of the Hero is a retrospective of the epic woven with contemporary interpretations of the text. Described by the Daily Info as ‘a musical masterpiece’, the show is... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Call for Papers: ‘The Global...
‘The Global Rhetoric of Antiquity’ 18–19 June 2026 Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford This year, the Janus Project conference welcomes papers exploring the roles, imaginations, and uses of ‘antiquity’, especially as conceived and canonised as ‘Classics’, in cross-cultural exchange and comparison. In the 16th–19th c. encounters between Europe and East Asia, the antiquities of... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Call for Papers: ‘Statian chelys, Horatian lyra:...
We are very pleased to invite those who may be interested to submit an abstract for the conference: ‘Statian chelys, Horatian lyra: New horizons for an intertextual Thebaid.’ When/Where: Monday 22nd of June and Tuesday 23rd of June 2026, in London at Senate House. Conference Aims/Themes This conference aims to investigate the ways in which Statius’ Thebaid, a poem... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
Call for Papers: ‘Statian chelys,...
Abstracts are invited for the conference ‘Statian chelys, Horatian lyra: New horizons for an intertextual Thebaid’ When/Where: Monday 22nd of June and Tuesday 23rd of June 2026, in London at Senate House. Conference Aims/Themes This conference aims to investigate the ways in which Statius’ Thebaid, a poem long recognized for its densely intertextual character, adopts a particularly Horatian... Read more »
Summer school
Classical Association of Ireland: 2026...
The Classical Association of Ireland is taking registrations for the 2026 Latin Summer school, an exciting opportunity to learn Latin through a two-week immersion. The Latin Summer School is designed for secondary school students between the ages of 12 and 18, with little or no prior knowledge of Latin and/or Classics. If you are not... Read more »
Summer school
Classical Association of Ireland: 2026...
The Classical Association of Ireland is pleased to announce the 2026 Latin Summer school, an exciting opportunity to learn Latin through a two-week immersion. The Latin Summer School is designed for secondary school students between the ages of 12 and 18, with little or no prior knowledge of Latin and/or Classics. If you are not... Read more »
Conference/Workshop
‘Ancient and Medieval Commemorative Practices’...
‘Ancient and Medieval Commemorative Practices’ workshop University of Glasgow (Humanities Research Hub, 1 University Gardens) 23 June 2026 (in-person) All welcome: please register here for catering purposes. Programme: 9.30 Coffee 10.00 Catherine Steel (University of Glasgow): Welcome and introduction to the workshop 10.30-12.30 Session 1: Religion, commemoration and inequality between Republican Rome and the... Read more »