In this second piece by Jess Evans, she reflects upon her first year of university, the teaching and extra-curricular activities that she has been involved in, and how her second year of study will shape up. You can read Jess’s first blog post here: Student perspectives: reflections on the first term of uni. More information…Continue Reading Student Perspectives: reflecting on my first year of study and looking forward to the second – Jess Evans.
Bridging the Gaps: Interconnective Approaches to the Ancient World.
Postgraduate Conference, Swansea 19-20th November 2022 Call for Papers For Student and Early-Career researchers:Abstract Deadline 31 July What roles can the study of the ancient world play in a shifting social and academic landscape which no longer centres on the geopolitical priorities of the West, especially in light of the roles of many historical subdisciplines…Continue Reading Bridging the Gaps: Interconnective Approaches to the Ancient World.
Classical Association Conference HERE IN SWANSEA, April 2022!!
We in the Department of History, Heritage, and Classics at Swansea University are proud to be hosting the CA conference as a hybrid event between 8 and 11 April 2022. Since we are aware that time is passing, and the official conference website is still a work in progress (in part owing to the need…Continue Reading Classical Association Conference HERE IN SWANSEA, April 2022!!
Being Human 2021. New Beginnings: The Hope of the Lotus Flower – Ersin Hussein
Ersin Hussein (Lecturer in Ancient History in the dept. of History, Heritage, and Classics) writes this week’s blog post about the 2021 Being Human Festival. Together with Ken Griffin and Hannah Sweetapple (The Egypt Centre’s Collections Access Manager and Education Officer respectively) she designed and led a day of activities on Saturday 13th November as…Continue Reading Being Human 2021. New Beginnings: The Hope of the Lotus Flower – Ersin Hussein
Student perspectives: reflections on the first term of uni – Jess Evans
This week’s post has been written by Jess Evans, a first year student working towards a BA in Egyptology and Classical Civilisation. In it she reflects upon what drew her to embark upon her degree with the department, what her first term has been like so far, and her first encounters with the ancient world….Continue Reading Student perspectives: reflections on the first term of uni – Jess Evans
OLCAP Events, Autumn Term 2021
This term OLCAP is organising a short series of lunchtime seminars this semester organised loosely around the themes of heritage and the ancient world. The series got underway on Monday 1st November when Nigel Pollard (Swansea) spoke about his Leverhulme project and delivered the paper ‘Soldiers in ‘A Country Rich in Monuments’, Italy 1943-45’ . This presentation did…Continue Reading OLCAP Events, Autumn Term 2021
Student perspectives: starting the new academic year – by Katie Morton
Ersin Hussein: The first few teaching weeks of the 2021/22 academic year have flown by already. If the start of this term is anything to go by, the year ahead promises to be a good one. Face-to-face teaching is back and this, combined with the delivery of teaching sessions via Zoom, presents dynamic opportunities for…Continue Reading Student perspectives: starting the new academic year – by Katie Morton
Egypt and Its Neighbours: object-centred approaches to articulating local identity and cultural diversity in antiquity – an update! Ersin Hussein
In August 2020, I was awarded an ICS Public Engagement Award to implement a new public engagement initiative with the Egypt Centre, Egypt and Its Neighbours: object-centred approaches to articulating local identity and cultural diversity in antiquity. The project – to install a new display and develop a range of educational resources – grew out…Continue Reading Egypt and Its Neighbours: object-centred approaches to articulating local identity and cultural diversity in antiquity – an update! Ersin Hussein
Reading Listicles §3: Read like an Egyptian – Ian Goh
Last week I said I’d have some reading tips for you budding Egyptologists. This is actually a difficult task, not only because I’m not an expert on ancient Egypt myself, but also because ‘ancient Egyptian civilisation’ stretches back as distant from the time of, say, the ancient Athenians themselves as they are from us. I…Continue Reading Reading Listicles §3: Read like an Egyptian – Ian Goh
OLCAP Workshop: Epigraphy – Christian Knoblauch
Last Saturday OLCAP organised its second skills workshop for 3rd Year and MA students. After tackling mapping in the first workshop (https://projects.swan.ac.uk/ancient-world/?p=1012), this time around we got stuck into epigraphy. Epigraphy is a broad field and refers to the study of inscriptions, but we wanted to focus on two practical skills: copying inscriptions on monuments…Continue Reading OLCAP Workshop: Epigraphy – Christian Knoblauch