It is with great pleasure that we announce the successful funding of the new Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment (CACHE). The official launch was held 4 March 2019, with talks by Centre Director Professor Bronwen Neil and ECR Associate Dr. Fred Hardtke, and with plenty of refreshments. CACHE is an interdisciplinary Centre that […]
In association with the Memories of Utopia project, post-doctoral research fellow Dr. Rajiv Bhola and Dr. Ryan Strickler (University of Queensland) have organised a workshop to take place at the 18th International Conference on Patristic Studies at Oxford University (19-23 August 2019). Details below: Description In Antiquity, the remembrance of the shared past – both […]
Macquarie University’s Museum of Ancient Cultures, New Exhibit On the 21st of November 2018, the Museum of Ancient Cultures (MQ) celebrated the opening of their new exhibit, When Cultures Clash? – a collaborative effort between the Museum and the Professional and Community Engagement Program (PACE), with support from the Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and […]
7-10 November 2018 The lush, sprawling grounds of the Leriba conference centre, with its wide variety of indigenous flora and fauna, was accentuated all the more by the unseasonably warm spring weather. In the course of the four day event, an array of provocative analyses on subjects ranging from Dionysius I of Syracuse to Cicero […]
15-16 November 2018 From the convenors, Professors Bronwen Neil and Catriona Mackenzie (Macquarie University) OUR CHOICE OF THEME marks the 25th anniversary of the Huntington thesis, underlining the continuing relevance of the Humanities for understanding the contemporary challenges of human communities and societies in the 21st century. The Symposium brings together speakers from a range […]
19th UNISA Classics Colloquium “The conference aims to explore a wide variety of aspects relating to the building, dismantling and reconstructing of memory and reputation across the various cultures bordering on the ancient Mediterranean, and over a wide time-frame. We know that memory and history are not fixed, objective occurrences, but are subjective representations of […]