Classics, Ancient History, Linguistics, Academia and more
With the subtitle: two conferences, a fancy dinner, and three months of research leave (and counting). First, the conferences (the most interesting and fun bit). In June, I spent three days in Leiden for the Penn-Leiden colloquium. This was not just a wonderful conference on the theme 'the Value of Languages in the Ancient World',... Continue Reading →
I'm very excited to be able to flag the publication of Oscan inscriptions (this does not happen every day, or even every year). In 2024, there was big new find of five new inscriptions in the Greek alphabet at the Rossano di Vaglio sanctuary in Basilicata. Considering the site only has about sixty inscriptions total,... Continue Reading →
I'm very honoured to have been named among the winners of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Classics this year. Not only am I in amazing company on a list of great Classicists in the UK, but I am extremely excited to kick-start a new project using the money awarded by the Leverhulme Trust. From 2025,... Continue Reading →
If you're looking for something to listen to as we start 2023, have a look at the Radio 3 Free Thinking episode I recorded back in October, which is still available through the BBC website. There's also still plenty of time to catch the British Museum exhibition Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt referred to in the... Continue Reading →
This summer, I was finally able to return to Italy for the first time since 2019. It was, of course, fantastic to be back and soaking up the atmosphere again. It was also the last funded research trip of my AHRC fellowship, and I wanted to make the most of it by visiting some lesser-known... Continue Reading →
Developing and teaching new modules is probably one of my favourite parts of my job. It doesn't come around very often, and it's hugely fun to think about presenting cutting-edge research to undergraduates, who are so open to new ideas and take them to pieces very effectively. So I was very excited to be asked,... Continue Reading →
This past week, I ran another digital and practical epigraphy workshop with Dr Gabriel Bodard and Dr Irene Vagionakis. There was one big difference between this workshop and the one we ran back in 2019: this time, we decided to run the workshop in hybrid format, to allow for both in-person and remote participation. To... Continue Reading →
I'm very pleased to say that my new sourcebook, Italy Before Rome, is out on Friday. If you want to use the discount code below, which is valid until the end of 2021, then you can order direct from the publisher on this link: https://routledge.pub/ItalyBeforeRome So you can get an idea of what the book... Continue Reading →
On Tuesday, we held the second half of the Digital Italy seminar. Like last time, I wanted to post a links round-up so that people can find these great projects and resources and see how they develop over the coming years. Luca Rigobianco (Venice) - Building a digital corpus and a computational lexicon of the... Continue Reading →
It was a real treat to host the first part of our Digital Italy seminar from my new office in Durham. We had participants and speakers from all over the world today, and we heard about a range of new and existing digital projects linked to ancient Italy. This post serves as a link round-up,... Continue Reading →
Katherine McDonald 