Classics and Ancient History news and events
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What I'm working on over summer: Lisa Bailey
07 February 2017Associate Professor Lisa Bailey will be spending the summer researching slavery and the church in the late antique world. -
Acknowledgement as important as financial aid
10 October 2016It is difficult for Gala Morris to put into words the blessing that receiving the Grace Kay Award has been for her. -
Between two rocks and my happy place
16 May 2016Doctoral candidate in Ancient History Lawrence Xu writes about the three months he spent taking part in fieldwork in Egypt earlier this year. -
Muted voices of the laity heard at long last
07 April 2016An important gap in the literature examining the transition from Roman rule to post-Roman society has been filled with the release of Dr Lisa Bailey’s The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul. -
University of Auckland tops rankings in Arts subjects
22 March 2016The Faculty of Arts scooped the bulk of the top rankings in New Zealand in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject.
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Augustine’s pagans: The (mis)representation of traditional religion Event as iCalendar
22 August 2017, 4pmGillian Clark from the University of Bristol discusses how Augustine was a dominant voice in western Christian theology, how his version of ‘paganism’ is still influential and how has it come to be challenged in its turn. -
Postcards from the edge: Travel writing in Ovid’s exile poetry Event as iCalendar
29 August 2017, 4pmChristina Robertson discusses the extent to which Ovid's exile poetry can be read as travel writing, applying concepts from post-colonial theories of travel writing to his literary dispatches from the periphery of the Roman empire.
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Arts Impact: Postgraduate research exposition
18 July 2017Arts Impact is a research exposition created exclusively for our postgraduate students. -
University of Auckland International Student Scholarships
22 March 2017Applications for the University of Auckland International Student Scholarships are now open for Semester Two.
