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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships at Oxford

The Classics Faculty at the University of Oxford invites expressions of interest from postdoctoral and completing graduate scholars who wish to apply for the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme, for entry in 2021.

The Fellowships are designed to enable early career researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences to pursue an …

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Seminar Series: Myths and Politics

Swansea University invites to the International Summer seminar “Myths and Politics”

The Seminar is taking place on Mondays, 5pm, 8th June to 7th September. ​ ​​Anyone who likes to attend the seminar, can write to mythsandpolitics@gmail.com. in order to receive the link every Monday.

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Lisbon Classics Seminars (online)

The Lisbon Classics Seminars, which the Centre for Classical Studies normally hosts for visiting academics, is now being held online in Zoom due to social restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

All those interested in joining our online seminars are welcome to do so. If you wish to participate in these …

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Assistant Professor of Classics

The Department of Ancient Classics at Maynooth University is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Classics (Roman history and Latin) on a two-year contract beginning on 1 September 2020.

For full details of the post, please go to:

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/human-resources/vacancies.

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UCL Ancient Philosophy Summer School

‘Mystery, Science and the Divine’

University College London

Summer School in Ancient Philosophy

Monday 13 July to Friday 17 July 2020

The UCL Ancient Philosophy Summer School is offering exceptional one-week intensive courses this summer at opportunity-cost prices (£120) .

The one-week intensive courses will be available online for the …

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Five-Year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships

All Souls College invites applications for up to five Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships, one in each of the following subjects:  Classics (excluding ancient philosophy), Theoretical Computer Science, Economics, Philosophy, and Theoretical Physics.  Those elected will be expected to take up their Fellowships on 1 October 2021 or such other date as may be agreed …

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PYTHIA: Machine learning for epigraphic text restoration

Digital Classicist London Seminar 2020

Thea Sommerschield (Oxford), PYTHIA: a deep neural network model for the automatic restoration of ancient Greek inscriptions

Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 17:30 (UK time) Institute of Classical Studies, University of London Online seminar, streamed live and archived at: https://youtu.be/nKSfzHYmLtQ

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Digital Classicist London 2020 seminars

Τhe Digital Classicist London seminars will all be streamed online only; the audience will watch on YouTube (either live or any time after the event) rather than attend in Senate House in person.

All seminars will be at 17:30 on Friday afternoons (except June 19, at 16:30).

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Postdoctoral fellowships hosted at UCL

The Department of Greek and Latin at University College London would be delighted to talk with outstanding candidates in relevant fields about the possibility of hosting them under the terms of the following post-doctoral fellowship schemes:

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowshiphttps://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/get-funding/individual-fellowships-2020_en The scheme’s deadline is 9 September 2020, but discussion of research proposals with UCL staff …

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University of Hamburg – Job offer: Greek and Byzantine studies

The University of Hamburg is offering a research position in the project “Science and philosophy of nature in the Byzantine world and in the Renaissance: “The Epitome physica by Nikephoros Blemmydes”.

This is a fixed-term contract in accordance with Section2of the academic fixed-term labor contract act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG). The term …

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