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The Department of Classical Studies applauds Marina Schmidt on the successful completion and defense of her PhD thesis, entitled Out of the Shadows: Roman Imperial Women and Power in Late Antiquity. Congratulations, Dr Schmidt!

Beth Greene has co-curated an exhibition on the Roman shoes from Vindolanda for the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto. The visiting exhibition titled "Unearthing Vindolanda" will open on May 7th 2026 and will remain for 18 months until September 2027. More details here. 

Bernd Steinbock gave a presentation on the long-standing question of how best to understand the Attic orators’ references to the past in the Online Lecture Series Exploring Graeco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric from a Cross-Cultural Perspective. The title of his talk was “Rhetorical Exploitation, Social Memory, and the Attic Orators’ Treatment of the Past: Historical Allusions to the Sicilian Expedition.” The program can be found here. 

Hannah Borotsik shares in a fieldwork report her experiences excavating at the Athenian Agora in 2025 with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

Beth Greene and collaborators receive £1.3m grant funding through a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) award for their project on the Roman leather economy.