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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.

Bernd Steinbock presented a paper entitled “Athenian Responses to the Disaster in Sicily as Indicators of a Social Trauma” at the International Workshop Emotions of Crisis at the University of Liverpool. As well, he attended the 9th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association in Prague with a presentation on “Thucydides, LaCapra, and Empathic Unsettlement in Recounting Traumatic Events.”

Beth Greene has received a Western Research Excellence Award (Outstanding Scholar) for 2025. Congratulations on this incredible achievement! Read the Western News article here.