Events which have already taken place in the 2025-26 academic year. 2025 Leventis Professor - Barbara Graziosi The School looks forward to welcoming the 2025 Leventis Professor, Barbara Graziosi, who will be joining the Classics Subject Area this semester from Princeton University. Denys Hay Lecture 2025 This year's Denys Hays Lecture will be given by Professor Philippe Buc. Inaugural Lecture: Professor Wendy Ugolini 'How I solved a wartime murder'. Professor Wendy Ugolini, Professor of Second World War Studies, examines identity during war. Conference: Roman History in Carolingian Europe This conference will explore the ways in which these historians were read and copied in the Carolingian period and the role of Roman historical texts and scholarship in Carolingian intellectual life, bringing together specialists in ancient history and textual editing with scholars of early medieval Europe. Curious - Taken, studied, displayed: Readdressing the University of Edinburgh’s African skull collections A conversation on the histories, legacies, and repatriation of Edinburgh’s African skull collections. Part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Curious Festival. This article was published on 2025-09-10