The Class Series

This series of events aims to amplify working-class voices and foreground working-class perspectives on the human past and current issues of interest to HCA staff and students. It features student-led initiatives, conversations with academics in HCA working on questions of class, and presentations from external speakers about class formation, class dynamics, and class struggle. This series will also take an intersectional approach, exploring the complex interactions between class and other axes of inequality like gender identity, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability.

The Class Series aims to occupy a space at the intersection between cutting-edge research, (working-class) student and staff engagement, and broader societal impact. By bringing together multiple perspectives on class – from new perspectives on class in modern and premodern societies to the place of class in contemporary academia, and in our disciplines in particular – it aims to create a unique space for dialogue about how class shapes both our understanding of the past and our present academic environment.

The series emphasises the importance of lived experience in academic discourse, recognising that working-class perspectives can offer valuable insights into historical power dynamics, social mobility, and institutional structures that might otherwise be overlooked. Through this approach, it aims to enrich both research methodologies and institutional and pedagogical practices within HCA.

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Forthcoming events

UK Class in Classics Report – One Year On

February 2025 will mark a year since the publication of the UK Class In Classics Report 2024. This online panel event, run by the Institute of Classical Studies, will provide an opportunity to assess the impact the report is having in the discipline.

'Dogs, ticks, monsters, madmen: The role(s) of the demagogues in the Ancient Greek class struggle'

The first lecture of the new UKRI/ERC Class Struggle in Ancient Greek Democracy project, directed by Professor Mirko Canevaro, will be given by Professor Matt Simonton (Arizona State University).

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