2025

An original performance that combines classical philology, visual art and modern dance, and includes excerpts from the Greek-themed dances of the revolutionary 20th century American artist and choreographer Martha Graham.

This year’s A. G. Leventis Conference, held under the auspices of the A. G. Leventis Visiting Professorship in Greek, and forming part of Edinburgh’s biennial series of international conferences on Hellenic studies, will take place 13-16 November 2025.

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology is delighted to mark the launch of the A.G. Leventis Centre in Greek Studies (Ancient, Byzantine, Modern).

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of Queen Margaret University (QMU) with a special event featuring Dr Bill Aird, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History.

Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, an expert panel discusses the meaning of the American Revolution. This event will be hybrid.

Professor Enda Delaney - Professor of Modern History - will be talking about his new book.

The Official Historian of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), Dr George Hay, will be discussing the findings of the CWGC's second report from their non-commemoration programme, this time focusing on the Second World War.

Professor Lucy Grig - Professor of the History of Late Antiquity - will give her inaugural lecture on 'A slow history of Late Antiquity'.

The School's Black History Month Event takes place on 24 October.

The 2025 Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery will be given by Professor Christopher Brown on 'The Atlantic Slave Trade and the American Revolution'.

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.

This year's Denys Hays Lecture will be given by Professor Philippe Buc.

'How I solved a wartime murder'. Professor Wendy Ugolini, Professor of Second World War Studies, examines identity during war.

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.

A conversation on the histories, legacies, and repatriation of Edinburgh’s African skull collections. Part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Curious Festival.