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After a successful and enjoyable ASCS conference at Canberra, a wonderful opportunity to meet and to talk with so many of our members, AWAWS is looking forward to an exciting year ahead. An early highlight was Faezeh Dadfar’s talk for International Women’s Day 2025 who emphasised some of the challenges faced by our international students. We at AWAWS hope to find more ways to help our international student members, so we are currently brainstorming. Feedback and ideas from our members about how best we can accomplish this goal are welcome (email me directly at [email protected]). We also have an exciting series of workshops and talks to look forward to this year. For details for some of them, plus some exciting opportunities, keep reading! The members of AWAWS’ executive committee hope that your year started well, and that you can attend our in-person and online events. Let’s keep the conversation going and continue to support each other! Dr Anastasia Bakogianni AWAWS President Read on for more about:
Australasian Ovidian SocietyPlease join the Australasian Ovidian Society (AOS) for our first online meeting on Monday 7th April 2025! Meeting to take place via Zoom at 2pm AEST/ 4pm NZT. We look forward to meeting each other and to briefly sharing our ongoing (relevant) research projects and other work-in-progress. To join the AOS mailing list please contact [email protected] and we will pass on your information to the AOS. AI WorkshopsWith the ongoing impact that artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, are having on the higher education sector, AWAWS are organising a series of workshops around artificial intelligence and the ancient world. We plan to run three: 1. Around assessment and AI 2. Learning and teaching and AI 3. AI for research As part of our planning, we would love to hear from our members. We have put together a brief survey here to get a sense of where you are on your AI journey. Equality and Diversity WorkshopThe next workshop in our Equality and Diversity series will be on Thursday 15th May at 5pm AEST, 7pm NZST. Our speaker will be Irene Salvo from the University of Verona, who will speak on gender, LGBT+, and queerness in ancient Greek and Roman Studies. More details to come soon. PHD Scholarships: Night Vision in the Late Ancient MediterraneanAustralian Catholic University (ACU) is offering two full-time PhD scholarships to undertake research into the late ancient nighttime as part of an ARC-funded project.
Successful applicants will work on the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, Night Vision in the Late Ancient Mediterranean. See details of the scholarships and the application process here. This project aims to create a new history of the wakeful nighttime in the late ancient Mediterranean world by combining study of material remains with literary descriptions of human nocturnal activities. Histories of the Night have focused on the classical world, the western medieval world, and especially the Industrial Revolution. The late ancient Mediterranean is a fascinating and hitherto overlooked period in studies of the night. Using this rich case study of a period and region of great technological, social, and religious upheaval, we aim to provide a better understanding of the sociality of nighttime and a new cultural history of the period that gives agency to marginalised groups. PhD candidates will develop thesis topics on project-related themes and will be integral to the project, working collaboratively with the research team. Possible disciplines for the PhD scholarship include:
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