{"id":7323,"date":"2017-05-10T12:13:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T11:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7323"},"modified":"2017-06-30T18:11:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T17:11:14","slug":"successful-classical-association-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/05\/10\/successful-classical-association-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Classical Association Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/\"> The 2017 UK Classical Association Conference<\/a> took place at the University of Kent on 26-29 April 2017. Co-organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/alwis.html\"> Dr Anne Alwis, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/baker.html\">Dr Patty Baker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/lowe.html\"> Dr Dunstan Lowe<\/a>\u00a0from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\"> Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>, in conjunction with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/\"> Open University<\/a>, the conference was deemed a great success by the <a href=\"http:\/\/classicalassociation.org\/\"> Classical Association<\/a>\u00a0council, and had over 370 delegates from continental Europe, the United States and Australia, who attended and gave papers.<\/p>\n<p>The event was supported by 20 student helpers from both Universities and other members of the department also participated including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/wyles.html\"> Dr Rosie Wyles<\/a>, Professor Ray Laurence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/labadi.html\"> Dr Sophia Labadi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/willis.html\">Dr Steve Willis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the conference, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\">University of Leiden<\/a>&#8216;s Press, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brill.com\/\"> Brill<\/a>, gave a large\u00a0donation of books to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/templeman\/\"> Templeman\u00a0Library<\/a>\u00a0in support of the department. The books cover areas of ancient history, philosophy, mythology, literature and language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 UK Classical Association Conference took place at the University of Kent on 26-29 April 2017. Co-organised by Dr Anne Alwis, Dr Patty Baker &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/05\/10\/successful-classical-association-conference\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":6253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7582,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions\/7582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}