Anthony Luvera's work in the House of Commons

Anthony Luvera exhibited his socially engaged research in the Upper Waiting Hall of the House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster 

The exhibition was presented by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Households in Temporary Accommodation and its co-secretariat organisations, Shared Health Foundation and JustLife. Since 2022, Anthony has been embedded within the team of Focused Care practitioners for homeless families at Shared Health Foundation, working with families living in temporary accommodation across Greater Manchester to represent their experiences through photography and audio recordings. On display in the exhibition was a selection of portraits and excerpts from conversations recorded with participants, providing a window into an often-hidden world. Alongside the image and text works, Anthony presented an impactful graphic interpretation of key statistics relating to temporary accommodation across the UK. When a family is experiencing homelessness, it becomes the duty of a local authority to move them into temporary accommodation. The reasons families face homelessness are many - they could be fleeing domestic violence, facing eviction, or struggling to meet the cost of increasing rent. There are 109,000 households in temporary accommodation in England, which includes 142,000 children. In comparison, 3,900 people are estimated to be experiencing street homelessness.The show was seen by thousands of visitors, including many MPs, Lords, and parliamentary staff during its run from the 22^nd to the 26^th of April.

Melissa Tanti - Article Published and Book Prize Awarded

Melissa’s article, “Multilingual Experimental Literature and Transnational Feminist Solidarities: Erín Moure and Kathy Acker” published in the Translating Multilingualism Spec. Issue of Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature, explores Kathy Acker's overlooked use of Farsi and Erín Moure’s Galician-plus texts to consider the ways multilingual writing creates the conditions for subaltern audibility, thereby setting the grounds for transnational feminist solidarities. Melissa takes a deep dive into multilingual writing by experimental women writers in North America in her forthcoming book, The Translating Subject (McGill-Queens UP), coming this autumn. Melissa’s book was just awarded a Scholarly Book Award from the Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences. This prize is awarded to books in Canada that make important contributions to the humanities and social sciences. Melissa was awarded both a Publication Grant and an Open Access Grant to assure a wider readership of her forthcoming book.

Huge Milestone for #WCCWiki

The initiative #WCCWiki, coordinated by CAMC Research Fellow Victoria Leonard, has reached a significant milestone, with more than 700 Wikipedia entries created or edited for classicists who identify as women and non-binary.

Organised through the Women’s Classical Committee UK, #WCCWiki has transformed the online representation of classicists who identify as women and non-binary, and helping to challenge Wikipedia’s intractable gender gap. Classics is very broadly conceived, including historians, archaeologists, theorists, translators, poets, and others who work on the ancient world. Before #WCCWiki got started, the heritage of women and non-binary people in classics, both historical and contemporary, was a largely unrepresented online demographic. An estimate in 2016 found that only 7% of biographies of classicists on Wikipedia featured women. #WCCWiki has worked hard to make this demographic a highly visible and accessible part of classics. #WCCWiki was awarded Wikimedia UK's Partnership of the Year (2022), and we are looking forward to reaching the next milestone of 1000 articles!

Carolina Rito is guest speaker at Humboldt University, Berlin

Carolina Rito is guest speaker at the lecture series The Decolonial Paradox of the Portuguese Revolution: A Curatorial Rehearsal about the Colonial Continuities in Contemporary Portugal

Archives of the Revolution and the Portuguese Empire: Post-Authoritarian and Decolonial Perspectives is a lecture series that brings together important experts who examine the archives of the Portuguese Revolution - be it film, literature, art or the history of science - and place their perspectives against the backdrop of the 50th anniversary of the revolution on April 25. Guest lecturer Carolina Rito will explore the decolonial paradox of the Portuguese Revolution by delving into the problematic disjuncture of emancipatory narratives surrounding the Portuguese Revolution and the role of African liberation movements in this history. This project takes a curatorial approach to material culture, discourses, moving image, and aesthetic phenomena, such as public iconography, exhibition displays and artworks, by comparing and contrasting, juxtaposing and overlapping them.

Daniel Anderson Joins the Classical Association Journals Board

Daniel Anderson is also featured in the Annual Report of the Fondation Hardt

Daniel Anderson (CAMC) has been invited to join the Classical Association Journals Board, which sets editorial policy for the CA’s journals – Classical Quarterly, Classical Review, Greece & Rome and the Journal of Classics Teaching. This follows on a similar invitation this past Autumn for Anderson to join the Editorial Board of the journal ARGO at the Hellenic Society. 

The Annual Report (2023) of the Fondation Hardt in Vandoeuvres near Geneva, Switzerland features CAMC Research Fellow Daniel Anderson. It includes reference to his work for the Fondation on the theme of 'spaces of ancient education' over the course of last year, including his leadership of the Entretiens pour l'Antiquité classique this past August, and details the annual lecture he gave at the foundation in October. The volume resulting from Daniel's work at the Fondation Hardt is expected to appear in July. A summary of the project (in French) can be found in the final pages of the report.

Alice Leonard has been awarded an Oxford Bibliography Society Research Grant

Before bookshelves and bookcases came into wider use, chests were the standard place for keeping bound and unbound books. The Oxford Bibliography Society Research Grant will enable four archival visits to Merton College and Trinity College libraries at Oxford University. Alice will be able to study a number of wooden chests from thirteenth-seventeenth century to investigate what they might have contained, to develop her project Early Modern Bookchests in Oxford.

Carolina Rito at PARSE 10th Anniversary Symposium

Carolina Rito will participate in the PARSE 10th Anniversary Symposium. Since its establishment as a publishing platform for artistic research, PARSE has successfully launched 18 issues with over 270 contributions, hosted numerous seminars and workshops and organised 5 conferences in its 10-year existence. To mark its contribution to interdisciplinary art practices PARSE will host a symposium from 25 to 26 April 2024 to celebrate its anniversary. The Symposium is an invitation to previous journal issue editors, contributors, managing editors and collaborators: past, present and future to come together in Gothenburg to reflect on the themes and topics from its previous issues and conferences, with the aim to imagine its future in 2034.