The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature (AMPAL) is one of the largest postgrad conferences in the UK, and attracts speakers and attendees from all over the world. AMPAL offers a valuable forum for students to present, gain peer feedback on their work, and meet like-minded individuals to grow and develop their research networks.
The department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool has a strong commitment to ancient languages and literature, demonstrated through their outstanding research and teaching, as well as their outreach activities, which range from continuing education courses to projects teaching Classics in local schools. Thanks to the department’s multidisciplinary structure, particularly its inclusion of a strong Egyptology cohort and the study of other Near Eastern languages, Liverpool is uniquely endowed to offer an exciting angle to AMPAL 2017, by encouraging proposals relating to literature written in other ancient languages as well as Greek and Latin. This initiative complements AMPAL's aims of offering postgraduates opportunities to present and receive constructive feedback on their work, while also contextualising their research and looking beyond their discipline to new perspectives and approaches relevant to the study of ancient literature. This approach reflects current academic trends and initiatives, demonstrated by the interdisciplinary aims of the UK AHRC-funded PhD consortia, and may even help pave the way for future collaborative research projects. It has been over ten years since AMPAL was hosted in the North West, and we look forward to welcoming the next generation of scholars in ancient literature to the vibrant city of Liverpool.
The department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool has a strong commitment to ancient languages and literature, demonstrated through their outstanding research and teaching, as well as their outreach activities, which range from continuing education courses to projects teaching Classics in local schools. Thanks to the department’s multidisciplinary structure, particularly its inclusion of a strong Egyptology cohort and the study of other Near Eastern languages, Liverpool is uniquely endowed to offer an exciting angle to AMPAL 2017, by encouraging proposals relating to literature written in other ancient languages as well as Greek and Latin. This initiative complements AMPAL's aims of offering postgraduates opportunities to present and receive constructive feedback on their work, while also contextualising their research and looking beyond their discipline to new perspectives and approaches relevant to the study of ancient literature. This approach reflects current academic trends and initiatives, demonstrated by the interdisciplinary aims of the UK AHRC-funded PhD consortia, and may even help pave the way for future collaborative research projects. It has been over ten years since AMPAL was hosted in the North West, and we look forward to welcoming the next generation of scholars in ancient literature to the vibrant city of Liverpool.
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