SPONSORS:
Arts
& Humanities Research Council
North
West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP)
The NWCDTP offers postgraduate studentships, supervision, training, and skills development across the full range of the AHRC's disciplines. Their areas of focus are:
-To
promote the disciplinary capability and international research excellence
necessary to underwriting the regional delivery of world-class PhD supervision
and training in the arts and humanities.
-To
equip postgraduates in the arts and humanities with subject-specific, interdisciplinary,
and transferrable knowledge and skills of immediate relevance to their academic
studies and future employability.
-To
enhance existing knowledge exchange relationships by expanding its use of
regional, national, and international cross-sector partnerships.
J.P.
Postgate Fund
John
Percival Postgate was Professor of Latin from 1909-1920. He is well known to
this day as the editor of a number of Latin poets (including Tibullus,
Propertius, Catullus, and Statius – amongst others) as well as for his
passionate campaigning for the relevance of the classical past: he was the main
force behind the creation of the Classical Association of England and Wales in
1902.
In
his lecture ‘Dead languages and dead language’ (delivered on 10 December 1909,
the very day F.W. Walbank was born), he argued that to speak of Latin and Greek
as dead was ‘grotesque’; they were alive through their literature and history,
and through the languages that sprang from them. If students, he argued, found
our subjects ‘mere grind’ the fault was with the teaching: ‘if the ‘dead’
languages are not to retire into the background, they must be taught as if they
were alive’.
Liverpool
University Press
Liverpool
University Press, the UK's 3rd oldest university press, specialise in
publishing books and journals in the fields of literature, modern languages, history
and visual culture. LUP have a rich corpus of works relating to ancient
literature, such as their 'Translating Texts for Historians & Byzantinists'
series, and 'Aris Phillips Classics'.
Liverpool
University Press will be joining us to promote some of their latest
titles. They will be very generously sponsoring our keynote reception on
the evening of the 22nd of June.
PARTNERS:
'Let's
Talk Academia'
'Let's
Talk Academia' is a non-profit blog established by Emily Lynn, a NWCDTP-funded
postgraduate student at the University of Lancaster. This site offers a
friendly and encouraging platform for postgraduate students of all disciplines
and stages of research to share experiences, advice, and inspiration.
