Around the School

James Aitken has been appointed Grinfield Lecturer on the Septuagint for the years 2020-2021-2022 at the University of Oxford.

An online corpus of more than 2,000 inscriptions in Greek and Latin of the Roman period from Cyrenaica (eastern Libya), of which Joyce Reynolds is the Principal Author has been published to mark her 102nd birthday.

The Faculty reports with great sadness the death of Dr. Neil Hopkinson (1957–2021).

Caroline Vout begins her term as Director of the Museum of Classical Archaeology.

The Faculty Board has issued a statement on Race Equality.

The Faculty's Aldborough Roman Town has been nominated for Current Archaeology Award for Best Research Project of the Year. See link for how to vote.

The Faculty is delighted to report that Professor Simon Goldhill has been elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.

The Faculty invites applications from early career researchers to the this fellowship. Internal deadline: 21 December 2020.

After a long search process, we are pleased to announce that Prof David Fergusson (Edinburgh) has accepted the appointment as Regius Professor of Divinity. Prof Fergusson is a leading specialist in Christian Theology, with much experience of academic leadership, supervising PhD students and running grants. He can offer teaching in core areas of the field and will be a wise mentor for all in the Faculty. He will take up the post on April 1st 2021 and is currently planning a move to Cambridge with his wife.

Applications are invited for an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award at the University of Cambridge, in partnership with the Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative.

The review is the Faculty of Divinity’s Graduate Journal focusing on Theology, Philosophy, and Poetics