About us
The Nottingham Branch of the Classical Association was founded in 1909 to promote interest in the classical world and to increase public awareness of the contribution and importance of classics to education and public life.
We organise approximately ten events across the year, consisting of public lectures, school and university study days, reading competitions and visits to sites and museums, and we also boast a vibrant social life with dinners and activities throughout the year.
The support of members is vital to the maintenance of these events and the success of the Branch’s aims, and we have a wide membership in the local area, consisting of the general public, school and university students, schoolteachers and academics.
Constitution
Join us
Membership is just £7 per year (£5 for students, £10 for couples). Find out more about how to become a member. We urge anyone with an interest in the classical world to join the cause and spread the good word!
People of the Nottingham Branch
Chairman
Prof Judith Mossman (Professor of Classics, University of Nottingham)
Judith was appointed Professor of Classics at Nottingham University in 2003. She specializes in two periods of Greek literature, the fifth century BC and the second/third century AD. She is especially interested in Greek drama, particularly the tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles, and works extensively on the portrayal of female characters in Greek tragedy. She is currently finishing an edition of Euripides' Medea and preparing a book on women's speech in tragedy.
In her work on later Greek literature she has focused on the use of cultural references to tragedy and epic as a tool for creating character in biography and bolstering or subverting argument in Plutarch's moral essays, as well as the work of the humorist Lucian. Judith regularly visits schools across the UK to present and discuss her ideas.
e: judith.mossman@nottingham.ac.uk
Secretary
Dr Nikolai Lipatov (Loughborough Grammar School)
Nikolai studied Classics at the University of St Petersburg. He has MA and PhD in Byzantine Studies from the University of Birmingham. Since 2006 Nikolai has been teaching Classics at Loughborough Grammar School.
e: nlipatov@gmail.com
Treasurer
Dr Mark Bradley (Associate Professor in Ancient History, University of Nottingham)
Mark has been lecturing for the Department of Classics at Nottingham since 2004. His main research interests are in the visual and intellectual culture of imperial Rome, and his work is particularly concerned with exploring cultural differences in perception, aesthetics and sensibilities. He is author of Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome (CUP 2009) and editor of Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire (OUP 2009) as well as a separate voume on dirt, disease and hygiene in the city of Rome and is working on a separate project on "Foul bodies in ancient Rome". He is also Editor of Papers of the British School at Rome and Director of Nottingham University's Urban Culture Network.
He has also responsible for designing online Activities in Classical Studies for the national Young, Gifted and Talented programme. Mark has also appeared as academic consultant for the making of the 1960s series Doctor Who: the Romans, released on DVD in 2009.
e: mark.bradley@nottingham.ac.uk
Schools’ Representative
Mr Ben Harrison (Nottingham High School)
Ben Harrison has taught at Nottingham High School since 2008 and teaches Latin throughout the school, Classical Civilisation in the sixth form and GCSE Greek. Within the department he has responsibility for organising Year 8 and 9 curriculum visits to St Albans and Chester and the annual trip to Hadrian's Wall. He has also co-directed the department's productions of Euripides' The Bacchae and Iphigenia at Aulis in the last two years and will be working on the 2012 Classcis Play, Medea. Ben graduated from the University of Durham in 2006 before moving to Nottingham, spent two years working in a British curriculum school in Kenya, teaching Latin and Religious Studies.
e: HARRISON.BJ@nottinghamhigh.co.uk
Student Representative
Mr Nicholas Wilshere (PhD student, University of Nottingham)
Nick is working on Lucian's reception of Homer for his PhD at Nottingham University, where he has taught for several years. He has also taught at Leicester University and is running a Latin course and classes on English etymology for Leicester's Adult Skills and Learning Service. He is currently a member of the HEA Subject Centre's advisory panel.
e: abxnw1@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk